Florida Super 32 EE Tourney - Results

Osceola High School welcomed wrestlers from all over the Southeast for the Super 32 Early Entry Tournament this past Saturday in Kissimmee, Florida. As has been typical of this tournament in previous years, some weight classes were very deep. If you are interested …. here is a short preview I did on Thursday before the event.

As you can see not everyone that was registered made the trip, but the quality speaks for itself. Interested in the brackets?

Onto the results:

Boys

106 lbs.

  1. Christian Guzman

  2. Adrian Morales

  3. Anderson Heap

  4. Gabriel Tellez

Seeds:

  1. Adrian Morales

  2. Christian Guzman

  3. Gabriel Tellez

  4. Tyler Washburn

  5. Gavin Nolan

  6. Luis Acevedo

What happened: The top two seeds didn’t disappoint … both wrestled wrestled exceptionally well early, both won tough matches in the semis (Morales 12-9 over Washburn and Guzman 7-4 over Heap) and they put on a show in the finals. Morales jumped out to a commanding lead only to watch it slip away before being cradled and pinned at 5:14. Unseeded Anderson Heap pinned Tellez in the quarters before losing to Guzman … he rebounded with a nice 4-1 win over Matthew Velasco before taking an injury default win over Tellez for 3rd.

Velasco lost 7-3 in the first round and then rattled off 7 wins in a row to get back to the consi semis. Tellez rebounded from his quarterfinal loss to Heap to down Washburn in the top consi semi 8-6.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Tellez dec. Taranto, 4-2

  • Taranto dec. McCullough 2-0, SV1

  • McCullough dec. Dominguez, 4-2

  • Garcia dec. Fretwell, 3-0

  • Velasco dec. Nolan, 2-0

  • Velasco dec. Acevedo, 6-2

113 lbs.

  1. Cooper Haase

  2. Aiden Poe

  3. Aiden Prunoske

  4. Kevin Placer

Seeds:

  1. Cooper Haase

  2. Tyler Perrow

  3. Nicholas Yancey

  4. Fernando Dominguez

  5. Kevin Placer

  6. Aiden Poe

What happened: Top seed Haase steamrolled his way to the title … he was up 9-1 on David McEachern before getting the fall in the Rd 16, he was up 12-4 before pinning Prunoske in the quarters, and he was up 7-3 before pinning Placer in the semis. He and Poe were much closer in the finals with Haase leading 6-4 going into the 3rd before pulling away for an 11-6 win. Poe, the 6 seed, took care of business on the bottom side. He beat 3 seed Yancey 3-0 and 2 seed Perrow 6-0 before losing to Haase.

Silas Mantero downed 4 seed Fernando Dominguez in the opening round 9-4 leaving Placer to control the 2nd quarter of the bracket and Guy Yodock wrestled well in the bottom quarter before dropping his quarterfinal match to Perrow. Prunoske rebounded from his loss to Haase to win four in a row and finish 3rd … with nice wins over McCullough 3-2, Phillips, 7-3, Perrow, 3-0, before pinning Placer for 3rd.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • McCullough dec. Dominguez, 6-5

  • Phillips dec. Arboleda, 7-0

  • Peraza dec. Yodock, 6-1

  • Yancey dec. Carcamo, 3-1

  • Placer dec. Yancey, 2-0

120 lbs.

  1. Hayden Whidden

  2. Christopher Minto

  3. Caleb Massari

  4. Nate Luders

Seeds:

  1. Hayden Whidden

  2. Amantee Mills

  3. Alex Walker

  4. Caleb Massari

  5. Aaron Lanset

  6. Jaden Villalobos

What happened: Two nice weekends in a row for Whidden (if you don’t recall he took 3rd at 126 at the GA S32 EE tournament last weekend). Whidden, the 2A 106 lb. State Runner-up, was in complete control this weekend … downing Jonny Dobbs 14-3, Logan Paradice 10-0, Massari by tech fall before beating Minto 6-2 in the finals. The top side of the bracket went pretty much according to the seeds … with Lanster and Paradice both making the quarters. The bottom side saw a Walker and Minto domination (Walker in the middle 3rd quarter and Minto in the bottom quarter) … he beat Luders 7-0 before pinning Mills in the quarters (he was up 16-2 when he got the fall) and then outlasted a really tough match vs. 3 seed Alex Walker - 3-2 to make the finals.

Massari rebounded from his loss to Whidden to beat Mills 3-0 in the consi semis and Luders in the consi finals. Luders in turn won 5 in a row to get back to the consi finals with nice wins over Paradice 1-0, Lanster 2-0, and Walker 4-1.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Hernandez dec. Bruner, 7-1

  • Mills dec. Hernandez, 6-5

  • Gutierrez dec. Dobbs, 7-2

  • Luders dec. Valoria, 5-0

126 lbs.

  1. Elijah Ortiz

  2. Gianni Maldonado

  3. Dominic Bambinelli

  4. Michael Smith

Seeds:

  1. Michael Smith

  2. Rocco Senia

  3. Blake Walker

  4. Braden Baxter

  5. Aiden Gasper

  6. Demetri Zertopoulis

What happened: BOOM. Ortiz, Maldonado, and Bambinelli blew up this bracket from the beginning. Ortiz was unseeded and it was a bit of a surprise … he is a returning State Placer and it showed in his run to the finals - pinning Gasper in 1:30 before downing Baxter 14-9 in the quarters. He then downed top seed Smith with a fall after being up 7-1. He put an exclamation point on the weekend after pinning Maldonado in the finals. Maldonado in turn took care of the bottom side of the bracket … again coming from an unseeded position he beat Ivey 2-1, before downing 2 seed Senis 3-0 in the quarters and beating Zertopoulis 5-1 in the semis. Each of the seeds held until we got to the quarters … but that’s when things began to fall apart.

GA freshman Dominic Bambinelli dropped his quarterfinal to Smith 9-8 and then proceeded to win 4 in a row to finish 3rd. He beat NC’ Tierney 3-1, Corrales 7-2, and Zertopoulis 4-3 before avenging his earlier loss to Smith with an 11-6 decision.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Gonzalez pinned Senia

  • Senia dec. Marvel, 3-1 SV1

  • Corrales dec. Baxter, 1-0

132 lbs.

  1. Jayden Tapia

  2. Alex Cuoto

  3. Chase Gillis

  4. Vincenzo Napolitana

Seeds:

  1. Jared Dinh

  2. Alex Cuoto

  3. Alex Soto

  4. Jayden Tapia

  5. John Vadyak

  6. Vincenzo Napolitana

What happened: Timber Creek’s Jayden Tapia was absolutely superb this weekend - in what ended up being one of the toughest weights of the tournament. Tapia downed Vadyak 10-5 in the quarters before taking out defending State Champ Jared Dink 5-4 in the semis. He followed up the Dink win with a 3-2 decision over another State Champ in Alex Couto. Cuoto won some tough matches on the bottom - 6-3 over eventual 3rd place finisher Chase Gillis in the quarters and 3-1 over Napolitana in the semis. Napolitana had a very nice 4-3 win over 3 seed Alex Soto in the quarters. Very competitive weight class that featured a lot of good wrestling. Gillis won 4 in a row on the backside to claim 3rd including an 8-4 win over Napolitana in the consi finals.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Chapdelain md Vadyak, 11-3

  • Gillis dec. Hernandez, 5-1

  • Gillis dec. Dinh, 6-0

  • Morrison dec. Soto, 9-0

138 lbs.

  1. Adrian Neco Rodriguez and Cordell White

  2. Nick Hejke

  3. Jose Bravo

NOTE: Hejke was actually 3rd and Bravo 4th, but the automatic numbering won’t allow me to correct it.

Seeds:

  1. Adrian Neco Rodriguez

  2. Cordell White

  3. Ryan Bennett

  4. Van Huffman

  5. Kendrick Hodge

  6. Keith Crouse

What happened: Neco Rodriguez and White dominated their two sides of the bracket. Neco beat Boree 6-0 in the quarters and Hodge 14-8 in the semis. White pinned Bravo in the 2nd after being up 12-0 and then beat Bennett 12-7 in the semis … White and Neco chose not to wrestle each other in the finals (for those of you that don’t know they are workout partners in the South Dade room). Bravo won 3 tough matches - 4-2 SV1 over Lemmond, 4-3 over Diniz, and 3-1 over Hodge before losing to Hejke for 3rd. Hejke was the man … winning 8 matches in a row to finish 3rd. He lost super early and had to battle his way back.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Diniz dec. Huffman, 4-0

  • Hejke dec. Bennett, 3-1 SV1

  • Hejke dec. Boree, 1-0

145 lbs.

  1. Kenneth Deford

  2. Tyler Cabral

  3. Keon Hoffman

  4. Erik Rodriguez

Seeds:

  1. Kenneth Deford

  2. Tyler Cabral

  3. Billy Gould

  4. Keon Hoffman

  5. Rafael Alonso

  6. Robert Limperis

What happened: So no Christian Moder - means that Deford moves the top seed with Cabral as the 2 seed. Deford had an early round scare when he narrowly downed Lucas Moreno 2-1 in the round of 16. Besides that he pretty much rolled … downing Erik Rodriguez 7-1 in the quarters, Hoffman 5-1 in the semis and Cabral 7-1 in the finals. Cabral easily handled the bottom side of the bracket … pinning Bowen and Vish Williams before earnign a 9-1 major over Bransen Byrd. Byrd knocked off 3 seed Billy Gould in the 2nd round and continued to roll until falling to Cabral. Hoffman rebounded after his loss to Deford to beat Moreno 4-0 before pinning Rodriguez to take 3rd.

Notable wins/losses (not mentioned above):

  • Erik Rodriguez dec. Micahel Shannon, 8-3

  • Leonard Feliciano dec. Quinn White, 8-3

  • Hoffman dec. Nathan Furman, 4-0

  • Moreno dec. Vish Williams, 5-2

  • Moreno dec. Seymour, 3-2

  • Rodriguez dec. Furman, 3-1

  • Rodriguez dec. Holland, 2-1 UTB

  • Rodriguez dec. Byrd, 3-2 UTB

152 lbs.

  1. Brendon Abdon

  2. Dominic Rodriguez

  3. Daniel Ferreira

  4. Josiah Jenkins

Seeds:

  1. Brendon Abdon

  2. Jeremy Paradice

  3. Mateo Villalobos

  4. Malachi Soto

  5. Josiah Jenkins

  6. Cam Komat

What happened: Abdon easily controlled the top side … pinning Ochoa In the 1st period, tech falling Ferreira 16-0 in the semis before beating Rodriguez 13-6 in the finals. The anticipated match between Abdon and Paradice never materialized when Paradice injury defaulted in the bottom semi (he was losing 14-4 when the match was called with about a minute left … Rodriguez hit a hip toss and Paradice landed on his forehead). Until that point, Paradice had a nice win over Bambinelli 14-4 and Rodriguez had wrestled superb … downing 3 seed Mateo Villalobos with a 13 second fall before downing Piza 10-4 and Komat with a fall. On the top side Poulsen took out 4 seed Soto in the opening match and then lost to Ferreira by fall … Ferreira, also unseeded, then downed 5 seed Jenkins 3-2 in the quarters. With Paradice out - Jenkins beat Piza 7-4 before losing to Ferreira (again) this time for 3rd.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Ferreira pinned Bambinelli

  • Bambinelli pinned Komat

  • Bambinelli dec Villalobos, 7-2

  • Piza dec. Soto, 4-2

160 lbs.

  1. Brian Burburija

  2. Cory Cannan

  3. Frank Solorzano

  4. Riley Orr

Seeds:

  1. William George

  2. Wilfredo Martinez

  3. Brandon Moreno

  4. Frank Solorzano

  5. Cole Baggett

  6. Erik Borrensen

What happened: Another weight class where the unseeded wrestlers came to party. Burburija wrestled superb … beating top seed William Georgia 3-1, Solorzano 9-6 and then beat fellow unseed Cannan 6-2 in the finals. Cannan downed 2 seed Wilfredo Martinez 7-4 TB1 in the 2nd round and then downed Campbell 5-2 and Orr 5-2 to reach the finals. Close matches throughout … Solorzano bounced back from his loss to Burburija to earn a major 10-1 over 3 seed Brandon Moreno in the consi semis and then a tech fall over Orr to take 3rd. Moreno won 5 in a row to get back to the consi semis.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Orr dec. George, 4-2

  • George dec. Martinez, 5-0

  • Martinez dec. Baggett, 7-0

  • Moreno dec. Borresen, 6-2

170 lbs.

  1. Joshua Swan

  2. Raul Soto

  3. Khalil Mitchell

  4. Achilles Rocha

Seeds:

  1. Joshua Swan

  2. Raul Soto

  3. Roger Arocha

  4. Billy Fetzner

  5. Khalil Mitchell

  6. Robert Jacobson

What happened: Defending 3A State Champ Josh Swan did his thing … earning solid wins over the field. He beat Dominic Joyce 10-2, Khalil Mitchell 4-2 before downing Soto 5-2 in the finals. Mitchell was very impressive - pinning 4 seed Fetzner in the quarters before losing to Swan in a match that came down to final minute. He also beat Joseph Rice 4-2 SV1 in the consi semis and Rocha 13-8 to finish 3rd. Soto took control of the bottom side with a 5-1 win over Travis McKenna 5-1, Joshua Oyeneye 12-2 before downing Robert Jacobson 8-7 in a wild semifinal (that saw Soto comeback from being down 6-3 in the first period). Achilles Rocha lost his first match to Rett Maitato 7-2 before reeling off 5 wins to take 4th.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Rocha dec. Jacobson, 12-4

  • McKenna pinned Fetzner

  • Rice pinned Arocha

182 lbs.

  1. Sawyer Bartelt

  2. Jeremiah Mauras

  3. Jonathan Lavandera

  4. Alexzander Owens

Seeds:

  1. Sawyer Bartelt

  2. Jeremiah Mauras

  3. Alexzander Owens

  4. Jonathan Lavandera

  5. Sean Albritton

  6. Creig Silimon


What happened: All according to plan … Bartelt and Mauras each took care of business on their sides of the bracket. Mauras downed Owens by injury default (after leading 4-1 in the 3rd) and Bartelt earned a major decision over Lavandera 11-2 in the top semi. The final was a classic South Dade vs. Southwest Miami matchup with Bartelt scoring 3 in the 3rd to claim the title. Lavandera pinned Silimon in the consi semi and Owens pinned Cole … Lavandera took 3rd with a forfeit over Owens.

195 lbs.

  1. Dedric Marshall

  2. Daniel Pereira

  3. Aiden Alexander

  4. Chance Gorman

Seeds:

  1. Daniel Pereira

  2. Dedric Marshall

  3. Aiden Alexander

  4. Chance Gorman

  5. Ethan Asbury

  6. Johnathan Ahne

What happened: Marshall looked outstanding en route to the 195 lb. title. He had 2 first period falls before pinning Johnathan Ahne in the 2nd after leading 9-1. He was equally dominant in the finals in pinning Pereira in the 2nd after being up 8-2. Pereira for his part took care of the top side with 2 falls before grinding out an 11-8 win over 4 seed Chance Gorman in the semis (Pereira was up 9-3 headed to third, but gave up 2 takedowns to narrow the final score). Jupiter’s Aiden Alexander bounced back from a first round loss to Micah Perdue to win 5 in a row and take 3rd.

Notable wins/losses in the consis (not mentioned above):

  • Alexander dec. Gaither, 5-3 SV1

  • Alexander dec. Ahne, 3-2

  • Gorman dec. Perdue, 5-4

220 lbs.

  1. Tristan Middlebrook

  2. Nelson Toro

  3. Donnie Shoup

  4. Chris Spellman

Seeds:

  1. Tristan Middlebrook

  2. John Pyburn

  3. Nelson Toro

  4. Donnie Shoup

  5. Jaden Markus

  6. Ozkan Aydin

What happened: Middlebrook, who finished 2nd a week ago at the GA S32 EE tournament, bounced back to claim the 220 title this weekend. He had 3 falls before grinding out a 3-0 win over 3 seed Nelson Toro in the finals. Toro wrestled well from the 3 spot … pinning Portuguez and Aydin before earning a 9-1 decision over Thomas Crawford. Shoup finished off his day with 2 1st period falls to finish 3rd. Spellman rebounded from his 1st round loss to Crawford to battle back for 4th … including a 5-2 decision over Crawford in the consi semis. 2 seed Pyburn forfeited at the beginning of the tournament.

285 lbs.

  1. Matthew Jimenez

  2. Joshua Keane

  3. Sam Fleming

  4. Adrian Sans

Seeds:

  1. Sam Fleming

  2. Matthew Jimenez

  3. Ryan Preisendorf

  4. Shayne Parrish

  5. Adrian Sans

  6. Austin Foye

What happened: Unseeded Joshua Keane took top seed Sam Fleming 3-2 TB1 in the quarters and then beat Adrian Sans 9-5 to book his ticket to the finals. 2 seed Matthew Jimenez took care of business on the bottom side - pinning Mark Ward and earning a major decision 15-2 over Austin Fye to make the finals. Jimenez got a takedown early and rode that lead until the very end - ultimately claiming the title with a 5-2 decision. Fleming bounced back from his loss to Keane to down Sans 4-2 SV1 to claim 3rd.

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