USA Wrestling National Recruiting Showcase - Day 1

The Alabama crew had a good showing on Day 1 of USA Wrestling’s National Recruiting Showcase. The pic below was grabbed from Warrior Wrestling Club’s Instagram page … I’m assuming before the action got started.

The boys wrestled to the placement matches on Friday and will finish their tournament Saturday afternoon at 3 pm. The girls will wrestle their entire tournament Saturday beginning at 9 am. The action is being streamed live on trackwrestling.

The SE put 4 into the finals … Yanni Vines (Alabama) at 113, Evan Frost (Louisiana) at 120, Brayden Ivy (Tennessee) at 138, and Ryan Cody (Florida) at 195.

Vines, out of Thompson High School, won 8-3 over Landon Smith, 8-0 over Tyler Evans, and 3-0 over Dawson Johnson to make the 113 lb. finals. He will face California’s Ethan Perryman tomorrow afternoon.

Frost, from Holy Cross, had a 9-1 decision over Joshua Neiwert, a 15-0 tech fall of Jonathan Tanguma, a 12-2 major decision of top seed Nicholas Gonzalez, and a 15-6 major of Isaiah Powe of Gardendale (Alabama). Frost will face Markel Baker of Illinois in tomorrow afternoon’s 120 lb. final.

Ivy, from Lakeway Christian, had a 7-1 decision of Alec Peralta, a 4-3 decision of Antonio Rodrigues, and then had to go to overtime to down Hoyt Blaskowski 3-2 TB1, and Matthew Rordiguez 3-1 SV1 to make the 138 lb. final. Ivy will take on Tagen Jamison of Texas tomorrow afternoon.

Ryan Cody, from the Master’s Academy, had a quick 48 second fall of Brayden Albee, a 15-5 major of Garavous Kouekabakilaho, and a fall of Caden Weber late in the 3rd period to advance to the 195 lb. final. He will face Ohio’s Evan Anderson tomorrow afternoon.

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The SE also had several others that will be wrestling for a spot on the podium tomorrow afternoon … they are listed below in weight class order.

113: Ethan Boudreaux (LA) vs. Tyler Evans for 7th

120: Isaiah Powe (AL) vs. Grigor Cholakyan (CA) for 3rd

126: Jacob Frost (LA) vs. Carter Bailey for 3rd

138: James Latona (AL) vs. Cash Stewart for 3rd

145: Jacob Ramirez (LA) vs. Melton Powe III (AL) for 7th

152: Will Miller (AL) vs. Timothy Cowan for 3rd

170: Caleb Roe (AL) vs. Justin Rademacher for 5th

182: Gunnar Garriques (TN/IL) vs. Christian Smoot for 5th