Set your alarm early … Alabama’s Cory Land will attempt to bring home Gold and a World Title to Alabama tomorrow. You can watch the action on Flowrestling at 4 am. Land draws Turkey’s Bernati Inac in the first round. For those of you unfamiliar with repechange … if you lose your only way back into the tournament is for your opponent to make the finals. Land will focus on Inec first and worry about the winner of Sweden and Serbia after getting the first round win.

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Final Day in Fargo

Fargo concludes with the Junior semis and consolations in the morning and the placement matches at 2 pm. Ryan Cody and Dayne Dalrymple have already secured their place on the podium and will now try to bring home a stopsign with 2 more wins. The following SE hammers will look to secure one more win in the morning to secure their spot on the podium. Each is 3 wins away from finishing 3rd.

• 100 - Vincent Biondoletti (Florida)

• 106 - Tyler Washburn (Florida)

• 152 - Jeremy Paradice (Georgia)

• 152 - Michael Kilic (Georgia)

• 160 - RJ Weston (Georgia)

• 182 - Gervacio Gonazlez (Tennessee)

• 220 - Ashton Davis (Tennessee)

Florida’s Sawyer Bartelt capped off a fantastic run in Greco with a dominant 8-2 win over Utah’s William McCleary in the 195 lb. final. Bartelt went 6-0 and outscored his opponents 56-4 … giving up points in just 2 matches. What might be more impressive is that Bartelt earned a spot on the podium in both styles this week in Fargo. He finished 5th in Freestyle as well.

Bartelt was just one of four Floridians to make the podium. He was joined by Brandon Cody (5th at 138), Ethan Mojena (4th at 145), and Roman Garcia (3rd at 160). The four helped Team Florida into the top 10 - actually a tie for 10th with Virginia in 16U Greco. Georgia finished 17th as a team and put 3 on the podium … Drew Gorman (4th at 113), Dominic Bambinelli (6th at 160), and Hoke Poe-Hogan (4th at 170). Jax Forrest helped North Carolina to 31st in the team race with a 6th place finish at 120. South Carolina and Alabama added their first 16U All Americans in 2021. William Jakeway (88) and Yannis Charles (138) made the podium for South Carolina … SC’s first 16U All Americans in Greco since 2016. Will Caneer (195) and Willie Cox (285) made the podium for Alabama.

As mentioned previously, Bartelt earned double All American honors as we placed in the top 8 in both styles. Bartelt wasn’t alone in accomplishing that feat … 4 others from the Southeast also earned double All American this week. Mojena, Garcia, Gorman, and Bambinelli were also able to secure a top 8 finish in both styles … a significant accomplishment.

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Florida’s Ryan Cody and Tennessee’s Dayne Dalrymple into the Junior Semis

Just 2 SE hammers were able to navigate day 1 of Junior Greco without a loss. Cody, a 2019 Greco Runner-up, showed out at 195 … he finished the day 4-0 and outscored his opponents 41-0. He faces Tom Culp of Illinois in the semifinals tomorrow morning. Dayne Dalrymple also finished 4-0 with some really tough wins. He began the day with a 10-9 win over Florida’s Braden Basile (a Freestyle All American) before getting a fall over Brady Hankin of Colorado. He then beat Georgia’s David Panone and Minnesota’s Walker Bents is tough matches to advance to the semis where he faces Oregon’s Nash Singleton.

The Bloodround

The following wrestlers advanced to the Bloodround - 1 match from making the podium - and each will look to win at least one more in the morning to take home some hardware. Each are still hunting for 3rd, but getting one more win is the first order of business in the morning.

• 100 - Vincent Biondoletti (Florida)

• 106 - Tyler Washburn (Florida)

• 152 - Jeremy Paradice (Georgia)

• 152 - Michael Kilic (Georgia)

• 160 - RJ Weston (Georgia)

• 182 - Gervacio Gonazlez (Tennessee)

• 220 - Ashton Davis (Tennessee)

16U Greco will finish things up this morning with the semifinals and the consolation quarters beginning at 8:30. They are currently scheduled to wrestle their placement matches at 2 pm Fargo time. Mojena, Garcia, and Bartelt of Florida, as well as Jax Forrest (NC) and Hoke Poe-Hogan (GA) will look to win one more and put themselves one win away from a Greco National Title. Brandon Cody, Drew Gorman, Dominick Bambinelli, Will Caneer, Willie Cox, William Jakeway and Yannis Charles will look to win 2 matches in the morning and a 3rd in the afternoon to take 3rd at their weight. Brandon Cody and Yannis Charles will meet first thing this morning - so there will be at least one wrestler from the SE in the 7th place match at 138.

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Junior Men begin their quest for a Greco Title

2019 16U Greco National Champs Michael Kilic and RJ Weston of Georgia as well as Junior Greco Runner-up Ryan Cody of Florida headline the field from the Southeast. Only Braden Basile and Ethan Vergara (both from Florida) have an opportunity to earn double All American status. Henson, Horne, Pettigrew, Hunt, Nini, Melguizo, Mason, and Flynn are not in the bracket for Greco after placing in Freestyle. Action begins at 8:30 am and will run until the break for the 16U placement matches.