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

Coralville, IA - March 26-27, 2020

The Southeast has several hammers headed to Iowa this weekend. Here is a quick look at who has registered. You can find the action on trackwrestling - I will provide updates throughout the tournament on the blog.

Alabama (11)

• Yanni Vines (113)

• Isaiah Powe (120)

• Jacob Dease (132)

• Melton Powe III (132)

• Devin Stone (132)

• Kyler Adams (138)

• James Latona (138)

• Clay Johnston (145)

• Will Miller (152)

• Will Garrett (152)

• Caleb Roe (170)

Florida Girls (17)

• Clare Booe (100)

• Brielle Bibla (106)

• Sanii Porter (112)

• Helena Alcanter (112)

• Juliana Diaz (117)

• Hannah Hall (117)

• Cameron Galvin (117)

• Emma Smith (117)

• Carolyna Bellon (122)

• Kailey Rees (122)

• Tesla Kirkland (122)

• Madisyn Blackburn (127)

• Julia Ferreira (127)

• Teigan Slauson (132)

• Jada Llamido (138)

• Jazzmine Moore (180)

• Andrea Smith (200)

Florida Boys (18)

• Logan O’Leary (113)

• Jonathan Hudson (120)

• Alain Mursuil (120)

• Ryan McCabe (126)

• Jewell Williams (126)

• Jonny Dobbs (126)

• Julian Perez (132)

• Duke Byfield (138)

• Tyler Cabral (138)

• Michael Shannon (145)

• Kendrick Hodge (152)

• Jaurice Seymour (152)

• Tehran Piza (152)

• Anthony Nicolosi (160)

• Bryce Dodge (160)

• Joseph Nicolosi (182)

• Michael Tal-Shahar (195)

• Ryan Cody (195)

Georgia Girls (2)

• Genevieve An (127)

• Ashley Godinez (152)

Georgia Boys (3)

• Michael Moya (106)

• Dominic Ditomasso (120)

• Omaury Alvarez (170)

North Carolina Girls (3)

• Reagan Riddick (117)

• Brooke Zak (122)

• Jo-Ellen Hutto (132)

North Carolina Boys (1)

• Calan Staub (152)

South Carolina Girls (4)

• June Welch (100)

• Zao Estrada (112)

• April Kelly (127)

• Caroline Gilstrap (138)

South Carolina Boys (1)

• Chandler Amaker (160)

Tennessee Girls (8)

• Ella-Lina Gonzalez (106)

• Avery Kibelbek (112)

• Katelynn Hernandez (122)

• Rontaysia Payne (132)

• Maggie Graham (152)

• Shelby Zacharias (164)

• Justina ChongNee (225)

• Valerie Smith (225)

Tennessee Boys (7)

• Brice Barton (132)

• Perrin Clark (132)

• Brayden Ivy (138)

• Luke London (138)

• Logan Spell (152)

• Colby Dalon (160)

• Gervacio Gonzalez (182)

A bracket breaker is defined differently for different states and sometimes differently by classification in the same state. Mostly it comes down to how large the bracket is as to what defines a bracket breaker and where they finish. So read each state first to understand how I have chosen to define it. Broadly speaking … it is a wrestler that comes in under the radar and goes on to win matches they either “shouldn’t” win (according to their previous weeks finish).

In Georgia - we selected the bracket breakers as those wrestlers that finished 3rd in their Area and made the podium at the state tournament.

The Girls had very large brackets because there was no sectional tournament qualifier the weekend before. So we included a bracket breaker as any wrestler not seeded in the top 8 that made the podium.

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1A

• Aidan Conley (Wesleyan) - 5th at 120

• Josh Lange (Mt Pisgah) - 4th at 138

• Colton Hardeman (ELCA) - 2nd at 160

• Michael Dagenhart (George Walton) - 5th at 160

• Nick Morgan (Holy Innocents) - 5th at 170

• James Gleeson (Holy Innocents) - 4th at 182

• Happy Chane (Mt Pisgah) - 5th at 195

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2A

• Ethan Carter (Haralson County) - 5th at 132

• Kalan Woods (Model) - 5th at 160

• Kaleb Cannon (East Laurens) - 5th at 285

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3A

• Nate Mixon (Greater Atlanta Christian) - 4th at 152

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Girls

• Catarina Velasquez (Chestatee) - Seeded #36; Finished 2nd at 102

• Anna Santoscoy (Johnson) - Seeded #14; Finished 5th at 102

• Haley Zinninger (North Gwinnett) - Seeded #20; Finished 5th at 102

• Anisa Nur (Greenbrier) - Seeded #34; Finished 4th at 112

• Callie Payton (Etowah) - Seeded #20; Finished 5th at 112

• Jasmine Ragland (Coosa) - Seeded #23; Finished 5th at 112

• Lindsey Noble (Cambridge) - Seeded #26; Finished 3rd at 122

• Citali Salas-Abrego (Centennial) - Seeded #14; Finished 4th at 122

• Zaniyah Davis (Jordan) - Seeded #41; Finished 5th at 122

• Genevieve An (Kennesaw Mountain) - Seeded #19; Finished 2nd at 132

• Te’Yarah Lett (Monroe Area) - Seeded #10; Finished 4th at 142

• Litzy Soto (Johnson) - Seeded #40; Finished 5th at 142

• Arieana Bacon (Greenbrier) - Seeded #10; Finished 5th at 152

• Caitlyn Mixon (Ware County) - Seeded #17; Finished 1st at 162

• Beyonce McColumn (Northside Warner Robins) - Seeded #10; Finished 2nd at 172

• Monserrat Nunez (Peachtree Ridge) - Seeded #14; Finished 4th at 197

• Teonna Bonds (SE Whitfield) - Seeded #9; Finished 3rd at 225

• Madison Baxter (Pepperell) - Seeded #15; Finished 5th at 225