FILA Junior World Team Trials: Results/Discussion

[JensenS]

Tournament will go down over the next two days. Unfortunately it looks like in terms of sheer numbers its going to be pretty sparse but they've got some really quality guys there in the brackets.

The following guys have byes to the finals after winning Junior Nationals back in April.

50 KG: Nick Roberts
55 KG: Jesse Delgado
60 KG: Tony Ramos
66 KG: Josh Kindig
74 KG: Taylor Massa
84 KG: Lee Munster
96 KG: Kyven Gadson
120 KG: Bobby Telford

Some of the main names in the challenge tournament in each bracket

50 KG: Jarred Brooks, Phillip Laux, Jordan Wigger

55 KG: Jack Hathaway, Mark Grey (Ryak Finch was here but Grey just beat him in the first round)
60 KG: Nick Dardanes, Jason Tsirtsis, Logan Stieber, Chris Dardanes (Only four guys in the bracket)
66 KG: Destin McCauley, Dylan Ness
74 KG: Nick Sulzer, Michael Kelly, Nick Moore
84 KG: Taylor Meeks
96 KG: Tanner Hall, Scott Schiller, Derrick Borlie
120 KG: Daniel Miller, Derek Papagianopoulos

[JensenS]

Freestyle Finals

50 KG: Nick Roberts v. Jarred Brooks
55 KG: Mark Grey v. Sean Boylan (Delgado didn't show up)
60 KG: Nick Dardanes v. Logan Stieber (Ditto for Ramos)
66 KG: Josh Kindig v. Dylan Ness (Ness beat McCauley 1-3/1-1/8-2)
74 KG: Taylor Massa v. Nick Sulzer (Sulzer beats Kelly 2-0/7-0 and Moore 4-2/1-0)
84 KG: Lee Munster v. Taylor Meeks
96 KG: Tyler Lehmann v. Tanner Hall
120 KG: Daniel Miller v. Derek Papagianopolous (No Telford)

Greco

50 KG: Jake Bellis v. Colton Howell
55 KG: Isaiah Varona v. Mike Fuenffinger

60 KG: Joe DeNova v. Jesse Thielke
66 KG: Justin Lavalle v. Ravaughn Perkins
74 KG: Joey Moorhouse v. Josh Castellano
84 KG: Joel Bauman v. Devin Peterson
96 KG: Alex Polizzi v. Marcus Finau
120 KG: Nikola Bojevic v. Toby Erickson

[vaisforlovers]

Very little hawk participation. Strange.

[JensenS]

Finals results

Freestyle

50 KG: Roberts def Brooks 3-0/2-1, 1-0/5-0
55 KG: Grey def Boylan 3-0/7-0, 3-0/3-1
60 KG: Stieber def Dardanes 7-0/3-1, 1-0/4-0
66 KG: Kindig def Ness 3-3/2-2/7-2, 8-0/fall :17
74 KG: Massa def Sulzer 2-0/1-1, 3-0/4-3
84 KG: Munster def Meeks 5-0/5-0, 2-0/3-0
96 KG: Hall def Lehmann 3-3/6-1, 0-7/4-2/2-1
120 KG: Miller def Papagianopolous 3-0/2-1, 4-3/4-0

Perkins beat Lavalle in the marquee Greco match up in two matches.

[vaisforlovers]

Not much sizzle this year. Not gonna lie.

[Gold]

Very little hawk participation. Strange.

Very little participation at all. Most brackets were 4 or 5 people, I don't understand it.

[JensenS]

It seemed odd to me as well, this was a huge tournament last year.

Still put together a solid team with Stieber, Kindig, Massa, and Munster (I'm most excited to see Kindig who was wrestling just wild all weekend) but definitely not as tough a road for these guys.

[r.payton@att.net]

Jarred Brooks is pretty tough-his brother ,Justin ,has left IU so 125 should be manned by ,Zach Zimmer , a RS freshman from Clovis West High School . Justin is transferring to Indiana Tech-Taner Kriss has left IU as well-Justin was 16-16 at 125 in the big 10 as a RS freshman .