Notable wrestlers who fell short of All-American honors

Fargo week is a time when many of the nation's top scholastic wrestlers assemble and battle it out for top honors and distinctions in one venue. Over the course of seven days and in four events, the top high school aged athletes test their mettle in the international styles of Greco-Roman and freestyle.

About 40 percent of the nation's grade-level ranked wrestlers competed in the tournaments this week. Those coming from the graduated class of 2015 all the way down to the incoming freshman class of 2019.

Between the Cadet and Junior freestyle competitions, the split out was the following:

2015: 21 of the top 100 (in many cases, wrestlers that have competed in past Fargo weeks were already on their college campuses taking classes and/or training.
2016: 46 of the top 100
2017: 16 of the top 50
2018: 27 of the top 50
2019: 10 of the top 25 (some of those wrestlers were not yet Fargo eligible, as they still are Schoolboys)

There were a select few among the grade-level ranked that competed only in Greco-Roman, but for holistic overview purposes, the freestyle data provides enough of the story.

Here is the breakdown of how those ranked wrestlers did in terms of earning All-American honors in the freestyle event:

2015: 17 out of 21, all at the Junior level
2016: 31 out of 46, all at the Junior level
2017: 12 out of 16; 7 of 12 Juniors, 4 of 4 Cadets
2018: 22 out of 27, all at the Cadet level
2019: 7 out of 10, all at the Cadet level

Now obviously there are many and different reasons for why ranked wrestlers did not earn an All-American honor. In some cases, it's because the rankings were simply wrong. In other cases, it's because they lost to other ranked wrestlers before All-American status would be earned. Other scenarios are because of injury/illness before or during the competition. Another reason is that freestyle has inherent scenarios that yield different outcomes than in folkstyle (i.e. scholastic wrestling). All of these -- in isolation or combination -- along with some other items (i.e. it was just a bad tournament for the wrestler) can explain things.

Now for the Greco-Roman breakdown:

2015: 2 out of 2, all at the Junior level
2016: 19 out of 19, all at the Junior level
2017: 6 out of 8; 3 of 5 Juniors, 3 of 3 Cadets
2018: 11 out of 13, all at the Cadet level
2019: 2 out of 2, all at the Cadet level

California's Jaden Abas, one of the nation's top incoming freshmen, fell short of All-American honors in Cadet freestyle (Photo/John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com)

On a related note, one of the staple features of our post-Fargo wrap-up commentaries is a look at the many notable wrestlers that competed during the event(s), but failed to earn All-American honors. This is done through our non-AA cast of All-Americans. That is to say eight wrestlers per weight class are selected based on a combination of their credentials entering the event, and their productivity during the event.

The general premises are the following: to earn All-American honors in Fargo is impressive because of the cast of wrestlers that fall short, and distinguished wrestlers failing to earn All-American honors is far from an isolated event. For purposes of article length, lists were created for the freestyle events only.

Symbols: *grade-level ranked, &state (or National Prep) champ, ^state (nor National Prep) runner-up

Junior freestyle

100: Less than 30 kids in the weight class

106: &Wyatt Adams (Oklahoma), Kelvin Eblen (Missouri), ^Trey Keeley (Illinois), Justin Lopez (New York), Drew Schafer (New York), &Arick Shankles (Alabama), &Joe Thomas (Maryland), Dylan Koontz (Wisconsin)

113: ^Jakob Allison (Iowa), Josh Copeland (Oklahoma), &Tomas Gutierrez (Colorado), ^Drew Hildebrandt (Indiana), Randon Miranda (California), &Sidney Oliver (Missouri), Tanner Rohweder (Iowa), Drew West (Iowa), TBD

120: *&Montorie Bridges (Oklahoma), *^Dalton Duffield (Oklahoma), &Logan Griffin (Michigan), &Brock Hudkins (Indiana), &Garrett Pepple (Indiana), &Jacob Schwarm (Iowa), ^Zach Sherman (New Jersey), &Jack Wagner (Iowa)

126: Ryan Friedman (Maryland), &Jonathan Gabriel (Pennsylvania), &Cameron Hunsaker (Utah), *^Trent Olson (Wyoming), *&Brock Rathbun (Iowa), &Ted Rico (Arizona), *Gabe Townsell (Illinois), &Dalton Young (Washington)

132: ^Ryan Deakin (Colorado), &Chris Debien (Tennessee), ^Paul Glynn (Iowa), &Ryan Leisure (Iowa), *&Ben Freeman (Michigan), Corey Shie (Ohio), A.J. Jaffe (Illinois), Brandon James (Indiana)

138: &Ben Brancale (Minnesota), *&Jarrett Degen (Montana), &Beau Guffey (Oklahoma), &Jaron Jensen (Utah), *&Michael Murphy (Tennessee), &Shayne Oster (Illinois), *&Alex Rich (Oregon), *&Kanen Storr (Michigan)

145: Justin Demicco (Ohio), *^Stephan Glasgow (New Jersey), Jeren Glosser (Iowa), *&Quentin Hovis (Arizona), &Logan Lacure (Ohio), &Cole Martin (Wisconsin), &Kyler Rea (Missouri), &Andrew Webb (Georgia)

152: Cole Erickson (Iowa), Austin Hiles (Ohio), ^Kyle Kaminski (Ohio), ^Dan Kelly (Iowa), *&Austin Kraisser (Maryland), &James Pleski (Minnesota), &Chase Straw (Iowa), &Hunter Willits (Colorado)

160: *&Brett Bye (South Dakota), *Trace Carello (Illinois), ^Tristan Johnson (Iowa), Jake Lanning (Illinois), *&Canten Marriott (Missouri), Jimmy Miller (Pennsylvania), ^Saul Ortiz (Kansas), &Jesse Shearer (North Dakota)

170: &Andrew Berreyesa (Nevada), &Jordan Bushey (New York), & Sergio Chavez (Arizona), ^Hayden Hansen (Oklahoma), *&Alex Herringshaw (New York), &Dale Hilleman (Iowa), &Andrew McNally (Ohio), Jared Siegrist (Pennsylvania)

182: ^Trevor Allard (New York), Dylan Anderson (Wisconsin), &Andrew Buckley (Missouri), Kyle Gentile (Pennsylvania), Garrett Hoffman (Pennsylvania), *^Max Lyon (Iowa), *&Keegan Moore (Minnesota), Aaron Paddock (New York)

195: *Zane Black (Pennsylvania), Jake Buell (New York), *&Daniel Chadd (Wisconsin), ^Roderick Davis (Georgia), ^Nick McShea (New York), &Jackson Striggow (Minnesota), &Joe Teague (Iowa), *&Cash Wilcke (Iowa)

220: *&Ethan Andersen (Iowa), ^Jake Briggs (Minnesota), Kyler Childers (Oklahoma), &Christian Colucci (New Jersey), &Trevor Eicher (Washington), James Ford (Ohio), Andrew Gunning (Pennsylvania), &Christian Lance (Missouri)

285: ^Jake Beistel (Pennsylvania), *Gannon Gremmel (Iowa), Trenton Lieurance (Oklahoma), ^Bryson McGowan (Oklahoma), &Brandon Metz (North Dakota), &Michael Rogers (Pennsylvania), &Alex Silberstein (Iowa), ^Korey Walker (Oklahoma)

Cadet freestyle:

100: Josh Blatt (North Carolina), Gregory Copastick (Texas), Samuel Fair (Indiana), *Eric Faught (Iowa), Gable Fox (Iowa), &Rhett Golowenski (Oklahoma), Joey Melendez (Illinois), Hunter Sparks (Oregon)

106: *Jaden Abas (California), Matthew Cardello (Ohio), &Alexander Cruz (Washington), ^Riley Gurr (Washington), Logan Macri (Pennsylvania), Izaak Olejnik (California), &Antonio Saldate (Nevada), &Clayton Singh (Missouri)

113: &Brock Bergelin (Wisconsin), &Connor Brown (Missouri), ^Austin Franco (Michigan), &Michael Millage (Iowa), *Roderick Mosley (Oklahoma), &Peyton Robb (Minnesota), &Brady Teske (Iowa), Chase Zollman (California)

120: Andrew Garr (Ohio), &Jackson Henson (West Virginia), Brandon Lucas (Ohio), &Jeremy Schoenhurr (Wisconsin), Zurich Storm (Pennsylvania), &Jet Taylor (Oklahoma), Cameron Valdiviez (Missouri), ^Conner Ward (Kansas)

126: Abdullah Assaf (Illinois), &Clayton Currier (Montana), Hunter Dusold (New York), &Clay Quintanilla (Washington), Lawrence Saenz (California), Zander Silva (California), ^Jaden van Maanen (Wisconsin), Zach Villarreal (Illinois)

132: &Brevin Balmeceda (Florida), Cole Corrigan (New Jersey), &Sammy Eckhart (Idaho), J.J. Figueroa (California), Calvin Germinaro (Minnesota), ^Cal Hansen (Wisconsin), Zach Lee (Wisconsin), &Brock Mauller (Missouri)

138: Jose Acosta (Wisconsin), *&Aaron Brooks (Maryland), Jaxen Gilmore (Oklahoma), Mason Hall (Minnesota), Kendon Kayser (Louisiana), Ethan Krause (Maryland), Tyler Shilson (Minnesota), Mike Stuart (Pennsylvania)

145: Kameron Bush (Michigan), *&David Carr (Ohio), Sammy Cokeley (Kansas), *Phil Conigliaro (Massachusetts), *Anthony Jackson (Minnesota), Jacob Krakow (Iowa), Isaiah Luellen (Kansas), ^Logan McKoy (Maryland)

152: Logan Coyle (Indiana), Andrew Johnson (Kansas), Gleason Mappes (Indiana), Connor Melbourne (New York), Kenny O'Neil (Minnesota), *^Robert Patrick (Pennsylvania), Tate Samuelson (Colorado), Alex Ward (Iowa)

160: Jonah Barley (Pennsylvania), Cameron Caffey (Illinois), David Crawford (Ohio), ^Ritchie Heywood (Utah), *Nate Jimenez (Illinois), Quentin Milliken (Pennsylvania), Bailee O'Reilly (Minnesota), ^Owen Pentz (Utah)

170: &John Borst (Virginia), David Blanchard (Ohio), Ti'Ric Evans (Ohio), Jacob Gray (Indiana), &Layne Hatcher (Arkansas), Michael Ilic (New Jersey), Mark Kimbrel (Ohio), Dylan Servis (Kansas)

182: Evan Frank (New York), Blake Kansco (Pennsylvania), Mason Kroening (Illinois), Drake McAdow (Nevada), Trevor Schmidt (Illinois), Andrew Shedleski (Pennsylvania), Riley Vanik (Illinois), Anthony Walters (Pennsylvania)

195: Cole Bateman (Illinois), Bonifaci Escobar (California), Bryce Esmoil (Iowa), Zachary Myers (California), Sean O'Malley (New Jersey), Saylor Schmit (Minnesota), Sergio Villalobos (Illinois), Jared Walker (Iowa)

220: Spencer Berthold (Ohio), Max Darrah (Missouri), Lee Harrington (Nebraska), Michael Lansaw (Oklahoma), Jake Levengood (California), Cameron Wetli (Indiana), Henry Willoughby (Texas), Morgan Yates (Washington)

285: Less than 30 kids in the weight class

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