Today's wrestling will set up the quarterfinals slated to start at a.m. Saturday, and pare the field down to 16 total wrestlers in each weight class. Wrestlers in consolation need two wins to place, while those in the quarters need one win before two losses.
No. 1 in the nation Blair Academy, N.J. leads the way with NINE quarterfinalists. Next in line is No. 4 Lake Highland Prep, Fla. with six and No. 3 St. Edward, Ohio with five.
Team Scores (quarterfinalists/consolation in parentheses):
1) No. 1 Blair Academy, N.J. 76 (9/2)
2) No. 3 St. Edward, Ohio 68.5 (5/4)
3) No. 4 Lake Highland Prep, Fla. 62 (6/4)
4) No. 6 St. Paris Graham, Ohio 58.5 (3/6)
5) No. 9 Bethlehem Catholic, Pa. 56.5 (3/3)
(tie) No. 8 Malvern Prep, Pa. (3/4)
7) No. 12 Olentangy Liberty, Ohio 53 (4/3)
8) No. 14 Poway, Calif. 48 (3/3)
9) No. 16 Wyoming Seminary, Pa. 45.5 (3/3)
10) No. 30 Montini Catholic, Ill. 40.5 (3/2)
11) No. 33 Brecksville, Ohio 38.5 (2/3)
12) Massillon Perry, Ohio 37 (2/5)
13) Mason, Ohio 35.5 (1/4)
14) No. 11 Nazareth, Pa. 34 (2/2)
(tie) No. 21 Pueblo County, Colo. (4/1)
(tie) Reynolds, Pa. (2/2)
Other nationally ranked teams: (18) No. 23 Washington, Ill. 32 (3/0), (20) No. 18 Oak Park River Forest, Ill. 31.5 (2/2), (23-tied) No. 15 Elyria, Ohio 28 (3/0), (25-tied) No. 24 Pomona, Colo. 27 (2/2), (30-tied) No. 45 Broken Arrow, Okla. 18 (1/1)
Quarterfinal pairings (and notes):
285 - No. 4 Kevin Vough (Elyria, Ohio) vs. Jordan Earnest (Wadsworth, Ohio), Mason Giordano (Canfield, Ohio) vs. Trenton Lieurance (Broken Arrow, Okla.); No. 19 Niko Camacho (Bethlehem Catholic, Pa.) vs. Jake Levengood (Vacaville, Calif.), Jon Spaulding (Lakota East, Ill.) vs. No. 8 Seth Janney (Malvern Prep, Pa.)
220 - No. 1 Chase Singletary (Blair Academy, N.J.) vs. Jace Punke (Washington, Ill.), No. 20 Ben Goldin (Lake Highland Prep, Fla.) vs. No. 13 Ben Sullivan (National Trail, Ohio); No. 6 Jared Campbell (St. Edward) vs. Brady Daniel (Good Counsel, Md.), Jeffrey Allen (Amherst County, Va.) vs. No. 2 Cohlton Schultz (Ponderosa, Colo.)
Schultz was extended to the tiebreakers, but advanced with a 7-2 victory over Christopher Middlebrooks (Oak Park River Forest, Ill.)
195 - No. 1 Jacob Warner (Washington, Ill.) vs. Kavan Sarver (St. Paris Graham, Ohio), Sam Stoll (Milan Edison, Ohio) vs. Danny Salas (St. John Bosco, Calif.); Aaron Naples (Brunswick, Ohio) vs. Angel Solis (Lemoore, Calif.), Cody Howard (St. Edward, Ohio) vs. Nick Mosco (Blair Academy, N.J.)
Howard rallied from a big deficit to beat state champion Zach Marcheselli (Broken Arrow, Okla.) in overtime.
182 - No. 1 Michael Beard (Malvern Prep, Pa.) vs. Austin Cooley (Wyoming Seminary, Pa.), Trevor Nichelson (Ashland-Greenwood, Neb.) vs. J.T. Brown (Elyria, Ohio); No. 5 Travis Stefanik (Nazareth, Pa.) vs. Jared Ball (Hilliard Darby, Ohio), Kaden Russell (St. Ignatius) vs. No. 20 Chasen Blair (Rancho Bernardo, Calif.)
170 - No. 2 Michael Labriola (Bethlehem Catholic, Pa.) vs. Trevor Lawson (Olentangy Liberty, Ohio), Gavin Wilkerson (Reynolds, Pa.) vs. No. 14 Casey Cornett (Simon Kenton, Ky.); No. 5 Bryce Rogers (Lake Highland Prep, Fla.) vs. No. 20 Joey Baughman (Wadsworth, Ohio), Emil Soehnlen (Massillon Perry, Ohio) vs. No. 7 Ryan Karoly (Malvern Prep, Pa.)
Baughman survived in the tiebreaker, 6-5 against 2015 state champion Michael Battista (Broad Run, Va.). Soehnlen and Karoly both won one point decisions.
160 - No. 7 Max Wohlabaugh (Winter Springs, Fla.) vs. Ryan Thomas (St. Paris Graham, Ohio), No. 17 Nick Kiussis (Brunswick, Ohio) vs. No. 12 Andrew Merola (Blair Academy, N.J.); No. 10 Luke Troy (Martin Luther King, Calif.) vs. No. 16 Georgio Poullas (Canfield, Ohio), No. 20 Erich Byelick (Lake Highland Prep, Fla.) vs. Cody Surratt (Wadsworth, Ohio)
Surratt upset No. 5 Hunter Bolen (Christiansburg, Va.) 2-1 in the round of 16.
152 - No. 1 David Carr (Massillon Perry, Ohio) vs. Bryce Marcus (St. Thomas Aquinas, Fla.), No. 13 Hunter Willits (Pueblo County, Colo.) vs. No. 7 Julian Ramirez (Blair Academy, N.J.); No. 10 Anthony Artalona (Tampa Prep, Fla.) vs. No. 15 Connor Brady (Olentangy Liberty, Ohio), Jason Romero (Pomona, Colo.) vs. No. 3 Quentin Hovis (Poway, Calif.)
145 - No. 3 Dom Demas (Dublin Coffman, Ohio) vs. Quinn Devaney (McDonogh, Md.), Trey Grenier (Olentangy Liberty, Ohio) vs. No. 8 Josiah Rider (Grand Junction, Colo.); No. 10 Will Lewan (Montini Catholic, Ill.) vs. No. 17 Jake Brindley (Lake Highland Prep, Fla.), Kevon Freeman (Lake Catholic, Ohio) vs. No. 4 Sammy Sasso (Nazareth, Pa.)
Grenier upset No. 12 Gus Solomon (Franklin Regional, Pa.) 4-1 in the round of 16.
138 - No. 18 Cole Matthews (Reynolds, Pa.) vs. Sam Dover (St. Edward, Ohio), Gage Grunden (Defiance, Ohio) vs. Anthony Cheloni (Marmion Academy, Ill.); No. 9 Grant Aronoff (St. Thomas Aquinas, Fla.) vs. Malcolm Robinson (Blair Academy, N.J.), Moises Guillen (Perrysburg, Ohio) vs. No. 7 Corey Shie (LaSalle, Ohio)
Grunded upset No. 20 Jacob Greenwood (Poudre, Colo.) 6-5 in the round of 16 with a late escape.
132 - No. 3 Mitch Moore (St. Paris Graham, Ohio) vs. Chris Deloza (Clovis North, Calif.), Gary Joint (Lemoore, Colo.) vs. No. 9 Allan Hart (St. Edward, Ohio); No. 8 Zach Sherman (Blair Academy, N.J.) vs. No. 16 Grant Willits (Pueblo County, Colo.), No. 12 Zack Donathan (Mason, Ohio) vs. No. 6 Jason Renteria (Oak Park River Forest, Ill.)
126 - No. 1 Spencer Lee (Franklin Regional, Pa.) vs. Hunter Kosco (Canal Fulton Northwest, Ohio), No. 8 Anthony Madrigal (Oak Park River Forest, Ill.) vs. No. 9 Real Woods (Montini Catholic, Ill.); No. 6 Jordan Decatur (CVCA, Ohio) vs. Chase Zollman (Poway, Calif.), No. 15 Chris Cannon (Blair Academy, N.J.) vs. No. 4 Joey Silva (Lake Highland Prep, Fla.)
Kosco pinned No. 14 Jaden Abas (Rancho Bernardo, Calif.) in the round of 16 at the 4:58 mark, while Zollman beat No. 12 Jack Davis (Wyoming Seminary, Pa.) 5-0 in that same round. Madrigal and Woods both won narrow matches in the round, Madrigal 3-2 over freshman Cole Handlovic (Bethlehem Catholic, Pa.) and Woods upended Matt Kazimir (St. Edward, Ohio) 2-0.
120 - No. 9 Beau Bartlett (Wyoming Seminary, Pa.) vs. Logan Heil (Brunswick, Ohio), Dack Punke (Washington, Ill.) vs. Lukus Stricker (Akron Hoban, Ohio); No. 19 Coltan Yapoujian (Pomona, Colo.) vs. No. 16 Ryan Anderson (Bethlehem Catholic, Pa.), Nathan Bonham (Pueblo County, Colo.) vs. Bryce Andonian (St. Edward, Ohio)
Andonian pinned No. 15 Mike Madara (Blair Academy, N.J.) in the round of 16 at the 5:51 mark. He was up by a major decision margin at the time.
113 - No. 12 Jesse Vasquez (St. John Bosco, Calif.) vs. Jacob Dunlop (Belle Vernon Area, Pa.), Brakan Mead (Olentangy Liberty, Ohio) vs. No. 16 Michael Colaiocco (Blair Academy, N.J.); No. 14 Joey Melendez (Montini Catholic, Ill.) vs. Gabe Tagg (Brecksville, Ohio), Josiah Nava (Pueblo County, Colo.) vs. No. 7 Dylan D'Emilio (Genoa, Ohio)
Vasquez pinned No. 18 Nate Keaton (Circleville, Ohio), the tournament's champion last year at 106 pounds in just over a minute in the round of 16. Dunlop upended Super 32 placer Matthew Cardello (CVCA, Ohio) in that same round by a 4-3 score. Also in that round, Colaiocco beat freshman phenom Andrew Cerniglia (Nazareth, Pa.) 4-2, and Tagg beat National Prep runner-up Shane Hanson-Ashworth (Malvern Prep, Pa.) 2-1.
106 - No. 3 Mosha Schwartz (Wyoming Seminary, Pa.) vs. Mick Burnett (Elyria, Ohio), No. 13 Jacob Decatur (CVCA, Ohio) vs. No. 6 Julian Tagg (Brecksville, Ohio); No. 8 Lucas Byrd (LaSalle, Ohio) vs. Jacob Allen (Poway, Calif.), Nick Incontera (Blair Academy, N.J.) vs. No. 12 Ryan Chauvin (Lake Highland Prep, Fla.)
Big result there was Allen upsetting No. 16 Angelo Rini (St. Edward, Ohio) 6-5 in the round of 16.
Some of the top teams had key wrestlers not part of their lineups:
-St. Paris Graham missing two-time state champion Rocky Jordan (152) and state medalist Jordan Crace (113/120)
-Olentangy Liberty missing three-time state champion Kyle Lawson (160), along with two other middle-weights, one a state qualifier and the other a former Cadet freestyle All-American.
-Oak Park River Forest was without two-time state medalist Jamie Hernandez (138/145) and another state placer
-Pueblo County was without Junior National double finalist Brendon Garcia (106) and another state champion
-Pomona was missing Cadet National double All-American Theorius Robison (138), two other placers, and a state qualifier due to their state football runner-up finish last weekend
-Broken Arrow was missing returning state champion Skyler Haynes (195/220)
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