Some good wrestling on Saturday... Some thoughts:
A really nice lineup of schools. The 3 Hilliards, Mount Vernon, Teays Valley, Lancaster and Grove City all had some really good wrestlers, spread out across the weight classes. I felt bad for Walnut Ridge, so many other good schools, they were just out of their depth here.
Placers
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
Hill. Bradley 1 6 3 2 12
Hill. Darby 2 2 2 1 7
Davidson 3 1 2 6
Grove City 1 1 5 7
Lancaster 2 3 2 1 8
Mount Vernon 3 2 5
Teays Valley 3 2 3 5 13
Trent Gill looks worthy of the rankings.
Austin Rayburn and Quentin Thatcher, 2 Darby freshman, were impressive. Rayburn lost only 4-0 to Luke Nace, and took 3rd, and Thatcher beat Will Stratton of Bradley, and pinned Kyle Dooley of Teays Valley, losing only to Bobby Smith(who looked very very good).
Zach Garrett should make some noise at districts, with a very nice tournament win here.
I think this was my first time seeing Lane Hinkle, and he was the real deal as well.
It's too bad Sean Black was not able to wrestle, would have been good to see him up against Deluse and Driscoll
Trevor Parker continues to improve, every win a MD or better.
Kinzer of Teays Valley is a beast! Every win a pin, 4 of the 5 in the first minute!
On the middle school side, Marysville was dominant, the pipeline will continue for them!