WIwrestle Fall Open was this past Saturday and it was a great day of wrestling featuring lots of interesting matches and results. As always we try to make our events run as efficiently as possible and create a fun environment for the wrestlers to get some matches in before the season kicks off! Below are some of the notable things we saw after Saturday in the elite and girls high school divisions.
Elite High School:
At elite 106 Kolten Mueller (Team Nazar) took home gold after defeating Michael Bird of Izzy Style. Mueller competed last year at Who’s The Little Cheese and will be someone to watch this season as he makes his high school debut this season.
At 120lbs Drew Muratne (Izzy Style) defeated state placer Easton Felchin 13-6.
Izzy Style goes back to back winning the title at 126lbs as well. This time Kannon Judycki took out Gavin Slark by fall in the first period. Slark was a 3rd place finisher in D3 last year at state.
Lodi’s Bryer Caves took home the title at 132lbs after going 2-0, recording wins over Bryce Knudtson (Wrestling Factory) and state qualifier Damien Thomas (AWA). Caves won by major decision in the finals 10-2.
Moving up to 138lbs we saw a bracket with several familiar faces including: Michael Laux, Ivan Woodhull, Tyler Paulson, Wyatt Sandoval, and Carsen Voskuil. It was a showdown between Paulson and Sandoval in the finals with Sandoval winning a close one 8-7.
Brock Claypool of Izzy Style was the champ at 145lbs beating state qualifier Colton Katzfey by tech 19-4.
Up at 175lbs, Carson Bremmer (AWA) brings home gold after defeating Adam Haas (AWA) in the finals 7-4. In route to the finals Bremmer took out state qualifier Gage Gross (Team Nazar) 201 in the semis. On the backside, state qualifier Devin Johnson beat Gage Gross in the consi-semis before falling to state qualifier Seth Race in the 3rd place match 6-5.
Throwback to our first Who’s The Little Cheese where we saw Luke Driedric and Quinton Ortegon compete against each other with Ortegon winning. Fast forward to this past Saturday where we saw them compete again and this time Driedric got the victory by fall in the 2nd period.
Girls High School:
In a battle of state qualifiers, Margaret Barrett (AWA) took out Lylah Paletta (Chippewa Elite Wrestling) by tech in the first period to win gold at 107-111lbs.
Izzy Style continued their dominance in the girls division with Ashley Basmajian after defeating Wisconsin state qualifier Elliot Mulloy by fall at 117-121lbs.
A name to remember is Victory’s Cora Bighley who is a freshman this season. She defeated state medalist Dakota Athey by fall in round 3 at 122-133lbs.
