I obviously did not understand this tournament as the individual tournament today has a high school division but apparently none of the wrestlers I high lighted yesterday are in it and the brackets for high school are small. Sorry for the misinformation.
Julian Farber at 138 yesterday defeated Blankenship 3-2. He easily won the 138 pound title in the high school tournament today with major decisions or better in each match. He was a Georgia State champion and will wrestle at UNI next year. 94-2 in High School with 56 pins.
I watched the matches with Haas and 2 of them were very unimpressive. He did hurt his rib cage it appeared but still won. I don't know how to explain the match he lost but he managed to lose decisively. Some of the opponents scores such as the reversal and ride out were weird. It is like he said in the 3rd period here I will give you a reversal and let you ride me out. I know he is a quality wrestler but it was a bad day for him.
He finished his 3rd straight undefeated season at 126 by defeating Jake Bibler in the championship finals. Bibler was a senior and going for his 4th state title. He won the match by a major 15-2. We now have five recruits in the 2021 class including Kyle Haas (285), Victor Voinovich (149/157), Teague Travis (157), Travis Mastrogiovanni (165) and Birdwell (125).
Who's number one is about to start. Lots of wrestlers committed to us or could commit to us in the near future. Commits wrestling tonight are Voinovich 152, Mastrogiovanni at 160 and Haas at 220. Jordan Williams at 138 is about to wrestle against Mendez.
Williams lost 3 to 2, close match, good defense and Williams came close several times to scoring the winning takedown at the end of the match but Mendez has good defense. We could really use Williams in the 22 class and he has us as 1 of his potential schools but some say that his high school does not like us because of the coaches son experience in Stillwater. Mendez takedown came off a good duck under attempt by William where he ended with Mendez behind him for the left and takedown. Another top recruit in the 22 class Rylen Rogers( wrestling tonight at 182) did not list us as a potential landing place probably because Jordan and Chandler Rogers both had some bad experience with us.
Rogers lost 7 to 5 to Lenny Pinto. Rogers seemed very tired, Pinto seemed the better wrestler tonight but he is a senior and Rogers is a junior.
Voinovich beat Condomitti 4 to 3. He did not win by his top wrestling but won with 2 takedowns. He did ride his opponent for the last 30 seconds. In the second period Victor was on top and gave up a reversal wand was rode out for over a minute. I liked Voinovich and I hope he can make 49 in the future for us.
Haas is coming up next against Feldman at 220. I think Haas will need to get a takedown other than by a throw to win this match. I like his ability to throw but I would like to see him shoot a takedown. Here they come.
Haas got murdered, Feldman seemed like a monster much quicker, much better balance, much better technique. If Haas can't throw someone he is in trouble. In the Kansas finals that kid he wrestled was very strong and good and he lost. Haas will really need to improve in his weak areas if he is going to be real good.
Picklo upset Schumatte at 195 by the score 3 to 1. Great defense by Picklo. Picklo is committed to OU.
