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At 119 pounds, St. Edward wrestler Clark can't be matched

Pat Galbincea, Plain Dealer Reporter - Whether St. Edward will win a 13th straight Division I state title this season is unclear, but one thing for the Eagles was certain Friday in the preliminary rounds of the sectional tournament at Southview High School - junior state champion Jamie Clark has earned his acclaim as the nation's top 119-pounder.

No. 2-ranked St. Edward, gunning for its 33rd consecutive sectional title, has a nominal 20-point team lead over No. 4-ranked Elyria, 94 points to 74.

No surprise: St. Edward dominates Southview wrestling sectional

Pat Galbincea, Plain Dealer Reporter - You might call it a curse that Elyria wrestlers have to be in the same Division I sectional as 12-time state champion St. Edward. As strong as the Pioneers are, their hopes of winning a sectional crown at Southview High have been nearly impossible, as they were Saturday when the Eagles claimed the team title for a 33rd straight year.

St. Edward rolled up 265 1/2 points and had 11 district qualifiers including their five ace champions in Gus Sako (112), Jamie Clark (119), Anthony Salupo (135), Collin Palmer (140) and Nick Sulzer (152). Elyria finished second with 204 1/2 and five champs in Dalton McHenry (130) and Mitch Fadenholz (171) - both of whom won by medical forfeits in the finals - plus Chase Churchill (145), Zack Goins (160) and pinning sensation Ryan Nelisse (189).

Goins, a senior who pinned Amherst junior Alex Basinski in the finals at 2:49, said there is little the Pioneers can do to topple St. Edward outside of winning head-on matches, as he did in the semifinals when he played a game of takedowns with Eagles junior Chris Cvetic in scoring a 19-4 technical fall at 3:53.

Squire shines as Wadsworth rolls to Medina sectional wrestling title

Todd Stumpf, Special to The Plain Dealer - MEDINA - Brad Squire says he still has things to work on. Garland McCormick might disagree. Squire, continuing to make rapid progress from a knee injury that caused him to miss most of the season, dismantled Kenmore's McCormick, 15-3, Saturday night in the 140-pound championship at the Medina Division I Sectional.

"He ain't lost nothing," McCormick said of the Wadsworth junior. "He's just like he was, good as ever."

Squire, whose lone loss this year is to three-time state champion Collin Palmer of St. Edward, is showing little signs of rust at this point. He jumped on McCormick, a top-5 Brakeman ranked wrestler, from the outset.

Sectional wrestling preview: Southview’s Cruz may have funky style, but there’s nothing unorthodox about his will to win

Shaun Bennett | The Chronicle-Telegram - As the final second ticked off the clock in the second overtime of the match, Bobby Cruz knew he had just been denied his shot at last year’s Division I state tournament. “The toughest part was watching at least three, four kids that I’ve beaten and know that I could beat again make it to the state tournament ahead of me,” the Southview senior said this week.

“That made me want it more. I wanted to walk through the tunnel and walk out onto the mats (in Columbus) and let everyone know I made it there.”

The hardest part for Cruz and Saints coach Billy Kopp to swallow about the loss was that Cruz had easily defeated Sandusky’s Jerrel Valliant a few weeks earlier at the Toledo Waite tournament. But Cruz tried a move in the district consolation semifinal that cost him his trip to the state tournament.

Next wave of Olympic wrestlers may be fresh out of high school

bgomez - Many thanks to Gazette copy editor Angie DiSalvo for covering the local Olympic scene while I’m watching figure skating in Vancouver. Here’s her take from today’s opening round of the Dave Schultz Memorial International Open at the Olympic Training Center …

Assistant national coach Momir Petkovic, a 1976 gold medalist for Yugoslavia, said that 163-pounder Jake Deitchler is “the pioneer” for USA Wrestling’s new approach to training Greco-Roman wrestlers.

Petkovic said that instead of having athletes wrestling in colleges (where the style is much different) for four or five years and then bringing them to the OTC, coaches are going to try to lure more high school athletes to the program.

Wadsworth wrestlers beat St. Edward again

Pat Galbincea, Plain Dealer Reporter - It takes quite a lot to quiet rabid St. Edward wrestling fans in their home gym, and Wadsworth had that "lot" Saturday in downing the vaunted Eagles, 30-27, for the second time this season.

The Grizzlies' "lot" was sizeable, a 6-7, 282-pound junior heavyweight named Ben Buzzelli, who brought The Plain Dealer's No. 1-ranked team from a 27-24 deficit to victory by pinning freshman Greg Kuhar in a cradle at 3:23 in the final bout of the afternoon.

It sparked a remarkable comeback for the Grizzlies (14-1 overall), who at one point trailed St. Edward (15-7) - winners of the past 12 Division I state titles - by margins of 24-6 and 27-12. Both schools also had wrestled a good Rockford, Mich., team earlier in the triangular and won by similar scores, Wadsworth by a 42-17 total and St. Edward 47-17.

Pioneers claim first-ever NOC championship

BRAD BOURNIVAL - For Elyria's wrestling team, the math was simple: 10+5+4=1.

With 10 placers, five finalists and four champions, the Pioneers were able to claim the Northeast Ohio Conference Tournament on Saturday. The same event they lost to Mayfield by 27 points last season.

And Elyria (195) needed all of its placers to edge Twinsburg by 4 points in the team race.

It all started at the 160-pound weight class where Zack Goins erased a 2 point team deficit to the Tigers by beating Mayfield's Tylan Coleman, 5-3, in the finals. This gave the Pioneers a lead they would never relinquish.

Goins keeps going and going through injuries

BRAD BOURNIVAL - In a four-year career at Elyria, Zack Goins has made it a point not to let bumps and bruises lead to broken dreams.

They aren’t your run-of-the-mill injuries, either. To put it mildly, if it can happen to a wrestler, then Goins has been sidelined by it at one time or another.

The 160-pounder went an entire sophomore postseason with a separated shoulder, was knocked unconscious in his placement match at state last year and sustained a knee injury this season.

Yet every time, Goins bounced back.

Meeting of top-ranked U.S. wrestlers could happen Saturday in St. Paris

Eric Frantz - You remember those movies growing up as a kid that pitted Godzilla against King Kong? A meeting like that might actually take place Saturday in St. Paris. Two of the country’s top wrestlers could square off. According to the Graham wrestling website senior David Taylor will bump up a weight class to tackle Lakewood St. Edward senior Collin Palmer (Palmer is projected at 140 for St. Ed). We can only hope.

In bright green letters on the Graham website it says “YES - THERE MAY BE A MATCH BETWEEN DAVID TAYLOR AND COLLIN PALMER. Taylor will be wrestling 140.”

Taylor has a career record of 125-2 and is ranked No. 1 in the country at 135 pounds by Amateur Wrestling News and Wrestling USA Magazine. He hasn't lost since falling to St. Ed's Jamie Clark as a sophomore. A three-time state champion and Iowa State recruit, Taylor is the only wrestler EVER to win four individual titles at the prestigious Walsh Ironman Invitational.

West Wrestling Insider: Southview jets to wins all across the state

Pat Galbincea - Southview's wrestling team is traveling in style this winter. When the Saints won the Fairfield Invitational last weekend, it marked the third of four major wrestling areas they have visited. The one area they haven't been to - the Northwest corner of the state - will be covered Jan. 23-24 when the Saints compete in the Toledo Waite Tournament.

"And we've won everywhere we've gone except the Northeast area, where we came in second at the Riverside Rumble," Southview coach Billy Kopp said. "But that was the first week of the season, and we get progressively tougher toward the end of the season.

Brecksville-Broadview Heights' Lang finally gains coveted Dies wrestling title

jmorona - If anyone deserved a good cigar, it was Kyle Lang.

After coming so close during the past wrestling year, no one at Saturday’s finals of the two-day Bill Dies Memorial Tournament would have denied the Brecksville-Broadview Heights senior a little break from the smoking ban.

Lang, a runner-up in numerous prestigious tournaments since last year’s state finals, had his way with Nordonia senior Darren Rhodes to claim the 160-pound title with a 5-0 win at Firestone High in Akron.

The Champions Who Were Not to Be: Ohio’s Greatest Wrestlers who Never Won State

ohiowrestlingsite.com - Capturing a state title is the dream of every successful high school wrestler. Not a junior national title, not a senior national, not even an NCAA Championship or Olympic Gold Medal. It is the dream of winning state that gets a young wrestler’s pulse going- that gets them to run those extra sprints or pound the weights after practice. Many a wrestler who has gone on to greater accomplishments will tell you that nothing compares to getting your hand raised in the last match of the season, as State Champion. To quote the movie Highlander, “there can be only one.” The wrestler who walks off the mat as State Champion is held in awe- while in our heads we know there is probably a better high school wrestler somewhere, in a far-away state, as wrestling fans, we feel that the Ohio State Champion is invincible.

Walsh Ironman Brings the Best to Ohio

ohiowrestlingsite.com - “If you build it, they will come”.

This phrase comes from the movie “Field of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner, as you may recall. But it clearly applies to Bob Preusse and his super-tournament, the Ironman, as well. Preusse has built his tournament, and the fans have come to Walsh Jesuit High School- a sellout crowd for all sessions- to see the best competition. The nation’s best wrestlers have come- to test themselves against the best from other states. From a fans perspective, this tournament offered the chance to see the top kids from Ohio against the top kids in the entire nation.

In many ways, it was a tough day at the office for many of Ohio’s stars, as some who were expected to win were beaten. Meanwhile, lesser-known Ohio kids showed that they could compete with, and defeat, the best kids in the nation in many instances. The following are some of the more noteworthy performances by Ohio Wrestlers:

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