Team Illinois

[wrestlingfamily]

Team Illinois took second in York,PA at the 2009 Brute Scholastic Duals. The team they lost to was PA who was stacked, Team Illinois has never placed this high at this tournament before.
Josh Bennett-5-2
Danny Sabatello-4-3
Zane Richards-7-0
Colton Rasche-5-2
Luke Smith-6-1
Sparti Chino-6-1
Luke Nelson-6-1
Malik Taylor-5-2
Tom Gross-3-4
Charles Argue-6-1
Jahwon Akui-6-1
Devon Johnson-6-1
Dan Howell-6-1
Casey Gushleff-2-2

[wrestlingfamily]

Illinois-Delaware-61-0
Illinois-New York Super Six-62-0
PA-Illinois-50-6
Illinois-Virginia-42-12
Illinois-Indiana Gold-33-23
Illinois-Indiana Blue-44-15
Illinois-Maryland-47-12

[Rebel]

Originally Posted by wrestlingfamily

Team Illinois took second in York,PA at the 2009 Brute Scholastic Duals. The team they lost to was PA who was stacked, Team Illinois has never placed at this tournament before.
Josh Bennett-4-2
Danny Sabatello-4-3
Zane Richards-6-0
Colton Rasche-5-2
Luke Smith-6-1
Sparti Chino-6-1
Luke Nelson-5-2
Tom Gross-4-3
Malik Taylor-5-2
Charles Argue-6-1
Jahwon Akui-6-1
Devon Johnson-6-1
Dan Howell-5-1
Casey-2-2

Actually it was a 17 team dual PA was in a different league pretty much.

[Italiano]

i know the altons wrestled for PA, so my question is if illinois was to send the AAA state champs, would we still have gotten blown out like we did?

[grapplingfan]

Originally Posted by Italiano

i know the altons wrestled for PA, so my question is if illinois was to send the AAA state champs, would we still have gotten blown out like we did?

Great question Italian! The answer is no.

[Panther15]

I dnt know because the PA has a tournament to fill the team and the illinois team put up a good fight for it being there 3rd duel of the first day and there was only 1 pin in that duel all the matches were decisions

[Italiano]

luke nelson got pinned in like 30 and malik taylor got teched. i mean....thats pretty much domination. but, again, they both faced an alton, whom would beat pretty much anyone we would put out there at that weight.

[grapplingfan]

Originally Posted by Italiano

i know the altons wrestled for PA, so my question is if illinois was to send the AAA state champs, would we still have gotten blown out like we did?

PA is great, but we had exactly 0 AAA state champs there. If we had our AAA state champs vs. that PA team, it would have been much closer Eddie Klimara, New Lenox (Providence Catholic)
112 lbs. Edwin Cooper, New Lenox (Providence Catholic)
119 lbs. Jameson Oster, Lockport (Twp.)
125 lbs. Tony Ramos, Carol Stream (Glenbard North)
130 lbs. Nick Dardanes, Oak Park (O.P.-River Forest)
135 lbs. Kevin Fanta, Lake Zurich
140 lbs. Matt Boggess, Mt. Prospect (Prospect)
145 lbs. Elias Larson, Chicago Heights (Marian)
152 lbs. Bobby Barnhisel, Oak Park (Fenwick)
160 lbs. Kyle Czarnecki, Buffalo Grove
171 lbs. Lee Munster, Fox Lake (Grant)
189 lbs. Mario Gonzalez, Aurora (West)
215 lbs. Zach Smith, Rockford (Boylan)
285 lbs. Curtis Blaydes, Chicago (De La Salle)

[Old Feather Paws]

Originally Posted by grapplingfan

PA is great, but we had exactly 0 AAA state champs there. If we had our AAA state champs vs. that PA team, we would have beaten them handily.

This was an UNDERCLASSMEN ONLY event. No Seniors allowed. Therefore, the Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors that did go did a GREAT JOB!!!

[Italiano]

well we could have brought the eds, a reel, and a robertson