Rocky Mountain National Duals

Kansas Blue 2-0
Kansas Red 1-1 wrestling now.

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Kansas Blue v. Colorado A

There are 10 teams competing today. Utah, Montana, 3 from Colorado, 3 from Nebraska and 3 from Kansas.

Kansas 1 is 2-0 with wins over Montana 74-6 and Nebraska 2 59-12. (Matt Reed had a 4-1 match)

Kansas 2 is 1-1 with a loss to Nebraska 1 27-41.

Did Kansas Blue win their third dual?

Yes Jared just texted the team is 4 0 and goin for first.

Way To go team Blue Kansas keep going

Blackwell has to win for them to take first. He is up and a head

blackwell just won and they got first as a team!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kansas won 35-32

Team Red got 3rd. Congrats.

Team Red got 3rd. Congrats.

You would think that a guy that all but demands results be posted all season long would make sure HIS teams results were posted.

I just now have access to a computer!

Yesterday made the whole trip worth it! For any of you that thought the competition was not great out here, I can clear you up in detail upon request. These guys BATTLED to win the Dual Title for the second straight year! The final dual came down to the last match with a 32-30 lead going in.

I could not be more proud to coach these young men! Thank you to Pat Naughton and Anthony Livengood for coaching up these champions.

Thank you also to Grandview High School here in Aurora, CO for allowing us to use their awesome room to workout in!

I have the Blue team results, but they did not copy us on bout sheets.

Rd. 1:

Kansas Blue 74
Montana - 6

98 - FF
106 - Leach won by maj.dec. 9-1
113 - Price won by maj.dec. 14-3
120 - Elbrader WBF
126 - Dickman WBF
132 - Humphrey won by maj.dec. 13-4
138 - Ochs WBF
145 - Blackwell won by tech fall 17-2
152 - Johnson WBF
160 - Albers WBF
170 - Reed won by dec. 4-1
182 - Meck WBF
195 - Castlebury won by FF
220 - Bean won by FF
285 - Geary won by FF

Rd. 2:

Kansas Blue - 59
Nebraska 2 - 12

98 - FF
106 - Leach won 8-0
113 - Price lost 3-2
120 - Elbrader won 6-4
126 - Dickman lost 2-0
132 - Humphrey won 4-2
138 - Ochs WBF
145 - Blackwell WBF
152 - Johnson won 4-3
160 - Albers won 13-2
170 - Reed WBF
182 - Meck WBF
195 - Castlebury WBF
220 - Bean WBF
285 - Geary WBFF

Rd. 3:

Kansas Blue - 54
Colorado 1 - 12

98 - FF
106 - Leach 9-2
113 - Price WBF
120 - Elbrader lost 6-2
126 - Dickman 4-2
132 - Humphrey WBFF
138 - Ochs 9-3
145 - Blackwell 3-1
152 - Johnson WBF
160 - Albers 5-1
170 - Reed WBF
182 - Meck lost 6-1 to Weddington
195 - Castlebury WBF
220 - Bean WBF
285 - Geary 3-1 vs. Colorado state champion

Rd. 4:

Kansas Blue - 53
Nebraska 3 - 18

98 - FF
113 - Price WBF
120 - Elbrader lost by inj.dflt.
126 - Dickman 7-0
132 - Humphrey 12-4
138 - Ochs 6-1
145 - Blackwell 16-1
152 - Johnson WBF
160 - Albers 14-3
170 - Reed WBF
182 - Meck WBF
195 - Castlebury lost 7-2
220 - Bean won 14-3
285 - Geary WBF

Championship:

Kansas Blue - 35
Nebraska 1 - 30

We started at 152...

152 - Johnson won 14-2
160 - Albers lost by fall
170 - Reed beat 2X champ Schany in OT 2-0!!!
182 - Meck WBF
195 - Castlebury lost 7-2
220 - Bean won 14-3
285 - Geary WBF
98 - FF
106 - Leach lost 2-1
113 - Price WBF
120 - Elbrader lost by inj.dflt.
126 - Dickman lost 10-4 to 2X champ
132 - Humphrey beat Colton Adams, a 2X champ 3-2
138 - Ochs lost to 4X champ Reidy, 5-0
145 - Blackwell beat 2X champ Downing, 2-1

This dual was a BLAST! I could talk for 5 pages about the battles in this dual. We celebrated with a trip downtown and some great food and laughs. Beautiful weather in Denver!

TEAM KANSAS wins it's 2nd RMN Dual Team Title!!!!

Congrats Eric and all the Kansas wrestlers on a job well done!! Way to represent the state of Kansas!

Congrats Eric and all the Kansas wrestlers on a job well done!! Way to represent the state of Kansas!

both teams from the proud state of Kansas showed them we have some of the best wrestlers in the nation and they wont forget it

Average margin of victory = 45 pts.

Any results for the red team?

TEAM KANSAS UPDATE!

We have 18 wrestlers still on the front side! The other 8 are still alive on the back side!

Front:
Leach
Francka
Price
Randolph
Hughes
Ochs
Blackwell
Johnson
Albers
Reed
Hill
Meck
Weddington
Castlebury
Herl
Bean
Butler - In Finals v Geary!
Geary

Back side:
Howell
Freislinger
Humphrey
Wilson
Guillen
Lowe
Taylor

Nathan Butler won an awesome match in the semis against undefeated Fargo AA Carlos Turner from Utah. Nathan hit a beautiful firemans on him!

There will be plenty of wars today! 2X and 3X champs are littering the brackets. Matt Reed should have the 2X champ Schany that he beat in OT on Friday. Reed was seeded 3rd in that bracket! Blaine Hill will have the #1 seed Jeremy Grooms at 170 also.

The atmosphere is electric out here! Some of our guys will have 12 matches before we are done. We will likely not arrive in Topeka until about 5am...

We are TEAM KANSAS!

Any updates on All Americans?

Really enjoyed the experience of watching team Kansas represent this weekend. I hope to see the interest in this tournament grow amongst Kansas wrestlers. I also hope to see an increase in interest from the states best wrestlers in wanting to be apart of the Kansas dual teams.
Hats off to Laine Herl, You wrestled like a beast this weekend, I have greatly enjoyed being your coach over these last four years.
Chief Renegade is doing our kids and state a great service by getting the teams together.

what happened with the kids on the front side on the tournament

Not going to generate much interest if people who can't go can't find out any results, and pay-per-view streaming in this economy. NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

Bullhead you are right, but I bet everyone from the team is sleeping right now.

I concur!

Anyone from the trip awake yet? I can't talk to Albers and find out because he's in school! Apparently they frown on cell phone use in class.

If anyone has a list of the placers we're all itching to see it

We had 8 finalists that counted towards points. I believe 15 total placers.
Kansas got 1st as a team with 144 points 2nd was 122. We had an amazing weekend with an enormous amount of quality wins and huge upsets. In 3 separate weights we had both of our guys in the finals. It was a great weekend for Kansas as a whole, putting a beatdown on anyone in our way at the tourney. Any further questions I didn't answer, Chief can clear them up

Would love to see individual results for the Kansas kids! Anyone able to post those for us? This event got a TON of hype on this forum and I look forward to the Individual Results! Help us out as soon as you guys wake up!!!

Trackwrestling obviously bombed!

Well.... I just woke up! We drove all night and arrived at 6am in Prairie Village. I will have much more detail later but this was one of my favorite wrestling trips! We won the team title that we missed last year to add to the Dual Team title. The over 6 foot trophy was incredible. Each of the four champions that we had brought home a four foot trophy!

Most of the brackets had near 50 kids each. Many state champions and multiple timers. Let me make this point VERY CLEAR. I am commited to this event and will make every effort to award the All-Class wrestlers by inviting them to join these teams in Colorado. The duals will get better and better. I predict we will see 32 teams in the duals before too long.

Three finals matches involving our own guys:

106 - Dakota Leach over Trey Francka 5-4

170 - Matt Reed over Blaine Hill 1-0

285 - Will Geary over Nathan Butler 4-3

I will post more details later but here are some finishes that I remember:

106 - Leach - 1st
106 - Francka - 2nd
113 - Price - 2nd
113 - Howell - 5th
138 - Ochs - 3rd
138 - Hughes - 6th
145 - Blackwell - 3rd
152 - Johnson - 2nd
160 - Guillen - 4th
160 - Albers - 5th
170 - Reed - 1st
170 - Hill - 2nd
182 - Meck - 2nd
182 - Lowe - 3rd
182 - Weddington - 6th
195 - Castlebury - 3rd
195 - Herl - 4th
220 - Bean - 1st
220 - Taylor - 3rd
285 - Geary - 1st
285 - Butler - 2nd

It looks like 4 KS guys won it.

Jared Johnson ended up getting 2nd

Bryant Guillen ended up with 4th @ 160.

Thanks John. I forgot about the challenge match he won. He should have won the thing! Wish we had that semi match back. He was a blast to watch. Nobody throws a better headlock in transition than him!

Thanks Larry! Bryant had some huge pins. He's also a guy that is a major entertainment to watch. Great to have him join us on the team!

Looks like Ochs got 3rd at 138.