Cokeley lost 8-2 to Ethan Davis, a sophomore from Monett, MO.
Also, an interesting aside, Zach Peters is originally from Monett, MO and started wrestling through our our kids club.
Monett's been cranking out quite a few good kids the past few years with Kyle Meyer wining his four straight title, Kellen Bounous won his third I belive, Ben Hohnesee won a title a few years ago (will be a 2x All-American at Labette), and Dakota Greenhaw who was a senior nationals All-American a few years ago.
Now they have a former wrestler who will be a two time state finalist in Kansas.
We have had a pretty good run of kids recently for a small town. Would have been even better if we could have kept some from moving. Zach Peters moved away when he was about 12, Nathan Fine who was a 2 time Class 4 medalists for Pattonville moved to St. Louis when he was 13 or 14. We also had another kid (and I can't remember his name right now) that moved to Kansas and was a medalist there and I think he was or is wrestling for Pratt. That was a pretty tough youth practice room for a small town when you have those kids and add in these:
Kyle Meyer, Sr, career record 173-2, finished 1,1,1,1 at state (has signed to wrestle for Stanford)
Kellen Bounous, Sr, 173-2, 2,1,1,1 (has signed to wrestle for Missouri)
Michael Merritt, Sr, 153-28, 3,4,2,3 (looking at Wartburg I heard)
Ethan Davis, So, 87-2, 1,2
and a few other state medalists.
Also Zach Bintliff (currently wrestles for Oak Park and finished 2,x,2,1 - will wrestle for Princeton next year) used to come work out with us in youth.
Ben Hohensee is from Monett and is a 2x AA at Labette. Dakota Greenhaw is a RS Sophomore currently wrestling for Northern Illinois and was the MAC wrestler of the week last week.
