Live from Dodge City ...

I'm your huckleberry!

... it's the 2012 Southern Plains Regional Wrestling Tourney!!

Over the next 3 days we will crown Champions and place winners in 3 styles of competition! From the Bantams through the Juniors there will be battles galore!!

The athletes are warming up, the table workers are being briefed and I am selling coaches bands!

As time permits I will also be posting!!

... a lad from New Mexico just succumbed to Mr. Headlock, Jared Johnson!

Cody Phippen just beat a Rocky Nationals champ!!

Rafalko wins by pin!!

Amthony Gardner defeats Jacob Hill ... Gardner from Greater Gold and Hill from Augusta!!

Isaac Luellen wins!

Lane Glover wins as does Dayton Porsch!

Jared Langley wins as does Tyler Mies!

Cash Drylie pins in 26 seconds!

Calvin Ochs wins the 1st frame 3-0 ... the 2nd, 5-0 over Ty Ash from Oklahoma!

Keegan Slyter and Jace Koetzer win!!

Aaron Rafalko wins another!!

Logan Elliott is your Champ!!

Dylan Elmore is a Greco champion!

Parker Howell is a Greco Champ!!

Gavin Grater wins the first period, 3-0 ... the second, 2-0!

Jake Gehring and Matthew McWhorter were locked up in a battle ... Gehring wins the 1st, 1-0 ... McWhorter wins the 2nd, 1-4 ... in the 3rd, Gehring goes up by 3, McWhorter scores a 2+2, Gehring tallies 1, McWhorter wins, 4-4.

Mr. Headlock puts another notch on his weapon!

Andrew Rieschick wins!!

We're taking an hour for lunch!!

Anthony Gardner was impressive winning the first frame of his next bout ... wins the next, 4-1!

Gallegos v Drylie!!

Drylie scores a pushout ... and then gains a 3 ... and then another 3.

In the second, Drylie with the 1+2 ... Gallegos scores 2 but Drylie gains another 3 ... Cash wins 6-2,

Brogan wins the 1st frame ... and wins the 2nd!!

Jared Langley is a Greco Champ!

Keegan Slyter is a Greco Champ!!

Isaac Dulgarian is a Greco Champ!

Gavin Grater just defeated a real tough Christopher Lattner!! Grater is a Southern Plains Greco champ!!

Jared Johnson wins to become a Greco Champ!!

Anthony Gardner v. Tanner O'Donnell ...Tanner takes the early lead and makes it hold up to win the period. In the 2nd, Tanner scores a fall after the toss.

O'Donnell is t Southern Plains Greco champ!!

Cash wins 6-0, 1-2, 2-0 ... to become the SP Greco Champ!

Dylan Wiesner takes 3rd in his 1st Greco experience!!

We will miss Cash at the duals! He has had a great year.

Tyler Mies is a Champ!

Brogan Humphrey is in a true second bout ... he takes an early lead ... scores a pushout ... wins the period, 2-0. In the 2nd, we go par terre ... Humphrey defends and wins 2nd!

Calvin Ochs scores a fall 56 seconds into the match to win true 2nd!

That's SEVEN Kansas Greco champs in the Junior Division!

Howell, Mies and O'Donnell will give us seeding points for the Junior Duals in OKC. Grater, Johnson and Rafalko already had seeding points and Drylie can't make the duals.

Nice work!!!

Good Morning Kansas! I'm pleased to report that the Southern Plains reports for the next 3 years ... will be from Kansas!!

Aaron Rafalko starts the morning off with a win!

Josiah Seaton picks up the win!!

Dylan Elmore with the victory!

Elliott wins!

Andrew Morgan picks up a win!!

Preston Martin wins!

Young Porsch logs a win!

Jared Langley starts the morning with a win!

Scantlin wins!

Andrew Rieschick notches a win!!

Mendez and Koelzer and Vanlerberg all win!

Sterling Robertson wins!

Beasey wins!

Corbin White wins!

Aaron Rafalko beats Garrett Lee.

Mies with the win!

Yesterday there were 391 competitors in Greco which is up 37!

Tagen Lambotte opens with a win!

DeShazer wins!

Andrew Morgan has won his second bout!

Phippen wins!

Dryden wins!

Dane Edwards sees victory!!

Dulgarian wins!

Monares wins!

Carney wins!!

We have a Near win!

Dylan Elmore is a Freestyle Champ!!

Dillon Archer wins!

... after suffering as earlier loss Brogan Humphrey wins!

Cokeley picks up a win!

Raymond Gallegos with a nice win!

Drylie beats Fitchett.

The 2012 Freestyle numbers are 510 which is up by 3!

Pratt wins his semi-final match!

Holmes over Edwards in his semi's.

Austin Cook logs a consolation win!!

Langley and Humphrey tally backside wins!

Victor Hughes with a consy pin!!

Doug Newcomb logs a win!

Cash Drylie v. Raymond Gallegos is the semi's ... Drylie, 6-0 5-0!

Dulgarian, Price, Gardner all log wins!

Treaster wins!

Boo Dryden is the Freestyle champ!

Lambotte is in the finals ... it looked like he would have a Kansas finals but Ochs fell victim to a 2-point move with seconds to go!

Young Porsch is your Freestyle Champ!!

Brogan wins a conso match as does Gallegos!

Fowler wins as does Price!

Isaac Dulgarian is a Double Champ in the Southern Plains!!

Denton wins a true 2nd!!

Anthony Gardner finishes a good weekend, with a 4th in Freestyle!

Berkgren wins!

Cash Drylie is a Double Champ!!

Goldstein and Morgan win backside bouts!

Ochs wins his bout!

Logan Treaster is 2nd!

Andrew Morgan wins and is wrestling for true 2nd!

McReynold over Holmes for true 2nd.

Tagen Lambotte is the Southern Plains FS Champ!!

Calvin Ochs places 3rd in the same bracket!!

Dillon Archer wins!!

Luellen wins true 2nd!

DeShazer is your Southern Plains champ!

Humphrey and Cokeley win their consolation bouts!

Both take 3rd!!

Sawyer Like finishes 3rd!!

Dillon Archer wins true 2nd!!

That's it for Freestyle day!!

It's Folkstyle Day!!

Next year when the tournament returns to Dodge City, in all likelyhood, we will hold the Friday Folkstyle Festival!!

Other regions have added Folkstyle with great success. In our first year, we haven't seen that. Our hopes are, that moving it to Friday and offering Folkstyle for a second year will spawn the entrants!

The tournaments move to Dodge City has been beneficial, the regions vote to keep the tournament in Kansas, attests to that! There was a bit of an issue with lodging that is caused by the energy exploration boon! There are four more hotels being built!

Our Folkstyle is ready to begin!!

Wiltfong wins!

Moison wins!

Robinson wins!

Bembry tallys a W!

McReynolds wins!

Seaton wins, 16-1!

Albers pins!

Short wins!

Fincher and Asebedo win!

McReynolds scores a win over Garrett Edwards.

Wilson wins!

Any chance that they might have brackets on line somewhere.

Reins wins!

Hayden Wiltfong wins!

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John Hughes and Victor Hughes both score wins!!

Seaton wins the bracket!!

Albers logs a win ... as does Garcia!

Ballard with the win!

Fincher, Kansas over Moison, Kansas.

Cash Drylie with the victory!

Wilson with the pin!

Ryan Johnson from Norton with the technical fall!!

Carney is your Champ!!

Drylie with the pin ... I think that makes him a triple champ of Southern Plains!

John Hughes logs a pin for a Championship in the SP!

Kissane scores the win!!

Robinson over Beasey ... that's going to be all from the 2012 Southern Plains Regional!!

I'm still your huckleberry!!

Saul Ortiz took the championship in Greco and third in Freestyle. What other Kansas kids did we forget to mention?

Josiah Seaton - Triple Champion

(my little disclaimer) It is logistically improbable that I can report on every winner (or loser) of every match. I report on the matches I can see (which was very limited from my vantage point) and a few matches I can get on Trackwrestling dashboard.

Even TW is difficult as most competitors are listed under a club name!

Any slight is unintentional!