17th U.S. Army Metro Classic
7:00 pm March 11, 2009
Kansas City, Kansas Community College
7250 State Ave.
Kansas City, Kansas


Kansas Missouri

Wt. Name School Records Name School Record Place
103 Tyler Stokes Gardner Edgerton H.S. 36-2 1 vrs. Trevor Brown Park Hill South H.S. 41-12 5
112 Alan Calahan Baldwin High School 43-5 2 vrs. Cody Tyler Oak Park High School 43-3 1
119 James Wauer Washington High School 33-4 4 vrs. Andy Skaggs Clinton High School 47-1 1
125 Chaz Lawrence Olathe South High School 46-1 1 vrs. Luke Greco Blue Springs High School 47-4 1
130 Linwood Peoples Blue Valley Northwest HS 35-6 2 vrs. Zack Bintliff Oak Park High School 39-4 1
135 Matt Brock Tonganoxie High School 39-7 4 vrs. Tyler Thompson Blue Springs High School 41-6 2
140 Dustin Zahorsky Silver Lake High School 34-3 4 vrs. Ben Hunter Harrisonville High School 47-0 1
145 Nathan Sommer Prairie View High School 49-2 1 vrs. Ryan Wood Harrisonville High School 40-8 6
152 David Lalo Olathe East High School 39-6 3 vrs. Colin Wittmeyer Platte County High School 51-3 1
160 Grant Hinckley Lansing High School 42-4 1 vrs. Joe Green Oak Park High School 28-2 3
171 Joe Newberry Shawnee Heights H.S. 19-8 3 vrs. Joe Pace Platte County High School 35-11 5
171 Josh VanHolland Mill Valley High School 39-7 2 vrs. Dylan Meisenheimer Oak Grove High School 42-9 3
189 Jared Sanchez Shawnee Mission West 37-8 3 vrs. Riley Glassgow Oak Grove High School 34-6 3
215 Jacob Nowak St. Thomas Aquinas H.S. 46-1 3 vrs. Zack Williams Center High School 41-4 1
285 Jake Woten Olathe East High School 29-8 2 vrs. Aaron Sinclair Excelsior Springs H.S. 20-4 2


Coaches: Travis Keal-Mill Valley High School Coaches: Rick Frazier-Platte County High School
Steve Mesa-Olathe South High School Tim Rupp-Oak Park High School
Chad Parks-Shawnee Heights High School Kirk Gross-Oak Grove High School
Chip Ufford-Shawnee Mission East High School

Taking a closer look, this will be another tight one!

Nice to see Woten getting a chance to wrestle

Side note. If I am correct, Joe Pace Platte City, Missouri at 171 was a Kansas Kids State Champ. Dad is/was in the military at Ft. Leavenworth. Left Kansas on an assignment. Came back a few years ago and now live in Platte City (because of the outstanding wrestling program in PC.) At least a 1 X MO State Champ, plus three X qualifier.

i like kansas in a close one!

Meisenheimer is better, beat him two or three times this year. Pace is good, but placed 5th in a average bracket at state this year, sorry fellas but missouri wins this dual even without bailey and alan watters

Let the predictions begin!!!!

Alan Waters is a Jr. so don't know how that matters. Mac not wrestling is a factor. It will be close as always.

I have personally seen the following wrestlers in action and I predict for KS: Zahorsky over Hunter, Sommer over Wood, Nowak over Williams and I am rooting for Lalo over Wittemeyer.

Zahorsky and Hunter will be the match of the night, I agree with sommer over Wood and Nowak over williams but lalo over wittemeyer is a long shot.

I will not get into specifics but as I run through the dual, I believe Kansas will be favored in 4 matches, Missouri in 3 with 8 matches being very close. Initially I had Missouri 29-22 but have looked a bit closer and of course my Kansas bias sets in!

Who's officiating...that's who I'm going to watch!!

I see 4 Kansas wins. Missouri wins the dual hands down...

Just wondering how the team is selected. I see Kansas bumped up a 215 to heavy. He may be great and could completely deserve it. But, was wondering about the logic of giving up so much weight. Did the 285 from Bonner get any consideration as he placed 3rd and only lost to 2 kids from Kansas this year

i see a close match with everything coming down to the HWT

Agreed. Tanner McCleary of Bonner Springs had a monster year. Would be nice to see him in this event.

would be nice to see sharky here

There are at least six matches that could go either way. This dual should be a single digit spread.

Also agree. Why move Woten up! He had a bad end of the year and feel apart. Bonner Springs kid was strong all year.

Let me get this straight, I am looking to fill the 285# weight class for the Metro Classic. I know this is a tough job and it will be near impossible to make everyone happy. But wait! I have a true heavy weight from Bonner Springs who went 38-6 placing 3rd at State. No, I don’t think that’s good enough so I will move a 215#er( who went 29-9 and placed 6th at State) up to the Heavy weight class. I just hope I don’t have to look Tanner in the eye and explain to him how a kid that wasn’t even in his weight class is wrestling in that spot!!