Called GC district office and told of problems, got transferred to Ath. Dept. Got recording. Listed complaint. I know they have already done some 119#.

Look to the west. Smoke signals coming soon.

At 112, Moeder wins 7-4. Antillon beats Salas 2-0.

At 130:

SEMIS:
Ryne Cokeley 28-1 vs. Dan Frank 28-2
Louis Trujillo 36-1 vs. Rylan Dalke 15-1.

Each match is different, it is another day, regardless of ranking, record or size of school. A wrestler with a record of 20-2 just lost by a score of 18-2 to a wrestler who had a record of 8-2. Wrestling is a combination of mind, strength and skill. Some days they don't always come together at the right time.
Don't blame the one who lost. No, doubt he gave his best today but it wasn't enough.

Team Scores:
1. Roosevelt (CO) Rough Riders 78.00
2. Rio Rancho (NM) Rams 75.00
3. Ponderosa (CO) Mustangs 60.00
4. Liberal Redskins 56.00
5. Scott City Beavers 55.00
6. Andale Indians 51.50
7. Maize Eagles 48.00
8. Ulysses Tigers 45.00
9. Alamosa (CO) Mean Moose 44.00
10. Canyon-Randal (TX) Raiders 43.00
10. (tie) Garden City Buffaloes 43.00
12. Emporia Spartans 41.00
13. Dodge City Demons 36.00
14. Conifer (CO) Lobos 30.50
15. Great Bend Panthers 30.00
16. Lewis Palmer (CO) Rangers 29.00
17. LaJunta (CO) Tigers 25.00
17. (tie) St. James Academy 25.00
19. Sand Creek (CO) Scorpions 24.00
20. Basehor-Linwood Bobcats 22.00
21. Hays Indians 12.00
21. (tie) Hugoton Eagles 12.00
21. (tie) Newton Railers 12.00
24. Canon City (CO) Tigers 10.00
25. Lamar (CO) Savages 5.00
26. Holcomb Longhorns 4.00
27. Lawrence Free State Firebirds 0.00

Seaton gets a TD at the buzzer to make the semis!

Upset of the day Dakota Hayes pinning Jake Snider of Ponderosa at 140. WOW! Did he just catch him or was this a legit pnwing? Could somebody give a recap? Anything? That just ruined the Reno Finals Rematch with Ortega for Snider unless Donovan Archuleta pulls off an upset of his own in the semis.

Pretty nice win for Peak of Emporia over Newell at 152.

The deal with wins against an opponnet early in the tournament they may see each other again if the other guy loses in the semi's. That will make the rankers crazy with who beat who and by what score next week. One match at a time fellas.

Just looking at the results, seeding, and records it looks like Scott City is wrestling out of their UNITARDS today. First Antillon gets a minor upset by beating Salas 2-0 at 112. Contreras had a close loss to the #2 seed at 125 in Seaton. Stucky advances to the semis at 135. At 140 Dakota Hayes pulls off a monumental upset by not only beating Snider but pinning him. Morgan Numrich at 145 beats #3 seed Jake Hattabaugh 3-2 for another semifinal qualifier. Chaston Hoeme is also doing fine at 171 making his way to the semis. Luke Hayes gave the #2 seed a scare at 189 losing 5-3 to Nathan Heuer of Reo Rancho. Putting them in third place behind the likes of Rio Rancho and Roosevelt. But, just as impressively ahead of Emporia, Canyon-Randall, Andale, Liberal, and Ponderosa. Looks like the Beavers could be a force to reckon with at the 4a tournament this year. Beware of the trucker cap and unitards Kansas and out of state wrestlers.

I agree. Got the same report from GC that Scott City was making a splash out there.

I have to say that it DID WORK OUT at 112. #5 seed Taylor Moeder beats #1 seed Tony Pena, 7-5! He was up 5-1 and moves into the finals at 112. Wow!

Finalists:

103: Jake Williams (NM) 29-5 vs. Colby Witten (MZ) 19-3
112: Taylor Moeder (SJA) 27-2 vs. Fransico Antillon (SC) 24-7
119: Josh Martinez (CO) 27-3 vs. CJ York (NM) 19-2
125: Travis Himmelman (CO) 29-0 vs. Dalton Kelley (AHS) 27-3
130: Luis Trujillo (NM) 37-1 vs. Dan Frank (RR) 29-2
135: Chris Rubalcaba (35-2) vs. Colby Kluesner (CON) 28-3
140: Max Ortega (RIO) 37-1 vs. Joey Dozier (GC) 30-1
145: Daniel Kelley (PON) 28-2 vs. Zane Wickham (HAY) 24-2
152: Blake Fulbright (MZ) 27-5 vs. Steven Kelley (PON) 26-5

160:Brandon Montoya (RR)27-5 v. Jace Bennet (CR) 27-3
171: Chris Morales (RIO) 34-6 v Stephone Kling (PON) 21-8
189:Mark Kolmer (EMP) 27-1 v. Nathan Heuer (RR) 29-1

Told ya it would work out...

1. Rio Rancho (NM) Rams 192.00
2. Roosevelt (CO) Rough Riders 163.00
3. Ponderosa (CO) Mustangs 124.50

Looks like the out of state teams are goin' to sweep the team trophies. It's too bad the other top teams like Goddard, Clay Center, Colby, Wichita Heights, Smith Center, Derby, Bishop Carroll, or Andover Central don’t attend this tournament…More specifically I wish Goddard hadn’t stopped going to Garden City.

Courtsey of the Garden City Telegram
Rocky Welton Invite expanding in 51st year
Published 1/29/2009 in Sports : GCHS

By JASON ELMQUIST
jelmquist@gctelegram.com

Braxston Medina remembers sitting in The Garden, watching the high school wrestlers competing in the Rocky Welton Invitational. Now, it's Medina's turn to be on the mat in front of the crowd for this year's Rocky Welton on Friday and Saturday.

"I'm pretty excited. But pretty nervous at the same time, too," said Medina, a freshmen at Garden City High School. "All the talk about it, how it's a big tournament and how tough it is. I'm pretty excited because I'm a freshman getting to wrestle in the invite. I've been watching it since I was five-years-old. So I can't wait."

Medina, who is ranked No. 4 in the 130-pound weight class, sure picked a year to compete in his first Rocky Welton. The invitational has grown so much that for the first time ever, the 51st annual Rocky Welton will be utilizing both the competitive and practice gyms at the high school. The first two rounds on Friday and Saturday the 103 to 145 weight classes will be held in the The Garden, and the 152 through heavyweight divisions will be in the practice gym.

"We've been talking about that for several years and have been looking around at other tournaments that we go to where they wrestle in two gyms," GCHS coach Monte Moser said. "So this year we're just going to move the upper weights for the first two rounds each of the days and kind of take care of those big rounds."

The tournament will consist of 26 teams including nine schools from Colorado, one from New Mexico and another from Texas. There will also area teams Holcomb, Hugoton, Scott City and Ulysses along with all the Western Athletic Conference schools competing.

"It's a big, loaded tournament," Moser said. "There's probably some tournaments in the country that are tougher, but I don't think there are any in Kansas that are tougher. We've got one weight class where two kids wrestled in the championship in Reno, Nevada before Christmas, they met again last week at 'Top Of The Rockies' and each time had a different winner. So they are coming here to try to settle the score for the season. They are from two different states, and they are the top wrestler from each state. So I'm hoping we can get into that mix and mess it up for them."

And Garden City has just the wrestler to mess up the potential rubber match. The weight class which Moser was referring is the 140-pound, the division in which GCHS junior Joey Dozier, currently ranked No. 1 in Class 6A, competes.

"I'm nervous just knowing who's in my bracket," Dozier said. "But once I get on the mat the nerves will just go away and it's just all adrenaline that I've got to base it off of. I've got to take it one match at a time and I know that if I get to one of them it's going to be a tough match. It's going to come down to whoever's doing their best and whoever's on top of their game."

Preliminaries begin Friday at noon with the semifinals scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. Consolation rounds will begin Saturday morning at 9 a.m. with the championship finals slotted to start at 6 p.m.

There will be two duals tonight at 6 p.m. featuring teams that will participate in the Rocky Welton — Canyon Randall (Texas) will dual with Rio Rancho (N.M.) and Conifer (Colo.) will face Garden City.


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ROCKY WELTON INVITATIONAL

At The Garden

Friday: Preliminaries, noon; semifinals, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday: Consolation rounds, 9 a.m.; championship finals, 6 p.m.

Admission per session: Adults $6; students $4

Tournament pass (all three sessions): Adults $15; students $10

Friday broadcast: 97.0/99.9 FM — hourly updates starting at 1 p.m.; 1240 AM — live starting at 3 p.m.

Goddard stopped coming to protect their national ranking. It's not like they've got anywhere better to be. But if they come they'll get beat by unranked teams.

seeding: 11 # 1's hold up and only 5 #2's advance. the number 3, 4, & 6 seeds good showing.

103 1 seed vs 2 seed
112 4 vs 6 ??
119 4 vs 3
125 1 vs 3
130 1 vs 3
135 1 vs 6 ??
140 1 vs 3
145 1 vs 2
152 4 vs 3
160 1 vs 3
171 1 vs 3
189 1 vs 2
215 1 vs 3
Hwt 1 vs 2

Is this correct - looking at the brackets?

You got me coach!

I wanna see Dalke vs. Cokeley in the 3rd place match... and what is with Fulbright from Maize at 152 knocking off the 1st seed two weeks in a row?