Going over the Middle School Duals I tallied up the number of wrestlers that I know wrestled Middle School Season and placed at Middle School State. Please add to the list as I am sure I did not get them all.

Gabe Buckbee 2nd Ark City
Darryl Rylant 2nd Clearwater/Young Guns
Devin Onwugbufor 4th Maize
Hunter Terrill 6th Ark City
Marcus Robinson 2nd Ark City
Aiden Campbell 4th Maize
Jacob Beeson 1st Ark City
Cameron Hughbanks 6th Maize
Dalton Collins 5th Ark City

Congratulations boys on a successful Middle School and Kids Club Season.

Adam Whitson 1st Team Lightning (Praire Hills)

Wyatt Hayes Scott city 4th
Curtis Near greater gold 4th
Dawson Ensign Goodland 6th
Chance Rodriguez Greater Gold 3rd
Nic Cheney Scott City 4th
Chris Cox Oakley 1 st

These boys all wrestled Middle School. Their season was done on December 7. Not sure they were hurt by wrestling Middle School.

Brent Beaumont 1st
Zach Strait 2nd
Blake Leiszler 5th

All wrestled for Concordia jr high

Hunter Williams 2nd Team Emporia

Wrestled on the Middle School team but our season ended in December as well.

Burlington Middle School season ending early December:

Brett Bober (7) 95 5th place
T.J. Lang (8) Hwt 6th place (1st yr. wrestler).

1st 4
2nd 5
3rd 1
4th 5
5th 3
6th 2

Not too shabby so far, I am sure there will be more added to the list.

Jalin Harper Team 1 115
Calvin Smith Team 3 189
Mikey Waggoner team 5 140
Hunter Christiansen Team 4 160
Tayvon Agnew Nash Team 4 125

All wrestled Middle School and were done By Dec.

Olathe Middle School season is early, done in December.

Jace Koelzer (8th) - Olathe South - Team 1
Jevon Parrish (8th) - Olathe South - Team 3
Anthony Gaona (8th) - STA - Team 3
Nick Jouret (8th) - East Kansas - Team 1

Drew Burgoon (7th) Team 5 90
Taylon Peters (7th) Team 5 135

Both wrestled for Lakewood Middle, which is a feeder school for Salina Central. Their season was finished in December as well.

Hugoton Middle School
Nick Mahan
Marcos Baeza

I wrestled for Phillipsburg Middle School

Braiden Lynn Greater Gold 6th
Dayton Porsch Hoxie 3rd
Tanner Johnson Greater Gold 5th
Joshua Seabolt Gray County 2nd

I have always thought that wrestling middle school/junior high, especially early in the year (end in December), was very beneficial to our wrestlers. I believe that we had four that went on to compete at the Middle School Nationals Duals Team Tournament in Iowa five years ago.

1st 9
2nd 6
3rd 5
4th 7
5th 7
6th 3

Updated....so far

There are 20 weights. 45% of the Champions wrestled Middle School, 38% of all finalists wrestled Middle School, and 31% of all medalists wrestled in Middle School.

The numbers are a little skewed because I am not counting 6th graders who placed. I do know there are at least two six grade wrestlers that placed in the top 3 and one was a champion.

Another factor that sways the numbers is I am not calculating those schools that do not offer Middle School wrestling. I know of at two finalists that fall into this category with one of them being a champion.

With the information given so far, I would hope this would encourage kids to join their middle school teams. It builds your teammate relationships, encourages school spirit and builds school/club relationships. Middle School wrestling does not slow wrestlers growth, it encourages wrestlers growth.

question. my son goes to a catholic school that doesnt offer middle school wrestling. does anyone know that if it would be possible to start a team using kids from the bishop carroll feeder middle schools. thats the only way we would have a chance to do middle school wrestling. any ideas or suggestions.

Chase Reynolds 3rd, Ridge Frieslinger 5th, Jake Patterson 2nd,all wrestled middle school

Jayson West 3rd, Maize South Middle School

We are now up to 40% of the finalists wrestled for their middle schools and 33% of all medalists.

I think we can safely say that wrestling for your Middle School does not erase all of the learning and skills that these young wrestlers have aquired.

I knew Jayson West wrestled for his middle school, sorry I missed him the first time.