Paid 14.95 to watch the Schoolboy Duals today on Track. Wanted to watch one of our kids, Bekhruz, a 7th grader from CR South. Too much money for one event, but Bekhruz wrestles for us with the HS kids all the time, his dad coaches our off season dual team, and he and his brother are great kids who we are close with, so I bit the bullet.
PA in a back and forth battle with Oklahoma in the finals. Got pinned a couple of times while leading to make it closer than it should have been, Bekhruz with a huge 14-10 comeback win after being down 8-0 and fighting off the last lace turn to not get teched. Tucker Hogan (Daniel Boone, I think) with a pin when down by 5 in the 2nd to put PA ahead in the 3rd to last match.
Sonny Sasso in a match to clinch it . 2-2 score. OK probably favored at HWY, so it's all coming down to this.
Track feed goes out.
If this was FLO, just saying....
NOTE - Sasso went on to win 12-2 for the tech and PA won 43-39 to take both the Freestyle and Greco Schoolboy titles. Just by watching today, we still kind of stink at the international styles compared to the two other states I saw us wrestle, but we had some nice looking athletes who will be nails in folkstyle in this age group.
Mason Gibson - I would assume he's Forest Hills, Erik's younger brother. Assuming he is in 8th grade and he will have an immediate impact next year if so.
A couple of lightweights - Nathan Desmond and Bo Bassett. I know Desmond is a Redhawk kid (maybe Easton?) I've been seeing his name for years. Bassett - I've seen the name, but no clue where he's from.
Nick Kunstek - I think he's DXI but not sure. Got teched in the last match by Jace Roller - who must be really good as I'm familiar with his name for some reason and he's wrestling 14U and is from Oklahoma - still looked tough and I wouldn't bet against him if that match was folkstyle.
Dylan Evans - 125lber looked tough, never seen him before but was impressed.
Sonny Sasso - not Sammy at his age, but long and lean - was wrestling 187 and I'm just guessing he was about 155. Could be end up being an upper weight in HS and that would be bad news for the other upper weights.
Bekhruz Saviddrin Navruzov - just spelling out his name for you because you will get use to seeing it in the future. Just a 7th grader and young for his grade, if/when he gets some muscles there will be hell to pay.
Also wanted to mention the 87lber, Dalton Perry. No idea how good he is, but he won a match 4-4 against the Oklahoma kid that I though he really had no business winning in a real scrappy fashion. I don't know, first time I saw him, maybe he DID have business winning it, but anyhow, I was impressed because the OK kid looked good early and I though he was going to get his lunch handed to him. If he loses that match, PA ends up losing.
