I don’t know for sure, but I just might have seen Cael wrestle in high school. In San Diego, every time around Christmas there is a tournament called the El Cajon Invitational. I don’t know what it’s like nowadays, but back in the 1990’s, it was a top tier tournament where teams came from all over the US to compete.
In December 1994, the tournament was outstanding. You West Coast guys will remember wrestlers like Joe Calavitta and Ty Wilcox from Calvary Chapel. They both won and put on an incredible takedown show in the process. The finals were run with two matches at a time starting with 98 and HWY. They worked towards ending at the middle weights with 135 and 145 being the final matches.
I had just watched Calavitta and Wilcox dominate their guys and figured that either of them would be OW. Wrong. One of the guys at 145 was a 2X state champion from Utah. He went out and just destroyed his opponent. He beat him so badly that at the end (TF) the guy literally collapsed to give up the takedown because the guy from Utah had him completely exhausted. That Utah guy might very well have been Cael because the time and weight class are consistent. I don’t know for certain if it was him and I’ve been searching Internet records for a long time trying to find out for sure.
Psalm 1, if you know of any information that gives the results for the ECI in December 1994, maybe you could help out here.
