Friday was day one of the CB Classic. Wrestlers were broken down into pool matches. Wrestlers with the best record went to the Gold bracket. The rest of the wrestlers went to the Silver bracket. There is over 150 ranked wrestlers in this tournament from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Team Scores after day 1 (Top Ten)
- 179.0 Liberty, MO
- 154.0 Millard South
- 136.0 Fort Dodge, IA
- 129.5 Blue Valley Southwest, KS
- 111.0 Grand Island
- 109.0 Lincoln East
- 106.5 Kearney
- 105.0 Mill Valley, KS
- 103.5 Waukee, IA
- 103.0 Underwood, IA
106
#1 (A-NE) Keith Smith SO (Lincoln East) vs Tanner Barrett SR (Blue Valley SW)
#2 (6A-KS) Cael Alderman FR (Olathe North) vs Gable Porter FR (Underwood)
#1 (B-NE) Zach Ourada SO (Omaha Skutt) vs #4 (6A-KS) Eddie Hughart FR (Mill Valley)
#2 (3A-IA) Grant O’Dell SO (Iowa City West) vs Austin Laudenbach FR (Apple Valley)
113
#1 (A-NE) Caleb Coyle JR (Millard South) vs Aybren Moore SR (Atlantic-CAM)
#6 (3A-IA) Lane Cowell JR (Fort Dodge) vs #3 (A-NE) Brandon Baustert SO (Lincoln East)
#1 (5A-KS) Hayden Mills SO (Blue Valley SW) vs #4 (A-NE) Archer Heelan SO (Kearney)
#4 (2A-IA) Jonathon Burnette SO (Spirit Lake Park) vs #2 (4A-MO) Easton Hilton (Liberty)
120
#1 (3A-IA) Drake Ayala JR (Fort Dodge) vs #7 (B-NE) Reid Stracke JR (Nebraska City)
#3 (A-NE) Hunter Nagatani SR (Kearney) vs #3 (3A-IA) Thurman Christensen (Waukee)
#2 (1A-IA) Stevie Barnes SO (Underwood) vs Tyler Johnson (Olathe South)
#2 (A-NE 113) Juan Pedro JR (Grand Island) vs #1 (2A-MN) Joey Thompson (Totino-Grace)
126
#1 (6A-KS) Keegan Slyter SR (Olathe North) vs #6 (A-NE) Ian Rudner JR (Papillion-LaVista)
#4 (A-NE) Rylie Steele SR (Kearney vs #3 (A-NE) Blake Cushing JR (Grand Island)
#2 (3A-IA) Carson Taylor SR (Fort Dodge) vs #2 (4A-MO) Ayden Dolt (Liberty)
#3 (1A-IA) Beau Klingensmith JR (Woodbury Central) vs #3 (5A-KS) Brett Umentum SO (Blue Valley SW)
132
#1 (A-NE) Conor Knopick JR (Millard South) vs Josh Connor JR (North Scott)
Tristan Zuniga SR (Totino-Grace) vs #1 (3A-IA) Hunter Garvin SO (Iowa City West)
Kyle Dutton SO (Liberty) vs #3 (3A-IA) Brooks Cowall SR (Fort Dodge)
#7 (2A-IA) Nathan Curry SR (Seargent Bluff-Lutton) vs #1 (6A-KS) Zach Keal SR (Mill Valley)
138
#2 (1A-IA) Logan James SR (Underwood) vs #7 (A-NE) Brody Arrants JR (Grand Island)
#3 (A-NE) Brayden Smith SR (Kearney) vs Dallas Koelzar SR (Olathe South)
#2 (4A-MO) Kage Lenger JR (Liberty) vs #6 (B-NE) Hank Frost SR (Blair)
#4 (2A-IA) Isaac Bryan JR (Seargent Bluff-Lutton) vs #1 (A-NE) Tyler Antoniak SO (Millard South)
145
#1 (1A-IA) Nick Hamilton SO (Underwood) vs #2 (4A-MO) Logan Rathjen SO (Liberty)
#3 (A-NE) Peyton Meink SR (Millard North) vs #4 (A-NE) Breckin Sperling SR (Lincoln East)
#1 (A-NE 152) Scott Robertson JR (Millard South) vs #3 (6A-KS) Austin Keal SR (Mill Valley)
#3 (3A-IA) Deven Strief JR (North Scott) vs #1 (5A-KS) Brandon Madden SR (Blue Valley SW)
152
#1 (A-NE 160) Maxx Mayfield SR (Lincoln East) vs Jacob Lynn JR (Liberty)
#2 (2A-IA 145) Jack Gaukel JR (Seargent Bluff-Lutton vs #2 (3A-IA) Cody Anderson SR (Waukee)
#1 (B-NE) Nick Stoltenberg SR (Omaha Skutt) vs #4 (A-NE) Guage McBride SR (Kearney)
#5 (3A-IA) Graham Gambrall JR (Iowa City West) vs #2 (1A-IA) Blake Thomsen SR (Underwood)
160
#1 (5A-KS) Jared Simma JR (St. Thomas Aquinas) vs #7 (A-NE 152) Kolby Lukasiewicz (Grand Island)
#4 (6A-KS) AJ Rodriguez SR (Gardner-Edgerton) vs #6 (2A-MN) Adam Sylvester JR (Totino-Grace)
#7 (3A-IA 170) Jake Francksen-Small SR (LeMars) vs #4 (1A-IA) Nate Monahan SR (Woodbury Central)
#4 (B-NE) Conor Drahota SR (Omaha Skutt) vs #4 (4A-MO 152) Drake Smith SR (Liberty)
170
#3 (5A-KS 182) Seth Nitzel SR (Blue Valley SW) vs #4 (3A-IA) Zach Campbell SR (North Scott)
#2 (3A-IA) Ashton Barker JR (Iowa City West) vs #1 (4A-MO) Wentric Williams III SO (Liberty)
#2 (6A-KS) Brodie Scott JR (Mill Valley) vs #4 (A-NE 160) Ethan Valencia SR (Millard West)
#10 (2A-IA) Blake Liebe SR (Seargent Bluff-Lutton) vs #1 (A-NE) Grant Lyman SR (Lincoln East)
182
#1 (4A-MO) Greyden Penner SR (Liberty) vs Ian Byington SR (Millard South)
Austin Lee SR (Fort Dodge) vs #7 (A-NE) Joey Glogowski) JR (Creighton Prep)
#7 (3A-IA) Griffin Gammell SO (Waukee) vs Lucas Nigh JR (Millard North)
Blake Jouret SO (Olathe South) vs #2 (5A-KS 170) Jackson McCall SR (Blue Valley SW)
195
#2 (A-NE) Tony Pray JR (Creighton Prep) vs Jon Keller SR (Millard North)
#5 (A-NE) Daylon Keolavone JR (Grand Island) vs #5 (3A-IA) Levi Egli SR (Fort Dodge)
#2 (6A-KS) Gus Davis JR (Gardner-Edgerton) vs Isaac Stean SR (St. James Academy)
Colton Hoag JR (LeMars) vs #6 (5A-KS) Tommy Carroll SR (St. Thomas Aquinas)
220
#1 (A-NE) Isaac Trumble SR (Millard South) vs John Hubbel JR (Blue Valley SW)
#6 (4A-MO) Callum Trester SR (Liberty) vs Joey Anderson SO (Apple Valley)
#2 (3A-IA) Cael Thorson SR (Waukee) vs Brenick Hoppe SR (LeMars)
#2 (5A-KS) Cade Lautt SR (St. James Academy) vs #6 (6A-KS) Alec Younggren JR (Olathe South)
285
#1 (6A-KS) Ethan Kremer JR (Mill Valley) vs Alfredo Valquier (Nebrask City)
#7 (2A-IA) Cale Roller SR (Atlantic-CAM) vs Nick Biesemeyer SR (Liberty)
#7 (3A-IA) Connor Arndt SR (Waukee) vs Noah Clark SR (Glenwood)
Connor Hoy JR (Millard South) vs #3 (3A-IA) Gabe Greenlee JR (Ames)
Griess in Semifinals at Ironman
GI Northwest Senior, Grady Griess, went 2-0 on Friday to reach the Semifinals at the Walsh-Ironman Invite. Griess knocked off Flowrestling’s tenth ranked wrestler, Kolby Franklin, in the quarterfinals. He will wrestle Flo’s fifth ranked wrestler Ethan Hatcher in the semifinals. A win in that match would put him up against Flo’s number two ranked wrestler in the country Braxton Amos.