Michiganders win Asics Folkstyle National Crowns
Massa takes dominant 1st step towards repeat Triple Crown


4/7 - A group of Michigan's top youth and prep wrestlers traveled to Iowa last weekend for the Asics Folkstyle Nationals.  The tournament serves as the first leg of the USA Wrestling Triple Crown with the Freestyle and Greco Nationals later this summer serving as the finale.

St Johns freshman Taylor Massa, who won the Triple Crown last year, started his bid to repeat that feat on a good note, pinning his way through the Cadet 152lb division.  On the weekend, none of Massa's matches made it out of the first period as he spent less than 5 total minutes on the mat in 5 matches.

Massa was the only high school wrestler to win a Cadet or Junior title last weekend, however, a few youths racked up Folkstyle National Championships.  Dominic Sutermeister and Mark Hall of CMS continued their dominance of the novice division with titles at 85lbs and 105lbs.  Schoolboy Logan Marcicki won the 105lb title as well.

Holt duo Ben Matthieson and Freddie Rodriguez fell in tough final matches.  Rodriguez lost in the 98lb Cadet Finals to fellow freshman state champ Cory Clark of Iowa in overtime 3-1.  Rodriguez and Clark are starting to become rivals as they wrestled in freestyle and greco last summer in Fargo, splitting their matches 1-1.  Matthieson fell in the Junior 112lb  finals to returning Junior Freestyle Runner Up Jade Rauser of Montana 6-1.

Also finishing runner up in the Cadet division was Freshman to be Adam Coon of Fowlerville, who advanced all the way to the finals at Cadet 215lbs before falling to Gage Harrah of Illinois.

Read below to see all the Michiganders who placed last weekend in Iowa.  If any names are missing from the list, please email admin@michigangrappler.com.

Cadet/Junior Brackets

Kids Brackets


Michigan placers:
Junior
112lbs - Ben Matthieson - 2nd
125lbs - Taylan Knoblach - 7th
171lbs - John Rizgallah - 4th

Cadet
84lbs - Martin Rodriguez - 7th
98lbs - Freddie Rodriguez - 2nd
105lbs - Brant Schafer - 6th
135lbs - Payne Hayden - 5th
140lbs - Jordan Wohlfert - 5th
152lbs - Taylor Massa - 1st
215lbs - Adam Coon - 2nd
285lbs - Martaz Crutchfield - 5th

Novice
85lbs - Dominic Sutermeister - 1st
105lbs - Mark Hall - 1st

Schoolboy
91lbs - Zac Hall - 3rd
91lbs - Justin Oliver - 7th
105lbs - Logan Marcicki - 1st



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