9:18 Gotta write my story now. I’ll be back tomorrow with a wrapup.

9:04 Section 1 has a second champion! Brundage beats Neidhart 17-10.

8:59 Brundage appears to have Neidhart pinned but the ref sticks his hand under and says no. Still, the near fall gives him a 12-3 advantage.

8:57: Brundage gets a reversal just before the horn to go up 6-1 after one.

8:56 Long break while we waited through another awards ceremony. But Brundage is underway now.

8:15 The finals are not matching the optimism of the rest of the tournament. The LoHud is 1 for 5 so far, with Realbuto the only winner. If Brundage doesn’t win at 160, our area won’t have more champs than we did last year. Although some of you don’t care about Lenzi, even if he is a Westchester resident. Anyway, one champ doesn’t feel like enough when you send six to the finals. So Brundage will have a lot of weight on his shoulders.

8:09 Steve Dutton majors Lenzi 10-1 at 135 pounds, dethroning our area’s defending champ. Section 11 is running away with this thing.

8:03 Lenzi down 7-1 after one period.

8:00 Two more losses for Section 1. Murayama loses to Hyman 8-6. Grippi falls to DiGravio 8-5.

7:57 After two periods Genta is down 6-2 and Grippi is down 3-2.

7:53 After one period Genta is up 2-0 and Grippi is down 2-0.

7:51 Grippi and Murayama are both in action. My eyes are going to bounce back and forth like I’m at a tennis match.

7:35 They’re taking a break to photograph winners on the podium.

While we’re waiting for Joe Grippi to take the mat, I should mention that his coach Joe Amuso was inducted today into the New York State Wrestling Hall of Fame. A Fox Lane graduate, he’s coached at the school for 39 years. From what I understand from talking to other coaches, Amuso is the dean of Section 1. He’s racked up 334 dual meet wins, 23 sectional champs, and 12 state place finishers. The last two seasons he’s placed six in states.

One of the other two coaching inductees was Tony Mellino, father of Clarkstown North coach Tony Mellino, Jr. Mellino, Sr., is the third-winningest coach in Section 11 history. Currently he assists his son at North.

7:25 Keith gets a takedown in OT to win 6-4. He and Flamio exchange a big hug. Clearly a lot of respect between these two nemeses.

7:23 After a restart, Keith gets a reversal for a 4-2 lead. But Flamio counters with his own reversal with six seconds left to tie at 4-4.

7:20 Flamio reversal makes it 2-2. Heading to the third period. Flamio gets top.

Sal Imbimbo is looking sharp in a suit and tie.

7:12 No luck. Greene wins 11-7. Rodrigues sprints back to the locker room. Fox Lane still has hope for a title in Joe Grippi.

7:08 S-Rod gets Greene on his back but he manages to flip. Still that’s a five-point move to reduce a 8-1 hole to 8-6 after two periods.

7:04 Greene jumps on S-Rod early to go up 5-0 in the first minute.

6:54 Our first state champ! Realbuto gets a takedown in the third period to beat McQueen 9-8.

6:45 Realbuto’s up.

103 – No. 5 Brian Realbuto vs. No. 2 Damon McQueen (Huntington-11). McQueen beat Realbuto 10-8 in last year’s 96-pound consi final. The two have a combined 88-1 record this season; McQueen is 36-0. Each of his three tournament wins were by moderate decision: 5, 7, and 5 points.

112 – No. 2 Steven Rodrigues (Fox Lane) vs. No. 9 Grant Greene (St. Anthony’s-CHSAA). Greene wasn’t especially heralded coming in but the sophomore burst his way into the finals with a 24-second pin over 3-seed Bob Dierna. S-Rod can make this a historic day for Fox Lane by bringing home a title.

119 – No. 2 Justis Flamio (Mahopac) vs. No. 1 Steven Keith (Shoreham-Wading RIver-11). Just as Flamio predicted. After needing sudden-death overtime to win a sectional title, Flamio made a bold prediction that he would meet Keith in the state final. These two have quite a rivalry cracking. This is the third year they’ve met at states. Two years ago Keith won. Last year Flamio won. Will the alternating continue or will Flamio end the 45-0 senior’s career with a loss?

130 – No. 4 Joey Grippi (Fox Lane) vs. No. 6 Vinnie DiGravio (Wayne-5). Grippi already made his massive statement by knocking off top seed Cody Ruggirello, who was 45-0. He can’t let down against the 40-5 DiGravio. Grippi placed sixth last year. DiGravio, who’s a year younger, didn’t place.

135 – No. 3 Andrew Lenzi (Fordham Prep) vs. No. 2 Stephen Dutton (Rocky Point-11). Lenzi is the one local in the finals for whom losing here would be a disappointment. The junior looks better than ever and wants another state championship. Even if it means going through 45-0 junior Dutton, who finished third last year and second in 2007. Dutton has allowed two points total in his three matches, winning by a combined 34-2.

160 – No. 5 James Brundage (Ossining) vs. No. 6 T.J. Neidhart (Shoreham-Wading RIver-11). Yet another Section 11 guy in the finals. If Realbuto, Flamio, and Lenzi win, Brundage could be in position to lift Section 1 over 11. Maybe. Section 1 still needs breaks. Brundage has pinned his way through states, just like he pinned his way through sections. So that’s, what, seven pins in a row against the best wrestlers in the state? Dude is a monster. Neidhart, a wild card, jumped two weight classes from last year. He took third at states as a 145-pounder.

And finally, the only Division II final:

130 – No. 2 Genta Murayama (Edgemont) vs. No. 1 Derak Heyman (Tioga-4): Heyman beat Murayama by a couple of points in the consolation finals at Eastern States. But Genta looks focused. He could make Division II very proud here.

I will post all finals updates here.

4:10 They kicked us out of the arena while they rearranged the floor, including the media seating. But I’m back for the duration.

The latest Division I team standings are follows:

Section 11 – 219.5
Section 1 – 178.5
Section 2 – 177
Section 8 – 148
Section 9 – 146.5
Section 5 – 146
Section 6 – 103
Section 4 – 92
CHSAA – 87.5
Section 3 – 53
Section 10 – 7
PSAL – 5

And for Division II:

Section 5 – 249.5
Section 4 – 227.5
Section 6 – 204
Section 3 – 189
Section 2 – 135
Section 7 – 98.5
Section 1 – 73
Section 11 – 48
Section 10 – 30.5
Section 8 – 28.5
Section 9 – 19
PSAL – 11

As you can see, Section 1 is still in second place in DI, but it’s by a hair’s breadth over Section 2. The good news is that Section 2 has three finalists to Section 1’s six. The bad news is that Section 11 has nine finalists and a 41-point lead. Barring a miracle it’s not going to be caught.

2:40 That’s the end of all consolation matches. Six of the eight mats are in the process of being broken down and the building is being cleared. Fans have to pay again to watch the finals.

The parade of champions is scheduled to begin at 5:45. Championship wrestling will start about half an hour later, at 6:15.

2:35 With all locals through with consolations, here’s the medal count so far:

Third place: Ramos, Gottfried

Fourth place: Tompkins

Fifth place: Sam Speno, Luke Speno, Neivert, Manley, Carter

Sixth place: Thakur, Longo

2:22 Neivert gets a rare tech fall. We haven’t seen many of those. He teched John Daddino of Sewanhaka East, 18-3, for fifth place.

2:20 Carter goes up 13-8, then pins James Charland of Northern Adirondack for good measure. The pin came at 5:26. Carter gets sixth.

2:16 Injury timeout in Carter’s 152 match. He’s down 8-6  with 15 secs to go in the second.

2:15 Luke Speno wins his fifth-place match 9-6. He and his brother will both get fifth-place trophies.

2:11 Ramos pins Fairpost’s David Foley in 3:25 to take third place. He looks happy but exhausted.

Manley wins 9-7 in overtime over Brian Walsh of Watervliet. He gets fifth place. Longo lost 8-3 to Josh Micek of Maple Grove and takes sixth.

2:08 Longo lost. Manley is in OT.

2:05 Tompkins lost 8-2 to Anthony Volpe of Longwood. He takes fourth.

2:02 Thakur lost by decision to Jimmy Kloc of Iroquois, 7-2. He gets sixth.

2:00 Manley and Longo are on adjacent mats. Manley is down 2-1 in the first. Longo is down 2-0 after two.

1:55 Fox Lane is in third place among all large schools. Wantagh of Section 8 and Port Jervis of Section 9 are first and second, respectively.

1:48 Gottfried completes his comeback with a 9-5 decision over Ken Eaton of Adirondack to win third place. It was actually 6-5 but Eaton threw his headgear and then said some things to the ref that presumably weren’t, “Thank you for correctly applying your tremendous officiating acumen.”

1:36 Speno wins 2-0 to secure fifth place. A freshman wild card could do a lot worse.

1:30 Sam Speno will begin the final round against Joe Barbato of Wantagh.

1:26 To sum up the remaining consis:

Wrestling for third place: Tompkins, Ramos, Gottfried.

Wrestling for fifth place: Sam and Luke Speno, Thakur, Neivert, Manley, Longo, Carter.

1:14 Neivert gives up a takedown in OT and loses 3-1.

Steve Ramos beat John Glenn’s Chris Carlucci and will wrestle for third. That’s good for Section 1 because John Glenn is in Section 11.

Will Carter got pinned at 4:28 by Jon Strong of Frewsburg. He’ll go for fifth.

1:11 Ardsley’s guys at 135 and 145 go down. Dan Manley and Derrick Longo lost 10-2 and 10-4, respectively, and will be in the fifth-place matches.

In a bit of a surprise, Tompkins pinned Luke Speno, who was ahead in points, at 4:44. Tompkins gets the berth in the consi final. Speno settles for a shot at fifth.

1:09 The kid looks OK. He was moving around so it’s not a spine issue.

Guess who’s on blood time. That’s right, Neivert’s wrestling.

1:06 Uh oh, there’s a gurney being rolled out to one of the mats. Didn’t see what happened. It’s not a Section 1 kid.

1:02 Brief internet outage got me scared. It’s been good so far.

Thakur lost 4-3 to Josh Halladay and will compete for fifth.

12:53 They just announced the latest team standings over the loudspeaker. Section 1 is still in second, but it’s falling further behind Section 11. Section 1 has 158.5 points to 11’s 200.5.

12:43 Anyone who’s still alive at this point is guaranteed to place top 6. In addition to the six finalists, that includes Sam Speno, Thakur, Luke Speno, Ramos, Neivert, Gottfried, Manley, Derrick Longo, and Carter.

12:38 Joe Smaldone forfeited to Penn Gottfried, sending Gottfried to the consolation finals. That’s a great place to be considering his disappointing first-round loss.

12:19 In case you haven’t been following all morning, six locals won their semifinals and will wrestle for a state title tonight. The Big 6 are Brian Realbuto, Steve Rodrigues, Justis Flamio, Joey Grippi, Andrew Lenzi, and Genta Murayama.

I haven’t mentioned Beacon’s Ryan Tompkins because he’s out of our area, but he lost his semifinal 7-4.

12:15: Sam Speno just lost his consi semifinal to Chris Brienza of St. Anthony’s, 6-4. He’ll wrestle for fifth later.

11:55 Attention is divided often here because there are eight matches going on at the same time. Frequently two locals are wrestling concurrently. In that case I pay attention to the semifinalist over the consolation kid. But I haven’t forgotten the consis.

Joey Hauser dropped a 16-10 decision to Andre Berry of Uniondale. Luke Speno beat Calhoun’s Mack Maldarelli 7-0.

In DII, Penn Gottfried beat Peru’s Troy Seymour 2-1 in triple-overtime. Ryan Osleeb lost to Palmyra-Macedon’s Tyler Marlow 7-2. Danny Manley and Derrick Longo both won.

11:48 Kenny Betts of Fredonia just won his 268th match, a New York State record. He is a five-time Section 6 champion.

11:37 I made a mistake yesterday on the blog and in my newspaper story. I said that 19 Section 1 wrestlers were guaranteed to place. That was not correct. Only the 11 who won their two matches yesterday were guaranteed to place. Basically I forgot one of the consolation rounds. So while 19 could place, if those in the consi bracket lost their first match today, they did not place.

I hope that mistake didn’t cause too much confusion. There’s obviously enough confusion on my end for everyone.

I’m going to change my earlier blog post.

11:32 Neivert can’t make it two Ossining guys in the finals, as he falls 11-3 to Matt Parlier of Port Jervis.

11:27 Blood time for Clay Neivert. I think that’s 438 consecutive matches he’s needed it.

Down 7-1 in the second period, he’s got some work to do.

11:21: For the second match in a row, James Brundage pinned a guy with five seconds left. This time it was Amsterdam’s John Paris in the semifinals. Paris had just tied the score at 3-3 when, with both on their feet, he slipped and fell on his back. Bad place to be against Brundage. Brundage fell on top of him and put his shoulders down.

Carter beat Orlando 3-2 in their match.

11:15: Brundage is up now. And Will Carter and Chris Orlando are going at each other in the consis.

11:10: I’m going to stop writing the word “update.” You know it’s an update.

Ramos just lost his semifinal 4-0 to Josh Veltre of Greece-Olympia. It was really 1-0, but once Ramos realized he wasn’t going to escape I think he let Veltre put him on his back. Veltre chose bottom to start the second period. and escaped. Ramos couldn’t do the same in the third. At one point he spun to his feet and was a half step from jumping away, but Veltre lashed out blindly and grabbed his ankle. Impressive desperation grab.

UPDATE 11:02: Thakur managed to escape three times but never had much hope of taking down the stronger Lenzi, who won 14-3. Guess Udi’s magic carpet ride is over.

Steve Ramos is on the mat now.

UPDATE 10:54: Big Thakur-Lenzi match is about to start.

UPDATE 10:47: Genta Murayama is singlehandedly saving face for Division II. His reversal in the opening seconds of the third period gave him a 2-1 semifinal win over third-seed Devin Soper.

As bad as it’s been for the small schools in the early going, Genta will give them a finalist, something they didn’t have last year.

UPDATE 10:19: Section 1 is 3 for 4 in the early going. Realbuto, Flamio, and Grippi won their semifinals. Grippi’s 9-8 last-second victory had the crowd going wild and left Joe Amuso crying as Grippi jumped into his arms like Magic Johnson and Kareem.

Sam Speno dropped his semifinal. For a freshman to get this far at all is great.

Turns out I was overly optimistic about the internet at the Times Union Center. It was on and off all day. Mostly off. For some reason the computers around me got better reception, although theirs wasn’t perfect either. I ended up calling results into the office, which my editors then posted on the blog.

For people who were sitting at home hitting the Refresh button, you were probably frustrated at not getting enough updates. I know you want it as up-to-the-minute as possible. Today I’ll try to get them in more frequently, even if I have to keep calling the office. Just understand that when I don’t have internet it gets complicated. I have to leave the floor of the arena because it’s too loud, which means I can only do it when no one from Section 1 is wrestling (because I want to watch the matches). And sending detailed info over the phone is iffy.

I consider myself lucky to have even made the event. I got food poisoning last night from some bad yogurt and was afraid I wouldn’t be able to make the drive to Albany. It cleared up enough in the morning, thankfully. The lesson? Never eat yogurt.

Huge day for Section 1. The hugest, in fact.

Never in the 67-year history of the state wrestling tournament has Section 1 been poised to do as well as it is right now. Eleven wrestlers have guaranteed themselves a place finish, even if they don’t win another match. That’s already matched a record. The previous high was 11 place finishers (which is top-6) last year. It could be as many as 19 based on how other guys do in the consolations.

As a team, Section 1 is in second place in Division I (i.e. large schools). It has 100 points to Section 11’s 103.5. A lot depends on how guys do tomorrow, but the section is in great position to win the team title. The last time that happened? Try never.

Section 1 hasn’t finished higher than 7th place (out of 11 sections) since 1994, when it came in third. Guys like Andy Matteotti of Suffern, who I assume is the great-great-grandfather of current Suffern coach Chris Matteotti, were the big winners that year. Few people noticed Section 1’s success because the invention of the cotton gin was drawing a lot of attention.

It was a long time ago, if you catch my drift. And that was only third place.

Barring a meltdown tomorrow, you will see a lot of happy coaches. None more so than Fox Lane’s Joe Amuso. Three of his kids—Sam Speno, Steve Rodrigues, and Joey Grippi—are in the semifinals. A fourth, Luke Speno, got behind early to Anthony Volpe and lost a major decision, but came back to make the consi semis. Speno beat Volpe at Eastern States when he was able to get a lead and hold it.

Rodrigues and Grippi both came very close to losing. Rodrigues got back points at the buzzer to come back from 3-1 down and win 6-3. Grippi nearly got taken down at the horn up 3-2. Unbelievably, the easiest winner was Speno, a freshman wild card and the least accomplished of all Fox Lane’s big guns.

Other DI semifinals are Brian Realbuto, who won by tech and major decision, Justis Flamio, who regained his form with a pin and 11-1 win after a shaky sectional final, Steve Ramos, whose third-period escape was enough in a 1-0 win, James Brundage, who pinned with five seconds left, and Clay Neivert, who won 5-3.

The title of “Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” goes to Udit Thakur. I don’t mean that he doesn’t deserve to be in the semifinals. It’s just that fate is clearly smiling on him. Thakur was a wild-card entry to the tournament after losing the sectional final to Kevin Davidson. But while Davidson lost his first match, Thakur won with a second left in overtime. Then he loses his second match 5-4—but wait! Nick Lashway points at him and curses, earning him an unsportsmanlike point and sending this one into OT. Lashway was clearly spent. Thakur took him down with two seconds on the clock.

He better keep that guardian angel. Next up is Fordham Prep’s Andrew Lenzi, the state champion.

Luke Speno and Joey Hauser were the only two DI guys to wrestle back into Day 2 after losing. All other DI guys lost again and are out.

As for Division II, the less said the better. It hasn’t caught up to the large school success. Section 1 is eighth in the small-school standings.

Edgemont’s Genta Murayama is the flag-bearer. He won his two matches easily. No one else made it through the quarterfinals.

At least several bounced back to keep wrestling tomorrow in consolations. Penn Gottfried, Ryan Osleeb, Dan Manley, Derrick Longo, Chris Orlando, and Will Carter will suit up tomorrow.

In Division 2, only six of the 17 local wrestlers made it out of the first round. The lucky ones were Anthony Calvano of Nanuet, Ryan Osleeb of North Salem, Genta Murayama of Edgemont, Derrick Longo of Ardsley, Will Carter of Westlake and wild card Chris Orlando of Putnam Valley.

Will be back soon with Division 1 results.

UPDATE 3:16: Division 1 did twice as well as Division 2 in the first round. Twelve wrestlers have advanced. Those moving on to the quarterfinals are Fox Lane’s Sam Speno, Luke Speno, Joey Grippi and Steven Rodrigues, Somers’ Brian Realbuto, John Jay’s Henry Stauber, Mahopac’s Justis Flamio, Nyack’s Udit Thakur, Lakeland-Panas’ Joey Hauser, Clarkstown North’s Steven Ramos and Ossining’s James Brundage and Clay Neivert.

We’ll be back with quarterfinal results when they’re complete.

UPDATE 3:38: Hooray, internet is up. But for how long?

Forgot to mention that Lenzi also made it out of the first round.

As for quarterfinal results, Flamio, Rodrigues, Realbuto, and Sam Speno moved on in DI.

UPDATE 4:00: Genta Murayama and Udit Thakur won their quarterfinals. Thakur was down 5-4 at the buzzer but an unsportsmanlike conduct pushed it into OT, where he won 7-5. He also won his first round in OT.

UPDATE 5:10: Ramos, Brundage and Neivert will also be moving on to Day 2 after winning their quarterfinal matches.

All told, 11 local wrestlers are still in the running for state championships and will be back at it tomorrow.

UPDATE 6:17: Just to sum up, here are the area wrestlers in Division I who won their two matches today and go into tomorrow with a chance at a state title: Sam Speno (96), Brian Realbuto (103), Steve Rodrigues (112), Justis Flamio (119), Joey Grippi (130), Udit Thakur (135), Andrew Lenzi (135), Steve Ramos (152), James Brundage (160), Clay Neivert (171).

That’s 10 wrestlers out of 16 entrants, a very nice showing. It’s so good, in fact, that Section 1 is second in the team standings. And just a half point behind Section 11 for first. Can you believe that? Go Section I!

As far as Division II goes….well, the less said the better. Twelve DII locals entered, only one left. Edgemont’s Genta Murayama (130) is the sole survivor of Day 1. Section 1 is eighth in the DII points standings.

I’ll be back with consi results later.

UPDATE 7:47: The following wrestlers lost their first consolation match and are now out of the tournament: Asher Kramer, Kevin Davidson, Sal Marchese, Josue Cardenas, Cristian Garcia, Michael Kane, Peter Talesnick, Ray Wang, Jarron Saunders, Steve Ramundo, Kris Castro, Chris Galletta. All those not mentioned are still alive, either in the semifinals or the consolation bracket.

UPDATE 10:03: The following wrestlers lost in the regular bracket but won their consolation matches to advance to the consi semifinals. They still have a shot at 3rd place. Joey Hauser, Luke Speno, Penn Gottfried, Ryan Osleeb, Dan Manley, Derrick Longo, Chris Orlando, Will Carter.

I haven’t had much luck getting internet at high schools this year. Check that—make it any luck. Pace only had limited access. I have higher hopes for the Times Union Center. If it does indeed have internet, and I have a place to put my computer (less likely), I’ll provide regular updates on the Section 1 wrestlers. Keep checking back through the afternoon.

If you’re making the trip to Albany, here are directions:

1. Take I-87 North (NY State Thruway) to Exit 23.


2. Merge onto I-787 North toward Downtown Albany/Rensselaer/Troy.


3. Take Exit 4 for US-9 N./US-20 W. Keep right at the fork in the ramp.


4. Turn left, then make a right turn onto Broadway.


5. Turn left onto Hudson Ave.


6. Turn right onto S. Pearl St./NY-32.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – SESSION #1
8-9 am……………………..Weigh-ins
10 am….…………………..Parade of Champions/National Anthem
10:30 – 2:30 pm….……….Preliminaries: Division 1 and 2
2:30 – 4:30 pm……………Quarterfinals: Division 1 and 2
4:30 – 6:30 pm……………Wrestlebacks: Division 1 and 2
6:30 – 8:30 pm…..……….Wrestlebacks: Division 1 and 2
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – SESSION #2
8-9  am…………………… Weigh-Ins
9:30 am…………………… National Anthem/Special Awards
10 am – 12:30 pm……….. Semifinals: Division 1 and 2
12:30 – 2:00 pm………….. Wrestlebacks/Cons Semifinals: Div. 1 & 2
2 pm – 3:30 pm…………… Consolations Finals: Division 1 and 2
6 pm…………………… FINALS: Division 1 and 2 (2 mats only)

In terms of facing proven opponents in the first round, Section 1 lucked out. Only four locals—Ryan Osleeb, Dan Manley, Greg Canaparo, Kevin Davidson—will see first-round opponents that placed in the state last year. Two of them, however, are state champions.

Kevin Davidson drew the toughest assignment. His prize for upsetting Udit Thakur in the 135 championship is a date with Fordham Prep’s Andrew Lenzi. Lenzi, of course, came out of nowhere last year to win a state title and subsequently The Journal News wrestler of the year.

Meanwhile Thakur, who got into states via a wild card, is seeded six places higher than Davidson and gets a much less daunting first-round assignment. However, should he win he will need to beat No. 1 seed Ali Hasan to make it to the second day.

Ardsley’s Dan Manley is the other unlucky one. He must face No. 2 seed Alex Ekstrom, another champion. Ekstrom, from Section 5, is 46-2. Unbelievably, he’s a wild card. That’s because one of his two losses was to top seed Ian Paddock in the sectional tournament. Ekstrom’s 46-2 looks superb until you see that Paddock is 50-0.

North Salem’s Ryan Osleeb drew Tioga’s Corey Spires. Spires was sixth in the state last year. Like Thakur, Osleeb’s real challenge here is in the second round. He’s got to get past No. 1 Matt Peters to make Day 2.

At 125 pounds in Division II, both locals have their work cut out for them. Michael Kane got in on a wild card even though he took third at sections. Predictably he is seeded 16th (i.e. last). He is a major underdog against Greene’s Nick Wilcox. Section champ Greg Canaparodidn’t get much better. He’s the 15-seed, and drew 46-1 Sean Hanson. Hanson was 4th in the state last year.

I added everybody’s seed. In parenthesis after the opponent’s name is their school and section number. If there is an A1-A4 after that it means the kid was a wild card.

I’ll be back with more thoughts on the matchups later.

Divison I

96 – No. 8 ASHER KRAMER VS No. 9 MAX SORIA (KINGS PARK  11) A3

96 – No. 13 SAM SPENO VS No. 4 ISIAH PERRY (MASSENA 10)

103 – No. 5 BRIAN REALBUTO VS No. 12 MOISE CHERRY (SHEEPSHEAD BAY P)

112 – No. 2 STEVEN RODRIGUES VS No. 15 RICHARD DENNISON (MINISINK VALLEY 9)

119 – No. 5 HENRY STAUBER VS No. 12 DAVID HALL (FULTON 3)

119 – No. 2 JUSTIS FLAMIO VS No. 15 CAMERON KELLY (PITTSFORD 5)

125 – No. 9 MIKE ROSE VS No. 8 ADAM TROY (WALT WHITMAN  11) A2

130 – No. 4 JOE GRIPPI VS No. 13 KYLE DIESEL (MINISINK VALLEY 9)

135 – No. 8 UDIT THAKUR VS No. 9 JOSH HALLADAY (JOHNSON CITY 4) A3

135 – No. 14 KEVIN DAVIDSON VS No. 3 ANDREW LENZI (FORDAM PREP C)

140 – No. 15 JOE HAUSER VS No. 2 TODD HAGGAR (CICERO 3)

145 – No. 4 LUKE SPENO VS No. No. 13 TONY CARLO (MON. FARRELL  C)

145 – No. 6 RYAN TOMPKINS VS No. 11 MATT HARP (ONEIDA 3)  A3

152 – No. 4 STEVEN RAMOS VS No. 13 CHRIS CARLUCCI (JOHN GLENN 11) A3

160 – No. 5 JAMES BRUNDAGE VS No. 12 ROB DARGIE (CANTON 10)

171 – No. 4 CLAY NEIVERT VS No. 13 CURTIS BERNADUE (CANARSIE  P)

171- No. 14 SAL MARCHESE VS No. 3 ANGELO MALVESTUTO (NIAGARA WHEATFIELD  6)

189 – No. 14 JOSUE CARDENAS VS No. 3 ZACH BUONAIUTO (MILLER PLACE 11)

215 – No. 13 PATRICE CASTOR VS No. 4 KYLE SHERIDAN (BALDWINSVILLE 3)

285 – No. 12 ERIC LAPORTA VS No. 5 BRENDAN BYRNE (MINISINK VALLEY 9) A1

285 – No. 4 CRISTIAN GARCIA VS No. 13 NATE BROWN (AVERILL PARK  2) A3

Division II

96 – No. 12 DREW LONGO  VS No. 5 CHARLENE SLUBERSKI (FREDONIA  6) A1

103 – No. 7 ANTHONY CALVANO VS No. 10 ANDY EHLERS  (TUXEDO  9)

112  – No. 9 PENN GOTTFRIED VS No. 8 DOM GIACOLONE (CATO-MERIDIAN 3) A3

119 – No. 8 RYAN OSLEEB VS No. 9 COREY SPIRES (TIOGA 4)  A4

125 – No. 16 MICHAEL KANE VS No. 1 NICK WILCOX (GREENE  4)

125 – No. 15 GREG CANAPARO VS No. 2 SEAN HANSON (SOUTH JEFFERSON  3)

130 – No. 2 GENTA MURAYAMA VS No. 15 SATCHEL HOLDER ( BABYLON 11)

135 – No. 15 DAN MANLEY VS No. 2 ALEX EKSTROM ( PAL- MAC 5)  A1

140 – No. 10 PETER TALESNIK VS No. 7 JOSH MANUEL (TIOGA  4)

145 – No. 7 DERRICK LONGO  VS No. 10 BILLY SPINELLI  (PETRIDES  P)

152 – No. 11 CHRIS ORLANDO VS No. 6 ZACH CUMMINGS (GOUVERNEUR 10)

152 – No. 7 WILL CARTER VS No. 10 DAVID ADAMS  (SALEM 2)  A2

160 – No. 10 RAY WANG VS TROY IRELAND  (BATAVIA 5) A2

171 – No. 14 JARRON SAUNDERS VS No. 3 KYLE ROOSA (ALLEGANY LIMESTONE  6)

189 – No. 12 STEVE RAMUNDO VS JOHN EIBERT (CLIFTON FINE 10)

215 – No. 12 KRIS CASTRO VS No. 5 RYAN TALCOTT (TIOGA  4)

285 – No. 9 CHRIS GALLETTA VS No. 8 AARON KROLL (GOWANDA 6)

Here are all seeded wrestlers from Section 1, fresh off the pen of Eric Romanino. The state hasn’t released full brackets yet. All we get for now is the seeds.

Division I

96 KRAMER   8

103  REALBUTO 5

112 RODRIGUES 2

119  FLAMIO 2

119 STAUBER  5

130   GRIPPI  4

135  THAKUR   5

145  SPENO    4

145  TOMPKINS  6

152 RAMOS   4

160   BRUNDAGE   5

171  NIEVERT  4

285  GARCIA  4

Division II

103  CALVANO  7

119   OSLEEB   8

130  MURAYAMA  2

145  LONGO   7

The first of our three contest winners, 10591, sent me his guest blog post, which I posted below. It should be noted that he almost didn’t win. His original picks only had 11 winners, but he went back and resubmitted a new ballot that had 12. So now 10591 has a chance to get something off his chest.

First of all, I am glad to be given the chance to write a small blog, since I picked the winners for the Section 1 championships for the Large School, and for those that are taking their time in reading this, thank you and I hope that what I write comes out correctly (I was not an English major in college), clearly and hopefully doesn’t leave any questions to be answered.

I am a Sleepy Hollow HS graduate from the mid 90’s, never wrestled, friends of mine in HS were not on the team, and really don’t follow it as much as some of your great bloggers do, but I do have one small problem that I read and hear about all the time and that is the talk of Sleepy Hollow wrestlers, the way they behave, that they are an embarassment to the school, their coach, blah blah blah.

Sleepy Hollow’s coach Brian Tompkins is one of the most respected men in Section 1 wrestling, there is no doubt about that. He has led the Horsemen for many many many years, which have gotten them an All-American, many state champions, many many many multi-year sectional champions and most important, he does an AMAZING job in the classroom with the kids that he teaches. Just because his kids show emotions before, during or after matches, is that a bad thing nowadays??? His kids train all year for that one special moment, which is, to get a chance to wrestle on the mat of the high school that they are representing. Some of these kids have been around wrestling since they could walk, this is all they have dreamed about, this is all they think about. Many high school kids show frustration in all sports—I’m sure there are Mount Vernon kids in bball that have done so, same thing with Rye for football or Yorktown/John Jay for lacrosse, and there is nothing wrong with showing emotion, because when it’s all said and done, it is emotion that these kids let out, after a great win, or even after a disappointing loss.

All that I want to say is that unless a Sleepy Hollow kid does something towards another school to provoke something in any way, please stop talking bad about them, it isn’t fair to them, to their teammates, to the coaching staff, and most important, to the school and the community.

I know that many, if not, all coaches of all Section 1 wrestling teams, including the officials, have nothing but great things to say about SH wrestlers, and to me as a SH graduate, that will ALWAYS be more important than what some bloggers say on this site or other wrestling sites, and being that we have a great teacher, educator and coach, Brian Tompkins leading the way for the Sleepy Hollow Headless Horsemen, I couldn’t be happier than that. The community of Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown feels the same, and I’m sure that many in Section 1 wrestling do as well.

Good luck to all Section 1 participants (Large and Small School) at the NY State Championships. Do your best, represent your family and school, try to bring home a title, and do know, it is ok to show emotions during your wins and/or losses in the mat and in life.

The state DI and DII tournaments are seeded just like any other. Those seeds are being determined today. Section 1 coordinator Eric Romanino is in Albany this morning to participate in the process, which is done entirely by a formula. I will get those seeds out when I get them, hopefully early this afternoon.

Check back soon.

Nineteen people entered our Call the Champions contest. Out of a possible 15 points, the highest score was 12. The lowest was 8. Not bad. Nobody screwed the pooch.

This is the part where I announce the winner with a flourish. Problem is there isn’t a winner. Three people scored a 12, and none of those three correctly identified the MOW as Joe Hauser. I thought about imposing a random tiebreaker but that wouldn’t be fair after the fact. I’d be opening myself up to multimillion dollar lawsuits. So I’m declaring a three-way tie. Anticlimactic, I know. If a tie in sports is like kissing your sister, then a three-way tie is, what, seeing your uncle in the shower?

Congrats to our three winners: Joe Somebody, 10591, and Low Single. May your screen names live forever in Takedowns lore.

As promised, each of you get to write a guest blog post. It can be a preview of states, an angry list of grievances against the Coast Guard for denying your application, or anything else you want to talk about. Send your post to jtthomas@lohud.com and I’ll put it up on the blog right away. Tell me if you want your real name used or not.

Here are the full standings for the contest:

Joe Somebody 12
10591 12
Low Single 12
wrestler 11
Bodyslam15 11
s1wss 11
Joe M 11
IonaWrestler 11
phil {lotrz} 11
mustard 11
im a fan 11
THE BOOCH 10
the kid 10
some dude 10
Sect.9observer 10
CMMD21 10
pin2win 9
Nandez 8
poop on my gooch 8

People were still voting on the old poll today, even though it was about who would win sectionals. Talk about Monday-morning quarterbacking.

Joe Grippi won that one, which asked who was the biggest lock to win sections. Impressive since he was a write-in candidate. Of course all four names that I threw up (as well as Grippi) won a title.

Now I want your prediction for states. Who is going to make it the furthest? Can Justis Flamio repeat his runner-up finish. Can Andrew Lenzi win another title? What about the DII guys?

If anybody can lend some insight into who your candidate is facing from other sections, we’d all like to know.

State wild cards weren’t supposed to be known until tomorrow. How surprised was I to find them sitting in my email inbox a minute ago.

Section 1 has been awarded six big-school wild cards and two small-school wild cards. That 6-2 ratio is roughly equal to the ratio of big- to small-school programs (37 to 12) in the section. There are 120 wild cards given out state-wide—four per class; 30 classes in all—so Section 1 got 1/15 of them. There are 11 sections in New York State.

The lucky winners from Division I are:

96 Sam Speno Fox Lane
119 Henry Stauber John Jay
135 Udit Thakur Nyack
145 Ryan Tompkins Beacon
171 Sal Marchese Nyack
285 Eric LaPorta Yorktown

From Division II:

125 Michael Kane Pleasantville
152 Chris Orlando Putnam Valley

Many people expected Stauber to get one after taking state runner-up Justis Flamio to ultimate tiebreak. It’s good to see at least one John Jay kid up at states. The Indians put four kids in finals and didn’t come away with any winners despite very close calls by Stauber and Pat Sweeney. They still finished second in team points.

Thakur was another predictable choice. He was the only sectional champ to not repeat.

Tompkins hung in there with Luke Speno, a two-time champion, only losing 3-1. Sam Speno dropped a 5-4 decision to Asher Kramer in the final. He gives Fox Lane a fourth representative at states. Marchese and LaPorta went down more decisively than the other guys, but both were excellent all season.

In Division II, Chris Orlando makes sense because, although he lost 16-4 to Will Carter, Carter was the MOW. Carter would have had a shot at the DI title. To lose to him wasn’t that bad.

The other DII choice, Michael Kane, is confusing. Kane didn’t even make the final. He finished third at 125 behind Greg Caneparo and Mark McCormack. Furthermore, McCormack wrestled a very tight match before dropping a 4-3 decision. Why did he get bypassed? Is he hurt? If so, why wouldn’t a second-place finisher in another weight get the wild card? I’m going to see if I can find out.

Matt had plenty of extra thoughts on the small-schools championships. This is what he had to say:

“Out of the 15 small-school champions, only three of them were non-No. 1 seeds. The two No. 2 seeds that won title were Ardsley’s Drew Longo in the 96 and Nanuet’s Greg Caneparo. Nanuet’s Stephen Ramundo was the only third seed to win.

96- The Longo upset of John Aslanian isn’t too surprising. Longo also broke
the school-record for wins as an eighth-grader with 29 now, a mark set of
Penn Gottfried’s 27. To be campared with his older brother is expected…but
to be aligned with Gottfried is even something else.

“I am trying to live up to my team, Penn and Danny (Manley), they were
really good when they were in eighth grade. Derrick (his brother) started
out with like nothing be and over these years he’s just gotten so better,
that’s what makes him great. I want to live up to Ardsley.”

103- Nanuet’s Anthony Calvano easily won his semifinal and got into a wild
shootout with Michael Kar of Pleasantville. Big day for Nanuet to have two
champions.

112- The lead to my story is Gottfried and his fourth Section 1 title. He is
in rarified air. What makes this so interesting is that he still hasn’t
broken through at states and that he is only a junior. There’s a funny quote
in my story about how he’s going to a Buffet to celebrate…because his
words, “We have a fat kid on our team, Chris Galleta at 285 and he always
goes. He says that he has to cut weight and we don’t. So I am going, we got
a week…”
I figured calling someone fat, albeit it in jest, shouldn’t be in the paper.
But that’s why you read the blogs..for good little nuggets like this.
Btw-I’ll take anyone on at the buffet line when their is seafood involved.

119- North Salem Ryan Osleeb’s aggressiveness paid off…a 16-4 dec over
John Morato in the final. Teddy Kyreakedes reportedly was cursing after his
consolation final loss, so Section 1 officals decided to not award him
fourth place…is was a bit awkward to see an open spot on the podium when
Olympic Gold Medalist, Henry Cejudo was passing out awards.

Cejudo was at the event to sell his T-shirts “The American Dream” which are kind of like a wrestlers version of an Ed Hardy designer shirt.

http://www.teamcejudo.com/shirts.html

125- Nanuet’s Greg Caneparo won a close 4-3 decision over Mark McCormick in
his final. Our friend Tony Pinciaro (a Nanuet resident) chimed in to tell me
this would be a good match. And as usual he was right. A real gritty,
defensive battle, where any small thing could have been the difference.
“It was a great match. Defensive wrestler vs. Defensive wrestler. We are
both really strong and it evened out.” he said.

130- Genta Murayama after his win, which gave him his third Section 1 title, he was more focused on moving onto states…

135- It was a banner day for Ardsley, including Danny Manley winning the 135…After Frank Oleszko needed a tight 4-3 decision to get past Huff, Manley was clearly primed for the win. Side note, I spoke to the Pleasantville coach, Kevin Bernaducci’s father. He was pleased that Kevin was able to bounce back from Huff upset in the Quarters and take third place…He was able to use that loss as motivation.

140- Peter Talesnik strolled through the bracket but his 4-2 win in the final over Dan O’Gorman was hard fought.

145- Gutsy effort by Longo here, I know he’s had his fair share of injuries but he’s been able to tough it out. Dominated Cisco Reyes.

152-With a little more time to think about it, Will Carter was a okay choice for MOW….Usually you look for pure dominance, but the quality of his win over Shaq Charles in the semi could have outweighted taking him to three periods.

160- Wang could have easily thrown his name in the MOW mix….quick to two pins in the Qtrs and semid and a decisive 10-2 win in the final.

171- You gotta feel for Kleckner Charles. He’s got a bad shoulder one that he originally injured in beginning of the season against Jarron Saunders. So Saunders knew this. He took advantage of it and powered on to an early lead. But Charles, yelling in pain, fought back, to down 8-7 in the mid second and had Saunders down for the gamewinning pin, but the refs felt it didn’t hold. Saunders got his reprieve and used the right shoulder against Charles. I just reallt would like to have seen them go at it without any prior injuries. That would have been interesting. Saunders is good, but until that match he wasn’t tested.

189- Many have counted him out. Most though he wouldn’t survive a bout with Jeff Miller, but he did. Stephen Ramundo might not go far at states with a shoulder ailing with three major problems, but he’ll enjoy the experience the most. It wasn’t the Flamio 4OT thriller, but Ramundo lasting until one OT and getting the jump Miller must have felt like it. Maybe it’s too easy to root someone like Ramundo…but then so what.

215- The Putnam Valley crowd was going crazy, counting down the final seconds of Kris Castro’s win in the final. That’s what the small-school tournament offers, a chance for a community like Putnam Valley or Pleasantville or Ardsley…to excel and get excited for their kids. He’s only a junior, lost a mess load of weight to get into the 215, so he deserves every bit of this.

285- There should be some prior notice given to the restaurant before Penn Gottfried and Chris Galletta arrive for a feast….Well deserved…Galletta had a clean run to the finals and asserted his dominace early in the final.

There were a ton of good angles at the sectional champions. Hopefully, between the three articles in today’s paper, we covered most of them.

Matt Ng took on the small schools tournament. He focused on Penn Gottfried’s fourth title, family titles for the Longo brothers, Ray Wang’s quest to place at states, and Kleckner Charles toughing out an injured shoulder. Read about all of it here.

I handled the big schools. Between Justis Flamio’s ultimate tiebreaker, Mike Rose finally breaking through, Kevin Davidson upsetting a reigning champion, Patrice Castor beating a No. 1 and No. 2, and James Brundage’s 17-second pin, there were so many possible ways to lead off my story. I ended up going with Josue Cardenas, and I think it was the right choice. The reaction he got was priceless. You can read about all of those storylines here.

Note: I referred to Steven Ramos winning his first title in my story. That is wrong. He also won a title two years ago.

I stayed away from getting too much into Fox Lane even though it won the team title and had three champions because Rick Carpiniello was focusing his column on the all-Fox Lane final at 112. It was the first time any large school put two kids in the sectional final.

Reader “Pleasantville fan” asked for the link to the looping broadcast of the sectional finals. You can watch it on our website here.

Seven-hundred-and-thirty-five down, 30 to go. The season is over for 96% of the wrestlers in Section 1 (or thereabouts, I’m estimating the numbers a little bit). For the 4% left, now begins the impossible dream of a state championship. It really has been impossible in recent years for Section 1 winners, but I’ll get into that later in the week.

Today it’s about paying tribute to those 30 kids — 15 sectional champions in Division I and 15 in Division II. Matt Ng and I were at Pace University today to watch the big show. Matt took the small schools, so he’ll have some thoughts on that later. I want to talk about the big schools and get your thoughts on it. There had to be 1,500 (2,000? I’m terrible at counting crowds) people there, and I figure most of you were somewhere in the crowd.

Of the 15 weight classes, 13 were won by the No. 1 seed. I’d say 12 were won by the favorite, though. Carmel’s Kevin Davidson (right) may have been seeded ahead of Nyack’s Udit Thakur but you have to concede that most people thought Thakur would take it. Thakur won it last year and beat Davidson at Eastern States this year. Davidson, keeping a conservative style, beat him 8-4.

Teammate Mike Rose went the opposite way. A takedown gave him a 5-3 lead on Bill Watterson with a minute left, yet he kept pushing. When the thought of hanging back came to him, he remembered the 2007 sectional final against Yorktown’s Mike Ahearn.

“I made that mistake my first final,” he said. “I was up with 4-3 with five seconds left and got taken down.”

After losing finals in consecutive years, Rose finally got over the hump with a 5-4 decision.

The other teams with multiple winners were Fox Lane and Ossining. Steve Rodrigues, Luke Speno, and Joe Grippi won for the Foxes. Rick Carpiniello did a column on Rodrigues’s finals match against fellow Fox Peter Grippi. I’ll link to that tomorrow. They nearly had a fourth in Sam Speno. Down 5-4 in his 96-pound match against Asher Kramer, he got to his feet from bottom a couple of times. Kramer didn’t let go though and won the match.

That was one of six finals decided by a single point. Two of those were 3-2 upsets by unseeded Josue Cardenas of Port Chester and Patrice Castor of East Ramapo. I wrote extensively about Cardenas in my story for the newspaper so I won’t get into detail here.

The closest match was Justis Flamio’s surprising struggle with Henry Stauber. Stauber took Flamio, a state finalist, to sudden-victory OT. It was a place Flamio (left) had never been before. In fact he’d never been past the first overtime period, and it showed. When given a choice of top or bottom in double-OT he picked top, mistakenly thinking an old set of rules applied that would have given him bottom in the next period. Instead he got top twice. Remember that all you need is an escape to win in overtime. But the gaffe didn’t kill him and he held Stauber down to win in the last session.

Winning by a hair didn’t hurt his confidence. We were talking about his state nemesis Steven Keith of Shoreham-Wading River. He knocked Keith out in last year’s state semis, just as Keith did to him the year before. I asked him if he expected to meet Keith again.

“I expect to meet him in the state final,” Flamio said.

Two champions stood out as particularly dominant. Brian Realbuto of Somers got the only tech fall of the finals, 16-1 over Somers’s Justin Artrip. Artrip should be proud that he stayed on top of Realbuto for a minute during the second period. I’m not being sarcastic. Realbuto is that good that going a minute without him scoring on you is a victory. He’s now a ridiculous 129-9 in his career and an even more ridiculous 49-1 this year. This is a freshman, folks.

The other powerhouse was James Brundage (left) of Ossining. He pinned his way through the tournament, including, get this, a 17-second pin in the finals. Talk about anticlimactic. And he swears he had Lennie Graham’s shoulders down seven seconds into the match. Brundage caught him with a high crotch before yanking his head into a cradle.

“Coach (Mike) Nardone, he’s in the Hall of Fame from Section 1; he’s the old coach at Ossining,” Brundage said. “He’s been yelling at me for the past few years because I like to let people up and take them down, let them up and take them down. He said some day it’s going to come back and bite me in my butt. He said somebody’s going to catch me because I’m not pinning the person. He told me you better go out there, and if you can pin the kid in 10 seconds you better pin the kid in 10 seconds.”

I was sure Brundage was going to get MOW, but it went instead to Joe Hauser. Hauser got an extended ovation after his 6-1 finals win. I think people know his story, which was detailed in a Carpiniello column a couple months ago. Hauser’s father Scott, who he was very close to, was killed in a car accident in 2007. Hauser went to the finals last year but lost to Thakur. It was nice to see him break through this time, especially with dad’s initials pasted in big letters on the side of his singlet.

Will Carter was MOW.

Team key and scores: 1. Ardsley (A) 216; 2. Edgemont (Ed) 213.5; 3. Pleasantville (Pv) 174.5; 4. Westlake (Ws) 172.5; 5. Nanuet (N) 160; 6. Putnam Valley (PV) 85; 7. Woodlands (Wd) 127.5; 8. Pawling (Pw) 85; 9. Dobbs Ferry (DF) 68; 10. Croton-Harmon (CH) 40; 11. Irvington (I) 30; 12. North Salem (NS) 26; 13. Hastings (Hs) 10.

Finals
96 –Drew Longo (A) pin. Trey Aslanian (Ed), 5:02. 103 – Anthony Calvano (N) dec. Michael Kar (Pl), 16-11. 112 – Penn Gottfried (A) pin. David Occhipinti (CH), 1:45. 119 – Ryan Osleeb (NS) dec. John Morato (N), 16-4. 125 – Greg Caneparo (N) dec. Mark McCormack, 4-3. 130 – Genta Murayama (Ed) pin. Tory Ferranti, 2:32. 135 – Danny Manley (A) dec. Frank Oleszko (DF), 8-0. 140 – Peter Talesnik (Pv) dec. Dan O’Gorman, 4-2. 145 – Derrick Longo (A) dec. Cisco Reyes (PV), 11-3. 152 – Will Carter (Ws) dec. Chris Orlando (PV) 16-4. 160 – Ray Wang (Ed) dec. Michael Morra (Pv), 10-4. 171 – Jarron Saunders (DF) dec. Kleckner Charles, 11-7. 189 – Stephen Ramundo (N) dec. Jeff Miller (Ws), 3-1 OT. 215 – Kris Castro (PV) dec. Amos Pierette (Wd), 10-2. 285 – Chris Galletta (A) pin. Joe Luckie (Ws), 1:34.

Semifinals
96 – Trey Aslanian (Ed) pin. Jonathan Feliciano (Wd), 1:04; Drew Longo (A) major dec. Brett Pastore (I), 11-0. 103 – Anthony Calvano (N) pin. Eldor Calim (Wd), :48; Micheal Kar (Pl) pin. Jimmy Kyreakedes (DF), 2:42. 112 – Penn Gottfried (A) pin. Chris Madera (Pl), 1:52; David Occhipinti (CH) pin. Michael Taino (Pv), 5:35. 119 – Ryan Osleeb (NS) tech fall. Teddy Kyreakedes (DF), 19-2; John Morato (N) dec. Blake Artuso (Pl), 9-6. 125 – Mark McCormack (Ed) major dec. Andrew Mancusi (Ws), 9-1; Greg Caneparo (N) pin. R.J. Martin (A), 5:52. 130 – Genta Murayama (Ed) pin. Bryan Vallejo (Pv), 1:00; Tory Ferranti (Ws) dec. Keith Griffith (Wd), 5-0. 135 – Danny Manley (A) tech fall. Anthony Gathers (Wd), 16-0; Frank Oleszko (DF) dec. Addison Huff (Ed), 4-3. 140 – Peter Talesnik (Pv) tech fall. Brian Christiano (A), 16-0; Dan O’Gorman (PV) dec. Javier Solis (Ws), 7-0. 145 – Derrick Longo (A) tech fall. Spielvogel (Ed), 17-2; Cisco Reyes (PV) dec. Chris Brothers (PV), 3-1. 152 – Will Carter (Ws) tech fall. Shaq Charles (A), 21-5; Chris Orlando (PV) dec. Nick D’Agostino (Pl), 11-7. 160 – Ray Wang (Ed) pin. Chris Graybeal (Ed), :34; Michael Morra (Pv) dec. Rob Schmitt (Pw), 10-7. 171 – Jarron Saunders (DF) major dec. Sean Degnan (I), 12-0; Kleckner Charles (A) dec. Ben Karol (Ws), 11-7. 189 – Jeff Miller (Ws) pin. Jim Magee (Pw), 1:58; Stephen Ramundo (N) pin. Robert Collins (Ws), 1:40. 215 – Kris Castro (PV) dec. Gabe Wittenberg (Ed), 1-0; Amos Pierette (Wd) pin. Ryan Bostic (Ed), 1:56. 285 – Chris Galletta (A) pin. Zach Freed (Ed), :34; Joe Luckie (Ws) pin. Brandon Lynch (Wd), 2:41.

Consolation finals
96 – Scott Longworth (A) dec. Max Abramsky (Ed), 8-5. 103 – Jimmy Kyreakedes (DF) pin. Elder Calim (Wd), :44. 112 – Michael Taino (Pl) pin. Chris Madera (Pl), 3:24. 119 – Jesse Rahimzadeh (N) dec. Teddy Kyreakedes (DF), 4-2. 125 – Michael Kane (Pl) dec. Andrew Mancusi (Ws), 2-0. 130 – Keith Griffith (Wd) dec. Bryan Vallejo (Pv), 6-3. 135 – Kevin Bernarducci (Pl) pin. Scott Porter (Pw), 2:49. 140 – Javier Solis (Ws) dec. Jean-Claude Chin (Wd), 7-6 3OT. 145 – Chris Brothers (PV) major dec. Hector Santana (Pw), 15-7. 152 – Nick D’Agostino (Pl) dec. Shaquille Charles (A), 4-2. 160 – Rob Schmitt (Pw) pin. Chris Graybeal (Ed), 2:38. 171 – Ben Karol (Ws) dec. Sean Degnan (I), 5-1. 189 – Jim Magee (Pw) pin. Sean Willis (Wd), 3:38. 215 – Gabe Wittenberg (Ed) pin. Anthony Paratore (N), 4:49. 285 – Brandon Lynch (Wd) dec. Zach Freed (Ed), 3-0.

Hauser was MOW.

Back later with some thoughts.

Team key and scores: 1. Fox Lane (FL) 172.5; 2. 2. John Jay (JJ) 164; 3. Carmel© 120; 4. North Rockland (NRk); 5. Arlington (Arl) 108.5; 6. Suffern (Sf) 96; 7. Ossining (O) 94.5; 8. Mahopac (M) 82; 9. Beacon (Be) 66.5; 10. Somers (S) 58.5; 11. Brewster (Bw) 58; 12. Nyack (Ny) 53; 13. Sleepy Hollow (SH) 53; 14. Clarkstown North (CN) 52; 15. Ketcham (RCK) 50.5; 16. John Jay-East Fishkill (JJEF) 48; 17. Mount Vernon (MV) 43; 18. Port Chester (PC) 42; 19. Lakeland/Panas (LP) 41.5; 20. Yorktown (Yk) 41; 21. East Ramapo (ER) 38.5; 22. Hen Hud (HH) 28; 23. New Rochelle (NR) 28; 24. Scarsdale (Sc) 22; 25. Tappan Zee (TZ) 21; 26. White Plains (WP) 19; 27. Harrison (H) 16; 28. Mamaroneck (Mk) 15; 29. Clarkstown South (CS) 11; 30. Eastchester (E) 8; 31. Yonkers (Y) 5; 32. Pearl River (PR) 4; 33. Peekskill (Pk) 3; 34. Rye® 2; 35t. Byram Hills (BH) 0; 35t. Horace Greeley (HG) 0; 35t. Our Lady of Lourdes (OLL) 0.

Semifinals
96 — Asher Kramer (Sf) dec. Tom Grippi (FL) 6-2; Sam Speno (FL) dec. Mike Parise (Bw) 3-1; 103 — Brian Realbuto (S) pin. Dale White (JJEF) 2:41; Justin Artrip (Sf) pin. Mike Caputo (NRk) 5:36; 112 — Steve Rodrigues (FL) pin. Andrew Greenberg (CN) 3:07; Peter Grippi (FL) dec. Nick Oliveto (Sf) 10-4; 119 — Justis Flamio (M) tech fall Doug Chiapperino© 17-0; Henry Stauber (JJ) dec. Pat Fay (FL) 9-2; 125 — Mike Rose© dec. Andrew Cabibbo (RCK) 5-3; Bill Watterson (JJ) maj. dec. Joe Slane (NRk) 15-5; 130 — Joe Grippi (FL) pin. Andy Carrion© 1:09; Mark Swertfager (JJ) dec. Brian Barry (Arl) 7-1; 135 — Kevin Davidson© pin. Jose Rueda (FL) 3:35; Udit Thakur (Ny) dec. Andrew Schede (JJ) 8-2; 140 — Joe Hauser (LP) dec. Femi Wheeler (Mk) 9-6; Dan Graff (Arl) dec. Marty Lorenz© 3-1; 145 — Luke Speno (FL) tech fall Casey Cannon (O) 16-1; Ryan Tompkins (Be) tech fall Charlie Braun (LP) 16-0; 152 — Steven Ramos (CN) maj. dec. Juan Delacruz (O) 11-2; Corey Scott (MV) dec. Vinny Grella (Be) 11-6; 160 — James Brundage (O) pin. Ray Ramos (NR) 3:40; Lennie Graham (MV) dec. Scott Genovesi (JJ) 5-2; 171 — Clay Neivert (O) tech fall Nick Genovese (Yk) 16-1; Sal Marchese (Ny) pin. Adam Finkelstein (S) 4:59; 189 — Josue Cardenas (PC) won by DQ. Jon Didio (NRk) 6-5; Todd Mueckenheim (JJEF) dec. Gilli Bauer-Moshi (SH) 6-4; 215 — Patrice Castor (ER) pin. Alex Othmer© 2:27; Pat Sweeney (JJ) dec. Joseph Rodriguez (PC) 2-1; 285 — Cristian Garcia (NRk) dec. Jake Treinish (HH) 7-3; Eric LaPorta (Yk) maj. dec. Daytwan Vereen (Be) 16-7.

Consolation finals
96 — Jim Duckham (Arl) dec. Tom Grippi (FL) 5-2; 103 — Caputo (NRk) dec. White (JJEF) 7-2; 112 -— Oliveto (Sf) dec. Steve Pagliuca (M) 4-3; 119 — Fay (FL) dec. Nathan Lustig (WP) 4-3; 125 — Andrew Cabibbo (RCK) dec. Slane (NRk) 7-2; 130 — Chris Gogatz (Bw) maj. dec. Jay Concepcion (SH) 12-3; 135—Rino Devita (S) dec. Rueda (FL) 4-3; 140 — Wheeler (Mk) dec. Lorenz© 6-2; 145 — Braun (NRk) maj. dec. Oddo (Arl) 12-3; 152 — Diaz (NRk) dec. Wetzel (Arl) 8-2; 160 — Genovesi (JJ) dec. Lupo (RCK) 10-4; 171 — Tompkins (SH) dec. Genovese (Yk) 3-0; 189 — Didio (NRk) maj. dec. Bauer-Moshi (SH) 16-6; 215 — Othmer© pin. Rodriguez (PC) 4:52; 285 — Tim Gecaj (JJ) dec. Protano (H) 5-2.

Finals
96 — Kramer (Sf) dec. Speno (FL) 5-4; 103 — Realbuto (S) tech fall Artrip (Sf) 16-1; 112 — Rodrigues (FL) maj. dec. Tom Grippi (FL) 22-8; 119 — Flamio (M) dec. Stauber (JJ) 5-4, 4OT; 125 — Rose© dec. Watterson (JJ) 5-4; 130 — Joe Grippi (FL) maj. dec. Swertfager (JJ) 16-5; 135 — Davidson© dec. Thakur (Ny) 8-4; 140 — Hauser (LP) dec. Graff (Arl) 6-1; 145 — Luke Speno (FL) dec. Tompkins (Be) 3-1; 152 — Ramos (CN) dec. Scott (MV) 5-4; 160 — Brundage (O) pin. Graham (MV) :17; 171 — Neivert (O) dec. Marchese (Ny) 8-1; 189 — Cardenas (PC) dec. Mueckenheim (JJEF) 3-2; 215 — Castor (ER) dec. Sweeney (JJ) 3-2; 285 — Garcia (NRk) pin. LaPorta (Yk) 1:05.

96- Aslanian

103-Calvano

112- Gottfried

119-Osleeb

125-Caneparo

130-Murayama

135-Manley

140- Talesnik

145-Longo

152-Carter

96 – Asher Kramer

103 – Brian Realbuto

112 – Steven Rodrigues

119 – Justis Flamio

125 – Mike Rose

130 – Joe Grippi

135 – Kevin Davidson

140 – Joe Hauser

145 – Luke Speno

Heres the results:
Small school
Third place
96 – Scott Longworth (A) dec. Max Abramsky (Ed), 8-5; 103 – Jimmy Kyreakedes (DF) pin. Elder Calim (Wd), :44; 112 – Michael Taino (Pv) pin. Chris Madera (Pv), 3:24; 119 – Jesse Rahimzadeh (N) dec. Teddy Kyreakedes (DF), 4-2; 125 – Michael kane (Pv) dec. Andrew Mancusi (Ws), 2-0; 130 – Keith Griffith (Wd) dec. Bryan Vallejo (Pv), 6-3; 135 – Kevin Bernarducci (Pv) pin. Scott Porter (Pw), 2:49; 140 – Javier Solis (Ws) dec. Jean-Claude Chin (Wd), 7-6 3OT; 145 – Chris Brothers (PV) major dec. Hector Santana (Pw), 15-7; 152 – Nick D’Agostino (Pv) dec. Shaquille Charles (A), 4-2; 160 – Rob Schmitt (Pw) pin. Chris Graybeal (Ed), 2:38; 171 – Ben Karol (Ws) dec. Sean Degnan (I), 5-1; 189 – Jim Magee 9Pw) pin. Sean Willis (Wd), 3:38; 215 – Gabe Wittenberg (Ed) pin. Anthony Paratore (N), 4:49; 285 – Brandon Lynch (Wd) dec. Zach Freid (Ed), 3-0.

Fifth place
96 – Jonathan Feliciano (Wd) pin. Brett Pastore (I), :20; John Tilles (A) major dec. Brian Mahl (Wd), 14-3; 119 – Blake Artuso (Pv) major dec. Andrew Balamaci (Ed), 19-6; 125 – R.J. Martin (A) major dec. Steven Barbone (A), 20-6; 130 – Ryan Malpass (DF) dec. Nate Tamura (I), 5-2; 135 – Anthony Gathers (Wd) tech fall Addison Huff (Ed), 19-3; 140 – Lance Madry (N) pin. Brian Christiano (A), 4:03; 145 – Rob Spielvogel (Ed) dec. Joe Hibachi (Ws), 3-1; 152 – Rich Berkery (N) pin. Shane Kelly (PV), 5:54 OT; 160 – Michael Stell (PV) won by forfeit; 171 -  Ray Messinger (PV) dec. Benson (Pw), 12-8; 189 – Robert Collins (Ws) dec. Jonathan Ghegan (Cr), 6-3; 215 – Frank Hrotko (Ws) pin. Ryan Bostic (Ed), 2:42.

Semifinals

96 – Aslanian (Ed) pin. Felicia no (Wd), 1:04; Drew Longo (A) major dec. Pastore (I), 11-0; 103 – Calvano (N) pin. Calim (Wd), :48; Kar (Pv) pin. J. Kyreakedes (DF), 2:42; 112 – Occipital (Cr) pin. Taino (Pv), 5:35; Gottfried (A) pin. Madera (Pv), 1:52; 119 – Morato (N) dec. Artuso (Pv), 9-6; Osleeb (NS) tech fall Teddy Kyreakedes (DF), 19-2; 125 – McCormack (Ed) major dec. Mancusi (Ws), 9-1; Caneparo (N) pin. Martin (A), 5:52; 130 – Murayama (Ed) pin. Vallejo (Pv), 1:00; Ferranti (Ws) dec. Griffith (Wd), 5-0; 135 – Manley (A) tech fall Gathers (Wd), 16-0; Oleszko (DF) dec. Huff (Ed), 4-3; 140 – Talesnik (Pv) technical fall Christiano (A), 16-0; O’Gorman (PV) dec. Solis (Ws), 7-0; Reyes (PV) dec. Brothers (PV), 3-1; 145 – Derrick Longo (A) tech fall Spielvogel (Ed), 17-2; 152 – Orlando (PV) dec. D’Agostino (Pv), 11-7; W. Carter (Ws) tech fall S. Charles (A), 21-5; 160 – Wang (Ed) pin. Graybeal (Ed), :34; Morra (Pv) dec. Schmitt (Pw), 10-7; 171 – Saunders (DF) major dec. S. Degnan (I), 12-0; K. Charles (A) dec. Karol (Ws), 11-7; 189 – J. Miller (Ws) pin. Magee (Pw), 1:58; Ramundo (N) pin. Collins (Ws), 1:40; 215 – Pierette (Wd) pin. Bostic (Ed), 1:56; Castro (PV) dec. Wittenberg (Ed), 1-0; 285 – Galletta (A) pin. Fried (Ed), :34; Luckie (Ws) pin. Lynch (Wd), 2:41.

Wrestlebacks
Semifinal

96 – Long worth (A) dec. Felicia no (Wd), 8-2; Abram sky (Ed) tech fall Pastore (I), 17-0; 103 – Calim (Wd) dec. , 5-3 OT; Taino (Pv) pin. Tilles (A), 1:48; 112 – Madera (Pv) dec. Mahl (Wd), 6-0; 119 – Rahimzadeh (N) dec. Artuso (Pv), 5-0; T. Kyreakedes (DF) major dec. Balamaci (Ed), 13-2; 125 – Mancusi (Ws) major dec. S. Barbone (A), 15-5; Kane (Pv) dec. Martin (A), 6-1; 130 – Griffith (Wd) dec. Malpass (DF), 12-5; Vallejo (Pv) maj. Dec. Tamura (I), 9-1; 135 – Bernarducci (Pv) dec. Gathers (Wd), 6-4; Porter (Pw) dec. Huff (Ed), 10-7; 140 – Solis (Ws) pin. Madry (N), 4:51; Chin (Wd) major dec. Christiano, 9-0; 145 – Brothers (PV) pin. Hibachi (Ws), 2:51; Santana (Pw) dec. Spielvogel (Ed), 5-2; 152 – D’Agostino (Pv) pin. Kelly (PV), 3:37; S. Charles (A) dec. Berkery (N), 3-0; 160 – Graybeal (Ed) major dec. Stell (PV), 10-1; Schmitt (Pw) injury def. Over Gramajo (Ws); 171 – Karol (Ws) pin. Benson (Pw), 4:10; Degnan (I) dec. Messinger (PV), 7-2; 189 – Magee (Pw) pin. Ghegan (Cr), 1:33; Willis (Wd) pin. Collins (Ws), :25; 215 – Wittenberg (Ed) pin. Hrotko (Ws), 1:47; Paratore (N) dec. Bostic (Ed), 15-9; 285 – Fried (Ed) pin. Weber (Pw), :42.