Today is Tennessee’s greatest Fargo performance Ever!!

[durdon]

In Freestyle we had more cadets make day 2 than ever before but as the they got close to the blood round our boys just pooped the bed one after another and we only got 2 stop signs.  
Fast forward to Cadet Greco and one after another our boys just kept finding a way to win.  We now have seven Tennessee boys that are going to get a stop sign tomorrow.  SEVEN!!!

To compare how incredible this is, the most stop signs Tennessee has ever gotten in one Fargo in both styles and both cadets and juniors was 2029 when we got 10 total stops signs.  Today, our Cadets got SEVEN in one style.   Tennessee is now bringing home 11 stop signs so far  and our Juniors haven’t wrestled Greco yet! 

Edited July 21, 2022 by durdon

[WrestlingGod]

4 minutes ago, durdon said:

In Freestyle we had more cadets make day 2 than ever before but as the they got close to the blood round our boys just pooped the bed one after another and we only got 2 stop signs.  
Fast forward to Cadet Greco and one after another our boys just kept finding a way to win.  We now have seven Tennessee boys that are going to get a stop sign tomorrow.  SEVEN!!!

To compare how incredible this is, the most stop signs Tennessee has ever gotten in one Fargo in both styles and both cadets and juniors was 2029 when we got 10 total stops signs.  Today, our Cadets got SEVEN in one style.   Tennessee is now bringing home 11 stop signs so far  and our Juniors haven’t wrestled Greco yet! 

It seems like in the recent years TN just does better in greco than freestyle. Here and cadet and jr duals. 

[cbg]

13 hours ago, WrestlingGod said:

It seems like in the recent years TN just does better in greco than freestyle. Here and cadet and jr duals. 

IMO, it's easier for good Tennessee athletes to make the transition to wrestling Greco Roman than it is Freestyle.  It appears as if the Tennessee wrestlers are close in Freestyle but they get caught in some positions that their good opponents seem to avoid.  With the RTC being in Chattanooga I could see this changing rapidly and Tennessee beginning to compete for national championships in  the near future.  The USA Wrestling Junior/16U Nationals is truly the toughest high school wrestling tournament in the country and it's not close.

[WrestlingGod]

Here's where our boys stand currently.. As a team we are currently sitting in 6th place. 

 

Finals-

100 - Tanner Tran

145 - Hunter Sturgill 

 

Cons Finals-

100 - William Phillips

138 - Landon Desselle

 

7/8-

88- Jose Cordero

120 - Cooper Hilton

170 - Jack Stacey

[durdon]

Tennessee finishes in 6th place overall in Cadet Greco. 6th freaking place.  This has to be our highest finish ever.  I would doubt we’ve ever finished top 10 before. 
Tennessee finished ahead of Missouri, OHIO, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia- just crazy.   

[durdon]

 

Tanner Tran (88) 2nd place
Hunter Sturgill (145) 2nd place
Ollie Phillips (100) 3rd place
Landon Desselle (138) 4th place
Jose Cordero (88) 7th place
Cooper Hilton (120) 7th place
Jake Stacey (170) 7th place

[WrestlingGod]

5 hours ago, durdon said:

 

Tanner Tran (88) 2nd place
Hunter Sturgill (145) 2nd place
Ollie Phillips (100) 3rd place
Landon Desselle (138) 4th place
Jose Cordero (88) 7th place
Cooper Hilton (120) 7th place
Jake Stacey (170) 7th place

And honestly, there was room for improvment with these kids. Cooper had a couple upsets. Landon got a concussion and forfeited out of the cons finals match. 

 

A couple things change and we break the top 5. It was cool to see Flo giving TN some love during Sturgill's finals match. 

[Mason422]

On 7/21/2022 at 10:36 AM, cbg said:

IMO, it's easier for good Tennessee athletes to make the transition to wrestling Greco Roman than it is Freestyle.  It appears as if the Tennessee wrestlers are close in Freestyle but they get caught in some positions that their good opponents seem to avoid.  With the RTC being in Chattanooga I could see this changing rapidly and Tennessee beginning to compete for national championships in  the near future.  The USA Wrestling Junior/16U Nationals is truly the toughest high school wrestling tournament in the country and it's not close.

Super 32 is a very tough tournament. There is an argument to be made that it is tougher since there is only 1 HS division and Fargo has 2. Having said that I am extremely proud of all of the athletes that competed. Fargo is crazy hard and overall they did extremely well. 

[durdon]

3 hours ago, Mason422 said:

Super 32 is a very tough tournament. There is an argument to be made that it is tougher since there is only 1 HS division and Fargo has 2. Having said that I am extremely proud of all of the athletes that competed. Fargo is crazy hard and overall they did extremely well. 

Fargo is the most recruited and to college programs  AA at Fargo carries much more weight than placing at Super32 even though it is harder to place at Super 32.  Same goes with Ironman which is insanely hard to place at maybe even harder than super32 but doesn’t hold as much weight with college coaches as Fargo.  Fargo is the absolute top of the mountain for importance if you are building a resume to wrestling D1. 
 

 

[oceansize42]

Honest question.   Why would a freestyle tournament hold more weight for college than a premier Folkstyle event?  I would think the results from Super 32, which gets a ton of press, would be more relevant to college. 

[durdon]

9 hours ago, oceansize42 said:

Honest question.   Why would a freestyle tournament hold more weight for college than a premier Folkstyle event?  I would think the results from Super 32, which gets a ton of press, would be more relevant to college. 

Super32 is during football season which causes a lot of heavier kids to miss 32. Once you get to 152 and go up the brackets aren’t just aren’t as deep say as they are at Ironman and nothing like Fargo.  College coaches just weigh Fargo much higher than 32.