Reaper Wrestling - Both Feet in the Circle

This blog is designed to inform our wrestling family of the day to day activities of the Reaper Wrestling program. I will be posting practice updates, meet schedules, results and other wrestling related topics for you to view. I am excited for this opportunity to share with you, our success and triumphs. Please check back often and support the Reaper Wrestling Family when ever possible.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Snoring

Coach Villarreal and I will not be rooming together at state this year. I have never heard anything like I did last night. It was loud! I eventually had to get up and put toilet paper in my ears and then sleep with my head between two pillows. Doing that just brought the volume to a normal snoring level. It was amazing. I was frustrated and astounded at the same time. He seems chipper and well rested this morning...good for him....jerk.
I am looking forward to day 2. Should be a good day, but there are some very tough teams. Looks like it will be a dog fight between Crystal Lake Central and Sycamore for the title. They both are solid teams. I think if we can finish in the top 8-12 I will be pleased. We have 3 still in the championship bracket so that guarantees us 3 place winners. I'm just hoping we end up with odd finishes instead of even. I wont be able to update till tomorrow, but hopefully brackets will be online at www.illinoismatmen.com by the end of the day.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Lincoln Tournament Day 1 Results

Day one in my opinion was a success. 11 Wrestlers through to day two is a good deal. I love the 2 day tournaments but forget that I don't have anyone to take stats so I have to do them myself. Below I will list how each of our wrestlers did, but I didnt get a chance to get the names of specific wrestlers yet, just their school. 

103 Wollenweber
R1  Win Joliet Central 11-9
R2  Win Collinsville 13-12
in the semi's

112 Gonzalez
R1 Win Jacksonville 11-7
R2 Loss Joliet Central Fall
Wrestle backs

119 Villarreal
R1 Win Blue Island Fall
R2 Loss Lane Tech 3-0
Wrestle Backs

125 Bennett
R1 Loss Pekin 7-4
R2 W.Backs Win Muscahtoa Fall
Wrestle backs

130 Comiskey
R1 Loss Pekin Fall
R2 Loss Highland 13-4

135 Lopez
R1 Loss Blue Island Fall
R2 Loss Thornton Fall

140 Tomac
R1 Win Rocford Guilford Fall :25
R2 Win Collinsville 17-5
Semi's

145 Leibundguth
R1 Win Jacksonville T-Fall
R2 Loss Tinley Park Fall

152 Brown
R1 Win Altof Fall :15
R2 Loss Crystal Lake Central Fall

160 Gann
R1 Loss Jacksonville 6-0
R2 WBacks Win Pekin 7-1

171 Quezada
R1 Loss Jacksonville Fall
R2 Loss Urbana Fall

189 Pickett
R1 Win Collinsville Fall
R2 Loss Muscahtoa T-Fall

215 Smith
R1 Win Collinsville 4-1
R2 Win Taylorville 5-3
Semi's

285 Bowers
R1 Loss Marengo 28-15
R2 Win Lane Tech Fall
R3 Win Pekin Fall
(Trent was the only guy who had to wrestle in the opening round pigtails and is the reason for the 3rd match)

Lincoln Tournament

We've been off for about a week now, and the guys are ready to get back on the mats. We are heading down to Lincoln Community High School here in just a few minutes to compete against 23 other teams in the 2 day tournament. Last year I thought we held our own for being a smaller school in the mostly 2 and 3 A team tournament with a 13th place finish. I am hoping to improve that with a top 8 finish. Finishing in the top 1/3 would be great for our kids and the program. We will have to wrestle tough, and better on day two than we did at the Reaper.
JV has had some really great opportunities to get some experience. Last Thursday they went down to Wilmington to wrestle in a dual tournament. Although they had a final record of 1-3, they all got some much needed mat time and saw some really good programs in St. Rita, Joliet West and Niles Notre Dame. The victory was over Manteno and came down to the last match to decide the outcome. Jose Aguilar was able to pull of a great win to give the JV their first win of the day.
The JV traveled to Sandwich yesterday for their JV invite. We had some weight issues, which is becoming all too common at the JV level, that depleted our line up a little bit but we were able to come away with two place winners, Arian Herrera took first place at 285 and Zach Peruski ended up a runner up at 189.

Like I said, weight is becomming an issue. There are only 2 or three kids in single digits for body fat, so there is room to loose safely for all of our guys. If a wrestler commits to making a weight he needs to make it...end of story. He is letting down his team if he does not, and that, to me, is completely unacceptable. One more month of wrestling before the state series to figure it out.

I will try and get on tonight to post results from today's first round at Lincoln. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas. I know I did.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

10-0 Start for your Reaper Wrestlers.

 PLANO HIGH SCHOOL VERSUS GENOA KINGSTON
                                                          12/21/2010
                                                      10-0 FEELS GREAT!!!

       VARSITY

 103   SHAWN WOLLENWEBER (PLANO)        PIN     2-0      DEHMLOW (GK)
 112   WILSON (GK)                      PIN     9-6      COLE BENNETT (PLANO)
 119   ABEL GONZALEZ (PLANO)            PIN     6-0      GREENWEL (GK)
 125   JOSE VILLARREAL (PLANO)          TF      19-4     BUSCHE (GK)
 130   DAN COMISKEY (PLANO)             DEC     2-1      TIJERINA (GK)
 135   IVAN LOPEZ (PLANO)               PIN     2-0      HULL (GK)
 140   TRAVIS TOMAC (PLANO)             PIN     2-0      BURKE (GK)
 145   NICK LEIBUNDGUTH (PLANO)         DEC     14-12    HENGLES (GK)
 152   WES BROWN (PLANO)                PIN     2-0      QERIN (GK)
 160   KELBY GANN (PLANO)               PIN     5-3      CRACKEL (GK)
 171   CESAR QUEZADA (PLANO)            PIN     2-0      WOOD (GK)
 189   JONATHON PICKETT (PLANO)         PIN     2-0      JURSICH (GK)
 215   CHABERSKI (GK)                   PIN     0-2      RYAN SMITH (PLANO)
 285   TRENT BOWERS (PLANO)             PIN     5-2      MCINTYRE (GK)

       PLANO HIGH SCHOOL                65.00
       GENOA KINGSTON                   12.00

       JUNIOR VARSITY

 119   TIJERNA (GK)                     DEC     10-14    JOSE AGUILAR (PLANO)
 152   MEDIMA (GK)                      PIN     0-2      NATHAN DROYSON (PLANO)
 160   GRIEBENOW (GK)                   PIN     0-2      LUKE LOSIC (PLANO)
 160   JOSE MONTIEL (PLANO)             PIN     1:17     PETERS (GK)
 171   GRIEBENOW (GK)                   PIN     5-7      ZACK RUSSELL (PLANO)
 189   MCINTYRE (GK)                    PIN     9-14     ZACH PERUSKI (PLANO)

       PLANO HIGH SCHOOL                6.00
       GENOA KINGSTON                   27.00