Juneau\u2019s grapplers left it all on the mat as a combined squad this weekend, scrapping with nine teams from Southeast and Anchorage at the annual Brandon Pilot Invitational Tournament at Thunder Mountain High School. Juneau placed six wrestlers in the top three for 105 team points, trailing only Wrangle (141), Ketchikan (156) and Colony (268.5).<\/p>\n
Cody Weldon, a judo junior national champion and Juneau-Douglas High School senior, led the pack for Juneau, besting teammate Carl Tupou for the 220 pound title. Tupou, a junior, and freshman Jahrease Mays, both took home runner-up titles for the combined Juneau squad.<\/p>\n
Weldon and Tupou, practice partners on the Juneau squad, were friendly and cordial in the runup to the title match, but were all business when they hit the mat. Tupou, considered the underdog to Weldon, who was last year\u2019s state runner-up at 195 and is a favorite to win at 220 this year, took the match to his elder teammate, scoring on a takedown a minute into the match to put Weldon on the defensive.<\/p>\n
Weldon score an escape with 0:35 seconds left in the first round to close the score 2-1 before felling Tupou at 1:22 in the second round for the win.<\/p>\n
Juneau has four away meets before the Region V tournament in Sitka Dec. 9-10.<\/p>\n
\nJuneau at the Brandon Pilot <\/strong><\/p>\n Invitational Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n 106 LBS<\/p>\n 2nd: Jahrease Mays (JUN)<\/p>\n 113 LBS<\/p>\n 4th: Connor Norman (JUN)<\/p>\n 152 LBS<\/p>\n 3rd: Deven Mason (JUN)<\/p>\n 182 LBS<\/p>\n 3rd: Stone Gaylor (JUN)<\/p>\n 195 LBS<\/p>\n 3rd: Louie Rubenstein (JUN)<\/p>\n 220 LBS<\/p>\n 1st place: Cody Weldon (JUN)<\/p>\n 2nd place: Carl Tupou (JUN)<\/p>\n Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n 106: Mathew Rodriguez (KET) DEC Jahrease Mays (JUN), 4-0<\/p>\n 220: Cody Weldon (JUN) F Carl Tupou (JUN), 2:39<\/p>\n Consolation finals<\/strong><\/p>\n 152: Deven Mason (JUN) MD Sig Decker (WRA), 13-4<\/p>\n 182: Stone Gaylor (JUN) DEC Gerik Sherrill (KET), 5-3<\/p>\n 195: Louie Rubenstein (JUN) F Cameron Harris (KET), 2:24<\/p>\n Semifinals<\/strong><\/p>\n 106: Jahrease Mays (JUN) TF Connor McCormick (KET), 17-2<\/p>\n 113: Vince Tenebro (KET) DEC Connor Norman (JUN), 8-4<\/p>\n 120: Curt Bartlett (SIT) F Juan Fisher (JUN), 1:08<\/p>\n 138: Levi Hopkins (COL) F Austin Jackson (JUN), 2:58<\/p>\n 152: Eric Christy (COL) F Deven Mason (JUN), 5:20<\/p>\n 182: Chase Eby (COL) F Stone Gaylor (JUN), 0:55<\/p>\n 195: Robert Haan (COL) F Devin Locke (JUN), 0:19<\/p>\n 220: Cody Weldon (JUN) F Sean Orsborn (MEHS), 1:49<\/p>\n 220: Carl Tupou (JUN) MD Caleb Groshong (WRA), 10-1<\/p>\n Quarterfinals<\/strong><\/p>\n 113: Connor Norman (JUN) SV-1 Patrick Rauwolf (KET), 6-4<\/p>\n 145: Max Collins (KET) DEC Sam Nolan (JUN), 7-5<\/p>\n 152: Deven Mason (JUN) F Hunter Weiderspohn (WRA)<\/p>\n 160: Dawson Entwit (KET) DEC Alex Ocana (JUN), 12-5<\/p>\n 160: Brennan Easley (COL) F Steven Ireland-Haight (JUN), 1:25<\/p>\n Other championship matches<\/strong><\/p>\n 113: Rush Fannon (COL) F Vince Tenebro (KET), 4:25<\/p>\n 120: Curt Bartlett (SIT) DEC Trace Severson (COL), 2-0<\/p>\n 126: Sam Sisco (COL) DEC Paul Amendinger (KET), 8-1<\/p>\n 132: Ian Jensen (WRA) DEC Daniel Colley (COL), 12-2<\/p>\n 132G: Andrea Prince (MEHS) DEC Laura Ekada (MEHS), 7-4<\/p>\n 138: Levi Hopkins (COL) F Joey Karlik (KET), 2:33<\/p>\n 145: Max Collins (KET) DEC Sam Armstrong (WRA), 14-8<\/p>\n 152: Kyler Sumauang (SIT) SV-1 Eric Christy (COL), 7-5<\/p>\n 160: Caleb Hopkins (COL) FORFEIT over Brennan Easley (COL)<\/p>\n 170: Dawson Miller (WRA) DEC Simon Glanchenko (COL), 11-7<\/p>\n 182: Chayse Eby (COL) DEC Darren Shilts (WRA), 8-4<\/p>\n 195: Robert Haan (COL) F Joshua Goeden (SIT), 5:09<\/p>\n 285: Klancey Doyle (COL) F Jared Huntington (MEHS), 4:34<\/p>\n \u2022 Contact Sports and Outdoors reporter Kevin Gullufsen at 523-2228 or kevin.gullufsen@juneauempire.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juneau\u2019s grapplers left it all on the mat as a combined squad this weekend, scrapping with nine teams from Southeast and Anchorage at the annual Brandon Pilot Invitational Tournament at Thunder Mountain High School. Juneau placed six wrestlers in the top three for 105 team points, trailing only Wrangle (141), Ketchikan (156) and Colony (268.5). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":18568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18567"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}