Wilkie, Unity, and Meadow Lake wrestlers combine for 14 medals at Titans Wrestling Classic

Full results:

Wrestling matches consist of two three minute rounds. Wrestlers can win a match one of three ways: having more points than their opponent after two six-minute rounds, getting a 10-point lead over your opponent at any time, or pinning their opponents shoulders to the mat at any time for a pinfall even if they are behind their opponent in points.

Elite brackets:

Elite brackets are for wrestlers in Grade 11 or above, or for wrestlers that have competed in wrestling for at least two years regardless of what grade they are in. Each bracket is a single elimination bracket where one loss would send you to the bronze medal side, and a second loss eliminates you from the tournament. The losers of the bronze semifinal do face off for a fifth and sixth place match.

Female 60kg: Natalee Ironstand (Fifth, McLurg) and Jade Venn (Unity)

Female 64kg: Kylie Weber (Fifth, McLurg)

Female 80kg: Kierra Babchuk (Gold, McLurg) and Denzara Crawford (Fourth, Carpenter)

With only five wrestlers in the weight class, Babchuk and Crawford had a round robin style bracket instead of the two losses and you’re out style bracket usually reserved for elite competition.

Babchuk started the tournament with a come from behind win, going from down 8-0 before earning a two point takedown and turning it into a pinfall win in the first period. She won her second match via pinfall in 39 seconds, and she met Crawford in the third round where Babchuk earned the pinfall win in 20 seconds. Babchuck had a bye in the fourth round, and Babchuk earned her fourth straight pinfall for the perfect tournament and the gold medal.

Crawford had a bye in her first round, meaning she had to wrestle four straight matches. She lost her first two matches via pinfall, then managed to win her third with a pin of her own. She lost her last match, earning fourth in the division.

Female 105+kg: Andreea Tatarciuc (Gold, McLurg)

With just one other wrestler in her weight class, Tatarciuc faced Prince Albert’s Alphie Wolfe twice to determine the gold medal winner. Tatarciuc ended the first match quickly, turning a four point throw into a pinfall win in just 1:10. The second match lasted into the second period, but Tatarciuc still managed the pinfall win after a two point takedown and earned the gold.

Male 44kg: Konrad Geerdts (Gold, Carpenter)

The second lightest weight class of the tournament had just two wrestlers in it, which was part of what made it possible for Geerdts to wrestle both elite and the novice 44-46kg bracket. In the elite bracket, Geerdts faced Regina wrestler Ashton Pierce twice, and Geerdts only needed 40 seconds to land two big four point takedowns to win their first match via pinfall.

The rematch saw Geerdts fall behind 4-0, but Geerdts attacked back and managed a come from behind pinfall win in 1:02 into the first period, earning the gold medal. He also won gold in the novice 44-46kg weight class detailed below.

Male 65kg: Scott Fillion (Did not place, Carpenter) and Blaine Nagy (Did not place, Carpenter)

Male 73kg: Jamal Starchief (Gold, Unity), Kash Smith (Silver, McLurg), Keadyn Floberg (Fifth, Carpenter), and Layne Cloverchuk (Sixth, Carpenter)

A nine-person division meant that Smith, Floberg, and Cloverchuk were all given byes in the first round, but Starchief had to battle to stay on the winner’s side. Starchief’s first match ended after he managed a pinfall win off a four point takedown 1:14 into the first period.

Starchief won his second match via pinfall in just 52 seconds, and Floberg had another bye to advance to the third round. Smith won his first match of the tournament in the second round via pinfall in 1:51, and Cloverchuck also picked up a pin in the second period of a come from behind effort.

That meant the gold medal semifinals was set up with Starchief vs. Floberg, and Smith vs. Cloverchuck. In the first match, Starchief managed a two-point takedown, the wrestlers were stood up, and Starchief landed a four point takedown that lead to a pin in 59 seconds. In the next match, Smith landed four straight two point takedowns, and he used the last one to secure the pinfall win.

In the gold medal match, Starchief landed a four point takedown earlier and managed to pin Smith in 44 seconds, giving Starchief the gold and Smith the silver.

After dropping to the bronze medal brackets, Cloverchuk and Floberg both lost their bronze semifinal matches and would face each other in the battle for fifth and sixth. Floberg went up 10-0 in the match between the two teammates before securing a pinfall win.

Male 77kg: Nathaniel Roger (Did not place, Carpenter)

Male 82kg: Odin Kent (Gold, McLurg), Jeremy Gallant (Did not place, McLurg), and Sam Geerdts (Did not place, Carpenter)

One of the busiest divisions in the entire tournament with 19 wrestlers, Kent had a bye through his first round. In the second round, Kent managed to go ahead 6-2 with three seperate takedowns before earning the pin in 1:28, and he met Geerdts in the third round with the winner advancing to the gold semifinal. Kent won the matchup with Geerdts via pinfall in 44 seconds after a single four point throw.

In the gold semifinal, Kent managed two four point takedowns to go ahead 8-0 before earning the pin, and Kent continued to his dominance of the division with a pinfall win in just 54 seconds of the gold medal match. In total, Kent only surrendered four points on a single four point throw during the entire tournament.

Geerdts won two matches to get to his battle with Kent, winning a 10-0 decision in his first match and earning a pin in his second. His loss to Kent in his third match dropped Geerdts to the bronze medal bracket, and he won his first match via pinfall, but he lost his next match and was eliminated from contention.

Gallant had a bye out of the first round but lost his second round matchup, dropping him into the bronze medal bracket. He lost his next match, and was eliminated.

Male 90kg: Ben Gallant (Did not place, McLurg)

Male 100kg: Willem Hoogstad (Fourth, Unity) and Noah Cappelle (Did not place, Carpenter)

Novice brackets

Novice brackets are for wrestlers who are in their first two years of competing in the sport, or are in grade 11 and up regardless of their competition level. All novice brackets are broken up into five wrestler weight classes and are all round robin style brackets, meaning each wrestler is guaranteed four matches unless their weight class has less than five wrestlers.

The winner of each weight class is determined by wrestler’s records, with pinfalls giving wrestlers extra points in the standings.

Novice female 55-58kg: Jade Venn (Fourth, Unity)

Novice female 62-64kg: Kylie Weber (Gold, McLurg)

With four matches in her novice bracket, Weber also wrestled three matches in the 64kg women’s elite bracket where all the wrestlers she faced had at least three years experience, or were in grades 11 or 12. She lost twice but won her last match and finished fifth in the weight class while still competing in her own novice weight class as well.

In the novice round robin bracket, Weber started with a 47 second pinfall win in the first match and followed it up with a 1:10 pinfall in her second over Pasqua Muscowpetung First Nation wrestler Olivia Cappo.

Weber’s third match would be her quickest, winning by pinfall in just 18 seconds, but she lost her final matchup against Prince Albert’s Cecilia Wilson via pinfall in the second period of the fourth round match.

With a bye in the fifth round, Weber had to watch Cappo and Wilson wrestle to see which of the three wrestlers would win gold. With Cappo winning over Wilson, that meant Weber had a win over Cappo, Cappo a win over Wilson, and Wilson a win over Weber.

Because Weber had won all three of her matches by pinfall and had the win over Cappo, Weber took first place, Cappo took second, and Wilson took third despite the win over Weber.

Novice female 75-79kg: Avi’endha Beaugrand (Gold, McLurg) and Denzara Crawford (Silver, Carpenter)

With just four wrestlers in the weight class, each wrestler got three matches. Beaugrand and Carpenter met in what would be the gold medal match in the first round of the round robin, and Crawford scored first with a four point takedown. Beaugrand came back with a two point and a four point takedown, and she turned Crawford over for a win via pinfall.

In the second round, Crawford won her match in 1:31 with a 10-0 score, and Beaugrand earned another pin in only 1:24 without surrendering a point.

The third and final round started with Crawford fighting for silver, and she earned a pinfall win in just 59 seconds to take the medal. Not to be outdone, Beaugrand needed just one four point takedown and 19 seconds to earn the pin and take gold.

Novice male 44-46kg: Konrad Geerdts (Gold, Carpenter)

While he only had one wrestler to fight in the 44kg elite bracket where he won gold, Geerdts had three opponents show up in the novice bracket with the wider ranged weightclass. Geerdts had a bye in the first round here, and his opponent in the second round never showed up and forfeited.

That meant Geerdts didn’t start wrestling until the third round where he earned a 13-0 victory in the second period of the match. He followed it up in the fourth round with a pinfall win after going up 10-0 in just 1:29, and he capped it off in the fifth round with a hard fought battle that saw him fall behind 6-4, but he landed the last takedown and followed through for the pinfall win and his second gold medal of the tournament.

Novice male 54-55kg: Ashton Weber (Bronze, McLurg)

Weber started the tournament against the eventual silver medalist, and Weber lost a 10-0 decision late in the second period. He won his second round match via pinfall in 1:32 after three takedowns in the first round had given his an 8-0 lead.

Weber then faced off against the eventual gold medalist, and he lost in the first round via pinfall at 1:59. In his final match, Weber needed to win to secure bronze, and he did so with a pinfall win in just 1:59 capped off by a four-point takedown.

Novice male 70-74kg: Layne Cloverchuk (Silver, Carpenter)

Cloverchuk started off by giving up the first takedown, but he didn’t allow a point the rest of his first match and earned a pinfall win in the second period. His second match ended up being the gold medal match, and he lost a 12-0 decision in the first round.

He went back to work in the third round where he won via pinfall in just 52 seconds after just one takedown, which meant if he won his fourth round match he’d secure silver. This time it took two takedowns, but Cloverchuk pinned his opponent in 59 seconds to secure silver.

Novice male 72-75kg: Keadyn Floberg (Silver, Carpenter)

With three matches and a fifth place finish in the elite 73kg weight class, Floberg also competed in the novice bracket as well. He won his first round match 12-2 with six straight two point takedowns, and he had a bye through the second round.

In the third round, Florberg won in 58 seconds via pinfall, and his fourth round opponent was injured in an earlier match and forfeited. In his final match of the day, Floberg fought for the gold medal, and he had a 5-4 lead before he was taken down and pinned, losing via pinfall in 1:38 and taking the silver medal.

Novice male 87-90kg: Reid Ducherer (Gold, Unity)

Ducherer got a bye in his first round and was able to survey his competition, and it worked as he picked up a pinfall win in his first match that took 1:27. His third round opponent was injured and Ducherer won his second match via forfeit.

In the fourth round, Ducherer had a 9-0 lead heading into the second period, and he quickly took his opponent down for the 11-0 domination victory. In his final match, Ducherer had to go the distance and managed to win 9-1 after six minutes to earn his gold medal.

by Nick Nielsen

Wilkie, Unity, and Meadow Lake wrestlers combine for 14 medals at Titans Wrestling Classic

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