As noted before, we'll have finalists at 96, 112, 145, 189 and 215.
We had several wrestlers win in the consolation rounds, beginning with Rocky Point's Brandon Escobar at 112. After losing a tough match against Steven Keith, Escobar rebounded to take third with an 8-1 win.
Longwood seventh grader Nicky Hall accomplished the goal his coaches set for him by placing fifth. He won 4-2 against Westhampton's Pete DeTore to claim the prize. It's not every often seventh-graders are placing in the county, especially at 103. You see a lot of the best kids win at 96, usually starting in eighth grade. But to win at 103 in seventh, that's another world. Assuming Hall stays at the same weight next year, I'd put him in the running to win the county next year. That first trip to the county tournament is always rough for wrestlers. As much as you can think you're prepared, walking into an arena with a couple thousand people and it's something else. Talking to people around Suffolk wrestling, everyone is in agreement that Hall will end up as one of the greats when his career is complete, even better than his father (!) who was an All-American.
Consider Corey Jantzen didn't place at the counties when he was in seventh grade. And when he was in eighth grade he took fourth at 96.
On to some other matches: Longwood's Victory Goady let a 5-0 lead slip away in the third-place 125 final. He lost to Nick Terdick, 8-6, the same wrestler who beat him in the quarterfinals. It appeared Goady would enact small revenge on Terdick when he scored an early escape in the third for a 5-0 lead. Terdick came back with two and Goady added another to make it 6-2. The last minute was all Terdick, who kept the pressure on a tiring Goady.
After Terdick took the 8-6 lead Goady had one chance on a restart with 14 seconds left. Goady started on bottom, but couldn't come away with anything.
Rocky Point's Anthony Volpe won a 3-1 overtime win for third place at 135. He beat Islip's John LaMonica in what was a rather uneventful match until the overtime. Both wrestlers scored on escapes leading to the overtime. Volpe ended it with a takedown with 28 seconds left in OT.
Longwood's Will Fechter won 8-4 at 140 for third place. He beat Eric Smith of Patchogue-Medford, 8-4. Nearly all the scoring came in the final period. Fechter trailed 1-0 after two before turning it on in the third. Smith trailed 3-2 after scoring on an escape with 1:19 left. Fechter rallied five straight points to close out the match.
Longwood's Will Parks lost his 171 third-place match, 2-0, to Marvin Titus-Casseus of West Babylon.
Miller Place's Alex Martocello (160) was pinned in his third-place match in 5:04 by Shafa Nadir of Hills West.
MP's Carl Korpi (215) bounced back to take third with a 9-7 win against Alex Fernan of West Islip.
Mount Sinai's Jon Hoeg finished sixth at 119 after losing to Tyler Sinisgalli of John Glenn.
Rocky Point's Billy Coggins took fifth after beating James Denicola in the 145 consolation. He won in 5:40 after injury default.
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