{"id":1318275,"date":"2020-02-16T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T03:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993693"},"modified":"2020-02-16T20:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T03:12:54","slug":"glenwoods-wilson-rifles-smith-lead-garfield-county-wrestling-contingent-to-state-finals-next-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/glenwoods-wilson-rifles-smith-lead-garfield-county-wrestling-contingent-to-state-finals-next-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood\u2019s Wilson, Rifle\u2019s Smith lead Garfield County wrestling contingent to state finals next weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenwood\u2019s Amos Wilson, in back, drags Basalt’s Jose Castorena to the mat in action earlier this season in Rifle. Wilson enters the 3A 182-pound class as the top seed at state this coming weekend. <\/strong>
Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Glenwood Springs senior Amos Wilson leads a pack of 15 Garfield County prep wrestlers to the state tournament at the Pepsi Center in Denver Feb. 20-22.<\/p>\n

Wilson (36-4) won the 182-pound championship at the Class 3A Regionals in Delta on Saturday, en route to earning the No. 1 seed in his weight classification for the state meet.<\/p>\n

At Regionals, Wilson wrestled his way into the championship match against Zebuel Alexander of Gunnison, winning by fall in 1:46. He\u2019ll face Christian Scanderett (5-7) of Resurrection Christian in the first round of the state tournament on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Two other area wrestlers won Regional titles on Saturday: Rifle senior Cauy Smith (32-4) at 126 pounds, and Basalt\u2019s Ernesto Lopez (29-3) at 285 pounds.<\/p>\n

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Rifle\u2019s Cauy Smith, front, in action earlier this season in Rifle.<\/strong>
Kyle Mills\/Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Smith won by virtue of a 6-2 decision over Grand Valley\u2019s Hector De la Cruz, who also qualifies for state. Both will enter state as mid-range seeds \u2014 Smith facing Daniel Matthews (32-7) of Valley to open the tournament, and De la Cruz (30-10) taking the mat against Seth Marick (40-12) of Sterling.<\/p>\n

Lopez will be one one of two Basalt representatives at the 3A state meet.<\/p>\n

He defeated Grand Valley\u2019s Hayden Grice by fall in 3:07 for the Regional win, and will face Ryan Metzger (8-15) of La Junta on Thursday to open the state tournament.<\/p>\n

Joining Lopez will be Longhorns\u2019 wrestler Ruben Samuelson (37-1) at 170 pounds. The Roaring Fork High student who wrestles for Basalt took second at Regionals, losing a 6-0 decision to Hunter Smith of Alamosa. He\u2019ll face No. 2 seed Randy Duran (31-8) of Jefferson to open the state meet.<\/p>\n

Other state qualifiers from area high schools and their opening matchups include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

106 pounds<\/strong> \u2014 Rifle sophomore Hunter Bercher (23-11 and fourth at Regionals) vs. No. 5 Matthew Medina (33-5) of Eagle Valley.<\/p>\n

120 pounds<\/strong> \u2014 Rifle sophomore Caleb Gieselman (19-6 and fourth at Regionals) vs. No. 5 Nadim Karger (35-6) from Sky View.<\/p>\n

132 pounds<\/strong> \u2014 Rifle senior Talon Cordova (29-13 and fourth at Regionals) vs. No. 1 seed junior Zane Rankin (32-1) of Lamar.<\/p>\n

138 pounds<\/strong> \u2014 Rifle junior Bryce Rowley (41-12 and third at Regionals) vs. No. 3 Talyn Massie (27-11) of Berthoud; and Glenwood Springs senior Erik Krauth (30-12 and fourth at Regionals) vs. Isaiah Rios (36-2) from Valley.<\/p>\n

152 pounds<\/strong> \u2014 Grand Valley senior Conrad Demann (18-8 and fourth at Regionals) vs. Walker Kee (17-6) of Lamar.<\/p>\n

160 pounds<\/strong> -\u2014 Rifle senior Dillon Tiffany (24-6 and second at Regionals) vs. Cole Nading (28-10) of Mullen.<\/p>\n

195 pounds<\/strong> -\u2014 Rifle junior Alex Guardado (33-13 and fourth at Regionals) vs. Enoc Macias-Castilo (36-5) of Arvada<\/p>\n

285 pounds<\/strong> \u2014 Grand Valley senior Hayden Grice (31-11 and second at Regionals) vs. Kyle Good (32-12) James Irwin; and Rifle senior Alejandro Robles (32-15 and fourth at Regionals) vs. Sy Spitz (21-4) of Lamar.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenwood\u2019s Amos Wilson, in back, drags Basalt’s Jose Castorena to the mat in action earlier this season in Rifle. Wilson enters the 3A 182-pound class as the top seed at state this coming weekend. Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent Glenwood Springs senior Amos Wilson leads a pack of 15 Garfield County prep wrestlers to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 19:25:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}