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Millard Ironman Tournament Preview

By BWG, 12/05/19, 9:30AM MST

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TOURNAMENT OVERVIEW:

Fillmore Utah, home to the Territorial capital and the home of the Millard Ironman.  If you plan on going drive the speed limit once you get into Millard County and prepare to watch some exciting duals and some amazing individual match ups. 

The Millard Ironman is a dual meet tournament with pool wrestling on the first day, the top 2 teams of each pool will be grouped in a gold pool and the other teams will wrestle in another pool. 

WHO WILL BE THERE:

Canyon View, Cedar City, Cedar Valley, Delta, Duchesne, Juab, Millard, Murray, North Sevier, Pleasant Grove, South Sevier, Stansbury, and West Jordan

RANKED OR HM WRESTLERS:

106: Jacob Carson, Bowdy Larsen, Camden Moat, Kaden Ercanbrack

113: Hector Martinez, Keaton Sperry

120: Austyn Ennis, Ben Nielson, Jake Otero

126: Ethan Clayburn, Jaxon Visser, Brayden Phillips

132: Connor Ingram, Josh Jackson, Mack Bray

138: Tristan Fillmore, Zeke Kelley, Trey Butler, Trayton Teeples, Channing Warner,

145: Conway Christiansen, Kurtus Nielson, Kaleb Sanchez

152: Oakley Ridge, Austin Chase, Colt Ekker

160: Cade Bowring, Will Harmon, Dahlance Smith

170: Jake Richardson, John Whitaker, Tate Willoughby, Braydon Allie

182:  Danny Garcia, Ted Johnson, Aiden Seely

195: Ryker Blackburn, Jake Jackson, Gavin Carter, Kaden Shin, Wyatt Alcala, Rylan Watts

220: Blake Mangleson, Phillip Boban, Payton Murray

285: Shan Jackson, Drew Dennison, Kemmer Jones

THE POOLS

POOL A

Juab 2

Millard

Stansbury

West Jordan

Pool C

Cedar City

Cedar Valley

Pleasant Grove

Delta

POOL B

Canyon View

Murray

North Sevier

Pleasant Grove 2

Pool D

Juab

Duchesne

South Sevier

Canyon View 2

TEAM PROJECTIONS:

Delta, Pleasant Grove, Juab, Duchesne, Millard, Canyon View, North Sevier and Stansbury will make it out of their pools.  Look for the tournament to come down to a dual between #3 PG and #2 Juab on Saturday. 

Key Matchups

106: Kaden Ercanbrack vs Jacob Carson is an exciting match up of guys new to the HS scene and could determine the dual.  Bowdy Larsen and Ercanbrack could happen right out of the gate.

132: People are excited for Mack Bray vs Connor Ingram.  My money is on Ingram to dominate this match up from start to and relatively early finish.   

138: Warner vs Fillmore in a match up of 3A State Champions will happen in Pool D.  As will both of them against a game competitor from Duchesne, Sanchez, Morlan, Skewes or Clayburn, who knows?

170: #1 vs #2 in the PowerPoll, the home grown, farm raised, blonde haired John Whitaker from Millard and the highly touted, nationally recognized, Pennsylvania transplant, Jake Richardson. Both go hard for 6 minutes + this will tell everyone in Utah, just how good Richardson is. 

195: The 2A champion and the 3A champion at 182lbs are back and ranked #1 and #3 in the PowerPoll.  In a matchup that will be fun to watch, will Jake Jackson’s hard-nosed, physically grinding style prevail or will Ryker Blackburn’s wide open, aggressive assault win the day?