Lockport’s Brayden Thompson, JCA’s Dillan Johnson still dominating – Shaw Local

Final season, Brayden Thompson of Lockport and Dillan Johnson of Joliet Catholic Academy shared Herald-Information Wrestler of the Yr honors as undefeated state champions – Thompson in Class 3A at 170 kilos and Johnson in Class 2A at 285.

Not a lot has modified this season, aside from Thompson, a senior who has already dedicated to perennial collegiate energy Oklahoma State, wrestling at 182 and generally at 195. Even within the increased weight courses, he hasn’t misplaced and most not too long ago received the championship on the prestigious Al Dvorak Match.

Johnson, in the meantime, continues to wreak havoc wherever he goes as he not too long ago pinned all of his opponents in successful the Rex Whitlach Match. Each are ranked No. 1 of their weight class by illinoismatmen.com.

A number of space wrestlers ranked

Thompson and Johnson aren’t the one wrestlers making their presence felt. In essentially the most present rankings by illinoismatmen.com, 44 wrestlers from The Herald-Information protection space are ranked within the prime 10 of their respective weights and courses.

Class 3A: 106 – Maddox Garbis, Plainfield North (sixth), Isaac Zimmerman, Lockport (tenth); 113 – Justin Wardlow, Lockport (ninth); 126 – Jad Alwawi, Lockport (4th), Carson Weber, Joliet West (eighth), Cayden Amico, Plainfield North (ninth), Nathan Knowlton, Lincoln-Way Central (tenth); 132 – Karter Guzman, Lincoln-Way West (tenth); 138 – Carlos Munoz-Flores, Lockport (sixth); 160 – Logan Swaw, Lockport (2nd); Zach LaMonto, Lincoln-Way East (ninth); 170 – Ari Zaeske, Lincoln-Manner East (third); 182 – Thompson, Lockport (1st), Max Bowen, Plainfield Central (third); 195 – Matthew Janiak, Plainfield South (eighth); 220 – Leo Tovar, Plainfield North (sixth); David Wuske, Lincoln-Manner East (tenth); 285 – Wyatt Schmitt, Joliet West (third).

In crew rankings, Lockport, which completed third final season, is at the moment fifth, Lincoln-Manner East tenth, Lincoln-Manner West fifteenth, Lincoln-Manner Central seventeenth and Plainfield North twentieth.

Class 2A: 106 – Noah Avina, JCA (sixth); 113 – Jason Hampton, JCA (third); 120 – Gylon Sims, JCA (1st); 138 – Sam Schuit, Lemont (fifth); Jake Hamini, JCA (ninth); 145 – Johnny O’Connor, Lemont (fifth); 152 – Connor Cumbee, JCA (sixth); 160 – Mason Alessio, JCA (1st); 170; Mike Jabaay, Lemont (4th); Nicholas Ronchetti, JCA (tenth); 182 – Nathan Wrublik, Lemont (eighth); 220 – Hunter Powell, JCA (seventh); 285 – Johnson, JCA (1st); Alex Pasquale, Lemont, (seventh).

In crew rankings, defending state champion JCA is ranked first, whereas Lemont is ranked fourth.

Class 1A: 106 – Culan Lindemuth, Coal City (sixth); Kyler Hahn, Seneca (ninth); 138 – Brant Widlowski, Coal Metropolis (tenth); 145 – Mateo Blessing, Coal Metropolis (third); 152 – Marco Spinazzola, Peotone (4th); 170 – Derek Carlson, Coal Metropolis (ninth); 182 – Braiden Younger, Coal Metropolis (2nd); 195 – Chris Peura, Seneca (tenth); 220 – Kody Marschner, Reed-Custer (2nd), Alex Cardenas, Peotone (tenth); 285 – Gunnar Berg, Reed-Custer (fifth), Michael Gonzalez, Coal Metropolis (sixth).

Within the crew rankings, Coal Metropolis is ranked first, Reed-Custer is twenty second and Seneca is twenty fourth.

Ladies wrestle, too

The IHSA sanctioned women wrestling as a sport final 12 months, and an increasing number of faculties and women are taking part. This 12 months has seen an enormous enhance in numbers from many applications, together with Minooka and Lockport.

At Lockport, among the prime wrestlers embody Monica Skibicki (9-4) at 100 (9-4), Averi Colella (13-6) at 105 (13-6), Liz Ramirez (10-5) and Maya Hernandez (9-5) at 115, Claudia Heeney (14-0) at 125, and Kelli Watkins (9-1) at 170.

“The season has been going nice up to now,” Lockport coach Nathaniel Roth mentioned. “We’ve obtained about 35 women out for the crew, which is greater than double what we had final 12 months. Now we have been seeing wonderful quantities of enchancment from all our new women, which is a lot of enjoyable to see. They get higher daily bodily and mentally.

“I’ve already seen a number of women gaining tons of confidence on and off the mat due to the issues they’re studying from wrestling.”

The Porters completed first on the Niles West Match in November and tenth out of 30 on the Dan Gable Donnybrook in Coralville, Iowa in early December.

“We’re trying ahead to extra competitions over winter break and past and hoping to carry residence some {hardware} from the state match this 12 months,” Roth mentioned.

At Minooka, coach Paige Schoolman is passionate about this system

“As a crew, we took some powerful losses early within the 12 months,” he mentioned. “However the women and coaches have realized and grown from our errors. The teaching workers [Jon Calder, Jeff Charlebois, Joe Cecala] and I are past enthusiastic about the place the crew is at and the way good they will develop into by February.

“Most significantly, this crew is having enjoyable. They’ve bonded as a decent group and proceed to enhance every day.”

Individually, the Indians have posted some terrific begins, equivalent to Addison Cailteux (115, 12-0), Sabia Charlebois (120, 10-3), Bella Cyrkiel (140, 14-2), Abbey Boersma (155, 12-4), Peyton Kueltzo (190, 12-5), Sophia Rausa (125, 11-6), Brooklyn Doti (105, 10-5), Hayla Hammer (135, 9-6), Kira Cailteux (125, 8-6), Delanie Majetic (130, 8-5), Sydney Ray (170, 8-5), Dylanie Cecala (145, 7-3), Olivia Rojas (125, 6-5), Eva Beck (130, 11-4), and Jaiden Moody (170, 4-5).