Our Top 5 Favorite Matches From Who's #1
Our Top 5 Favorite Matches From Who's #1
Our five favorite matches from the kick off to high school wrestling season, 2018's Who's #1.
Wrestling season couldn't have gotten here fast enough. Mercifully, Who's #1 came around yesterday and kicked off the season with another excellent slate of action-packed matchups. Below are our top five favorite matches from the all-star extravaganza.
#5 152-Pounds: Macey Kilty vs Kennedy Blades
Macey Kilty fought in Lehigh's historic Snakepit for the second year in a row. Unlike last year, the two-time UWW Cadet World Champion emerged victorious, beating rising superstar Kennedy Blades in a hard-fought one-point match.
#4 132-Pounds: Jordan Decatur Akron vs Josh Sanders
One of the most anticipated matches of the evening lived up to the hype. These two hammers battled hard until the final whistle. But there can be only one number one, and it was Ohio State commit Jacob Decatur that outlasted cadet and junior world team member Josh Saunders.
#3 170-Pounds: Carson Kharchla vs Julian Ramirez
These dudes wanted to scrap freestyle and we were happy to oblige. Carson Kharcla was a revelation at Fargo this year, and he kept the momentum going with a dominating performance against future Cornelian Julian Ramirez.
#2 138-Pounds Jojo Aragona vs Keegan O'Toole
Rutgers commit JoJo Aragona was victorious in not one, but two matches against the cream of the 138-pound crop Sunday afternoon. The weight class was simply too insane to boil down to a single matchup, so we created a mini bracket of the top four contenders. Aragona beat Gabe Tagg in the first match of the event, and then returned to provide a proper bookend to 2018's WNO with an epic war with Missouri commit Keegan O'Toole.
#1 160-Pounds: Alex Facundo vs Brevin Balmaceda
Our #1 from Who's #1, Alex Facundo confirmed his status as the BMOC of the class of 2021. #1 on the Big Board, Facundo took out recent Oklahoma State commit Brevin Balmeceda to cement himself as the high school king of 160-pounds.