Mater Dei Holiday Classic Dec 28-29

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Trinity, St. X, and Union will be back at the prestigious Mater Dei Holiday Classic this Friday and Saturday. The teams will be:

Mater Dei
Union County (Kentucky)
Louisville St. Xavier (Kentucky)
Downers's Grove South (Illinois)
Franklin Community
Nashville Father Ryan (Tennessee)
Belleville West (Illinois)
New Albany
Gibson Southern
Indian Creek
North Posey
Evansville Memorial
Tell City
Floyd Central
Louisville Trinity (Kentucky)
Sullivan
Mt. Vernon (Posey)
Vincennes Lincoln
Lawrence County (Tennessee)

Mater Dei is still the team to beat, but we may be blessed with some interesting in-state matchups between the three Kentucky teams.
Wheeler vs Carr vs Lenhart
Rematch of Eckman and Meyer
Pledger vs Pogue vs Lehman (Pogue Lehman rematch)
Ervin vs Deprest 
Kraezig vs Russelburg
Ervin vs Gaudin

 

[DrBaker 497]

Kraeszig has been at 160 all year so far. Could be a rematch from last year where Kraeszig beat Little. I wanna see Carr vs Lee. Carr already has a win over him. 

[DrBaker 497]

Mater Dei Preview 

 

@106 Mt. Vernon's Chris Newman earns the #1 seed 1(9-0).  He's followed by Father Ryan's Brooks McAfee (12-1), MD's Alec Freeman (15-2) and Matthew Meyer of Louisville ST. X (7-5).  Meyer earned the #4 seed with a head to head win over Trayce Eckman of Union County (24-2).  He lost a decision to FR's McAfee earlier as well.  Memorial's Kyler West (13-2) is looking to break into the top 4.

 

@113 the top looks strong.  Mater Dei's Cole Ross (15-0) gets the nod over Floyd Central's Gavin Alstott (20-0).  Both were SQ's in 2017-18. Just behind them is Belleville West's Josh Koderhandt (20-1), ranked #3 in IL's large class 3A.  Looking to break through are Calvin Eason of Father Ryan (16-1) and North Posey's Kameron Kendall (13-5). 

 

@120 Mater Dei's Blake Boarman should dominate the field.  The rest will be fighting for 2nd Place.

 

@126 Union Co.'s Sam Bacon (22-2) leads the way followed by MD's Kane Egli (13-4).  Albert Spencer of North Posey (14-4), Gibson Southern's Eric Harpenau (12-2) and a host of others look to make the top 4. 

 

@132 the field looks deep, if not top end.  MD's Clay Egli (9-4) got the nod for the #1 seed and will be challenged by Union Co''s Gabe Adams (21-3), Lawrence Co. TN's Luke Dezember (17-3), Franklin Community's Tyler Fuqua (11-3). Father Ryan's Griffin Habacker (11-4) and Gibson Southern's Christian Polen (17-2). Dezember with roots in Union Co and Mater Dei, finished 2nd at 126 last year.

 

@138 Blaine Mayer of Mater Dei (12-5) gets the #1 seed, followed by Trey Mucker of Tell City (18-2), Trevor Pogue of Union Co (24-1) as the top contenders.  Zachary Pledger of Louisville St. Xavier (11-5), New Albany's RJ Johnson (20-4) and Memorial's Aiden Farmer (11-3) look to challenge the top.

 

@145 the field looks strong.  Mater Dei's Matt Lee gets the #1 nod, but will be challenged by Union Co.'s Payne Carr (19-3), Robert Major of Downer's Grove South, IL (19-0), Floyd Central's Jonathan Kervin (18-0), Nathan Wheeler of St. X (10-2) and Indian Creek's Owen Sego (16-2).  Major is ranked #3 in Illinois largest classification, 3A.  

 

@152 MD's Eli Dickens (15-2) leads the way with Union Co.'s Dalton Russelburg (24-1) hoping to take the top spot.  Others looking to make noise are: Tell City's Shane Braunecker (19-4), Mt. Vernon's Brady Hook (14-4), Jeff Nugent of Downer's Grove South IL (18-6) and Gibson Southern's Drew Dillbeck (15-5).

 

@160 Union County's Stephen Little (25-1) earns the #1 seed, followed Lawrence Madison of Father Ryan (11-5), Logan Johnson of Belleville West IL (19-2) and Gibson Southern's Clay Singleton (17-2) round out the top 4 seeds.  Looking to bust those up are Mater Dei's Gabe Sollars (10-5) and North Posey's Wyatt Willman (16-2).

 

@170 it looks like a two horse race between #1 seed Micah Ervin of Union Co (23-2) and Mater Dei's Macartney Parkinson (16-1).  With Ervin's two losses at the Iron Man and Parkinson's lone defeat to nationally ranked River Shettler in Michigan, this could be a solid clash.  Father Ryan's Parker Peterson (12-4) looks to stop that battle from happening.

 

@182 North Posey's Nathan Willman (17-1) takes the top seed.  Mater Dei's Dakx Lannert (8-1), Tell City's Tyler Hawlee (17-5) and Father Ryan's Henry Hagey (12-4) will battle to knock Willman off the top.

 

@195 is interesting to me with no clear favorite and a deep, yet somewhat unproven field.  Father Ryan's Kane Kleoudis (11-2) gets the top nod with undefeated Luke McGennis of Mount Vernon (19-0) next.  Vincennes Lincoln's Chance Price (20-1), Floyd Central's Jackson Hussung (16-2), Tell City's Kyle Hagedorn (16-3) and Harris Eason of Franklin Community (10-3) make it anyone's to win.  

 

@220 is top heavy with Union County's Matthias Ervin (24-3) with the #1 slot and undefeated Ben DePriest of St. Xavier (12-0) just behind.  Brent Ricketts of Mt. Vernon (12-3) and Macray Robinson of Gibson Southern (15-3) will try to upset the apple cart.

 

@285 is again a deep field with lots of possibilities.  The top seed is Felix Wilson of Father Ryan (11-3) followed by Sullivan's Kenton Williams (13-1), Nick Newell of Downer's Grove South (6-1) and Gibson Southern's Aaron Brievogel (15-3).  Others who will battle them are: North Posey's Isaac Myers (15-3), Floyd Central's Jared Wright (16-5) and Dustin Olmstead of Belleville West IL (15-5).

 

[DrBaker 497]

Kraeszig is getting no love at 160. I think they are sleeping on a couple of the Illinois guys too. We will see. 

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Kraeszig with a first round pigtail match against top seed Stephen Little. Keep in mind, Kraeszig beat Little last year, I believe at this tournament. 
Tough draw for both of them right out of the gate.

[Chris Duke 284]

Kraeszig wins 3-2.  

[REscalera 189]

Little Wins 4-0 in the 3rd place bout.  

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2 hours ago, REscalera said:

Little Wins 4-0 in the 3rd place bout.  

In a rematch with Kraeszig 

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Eckman had a convincing win in a rematch from Ryle with Meyer.