Teams / Archbishop Moeller

SWOWCA “Coaches Classic” Holiday Tournament When: Friday December 21st and Saturday December 22nd; Friday’s wrestling starts at 5:30 PM and Saturday’s session starts at 10 am and 5:45 PM for finals. Where: Oak Hills High School FORMAT: Thirty teams. Double elimination. Second round losers cross bracket completely from top to bottom and bottom to top. QF losers cross within their half bracket. SF losers cross bracket completely. Two divisions based on male enrollment. The larger division will be divided into two groups creating 3 divisions for team awards. TEAMS: Amelia, Batavia, Beavercreek, Colerain, Elder, Finneytown, Glen Este, Hamilton, Harrison, Lakota East, Lakota West, LaSalle, Loveland, Madeira, Mason, Mater Dei, Miami Trace, Milford, Moeller, Mount Vernon, Oak Hills, Princeton, Reading, Roger Bacon, Ross, St. Xavier, Sycamore, West High, Western Brown, Wyoming SWOWCA Scholarship Winners: Division I Bo Touris of Lakota West, Division II Daniel Johnson of Roger Bacon and DIII Blake Chastain of Madeira. Returning Champions: Jake Farber Saint Xavier 103, Tommy Pretty Elder 119, Tyler Green Lakota West 130, Jake Schneider Matre Dei (IN) 189, Cody Smith Beavercreek 215 Returning state placers: 103 7th Jake Farber, St. Xavier (D-I) 103 7th Codey Neff, Miami Trace (D-II) 112 5th Jacob Garringer, Miami Trace (D-II) 112 6th Robert Shepherd, Mason (D-I) 119 2nd Ryan Fields, Lakota West (D - I) 119 3rd Tommy Pretty, Elder (D-I) 119 4th Andrew Clark, Reading (D – III) 119 5rd Alex Weinzapfel, Mater Dei (IND) 119 6th Pierce Harger, Moeller (D - I) 125 4th David Carpenter, Madeira (D-III)) 125 6th Kyle Krummert, Milford (D-I) 125 7th Adam Wallander, Moeller (D-I) 135 3rd Dustin Fraley, Miami Trace (D-II) 140 8th Jesse Stevens, Lakota West (D-I) 145 2nd Kevin Cloran, Madeira (D-III) 145 7th Eric Gobin, Moeller (D - I) 215 3rd Orlando Scales, Elder (D – I) 215 5th Andrew Tumlin, Harrison (D-1) What to expect and who to watch: The annual SWOWCA Holiday tournament is back at Oak Hills this year and the action is guaranteed to be just as intense as in years past. This year the team race will sure to one to the wire between Indiana powerhouse Mater Dei who is ranked #1 and local powers Moeller, Lakota West and Elder. Mater Dei again ranked #1 in Indiana will be led by a well balanced team and will definitely contend for the team title under new head coach Greg Schaefer. Moeller is led by returning state placers Adam Wallander at 119, Pierce Harger at 125 and Eric Gobin at 152. Along with Wallander and Harger, Moeller has returning state qualifiers Jacob Corrill at 103 and Ross Quehl at 215 both of whom placed last year at this tournament. Lakota West comes in with a strong senior presence led by 3x state runner-up Ryan Fields who will be at 130 this year and Jess Stevens will be at 145. Adding more power to the Lakota West lineup will be senior state qualifiers Zach Gerberick at 112, Tyler Green at 140 and former state qualifier Derrick Dooley at 135. Elder comes in with two big heavy hitters of their own in Orlando Scales at 215 and Tommy Pretty at 125/130 both took 3rd at the state tournament last year. Elder also has state qualifier Dominic Gorrasi at 145 returning and will be in the mix at 145 for a title at SWOWCA this year. New to the tournament is Miami Trace hailing from Washington Courthouse and they will be an impact on the small team title with 3 returning state placers in Codey Neff, Jacob Garringer, and Dustin Fraley. Returning to SWOWCA is the ever tough Beavercreek with returning SWOWCA champion Cody Smith at 215 and Gavin Moore a state qualifier at 125 last year. Also returning is Columbus power Mt. Vernon who returns to the tournament again and last year was led by state runner-up and SWOWCA Michael Lybarger, they will be tough as always