Hunter Collins (Gilroy) v. Louis Bland (Central Catholic)

wasn't impressed with match, look at the list of wrestlers that get signed wirh colleges every year. hardly any from california

Welch went up 1 weight class wrestling at 160 went to 171...I think your thinking of his junior year

Bland is a 2-star recruit in football according to scout.com

but a 5-star recruit in wrestling.
Darn shame he's going waste his talent in wrestling for football.

no bland's fantastic nuetral won the match don't forget that welch went up 2 weight classes and beat bland so weight is not the issue. skill is the issue bland had greater skill as a wrestler. that is why he won the match

Collins was way smaller. He wrestled 171 at State and at Senior Nationals. He prolly cuts from 185 down to 171. Hes a 171 pounder when he cuts. Bland prolly cuts from 200 to 189. He easily had 15 pounds on Collins. Thats what decided the match.

poor hunter he wanted this match so badly

nice match.
collins had more technique
but bland overpowered

nice match.
collins had more technique
but bland overpowered

nice match.
collins had more technique
but bland overpowered

this fool jkslf; is hella dumb!!! You dont evn know louis dude so you cant say $*^@!!!!

he didnt take 1st

hahahaha.. bland stalled sooooooo much at the endd!!.


haha..


he's still a beast!..

what i don't understand is how collins took 1st in the nation, and how he still can't beat bland!

i just checked and apparently bland is pretty damn good at football but hes only a 2 star recruit on scout.com whereas hes probably a 5 star on intermat. although those dont really matter because a lot of studs come out of nowhere in college in both sports

are bland and collins both football players? bland looked awesome until the end when he started going freestyle

jkslf you dumb@!# bland is 2x state champ a runner-up plus what ever he does this year this kid is ready for college plus we need more wrestlers from california to attend college it shows how tough or state is

jkslf is just wrong. Wrestling will lose a great competitor when Bland goes to college. My guess jkslf never wrestled in college - those of us who did would love to see Bland as a competitor in the NCAA.

jason welch beat louis bland 22-10 at the foothill invitational
welch is the phenom not bland, its good thats hes playing football and not wrestling cuz hed get his ass kicked

Bako. It is a fact that they recruit. Were you there when I heard it? I don't think so. Anything to try and get the upper hand on other teams. Typical Central.

Louis Bland could be the biggest human being i've ever seen...that guy is huge

D Man, when you cant compete you say recruiting stop making stuff up to try and justify why you cant keep up

Central Catholic does have a good youth program, Two of their kids just won Tulsa Nationals.

Bull crap about Central not recruiting. I saw a coach try to get a kid to wrestle for them in the middle of a tournament. That's pretty bad. The kid was wrestling for another school already.

Bland might wrestle in college. I think he is one of Californias best wrestlers and should be nominated for such at the end of the year. Him, Welch and Im sure theres more but both men being 3 time finalist so far is amazing. I hope Bland wrestles in college...Maybe Varner and him can go at it exciting

I can't imagine how good Bland is at football if he really is significantly better at it than at wrestling. It's too bad we won't get to see him on the mat in college, but I hope he tears it up in football.

louis is nasttyyy

louis is a great wrestler in this match you could tell he was just too strong for hunter i mean hunter is also really good but louis has long big arms great balance and can keep good position all of our finalists will do great when it comes time for state and oh ya we dont recruit our kids program has always been filled with good wrestlers and thats where our high-school gets its kids

Central catholic doesn;t need to recruit, they have one of the best youth programs in the state.

Ok got it he won 3 out of 4 times now. Lost last year to Danz where he got pinned

go check out TMI.150m.com you could check the different years. As far as I know everytime hes entered hes won.
Tim Brown Foothill. Is at the same time and last year he was at that and placed 3rd. Loosing in semi to Welch and 2nd place was Danz.

How many times has Bland won 5 counties?

When you have a good program public or private you don't need to recruit. People will find away to get there kids in a good program, take a look at all the top schools.

I wish all schools could recruit althletes - not just the private ones.

This is going to be a great year for Central Catholic and Louis. Remeber when this program was not evan on the map now look they took 2nd and have a number of great wrestlers besides just Louis. Cant ask for much more good job Steve Strange on coaching

yhea he did i agree andy_x

Louis really packed on the muscle. The guy is a great wrestler.

KEEP IT UP! LOUIS!