Blair Is Headed To The Gut Check

Blair Academy will be attending the 2020 Gut Check tournament.

Dec 5, 2019 by JD Rader

The Gut Check got a whole lot tougher this year with the addition of Blair Academy. With 11 wrestlers ranked currently, including P4P #11 Shayne Van Ness, Blair is one of the top high school teams in the country.

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In its six previous years, The Gut Check has been one of the top high school tournaments in the nation. 80 teams from all over the western timezone and even Canada come to compete.

From its humble beginnings as a one-day tournament with 16-man brackets to its current incarnation that will feature 64-man brackets wrestled over two days, the Gut Check continues to grow by leaps and bounds. The brackets are getting deeper, too. The addition of a powerhouse like Blair will make any tournament elite; now throw in three of the five Washington state team group champions from last season, plus over a dozen other state-placing teams, and a mix Northwest high school powers nearby states, and you've got one of the premier events of the season.

Some of the best action from last year's Gut Check includes the 106-pound final between Fargo All-Americans Oscar Alvarez and Horacio Godinez came down to an OT takedown.

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And some more good news: Both Granger High School and Toppenish High School are back again this year!

This year's 106 final has the potential to be fun again with Cadet World champion Marc-Anthony McGowan and Fargo runner-up Mitchell Neiner both expected to be in the mix.

Watch McGowan win his World team spot and Neiner tech his way into the Fargo finals below.

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Participating Teams

STATE	SCHOOL
WASHINGTON	Granger
WASHINGTON	Yelm
WASHINGTON	South Kitsap
WASHINGTON	Mountain View
WASHINGTON	Ingraham
WASHINGTON	Peninsula
WASHINGTON	White River
WASHINGTON	Mt. Si
WASHINGTON	Zillah
WASHINGTON	Heritage
WASHINGTON	Hazen
WASHINGTON	Fife
WASHINGTON	Lakes
WASHINGTON	Toppenish
WASHINGTON	Camas
WASHINGTON	Chewelah
WASHINGTON	Prosser
WASHINGTON	Bethel
WASHINGTON	Kamiakin
WASHINGTON	Southridge
WASHINGTON	Orting
WASHINGTON	Auburn Riverside
WASHINGTON	Auburn Mountainview
WASHINGTON	Prairie
WASHINGTON	Othello
WASHINGTON	Cedarcrest
WASHINGTON	Union
WASHINGTON	Bonney Lake
WASHINGTON	Darrington
WASHINGTON	Bremerton
WASHINGTON	Kentwood
WASHINGTON	Nathan Hale
WASHINGTON	Blaine
WASHINGTON	Marysville Pilchuk
WASHINGTON	Curtis
WASHINGTON	Cashmere
WASHINGTON	North Thurston
WASHINGTON	North Mason
WASHINGTON	North Kitsap
WASHINGTON	Anacortes
WASHINGTON	Kentridge
WASHINGTON	North Central
WASHINGTON	Tonasket
WASHINGTON	Chiawana
WASHINGTON	Deer Park
WASHINGTON	Forks
WASHINGTON	Blaine
WASHINGTON	Kennedy
WASHINGTON	Edmonds Woodway
WASHINGTON	Mary Walker
WASHINGTON	Ellensburg
WASHINGTON	Federal Way
WASHINGTON	Issaquah
WASHINGTON	Life Christian
WASHINGTON	Adna
WASHINGTON	Concrete
WASHINGTON	Washougal
WASHINGTON	Odea
WASHINGTON	Graham-Kapowsin
WASHINGTON	Newport
WASHINGTON	Skyline
WASHINGTON	Nooksack
WASHINGTON	Connell
WASHINGTON	Seton Catholic
WASHINGTON	Pullman
WASHINGTON	Lindberg
WASHINGTON	Ballard
WASHINGTON	Reardan
WASHINGTON	Decatur
WASHINGTON	Stadium
WASHINGTON	Quincy
WASHINGTON	Black Hills
WASHINGTON	Thomas Jefferson
WASHINGTON	Chief Sealth
OREGON	Century
OREGON	Cascade Christian
OREGON	Newberg
OREGON	Silverton
OREGON	Willamina
OREGON	Hermiston
OREGON	West Salem
OREGON	Dallas
ALASKA	Lathrop
ALASKA	Colony
ALASKA	Glenallen
NEW JERSEY	Blair Academy