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Starting any minute is KT mat 17.

Pettigrew was also a Fargo champ last year. Huge win!!! KT Nelson has a big match against Levi Haines next. Flo is big Haines, so it will be nice to get this one for KT.

Josh’s mom interviewed at 2 hospitals in the area, but did not like the offers she was given. They ended up staying in Michigan. He will be wrestling for Davison and training with Facundo. Pretty good situation, can’t blame them.

This is true there is only 1 wrestler per weight for both styles. Sunday will be the freestyle portion. If anyone wants to watch, wrestling begins at 11:30 central time and then finals at 6pm. To watch go on Facebook and look up 2019 Team USA Cadet Pan Am Team group. There is a mom that goes live with all the matches, plus you can watch today’s matches. Thank you to all wrestling families that donated and helped give Jesse this opportunity. We had families from all corners of Indiana help in some way. Also thank you to all the coaches that passed on some of their wrestling knowledge to my guy.

Jesse Mendez

I heard finnearty moved back to Ohio and Donahue is transferring to Seminary... heard Cernus might be on the move as well. Does anyone have any confirmation on him and where he is going?

Congrats Alara. She was also named TheOpenMat’s National HS wrestler of the week.

I heard that UWW 15U will be combined with UWW 16U at FloNationals next year. So it will not be the same weekend as Heartland next year.

Jesse Mendez

After first session of Greco: Mendez and Allred in semi-finals. Carroll is consi of 4. Erb guaranteed top 3.

I did an updated rankings when I found out the Ohio kids were coming, where I had Cernus number 3(state champ) and Donahue Number 4(runner up). So top 4 produced 2 state champs and 2 runner ups. #dreamteam2022

For sure. He just won a state title on Saturday as well.

Nic Vafiadis. Yes, Jesse wrestled him twice. Jesse beat him for a super32 title and then lost to him two months later. The Virginia refs hit Jesse with a fleeing the mat call to lose the match when the kid pushed him straight out. Stall maybe, but fleeing definitely not. Vafiadis is top notch.

Jesse definitely wanted to cut him. You clearly see Jesse look at coaches twice and then hear them say stay on top, he does not get a point. I later asked the coach and they confirmed that they did not want him to give up a point. I talked to Jesse as well and he wanted to keep working towards bonus points. Although Jesse has never wrestled Ty Mills, he did beat Patrick Noonan(Super32) who gave Ty his last high school loss(FloNationals).

Across the country Jesse has beaten 31 high school state champs.