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53rd Annual Perry Junior High Tournament of Champions

Broken Arrow went a perfect five for five in the championship finals to roll to the team championship in the 53rd Annual Perry Junior High Tournament of Champions. The Tigers added four 3rd place medalist plus two other placers to finish an impressive 100 points ahead of 2nd place Yukon. In a three-way battle for the 2nd place trophy, the Millers edged Deer Creek by 1.5 points with Sand Springs finishing 4th, just 1.5 points behind Deer Creek.

The tournament kept one long standing tradition by competing as an unseeded random draw tournament. Due to the pandemic, no fans were allowed and the tournament was limited to 14 teams to help with social distancing. The tournament used a pool format to give the wrestlers more matches with the top two in each pool advancing to the Gold Bracket and the remaining wrestlers competing in the Silver Bracket. The random draw saw four weight in which two wrestlers competed in the pool wrestling and then faced each other again in the championship finals.

Domination was the word of the tournament, as ten of the finals were decided by fall. Broken Arrow 8th grader Hudson Beckley improved to a perfect 17-0 on the season as he picked up four falls before earning an 8-3 finals win over teammate Evan Knotley. 7th grader Hunter Knox turned in an impressive performance to win the title at 86 lbs. Knox never went into the 2nd period, picking up four 1st period falls, including a fall in 1:35 in the finals to give Broken Arrow their 2nd champion.

Cushing 8th grader Izaih Tusler won his 2nd Perry Tournament title with an equally impressive performance. Tusler, had four falls out of his five wins, including a fall in 1:21 in the finals over Jace Province of Deer Creek. Blackwell’s Louden Wolfe defeated Wesley Madden of Edmond Memorial in a pool match and the two met again in the finals with Wolfe winning again to improve his season record to 19-3, in claiming the title at 98 lbs.

106 lbs. also saw another rematch as 7th grader Juan JR Ybarra of Altus defeated Matthew Moore from Sand Springs in the pool match and again in the finals to claim the title. The title adds to an impressive season for Ybarra as he also claimed a championship at the recent JOC Tournament. Yukon freshman Dylan Ryan went from not placing at last year’s Perry Tournament to winning the 112 lb. title this year. Ryan went 5-0 in the tournament, including falls in :15 and :37, before picking up a fall in 1:41 in the finals.

Broken Arrow freshman Kadence Rupp credits great summer workouts with his improved wrestling this season as he wrestled an outstanding tournament to win the 119 lb. title. Ruup, like teammate Hunter Knox, never went into the 2nd period, in winning all six of his matches by 1st period falls. Gatlin Gunn of Sand Springs picked up five falls and a 15-0 tech fall win, to earn the 126 lb. title. In a tournament with many worthy candidates, Gunn’s impressive showing earned him the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler Award.

Bristow’s Haydan Yocham had a scare in the pool matches, when he picked up a sudden-victory win over Vinita’s Coleman Kauffman, but rolled through the rest of his matches, including a fall in the finals over Deer Creek’s talented Brady Brewer to win the 132 lb. title. Broken Arrow’s Mason Dempsey was another wrestler worthy of OW consideration as he rolled through the tournament with six falls (five in the 1st period), including a fall in the finals in :32 over Edmond Memorial’s Rhett Winchester (7th grade State Champion last year).

Blackwell’s Jason Osgood defeated Adrian Flores of Sand Springs in the pool and then once again in the finals to claim the title at 155 lbs. Osgood had three falls out of his six wins to improve his season record to 24-4. The host school claimed their only title when freshman Treg Bowman turned in an impressive performance to win the title at 170 pounds. Bowman went 5-0 in the tournament with four falls, including a fall in 4:10 in the finals over Edmond Memorial’s Jack Smith.

Blackwell claimed their 3rd individual title when Kruz Goff cruised to the 195 lb. title. Goff never went into the 2nd period in picking up five 1st period falls. His fall in the finals over Yukon’s Kayson Holman was a repeat of their pool match. Broken Arrow freshman Tristan Sasse dominated the 285 lb. bracket to give Broken Arrow their 5th individual champion and was another champion that never went into the 2nd period. Sasse had falls in :19, :12, :55, 1:27, before claiming his title with a fall in :39.

Team Scores
Broken Arrow – 265
Yukon – 165
Deer Creek – 163.5
Sand Springs – 161.5
Blackwell – 148
Cushing – 136
Altus – 129.5
Bristow – 114
Edmond Memorial – 107.5
Vinita – 70.5
Perry – 64
Collinsville – 63
Perry White – 27
Enid – 15

  1. Newkirk – 15

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1st Place – Hudson Beckley of Broken Arrow
2nd Place – Evan Knotley* of Broken Arrow
3rd Place – Jackson Kennedy of Yukon
4th Place – Nash Neeley of Deer Creek
5th Place – Carver Barnett of Bristow
6th Place – Casyn Anderson of Altus

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1st Place – Hunter Knox of Broken Arrow
2nd Place – Brady Akin of Deer Creek
3rd Place – Tanner Copeland of Sand Springs
4th Place – Forfeit
5th Place – Breyden Ball of Altus
6th Place – Forfeit

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1st Place – Izaih Tusler of Cushing
2nd Place – Jace Province of Deer Creek
3rd Place – Payton Head of Blackwell
4th Place – Cade Garland of Edmond Memorial
5th Place – Jaxon Brown* of Blackwell
6th Place – Kase Skaggs of Sand Springs

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1st Place – Louden Wolfe of Blackwell
2nd Place – Wesley Madden of Edmond Memorial
3rd Place – Isiaiah Furra of Broken Arrow
4th Place – Grant Rowe* of Blackwell
5th Place – Garon Kaiser of Deer Creek
6th Place – Aydin Machado of Cushing

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1st Place – Juan JR Ybarra of Altus
2nd Place – Matthew Moore of Sand Springs
3rd Place – Jake Miller of Blackwell
4th Place – Mark Webb of Vinita
5th Place – Brady Oldfield* of Newkirk
6th Place – Barrett Byers of Deer Creek

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1st Place – Dylan Ryan of Yukon
2nd Place – Jayden Pait of Sand Springs
3rd Place – Evan Rodriguez of Broken Arrow
4th Place – Chi Sanders of Altus
5th Place – Daniel Hernandez of Cushing
6th Place – John Webb of Vinita
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1st Place – Kadence Ruup of Broken Arrow
2nd Place – Landon Horton* of Sand Springs
3rd Place – Andy Collier of Cushing
4th Place – Junior Youmbi of Deer Creek
5th Place – Carter Wright of Edmond Memorial
6th Place – Landyn Barnes of Sand Springs

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1st Place – Gatlin Gunn of Sand Springs
2nd Place – Cable Golden of Collinsville
3rd Place – Gunner Huffman of Vinita
4th Place – Riley Day of Yukon
5th Place – Bentley Parker of Broken Arrow
6th Place – Kade McCormack of Edmond Memorial

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1st Place – Haydan Yocham of Bristow
2nd Place – Brady Brewer of Deer Creek
3rd Place – Owen Jones of Broken Arrow
4th Place – Lawson Lusk of Blackwell
5th Place – Coleman Kauffman of Vinita
6th Place – Blake Stewart of Sand Springs

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1st Place – Mason Dempsey of Broken Arrow
2nd Place – Rhett Winchester of Edmond Memorial
3rd Place – Chandler Fortney of Bristow
4th Place – Hudson Sheppard of Sand Springs
5th Place – Kyler Zagar of Perry
6th Place – Gage Woodard of Deer Creek

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1st Place – Jason Osgood of Blackwell
2nd Place – Adrian Flores of Sand Springs
3rd Place – Ryan Martindale of Yukon
4th Place – Conner Nunez of Altus
5th Place – Tucker Winkle of Deer Creek
6th Place – Tyler Hockett of Cushing

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1st Place – Treg Bowman of Perry
2nd Place – Jack Smith of Edmond Memorial
3rd Place – Freddie Hidalgo of Broken Arrow
4th Place – Jaden Allen of Sand Springs
5th Place – Brodie Rogers of Altus
6th Place – TJ Castor of Yukon

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1st Place – Kruz Goff of Blackwell
2nd Place – Kayson Holman of Yukon
3rd Place – Kade Ralston of Cushing
4th Place – Joel Alejandre of Altus
5th Place – Daniel Becerra* of Altus
6th Place – Aiden Hayes of Broken Arrow

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1st Place – Tristan Sasse of Broken Arrow
2nd Place – Jackson Farley of Yukon
3rd Place – Rowdy Jackson of Cushing
4th Place – KT Thompson* of Broken Arrow
5th Place – Derek Ramey of Bristow
6th Place – Hunter Paul of Collinsville

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