Six Georgia Wrestlers Win Top Honors at High School Nationals

The grade-based event demonstrated where wrestlers stack up among the nation’s best for each recruiting class and results are broken down by grade.

1st Place- Ohio / 273 points / 2 Champs

2nd Place- New Jersey / 236 points / 2 Champs

3rd Place- Pennsylvania / 219 points / 2 Champs

4th Place- Georgia / 177.5 points / 2 Champs

Woodward Academy left their mark on Virginia Beach as teammates Matthew Singleton (138) and Michael Kilic (132) both took 1st Place. And they didn’t just win, they won with style. Kilic defeated West Virginia’s Justin Bartee with a 9-1 Major and won every match by more than 4 points. Singleton became a household name among college scouts as he scored bonus points in every bout and walked away with a Fall in the Finals over Antwaun Burns of Ohio for the 1st Place Finish.

Matthew Singleton (138) 1st Place

Michael Kilic (132) 1st Place

Sam Harris (145) 2nd Place

Jeremy Paradice (138) 7th Place

Brandon High (220) 8th Place

1st Place- Ohio / 284 Points / no champs

2nd Place- New York / 243 Points / 3 Champs

3rd Place- Pennsylvania / 241.5 Points / 2 Champs

4th Place- New Jersey / 227.5 Points / 1 Champ

5th Place- North Carolina / 178.5 Points / no Champs

6th Place- Georgia / 152 Points / 1 Champ

Woodland High School’s Caden McCrary (132) played the role of tactician throughout the tournament and overwhelmed one opponent after another. McCrary seemed to wrestle every moment of every match on the offensive and was always three moves ahead of his opponent. His 4-2 Finals win over Maryland’s Ethen Miller was never really that close as McCrary continued to stretch his lengthy list of accomplishments on the national and international scale.

Teammate Jaxon Smith (145) took down Jared Simma of Kansas with a Fall midway through the 3rd period and, with two consecutive Falls, Smith closed out the tournament with a resounding 3rd Place Finish.

Caden McCrary (132) 1st Place

Jaxon Smith (145) 3rd Place

Elijah Burns (182) 4th Place

Hunter Noland (138) 5th Place

1st Place- Ohio / 238 Points / 2 Champs

2nd Place- Pennsylvania / 219.5 Points / 1 Champ

3rd Place- New Jersey / 216.5 Points / 1 Champ

4th Place- New York / 190.5 Points /

5th Place- Georgia / 188.5 Points /

Buford’s Charlie Darracott (145) entered the 3rd period of the championship match with an escape that knotted the score 3-3 but couldn’t hang on as returning National Champ Peyton Hall of West Virginia rolled off three straight 3rd period takedowns for the 9-5 win.

Charlie Darracott (145) 2nd Place

Nick Stonecheck (138) 3rd Place

D.J. Lundy (220) 3rd Place

Nick Masters (120) 4th Place

Jakeem Littles (170) 7th Place

Jacob Stephens (220) 8th Place

Francis Morrisey (152) 8th Place

1st Place- New Jersey / 186.5 Points / 2 Champs

2nd Place- Florida / 170 Points / 1 Champ

3rd Place- New York / 163.5 Points /

4th Place- Ohio / 161 Points / 2 Champs

5th Place- Georgia / 157 / 1 Champ

Buford Wolves’ second Finalist in the tournament, Logan Ashton (113), a Stanford commit was a man on a mission. Ashton’s statement victory in the Finals was a 13-3 Major over Virginia’s Clarence Lee-Green and capped off an impressive finish to the future Cardinal’s high school career. Ashton has long been known as one of Georgia’s pound-for-pound most technical wrestlers and his performance in Virginia Beach was simply sublime.

Dalton’s Tyler Hunt (126) will be wrestling with the Naval Academy next season but fell just short of a National Title in an all-out brawl with New Jersey’s Chris Cannon. The 1-6 loss was a disappointing finish to an otherwise incredible performance for Hunt who wrapped up his regular season as a Georgia 4x State Champ and earned Runner Up All-American status this weekend.

Logan Ashton (113) 1st Place

Tyler Hunt (126) 2nd Place

DeeJay McNeal (120) 4th Place

Myles Starke (182) 6th Place

Ethan Willis (138) 8th Place

1st Place- California / 125.5 Points / 2 Champs

2nd Place- New York / 100 Points / 2 Champs

3rd Place- Pennsylvania / 71 Points / 1 Champ

4th Place- Missouri / 69 Points / 1 Champ

5th Place- Florida / 62 Points /

6th Place- Tennessee / 61 Points /

7th Place- Georgia / 54.5 / 1 Champ

Tiyahna Askew (144) is no stranger to the National Stage and just picked up more hardware with her 4-2 victory over Florida’s Kaelyn Martinez in the National Finals. Askew pinned her way through the tournament where no opponent made it out of the opening period until the Finals. The Collins Hill wrestler is now a 2x Georgia State Champ with her senior year ahead of her.

Mount Pisgah’s Catherine Bertrand (112) took 4th Place in a heartbreaking 5-8 loss to Maryland’s Autumn Flanigan. Bertrand shocked the Georgia Single-A Division this season by choosing to wrestle in the Boys division and finishing with a respectable 4th Place spot.

Tiyahna Askew (144) 1st Place

Catherine Bertrand (112) 4th Place

Alexa Downs 128) 6th Place

Tristen Music (128) 7th Place

Jenna Norfleet (185) 8th Place

Brooke Ligon (144) 8th Place

1st Place- New York / 226.5 Points / 2 Champs

2nd Place- Virginia / 220.5 Points  / 2 Champs

3rd Place- New Jersey / 214.5 Points / 4 Champs

4th Place- North Carolina / 199 Points /

5th Place- Georgia / 191 / 1 Champ

The Sherlock brothers have been making waves in Georgia since their arrival and narrowly missed having both brothers in the finals. Instead it was 80 lb Emmett Sherlock who made it to the Finals and pulled off the stunning 1-0 victory over West Virginia’s Breydon Wharton for his first National title.

Emmitt Sherlock (80) 1st Place

Omaury Alvarez (165) 2nd Place

Anthony Mannella (142) 3rd Place

Tyson Sherlock (85) 4th Place

Hoke Poe (135) 4th Place

Zander McClain (180) 5th Place

Nate Askew (80) 5th Place

Jake Crapps (100) 5th Place

Noah Danforth (85) 6th Place

Tyler Nelson (119) 8th Place

Jacob Bond (75) 8th Place

Emil Necula (127) 8th Place