The Midlands and Soldier Salute Recaps
The ILLINI Wrestling team broke up into two teams for dueling tournaments that started on Sunday. Most of the team went to the Midlands.
That crew included Dylan Connell, Jake Harrier, Caden Ernd, Charlie Fifield, Caelan Riley, Brian Beers, Kole Brower, William Baysingar and true Freshmen Anthony Ruzic, Jayden Colon, Ryan Bennett and redshirt Freshman Antonio Alvarado.
A second team consisting of Chris Moore, Logan Swaw and Danny Nini headed over to the Soldier Salute. What follows is a short recap of how the ILLINI did.
THE MIDLANDS
The leading scorers for the team that went to the Midlands were:
Dylan Connell 4.5
Jake Harrier 2.0
Jayden Colon 2.0
Charlie Fifield 1.5
Kole Brower 1.0
Caden Ernd 0.5
William Baysingar 0.5
Ryan Bennett 0.5
Connell had the most success until an injury caused him to medical forfeit out of the tournament. We half-jokingly and half-seriously suggested he avoid the Midlands and NOW Arena for the rest of his life, as he had a similar injury last year at the tournament.
There are videos below of Connell, Brower and Colon as they had first round victories. There's an additional video of Dylan at the top of this post because he took his second-to-last opponent up high and planted him right in front of the camera.
MIDLAND VIDEOS
THE SOLDIER SALUTE
The only good things about the Soldier Salute were the announcers Jim Gibbons and Shane Sparks. They were professional as always. On the other hand, we found it impossible to navigate the bout board, which did not provide mat assignments for any of the matches.
The bout board did have one convenient feature: It let you know the nationality of each wrestler. Coincidentally, they were all American.
As for the three ILLINI who made the trip, both Chris Moore and Danny Nini won two matches apiece, while Logan Swaw won a match.
SOLDIER SALUTE VIDEO
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