Sunnyside, Ironwood Ridge send most to wrestling finals

February 10, 2011 by Les Willsey, AZPreps365


Sunnyside advanced five wrestlers and Ironwood Ridge advanced five on Thursday to the finals of the Divsion I and Division II state wrestling tournaments, respectively, at Tim's Toyota Center in Prescott Valley.

Sunnyside wrestlers reaching Friday's finals are: Lucio Murillo (125 pounds), Raul Moraga (130), Andres Piedra (135), Kory DeBerry (152) and Cedric Gonzalez (171).

Desert Vista advanced three to the finals -- Robbie Mathers (125); Kendall Lane (135) and Alex Bambic (215). Chandler (Dalton Brady-112 and Vidal Mejia-119); Cibola (Rafael Jaimes-103 and Adam Ludwin-119);  Highland (Cut Done-130 and Colten Oliver-189) and Mesa (Edgar Verdu-152 and Dorian Coleman-160) have two finalists each.

Ironwood Ridge enters Friday's finals with top-seed Connor Buette (119), No. 4 seed Tate Sandifer (125), No. 4 seed Ruben Valdez (140), No. 2 seed Walker Slaughter and No. 4 seed David Wilson (160) advancing.

Marcos de Niza (Jesus Morales-130 and Adam Pavlenko-215; Cienega (Cristian Sanchez-112 and Joseph Bracamonte-171), Gila Ridge (Alex Jordan-125 and Kevin Jumbeck-160) and Marana Mountain View (Adam Jungbluth-135 and Tanner Waltz-140) advanced two wrestlers each to the Division II finals.

Consolation rounds continue Friday afternoon with the championship bouts set for 7 p.m. at Tim's Toyota Center.