Best of the Best: Germaine Lindsey

(above): This win over #1 ranked Shawn Harris has been the highlight of a great season for Germaine Lindsey. Photo Credit: Bob Tuneberg, Villager News

Best of the Best: Germaine Lindsey

The returning third place state finisher has quietly put together an outstanding season.  While he got off to a slow start, including a lopsided 13-6 loss to Michael Lybarger, Lindsey has been dynamite the second half of the season, including wins over nationally ranked Shawn Harris and Vince Ramos (IL).  This was a very close call, with Bo Touris and Muhammad Abdur-Rahman also meriting consideration.

Victim of the Draw: DeRicheen Dukes, Cincinnati Princeton.

No wrestler in this District is more “snakebitten” than two-time state qualifier DeRicheen Dukes.  #9 Dukes faces one of the state’s top freshman in #5 Pierce Harger in the quarterfinals.  Harger is a solid favorite in this match as he has recent wins over #6 Tommy Pretty and #1 in Division II (Cordell Longstreath).  If he loses that match, he will have the loser of either #3 Ryan Fields or #6 Pretty.  Pretty defeated Dukes 9-0 at SWOWCA.  Ironically, the best thing that could happen to Dukes would be for him to lose his first round match against unranked but tough Graham Campbell.  Should that happen, Dukes would most likely faces unranked freshman Jesse Walker in the “go-to-state” match- a wrestler with 13 losses despite a mediocre schedule.  

Toughest Weight: Without question, 119 lbs.

Weakest Weight:  Without question, the weakest of the 56 District Weight Classes I reviewed was the 171 lb. class at this District.  After #3 Gaier and #21 O’Connell, no other wrestler even merited consideration for a top 25 ranking.

103 LBS
1. #7 Jacob Farber
2. #10 Tyler Giffin
3. #14 Tyler Riegle
4. #16 Jacob Corrill
5. Bryan Corbett
6. Zach Geberick

112 LBS
1. #1 Bo Touris
2. #12 Zach Sherman
3.  Vince Mulvaney
4. #20 Jared Olson
5. #25 Alex Freed
6. Jesse Myers

Other Contenders: Cameron Phillips, Robert Shepherd

119 LBS
1. #3 Ryan Fields
2. #5 Pierce Harger
3. #6 Tommy Pretty
4. #24 Rollan Meade
5. #9 DeRicheen Dukes
6. Jesse Walker

Other Contenders: Graham Campbell

125 LBS
1. #5 Justin McCoy
2. #15 Kyle Krummert
3. #18 Adam Wallander
4. Daniel Yin
5. Ryan Moore
6. Nate Hall

Other Contenders: Kyle Groh

130 LBS
1. #14 Tyler Green
2. #21 Matt Melink
3. #22 Eric Hotopp
4. Chris Newberry
5. Drew Freed
6. Tom Fehring

135 LBS
1. #7 T.J. Rigel
2. #18 Trevor Nickolai
3. #13 John Gallagher
4. #17 Adam Myers
5. #20 Michael Sheppard
6. #23 Derek Dooley

Other Contenders: #25 Tim Pope

140 LBS
1. #2 Germaine Lindsey
2. #23  Dominic Gorrasi
3. #16 Jesse Stevens
4.  Thomas Torres
5. Randy Burgdorf
6. Ross Cable

145
1. #5 Eric Gobin
2. #7 Ryan Brownlee
3. Lou Carraher
4. Colin Nickolai
5. Matt Prater
6. Tony Pope

152
1. #2 Muhammad Abdur-Rahman
2. #3 Tommy Weinkam
3. Chad Kline
4. John Puttman
5. Justin Sneary
6. Buddy Stapleton

160
1. #3 Mike Mahon
2. #17 Casey Newburg
3. #23 Carl Christy
4. #24 Ian Matthews
5. Drew Schoenling
6. Radames Riveria

171
1. #3 Dean Gaier
2. #21 T.J. O’Connell
3. John Sheffield
4. Tommy Krueger
5. Matt Hofmeyer
6. Blake Black

189
1. #4 Dan Canfield
2. #8 Nathan Jones
3. #10 Brandon Massie
4. #21 Derek Mincy
5. Rick Weatherholt
6. Andrew Borgstrom

215
1. #7 Andrew Tumlin
2. #9 Orlando Scales
3. #11 Ross Quehl
4. #14 George Emmons
5. Christopher Holcomb
6. Amin Rababah

285
1. #2 Frank Becker
2. #6 Dave Gudmunson
3. #11 Matt Pritchard
4. #21 Josh Kline
5. #22 Zac Sandless
6. Luke Karle

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