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  2.  I know that you can get all of the results from Ilinois matman, but it looks like - Oak Park, Plainfield Central ; Lockport;  Edwardsville are teams to look at in division 3;  Montini; Yorkville, Crystal Lake Central and Marmion are tough in Division 2.

 

  3.  Montini placed 4th in the Cheesehead in Wisconsin.  Plainfield Central was 6th, Lockport 7th, Yorkville 12th and New Trier 22nd in this historic 25 team event.  It was won by Applevalley. Minnesota and 2nd was Brandon, Florida.

 

  4.  John Dergo placed 2nd for Illinois at the Las Vegas Open.  The Northern Iowa Open was cancelled due to surface replacement in the dome.  It will go again next year.

 

  5.  Oak Park was 2nd in the Granite City Open behind a Kansas team - Granite City was 4th.

 

  6.  Ali Regan - Granite City has won 100 matches in her career.  She is now a senior at 125 pounds.  Only Mary Kelly of Mahomet and Caitlyn Chase of Glenbard North  and Ali  have made the Championship tournament in Champaign.  None have placed, but Mary was on the 3rd Place Dual Meet team.

 

  7.  The 2010 Hall of Fame Class in Stillwater, Oklahoma on June 4-5 will include:  Dr. Bernard Feldman of Palos Park, who will receive the Order of Merit.  He has served on the USA National and International Teams as Team Physcian since 1983, includding 5 Olympic Games.  Congratulations Doctor.

 

  8.  Tim Fader, head coach at UW-Whitewater has reached the 150 win plateau.

 

  9.  Top colleges in the win column are:  1.  Oklahoma State with 978;  2.  Iowa State with 971;  Oregon State: 932;  Springfield College:  913;  Iowa U>:  854;  Minnesota:  851;  Navy:  834 and Lehigh: 808.

 

10.  Nathan Everhart - Tinley Park and Indiana U. Won the 285 class at the Southern Scuffle.

 

11.  Mike Benefiel - Montini and Oklahoma State was named OW at the Reno Open.  He won at 184 - Team Title to Oklahoma State.

 

12.  Iowa U. won the 47th Midlands Title for the third time in a row with Iowa State 2nd, followed by Central Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.  Placewinners from Illinois include:  Brandon Precin, unattached for Northwestern was 3rd at 125.  He is now 8213 in the Midlands;  Kyle Hutter - was 3rd at 133 for Old Dominion;  N;ick Fanthorpe was 5th for Iowa State at 133.  Nick is now 2225 in the Midlands;  Jimmy Kennedy - Unattached for Illinois was 2nd at 141.  He is now 2432 in the Midlands;  Ryan Prater was 5th for Illinois at 141;  Duke Burke was 6th at 174 for Iowa State;  John Dergo was Champion at 184 for Illinois.  John is now 6681 at the Midlands;  Jerome Ward was 7th at 184 for Iowa State.  He is now 87 in the Midlands.  Illinois had 8 placewinners with 1 Champion.

 

13.  Iowa and Pennsylvania each had 11 natives placing in the Midlands and each had two champions.  Illinois was third with 8-1;  Michigan was 7-2, New Jersey 7-0;  Missouri 5-0; California 4-l;  Wisconsin, New York, Oregon and Utah were all 3-0 and Colorado was 2-1.  11 States were 1-0.

 

14.  The fastes fall went to Nate Moore of Iowa at 133;  The most falls went to Ryan Maio of  Williams College at 197;  The Highest points scored - 32 by Brent Metcalf of Iowa t 149;  Champion of Champions went to Steve Fittery of American University at 157 and the Dan Gable OW to Brent Metcalf of Iowa at 149. 

 

15.  The Midlands was well run, well officiated - all in all an excellent tournament.  It had 378 entries.  Too bad some of the closer teams opted out for the Southern scuffle, but that is always going to be a problem. Anyway there were some great matches,  a few upsets, if you want to call them upsets.

 

16.  The following men will be the recipients of Awards in 2010.  Grand Marshals at the State Tournament will be:  Dave Mathews - Hinsdale Central;  Dennis McCann - Gordon Tech and Maine South;  Rich Montgomery - Sterling Newman and Rock Falls and James Patton - Woodstock.   The Life Time Achievement Awards will go to:  Bernie Botheroyd of Glenbard West;  Mark Johnson, University of Illinois;  Pat O’Connor - Glassford-Illini Bluffs;  Henry Pillard - Joliet Junior College;  Walter Sherman - Glenbrook South;  Robert Strange - Lawrenceville and William Young - Naperville Central.   The New Hall of Fame Inductees will include:  Fred Arkin - Oak Park;  Dan Carroll - St. Rita;  James Chalupka - Chicago;  Terry Clarke - York;  Ron Coit - Farmer City;  Bob Grizzi - Reavis;  Marty Kaiser - Rockton-Hononegah;  Robert Long - Yorkville;  Foster McCarthy - Champaign Central;  Tom Seeman - Crystal Lake Central;  Jeff Simon - Peoria Richwoods;  Dr. Wayne Watson - Chicago and Neil Weiner - Wheeling.  Congratulations to All.

 

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