Ray Shoaf
Preview of the 21st Annual CFISD tournament at the Berry Center in Houston home of the UIL state tournament now just 7 weeks away. One of the biggest UIL tournament in Texas with 90 boys’ teams from around the state all Texas teams and no Prep teams, just a mixture of the 5A and 6A teams. Only 3 top 10 ranked 5A teams and 2, 6A teams #3-5A Comal Smithson Valley, #5-5A Midlothian, #9-5A Uvalde, #5-6A Southlake Carroll, #5-6A Houston Westside are in the 90-team lineup. It can also be argued as the toughest tournament albeit most of the top teams will be at the Texas Outlaw in Allen. Regardless the 6A boys bring 132 top 20 ranked wrestlers and the 5A boys bring 48 top 20 ranked wrestlers. This tournament will be tough, and the wrestler who makes it through the bracket to the finals will be a well-earned champion. This tournament is a majority of 6A teams. This tournament also gives teams a look at other wrestlers in the weight class that they might not have seen or will not see again until state.
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Granted a lot of wrestlers might be dropping weight after the Holiday break but below we go through each weight and preview the top 5 ranked wrestlers from the latest rankings and our predictions. Starting with the lower weights 106-144.
106lbs Weight Class (Boys)
This weight has a total of 17 top 20 ranked wresters with 6 coming from 5A. The top ranked wrestlers here for 6A is #2 Dylan Ota of Southlake Carroll whose only loss of the season is a narrow decision against Allen’s Maddox Tindel in a 1-0 decision. Followed by #4 ranked Jack Roland of Rockwall-Heath whose only Texas loses are to Ota, and Chali Perkison of St Marks Prep School. The top 5A wrestlers are #4 Isaiah Deleon of Corpus Christi King who has only lost to the #3-6A wrestler Brandon Patillo of College Park, #3-5A wrestler Lucas Early of Humbvle Kingwood, and last tournament at 113lbs to Luis Vela of CC Veterans Memorial the #7 ranked 5A wrestler. #5 ranked Esteban Vela of CC veterans Memorial rounds out the top 5 ranked wrestlers. My underdog, if you want to call it that, is undefeated Hector Ortiz of El Paso Eastwood who hasn’t had any match ups with any top ranked wrestlers in Texas to move up the ladder.
Top Overall Picks: 106lbs Weight Class (Boys)
- 1st Dylan Ota
- 2nd Hector Ortiz
- 3rd Jack Roland
- 4th Fernando Morales
Top 20 ranked wrestlers: 106lbs Weight Class (Boys)
(Weight Name School Rank Class)
- 106 Dylan Ota Southlake Carroll 2 6A
- 106 Isaiah Deleon Corpus Christi King 4 5A
- 106 Jack Roland Rockwall-Heath 4 6A
- 106 Esteban Vela CC Veterans Memorial 5 5A
- 106 Fernando Morales Houston Clear Lake 9 6A
- 106 Malaki Mendoza Northwest 10 5A
- 106 Christian Aranda Klein Oak 11 6A
- 106 Kenneth Nichols Klein 12 6A
- 106 Corinthian Coleman Frndswd Clear Brook 13 6A
- 106 Jacob Uriegas Cibolo Steele 15 6A
- 106 Hudson Chilton Comal Smithson Valley 16 5A
- 106 Hector Ortiz El Paso Eastwood 16 6A
- 106 Jaime Gomez Humble 17 6A
- 106 Paul Dorsey Richmond Foster 18 5A
- 106 Geronimo Hernandez San Antonio Churchill 18 6A
- 106 Anthony Mendoza Rosenberg Terry 19 5A
- 106 Maverick Rojas South Grand Prairie 20 6A
