The NHSCA Folkstyle National Championships are going down this weekend at Virginia Beach, Virginia with over 50 Missouri wrestlers making the trip east this weekend. 52 Missouri wrestlers total will be battling it out against nationally ranked wrestlers from around the USA making this one of the largest amount of Missouri wrestlers making the journey east since the NHSCA has been happening. Wrestling will start Friday morning and conclude with the finals matches Sunday afternoon making this a 3 day event. Each event is divided up by grade for the high school boys, senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman tournaments. The womens tournament will be from 9th grade thur senior class. Middle School will be 7th and 8th grade.
Missouri has 16 seeded wrestlers with 3-#1 seeds in Carter Brown in the Sophomore division, Hank Benter in the Junior division, and Devan Parn in the Junior Division. Kailey Benson did get #2 seed. Kyler Kuhn and Rylan Kuhn got #3 seeds.
Last year’s place winners include 7th: Hank Benter, 6th: Kailey Benson, 7th: Aaiyah Grammer, 8th: Sam Richardson
Below is the complete list of wrestlers listed.
Freshman Boys
106: Jordan Bell #7 seed
113: Riley Sumner #5 seed
120: Jackson Robinson
126: Tyson Ahrens
126: Caleb Frankenberger #9 seed
132: Fischer Barr
138: Cooper Kirkham
145: Riley Betz
145: Chance Ruble #4 seed
152: Kaleb Belcher
160: Jeremiah Clines #8 seed
170: Cohenn Stark
182: Carter Brown #1 seed
285: Kyler Kuhn #3 seed
Sophomore Boys:
106: Eli Porter
113: James Penick
113: Austin Brown #12 seed
120: Cristian Helton
