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    Cadet world champs Brooks, Kerkvliet highlight UWW Junior freestyle winners at 2018 U.S. Open

    Daniel Kerkvliet (Photo/Larry Slater)
    LAS VEGAS -- 2017 Cadet World champions Aaron Brooks and Daniel Kerkvliet won UWW Junior freestyle national titles on Saturday morning at the 2018 Marines Corps U.S. Open to earned automatic bids to the Junior Freestyle World Team Trials, which will be held May 18-20 in Rochester, Minn.

    Both World champs teched their opponents in their final bouts as Brooks put up a 14-3 win over Michael Labriola at 79 kilograms, and Kerkvliet earned a quick 10-0 victory over Zach Elam at 97 kg.

    Of his five matches, Brooks, who will take a year to train at the OTC next year, won four of them with technical falls.

    Oklahoma State commit Kerkvliet was perfect this weekend, not giving up a single point to outscore his opponents, 41-0, collectively.

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    57 kg:
    1st: Brandon Courtney dec. Malik Heinselman, 10-3
    3rd: Paul Bianchi tech. fall Gavin Teasdale, 17-6
    5th: Sidney Flores pinned Ty Smith, 1:51
    7th: Rayvon Foley tech. fall Gage Curry, 23-12

    61 kg:
    1st: Austin Gomez tech. fall Jordan Decatur, 14-4
    3rd: Joshua Saunders dec. Vitali Arujau, 10-8
    5th: Mcgwire Midkiff by injury default over Gabriel Tagg
    7th: Derek Spann pinned Jack Skudlarczyk, 3:31

    65 kg:
    1st: Dominick Demas dec. Max Murin, 10-3
    3rd: Andrew Alirez pinned Kaden Gfeller, 2:41
    5th: Kanen Storr pinned Kendall Coleman, 1:51
    7th: Yahya Thomas dec. Michael Blockhus, 7-0

    70 kg:
    1st: Austin O'Connor dec. Brady Berge, 2-2
    3rd: Jacori Teemer tech. fall David Carr, 12-2
    5th: Brayton Lee tech. fall Jaden Van maanen, 16-5
    7th: Brock Mauller dec. AJ Jaffe, 6-2

    74 kg:
    1st: Jeremiah Moody dec. Dustin Plott, 8-6
    3rd: Jarrett Jacques by forfeit over Kaleb Romero
    5th: Mehki Lewis dec. Tyler Dow, 15-8
    7th: Andrew Merola tech fall Hayden Hastings, 13-2

    79 kg:
    1st: Aaron Brooks tech. fall Michael Labriola, 14-3
    3rd: Beau Breske tech fall Matthew Finesilver, 10-0
    5th: Travis Stefanik dec. Trent Hidlay, 6-3
    7th: Travis Wittlake dec. Ethan Smith, 8-8

    86 kg:
    1st: Lou Deprez tech. fall Nino Bonaccorsi, 12-2
    3rd: Jelani Embree by injury default over Kordell Norfleet
    5th: Max Lyon tech. fall Cameron Caffey, 10-0
    7th: Michael Beard tech. fall Myles Wilson, 10-0

    92 kg:
    1st: Jacob Warner tech. fall John Borst, 10-0
    3rd: Jakob Woodley tech. fall Jacob Raschka, 12-3
    5th: Alex Hopkins dec. Danny Salas, 8-8
    7th: Lucas Davison pinned Cade Belshay, 2:46

    97 kg:
    1st: Daniel Kerkvliet tech. fall Zach Elam, 10-0
    3rd: Quinn Miller by injury default over Matthew Correnti
    5th: Hunter Dejong by injury default over Jake Boyd
    7th: Cale Davidson tech. fall Owen Trephan, 10-0

    125 kg:
    1st: Gannon Gremmel dec. Brandon Metz, 16-8
    3rd: Trent Hillger dec. Seth Nevills, 8-3
    5th: Kayne Hutchison tech. fall Robert Winters, 14-4
    7th: Bobby Heald dec. Christian Rebottaro, 10-4

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