Orem, UT — The action was fast and furious at the 2012 ASICS USA Wrestling Kids Nationals Tuesday.

A total of 585 wrestlers from 36 different states took to the mats at the Utah Valley University UCCU Event Center in Greco-Roman, and after Tuesday’s wrestling five wrestlers still entertain hopes of being Triple Crown winners as wrestling in Freestyle resumes Wednesday at 8:00 a.m.

Those five wrestlers are Lance Keneley of Green Valley Wrestling Club (Nevada) who won the Intermediate 120-pound plus division, Patrick Samson of Pounders (California) who won the 60-pound Novice division, Theorius Robison of Parker Sons of Thunder (Colorado) who won the 80-pound Novice division, Peyton Robb of PINnacle (Minnesota) who won the 90-pound Novice division and Owen Webster, also of PINnacle (Minnesota), who won the Schoolboy/girl 128-pound division.

Keneley was dominant as he won two bouts by pin and one by injury default to cruise to a title.

Samson survived a bracket with 15 wrestlers and a close match with Emily Shilson (Minnesota) 1-1, 2-0 to come away with the gold medal. Shilson then lost to Idaho’s Darrick Stacey by pin to finish third.

Robison navigated through a field of 20 wrestlers to win his title as he bested Utah’s Gentry Warner via a pin in just 55 seconds.

Robb moved up a weight class since Cedar Falls but had no problems winning his championship final with a technical fall 6-0, 6-0 win over Utah’s Lance Jensen. Robb’s closest match actually came in the quarterfinals when he survived a match with David Montes 5-0, 4-4, 0-0.

Webster had a back and forth bout with David San Miguel of California but finally prevailed in a three-round affair. Webster won the first round of the series 4-1, but San Miguel took the second one 4-4 (criteria) then Webster bounced back with a 1-0 win in the third period to get to the top of the podium.

2011 Triple Crown winner Travis Wittlake (Oregon), who lost to Utah’s Brock Hardy at the Folkstyle Nationals earlier this spring, thus denying him a Triple Crown bid this year, avenged that loss with a 33-second pin. Wittlake and Hardy are developing quite the rivalry as the three met three times last week at the Western Regionals with Wittlake winning all three bouts.

The Beehive State did get some amount of revenge as Taylor LaMont defeated Ohio’s Corey Shie 5-0, 9-0 in the Schoolboy/girl 105-pound division.  Shie had come into the two-day event with high hopes of winning the Triple Crown but ran into LaMont who ended the match with a spectacular 5-point high amplitude throw.

Despite hosting the event Utah was bested in total number of entrants by neighboring state Nevada as the Silver State put 70-wrestlers into the field, Oregon which entered 50 grapplers and California which had 46 wrestlers going in the Greco-Roman tournament. Host Utah was next with 45 participants while Pennsylvania had 34 wrestlers travel over 2000 miles to the Wasatch Front to battle it out in the premier youth wrestling event in Greco-Roman and Freestyle. Despite being halfway across the Pacific Ocean Hawaii entered eight wrestlers while Alaska brought 16 grapplers to test their wares.

2012 USA WRESTLING KIDS NATIONAL GRECO-ROMAN CHAMPIONS

Intermediate Greco-Roman National Champions
50 - Jett Strickenberger of Colorado
55 - Jackson Eller of Colorado
60 - Oakley Ridge of Utah
65 - Robby Vaughn of Washington
70 - Carson Manville of Virginia
75 - Alex Facundo of Michigan
80 - Manuel Rojas of Michigan
87 - Ridge Troupe of Montana
95 - Gaven Murphy of Washington
103 - Geoffrey Kelley of Utah
112 - Justin Darter, Jr. of California
120+ - Lance Keneley of Nevada
120++ - Austin Kelso of Iowa

Novice National Greco-Roman Champions
60 - Patrick Samson of California
65 - Drew Eller of Colorado
70 - Ridge Lovett of Idaho
75 - Colton Yapoujian of Colorado
80 - Theorius Robison of Colorado
85 - Cole Matthews of Pennsylvania
90 - Peyton Robb of Minnesota
95 - James Rogers of Washington
100 - Jace Anderson of Utah
105 - Jake Hendricks of Pennsylvania
112 - Zac Musselman of Utah
120 - Travis Wittlake of Oregon
130 - Gavin Hoffman of Pennsylvania
140 - Santos Cantu of Oregon
140+ - Daniel Bradbury of Alaska

Schoolboy National Greco-Roman Champions
70 - Dylan Koontz of Wisconsin
77 - Brandon Lucas of Ohio
84 - Pat Walker of Illinois
91- Austin Gomez of Illinois
98 - Daton Fix of Oklahoma
105 - Taylor LaMont of Utah
112 - Isaiah Palomino of California
120 - Jaden Enriquez of California
128 - Owen Webster of Minnesota
136 - Ashton J. Seely of Utah
144 - Wyatt Koelling of Utah
152 - Andrew Berreyesa of Nevada
160 - Gary Jantzer of Oregon
175 - Brian Barnes of Oregon
190 - Jacob Cavins of Indiana
210 - Tyler Burris of Oregon

Bantam Festival Greco-Roman champions
40 - Jacob Cook of Wyoming
45 - Kaistin Vasquez of Hawaii
50 - Chapman McKown of Oklahoma
55 - Avery Allen of Montana
60 - Jadon Skellenger of California
65 - Tainui Kellner of Wyoming
70 - Keagan Bartlett of Wyoming
75 - Darrius Evans of Hawaii
75+ - Kenneth Blackwell of Michigan

Click for complete Kids Nationals Greco-Roman results