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2010-11 Viewmont Invitational

Our Wrestling Lions experienced success, although somewhat bittersweet, at the Viewmont Invitational Tournament. Payson Crowned 4 individual champions and placed 4th overall. The downside is that we placed higher last year with a 2nd. The team placement is great considering that we resulted ahead of Millard and Delta. Coming off two losses to Millard, it felt good to lead by 40 points. Of the 26 teams, the tournament is attended by the best in the state of the 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A classifications. Box Elder took the Championship with 256.5 points. Layton 2nd with 229.0. Mountain Crest 3rd at 207.5 and Payson 198.5 total points.
Individually, Payson finished with 4 Champions. Mitch Brown 119 lbs, Jed Mellen 125 lbs, Cole ford 130 and Brady Loveless 171 lbs. Mitch Brown dominated Kyle Shepherd (Viewmont) and ended the match win a pin. His enthusiastic style earned him the title of Outstanding Wrestler of the lower weights. Congrats Mitch! Jed Mellen Solidly outdistanced Kenny Astle (Layton) with a 12-1 championship victory. In the same fashion, Cole Ford beat up Brett Naylor (Davis) 7-1.
Brady Loveless faced an extreme challenge as his match-up was a recently moved to Utah opponent. Brandon Mcbride (Olympus) had a list of accomplishments that was truly staggering! I do not recall all, but what I did hear was that he was a multiple Greco Roman, Freestyle National Champion and Illinois State Champ. Brady and this kid both started the match undefeated. Only one could walk away still undefeated and that was Brady with an 8-6 Victory. It was Brady’s superior balance and focused determination that helped him succeed. There was definitely shock and disappointment when the upper weights outstanding wrestler picked was not Brady.
Freshman Hagen Loveless placed third with a Major Decision 13-5 over #1 seed Nick Sorensen (Millard). Hagen originally lost to Sorensen but reversed his loss with this super finish. Wrestling with a lower back injury, Zac Loveless suffered and early loss to the Champion Brayden Humpherys (Layton) but fought back to beat Rasten Yeates (Box Elder) 3-2 for a Third. Kaelen Loveless suffered very close loss that kept him out of the championship by Cole Sorensen (Mountain Crest) Kaelen wrestled back for a fourth place.
Congrats to Dustin Nielson for taking the Championship JV medal at 112 lbs. He gained his championship by defeating Alex Romero (Bingam) with a superior 17-0 victory!


Championship Match pin (119)Brown, payson vs. Shepard, viewmont

Championship Match 12-1 (125) Mellen, payson vs. Astle, layton

Championship Match 7-1 (130)Ford, payson vs. Naylor, davis

Championship Match 8-6 (171)Loveless, Payson vs. Mcbride, olympus

(JV) Weston Orton, 3rd place

(JV) Dustin Nielson, Champion

(JV) Will Ford, 3rd place

(JV) Dustin Sorenson, 3rd place

(JV) Devan Judd, 3rd place

(JV) Weston Johnson, 5th place

(Varsity) Hagen Loveless, 3rd place

(Varsity) Mitch Brown, Champion

(Varsity) Jed Mellen, Champion

(Varsity) Cole Ford, Champion

(Varsity) Zac Loveless, 3rd Place

(Varsity) Kaelen Loveless, 4th place

(Varsity) Brady Loveless, Champion

Individual Champions at the Viewmont Invitationals 2010-11

Jed Mellen, Brady Loveless and Mitch Brown remain undefeated.

Mitch Brown was awarded "most outstanding" wrestler in the lower weights

Payson 59, Springville 23

Great win Lions!!!
(103) Hagen Loveless Forfeit
(112) Dustin Neilson Forfeit
(119) Mitch Brown (won by pin) vs Cesar Qurrada
(125) Jed Mellen Forfeit
(130) Cole Ford (won by pin) vs Scott Smith
(135) Zac Loveless (won 23/6)vs Josh Campbell
(140) Austin Riding Forfeit
(145) Kaelen Loveless (won by pin) vs Martin Malkey
(152) Jordon Mellen (loss by pin) vs Brock Dalton
(160) Taris Schramm (loss by pin) vs Dustin Jenkins
(171) Brady Loveless (won by pin) vs Jon Britt
(189) Dalton Judd (won by pin) vs Aaron Brown
(215) Derick Johnson (loss by pin) vs Steven Gueck
(HVY) Bronson Garcia (loss by pin) vs Seth Cranford

Payson's (119) Mitch Brown

Payson's (130) Cole Ford

Payson's (135) Zac Loveless

Payson's (145) Kaelen Loveless

Payson's (152) Jordon Mellen

Payson's (171) Brady Loveless

Payson's (189) Dalton Judd

Payson's (HVY) Bronson Garcia

Payson takes 2nd at the Juab Winter Classics

Congratulation to our Mighty Lions. Payson took second place at the Juab Winter Classics. Out of a 24 team tournament we only suffered 1 loss against Millard.
This has been an amazing two weeks of wrestling competition. In 2 weeks, most of our varsity wrestlers have had 21 matches, thats an incredible amount of matches. It is possibly the most any Payson Wrestler has seen in such a short time.
We had 6 undefeated wrestlers at this tournament
(119) Mitch Brown
(125) Jed Mellen
(130) Cole Ford
(135) Zac Loveless
(145) Kaelen Loveless
(171) Brady Loveless
We had several undefeated J.V. Wrestlers
TJ Ricks
Bronson Garcia
Colton Allred
Weston Orton wrestled as an independent, winning 7 out of 8 matches.

Payson's (103)Hagen Loveless



Payson's (112)Dustin Nielson



Payson's (119)Mitch Brown


Payson's (125)Jed Mellen


Payson's (130)Cole Ford


Payson's (135)Zac Loveless




Payson's (140)Austin Riding


Payson's (145)Kaelen Loveless



Payson's (152)Jordon Mellen


Payson's (160)Jake Barker

Payson's (171)Brady Loveless



Payson's (189)Devan Judd


Payson's (215)Derrick Johnson


Payson's (HVW)Doug Seethaler