Alabama 1A-4A Boys Individual State Team Pre-Season Preview

1. Weaver
   • Returning Points – 120.5
   • Graduating Points – 33 
   • Last year finish – Second
   • This year prediction – Champion

This one isn’t super complicated, Weaver returns almost an entire team of State qualifiers, 10, with only one who didn’t score points last year. Four of their athletes scored 15 points, or better, including 132 lb Champion, Haiden Hise, Dylan Brown, second place finisher at 165, Cale Fulmer (126) and Gianluca Torres (150) who both placed third. Zachary Hooks (190) finished out this group of high scorers with a fifth place finish. Their other two state placers were Dalton Fink (138) fifth and Gabriel Snyder (144) sixth.

All in, Weaver returns a staggering 120.5 of their 153.5 points from last year, more than our very confident prediction for the 6A Champion, Athens. While most of these wrestlers won’t be the favorites for their weight classes starting out, they are set to move further up the podium, and stack up more bonus points on the way.

Count	Weight	Wrestler Name	School	24-25 Record	25-26 Grade	24-25 Placement	24-25 Points
1	106	Davon Marbury	Weaver	42-25	10	Qualifier	5
2	113	Aiden Overton	Weaver	25-30	9	Qualifier	0
3	120	Peyton Andrews	Weaver	27-14	10	Qualifier	2
4	126	Cael Fulmer	Weaver	39-12	10	Third	15.5
5	132	Haiden Hise	Weaver	43-8	10	Champion	27
6	138	Dalton Fink	Weaver	41-13	12	Fifth	12
7	144	Gabriel Snyder	Weaver	42-15	10	Sixth	7
8	150	Gianluca Torres	Weaver	46-15	12	Third	16
9	165	Dylan Brown	Weaver	44-9	10	Second	20
10	190	Zachary Hooks	Weaver	20-7	11	Fifth	16

2. Tallassee
   • Returning Points – 98 
   • Graduating Points – 108
   • Last year finish – Champion 
   • This year prediction – Second

Tallassee earns the second place spot based on their 3 returning Champions who are all setup pretty well to repeat this year, Thomas Patterson (106), Tra`mel Mccoy (165) and Nolan Addeo (215). That means we are getting 75+- points guaranteed with this lineup before even considering the rest of the lineup. To say the rest of the team “only” return four more qualifiers sounds a little funny, but with Weaver returning 10, this does feel a little light. Out of those returners they have two additional placers, fifth place finisher Brady Adams (157) and sixth place finisher Aiden Bridgman (132).

Even with this great returning core, Tallassee lost a lot from last year, 108 points, from their State Championship team. They will need a major reload, and their lower scoring returners to score significantly more points to take down Weaver this year.

Count	Weight	Wrestler Name	School	24-25 Record	25-26 Grade	24-25 Placement	24-25 Points
1	106	Thomas Patterson	Tallassee	50-2	11	Champion	24
2	126	Dylan Price	Tallassee	43-16	11	Qualifier	7
3	132	Aiden Bridgman	Tallassee	41-19	12	Sixth	7
4	144	Avery Brantley	Tallassee	48-5	12	Qualifier	0
5	157	Brady Adams	Tallassee	41-8	10	Fifth	11
6	165	Tra`mel Mccoy	Tallassee	45-4	12	Champion	26
7	215	Nolan Addeo	Tallassee	48-2	12	Champion	23

3. Oak Grove
   • Returning Points – 104.5
   • Graduating Points – 8.5
   • Last year finish – Third
   • This year prediction – Third

Oak Grove could very easily have been second on this list, and are actually returning more points (104.5) then Tallassee (98). That being said they are only losing 8.5 points and only returning 5 qualifiers. This sets up as a team that is not likely to see a ton of reinforcements on the State Championship stage. The road to the top of the podium as a team would require the same thing from all of their returning placers, all five of whom finished in the top 3, David Hill (126) Champion, Micah Woodman (120) and Ethan Jones (150) second and Kellen Mitchell (106) and Christian Hill (113) third.

The issue we see is that all of them will likely have to beat one, or two, wrestlers who finished higher on the podium last year to get there. Based on that, and the abundance of returners for the first two teams on this list, we see this as the right spot for Oak Grove in our pre-season rankings.

Count	Weight	Wrestler Name	School	24-25 Record	25-26 Grade	24-25 Placement	24-25 Points
1	106	Kellen Mitchell	Oak Grove	43-5	9	Third	17.5
2	113	Christian Hill	Oak Grove	47-6	9	Third	17
3	120	Micah Woodman	Oak Grove	40-6	10	Second	21
4	126	David Hill	Oak Grove	51-0	11	Champion	29
5	150	Ethan Jones	Oak Grove	40-6	12	Second	20

4. Alexandria HS
   • Returning Points – 81.5
   • Graduating Points – 25
   • Last year finish – Fourth
   • This year prediction – Fourth

Alexandria HS is an interesting team with 8 returning qualifiers, including 4 placers, Jeremy Lambert (106) and Ryker Houston (113) both placed second, Hudson Hartzog (120) third and Johnathan Santos (126) sixth. With that many returning qualifiers, and placers, you would probably expect them to be higher on this list.

There are two reasons we didn’t rank this group higher this year:

1. Five of the qualifiers didn’t score significant points last year.
2. Their returning qualifiers come from 150 and under.

Putting those two together, we don’t see the pathway for a significant uptick in points to catch the other 3. Why? Because the same weights return a very high percentage of their qualifiers and placers. While we have already seen these weights will spread out a little this year, it will take a lot of the correct alignment to get the points where they need to be for Alexandria to overcome what we see as guaranteed increase for the first three teams.

Count	Weight	Wrestler Name	School	24-25 Record	25-26 Grade	24-25 Placement	24-25 Points
1	106	Jeremy Lambert	Alexandria HS	39-4	10	Second	21.5
2	113	Ryker Houston	Alexandria HS	59-8	8	Second	23.5
3	120	Hudson Hartzog	Alexandria HS	48-6	10	Third	19.5
4	126	Johnathan Santos	Alexandria HS	42-12	10	Sixth	8
5	132	Haydenen Hartzog	Alexandria HS	42-15	11	Qualifier	2
6	138	Dion Guy	Alexandria HS	33-11	10	Qualifier	0
7	144	Jaden Whittaker	Alexandria HS	40-21	11	Qualifier	6
8	150	Corey Owens	Alexandria HS	44-17	11	Qualifier	1

5. Ashville
   • Returning Points – 30
   • Graduating Points – 30
   • Last year finish – Sixth
   • This year prediction – Fifth

This group is. a little unique, once you get past the top four, there is not a lot of returning fire power. We could see some shifting with the top four, but would be very surprised to see anyone from outside that list find their way in. Taking that into account, we went with the team that looks to have the most potential to lock up this final spot.

Asheville finished sixth last year, and are returning 4 points scorers from that group, including fourth place finisher Brady Thrash (215). We see a pathway for all of their qualifiers to improve placements this year allowing them to lock up the final spot in this year’s top 5.

Count	Weight	Wrestler Name	School	24-25 Record	25-26 Grade	24-25 Placement	24-25 Points
1	120	Gavin Crawford	Ashville	44-14	11	Qualifier	5
2	132	Owen Meads	Ashville	47-14	12	Qualifier	4
3	138	Trevor Wicks	Ashville	50-10	12	Qualifier	5
4	190	Trent Horsley	Ashville	37-20	11	Qualifier	0
5	215	Brady Thrash	Ashville	46-5	12	Fourth	16