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4A Wrestling Wrap: Curtis' Cuevas Cruising

The Vikings are in 12th place after the first day at the Tacoma Dome.

Curtis is in 12th place following the first day of the Mat Classic at the Tacoma Dome after an up-and-down day in the 4A division.

Eddie Cuevas is leading the way in the 103-pound weight class, cruising into the semifinals with two impressive wins. Cuevas is more confident than he has ever been, according to his coach.

“He’s as confident and as relaxed as I’ve seen him in two years,” Curtis coach Doug Cowan said.

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Cuevas is wrestling in a manner that makes it safe to think he could finish in the top spot, something Cowan does not disagree with.

“The goal is to win it,” Cowan said. “Somebody’s got to be standing on that top rung, it might as well be someone in the blue and white.”

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Curtis also has three wrestlers still vying for a spot as high as third in their weight divisions. Jake Richards in the 140-pound division suffered his only loss to current semi-finalist Mac Hutchinson of Edmonds-Woodway and looks to be in a spot as the favorite for the third place in that division.

Mitch Homeyer (160 pounds) and Kadyn Del Toro (171) are also still in play for a third-place finish after getting wins in their last matches of the first day in the lower bracket.

It’s a slew of the usual suspects at the top of the 4A leaderboard. Lake Stevens is in the drivers seat with a score of 49.5, followed by Moses Lake with 41 points and Graham-Kapowsin with 40 points. Mead had the lead after the first-round, but has fallen back into fourth place with 38.5 points. Tahoma is fifth with 37 points.

It should come down to an interesting race between Lake Stevens and Moses Lake. Lake Stevens has five wrestlers in the semifinal round, while Moses Lakes has an astonishing six wrestlers left with a chance at the state title.

Remarkably the two teams have only one match in the semifinals between one another, which should make for an interesting championship round if the other wrestlers advance (the difference between first and second is four points which could be big in a close race).

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