Key Points
  • Cleveland High School from Tennessee won the 11th annual Osceola Knockout Christmas Classic wrestling tournament in Florida, beating defending champions South Dade.
  • The tournament featured wrestlers from several states and is regarded as the most prestigious regular season event in the Southeast.
  • Cleveland produced seven medal winners, including 165-pound champion Logan Fowler, and the team's head coach, Joey Knox, expressed satisfaction with their performance.
  • Cleveland has a remarkable record, winning six consecutive Tennessee state championships and achieving a 128-dual meet win streak. It also made history by winning boys and girls wrestling state championships in the same year.
  • Four wrestlers, including South Dade senior Sawyer Bartelt, Osceola senior Anderson Heap, Bufford junior Drew Gorman, and Mill Creek junior Dominic Bambinelli, repeated as Knockout champions this year.
  • Sawyer Bartelt became only the third wrestler to win four consecutive Knockout championships, achieving this feat after signing with Iowa State.
  • Anderson Heap won his second consecutive Knockout Classic title and his third overall, expressing his focus on winning the state championship.
  • Drew Gorman, a two-time Georgia state champion, repeated as Knockout champion and emphasized the competitiveness of the tournament.
  • Several other individual wrestlers also secured titles in their respective weight classes.