The Viewmont Vikings are the reigning Region 1 and 5A state wrestling champions. This year was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Someone didn’t deliver the memo because Viewmont’s right back on top after winning the Region 1 wrestling tournament this past week at Viewmont. The Vikes ended up cruising to the victory with 325 overall team points. Davis, who recently beat Viewmont head to head and was considered by many as the team to beat in 5A this year, came in a distant second tallying 267.5 team points. The overall standings ended up: 1. Viewmont, 325. 2. Davis, 267.5. 3. Weber, 252.5. 4. Northridge, 215. 5. Clearfield, 206. 6.Layton, 145. 7. Fremont, 107.

Where Viewmont really dominated was in the middle weight-classes ranging from 112 to 152 pounds. Mason Milligan also helped the Vikings control the 215-pound weight-class. Here is how each weight-class championship fared.

103 lbs.

Rhett Keaton of Davis defeated Casey Brunson of Clearfield in a 10-3 decision to win the region crown in the 103-pound weight-class. 1- Keaton (D), 2- Brunson (CL), 3- Gunther (V), 4- Gardner (W), 5- Bench (N), 6- Mann (D).

112 lbs.

Shay Warren of Weber is back for another run at the state title after pinning and defeating his main Region One rival, Viewmont’s Casey Smoot, for the 112-pound league title. 1- Warren (W), 2- Smoot (V), 3- Betts (N), 4- Jackson (V), 5- Stanger (CL), 6- McKay (D).

119 lbs.

Spencer Smoot got to the championship match against Davis’ Josh Baker by winning his semifinal match by virtue of Wayndon Veater’s (Weber) disqualification.

Smoot of Viewmont didn’t use that as a crutch and defeated Baker in the championship match 9-4 on decision. 1- Smoot (V), 2- Baker (D), 3- Crow (CL), 4- Godfrey (V), 5- James Ito (N), 6- Veater (W).

125 lbs.

Aaron Ross of Weber and Richard Winger of Viewmont put on a pretty good show in the championship match, but Ross was just too much for Winger in the 10-5 decision victory for the Warrior. 1- Ross (W), 2- Winger (V), 3- Hummel (CL), 4- Spencer Ito (N), 5- Hancock (F), 6- Parke (D).

130 lbs.

Davis’ Sean Porter dominated this weight-class and goes into the state tournament as the favorite to defend his 2004 state wrestling crown.

The sophomore defeated Northridge’s Cole Unsworth 10-4 by decision to win the region title. 1- Porter (D), 2- Unsworth (N), 3- Ellsworth (CL), 4- Larsen (V), 5- Stanger (CL), 6- Byington (V).

135 lbs.

Shay Lawrence of Viewmont was also dominating in his performances on his way to the region title over Davis’ Todd Squires on a 6-2 decision.

Lawrence will also be defending his 2004 state title this weekend at UVSC. 1- Lawrence (V), 2- Squires (D), 3- Moat (L), 4- O’Dell (W), 5- Timothy (V), 6-Rigby (N).

140 lbs.

Northridge senior Jake Bastian came in and showed why he’s prepared to improve on his sixth place finish in the 2004 state tournament with a big pin victory over Weber’s Lew Woolsey for the Region One title. 1- Bastian (N), 2- Woolsey (W), 3- Mann (V), 4- Toone (F), 5- McCarty (D), 6- Francom (F).

145 lbs.

Viewmont’s Dylan Nelson defeated Davis’ Kyler McCarty by a very close decision of 9-7 to win the league crown. 1- Nelson (V), 2- McCarty (D), 3- Burgener (CL), 4- Hubbard (W), 5- Stenquist (D), 6- Cooney (W).

152 lbs.

David Wiser of Viewmont handled J.D. Langston of Fremont handily in the championship match. Langston was 13-14 overall coming into the title round and performed admirably in the region meet. 1- Wiser (V), 2- Langston, 3- Evans (D), 4- Rampton (CL), 5- Martin (W), 6- McKinney (N).

160 lbs.

Davis senior Jake Schwab won a close 4-2 decision over Kendall Raddon of Northridge. 1- Schwab (D), 2- Raddon (N), 3- Daniels (L), 4- Wild (N), 5- Tennis (L), 6- Scadden (V).

171 lbs.

Layton’s Ryan Moat won a great overtime decision over Mark Dennis of Northridge for the championship. Moat’s win didn’t come without some controversy though as fans and coaches alike on the Northridge side disputed the win with the officials for several minutes after the match ended.

The displeasure from the Northridge faithful was in fact so loud that one of the parents was asked to leave the arena and the Knights were deducted one overall team point for the parental outrage. 1- Moat (L), 2- Dennis (N), 3- Taylor (D), 4- Krebs (F), 5- Johnson (V), 6- White (D).

189 lbs.

Weber junior Jorge Lopez is looking to improve on his 2004 third place state finish. His 10-4 decision victory over Tyson Reed of Layton was Lopez’s first step in winning the 2005 state title. 1- Lopez (W), 2- Reed (L), 3- Tracy (W), 4- Kearsley (CL), 5- Johnson (D), 6- Holgreen (V).

215 lbs.

Josh Skoglie of Weber is one of the best stories of this year’s Utah state championships. He is deaf and continually got support in sign language from the Weber sidelines while defeating Viewmont’s Mason Milligan 5-3 for the Region One crown. 1- Skoglie (W), 2- Milligan (V), 3- Bench (CL), 4- Baker (N), 5- Ellis (V), 6- Humphreys (CL).

275 lbs.

Austin Curtis of Layton was pretty much in control of the championship match against Jaden Briskey of Weber the entire time. The senior Lancer ended up winning 9-2 on decision. 1- Curtis (L), 2- Briskey (W), 3- Mortensen (V), 4- Ray (L), 5- Garcia (CL), 6- Oram (F).

The state championships will be held this weekend at the McKay Events Center in Orem on the UVSC campus.