Tournament recap · The Columbus Cardinal Fall Open · Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026
Eagle Wrestling Club Soars to Columbus Title With 11 Champions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Nov. 7) — Eagle Wrestling Club put on a show at the Columbus Cardinal Fall Open on Saturday. It crowned 11 champions and won 40 matches on the way to 277.5 team points, 81 ahead of runner-up Grit Wrestling Club. Rising Kingz finished third among 62 teams.
The series' first stop in central Ohio also brought out two 2025 OhioQuest state champions. Pursuit's Eli Walters and Disabito's Xzavior Beach both won their brackets without a loss.
Standouts
Eli Walters, Pursuit. Walters, the 2025 state champion at 92 pounds, went 4-0 to win Open MS Group 2. He opened and closed his day with tech falls of 12-0 and 15-0. In between, he beat Eagle's Michael Zuercher 7-4 in the day's marquee middle school match.
Xzavior Beach, Disabito. Beach, the 2025 state champion at 134 pounds in the Jr. High division, won the eight-man Open HS Group 5 bracket. He beat Muhammed Fakhratov 10-4 in the semifinals, then edged Bloom Carroll's Blake Tabol 6-4 in the final. Beach was a runner-up at Boardman and now has his first series title of the fall.
Josie McCoy and Brentlee Runyon, Rising Kingz. The two led everyone in Columbus with six wins and five pins each. McCoy went a perfect 6-0 to win both Girls 8U and Rookie 8U Group 2. Runyon went 5-0 to take Open 10U Group 1.
Ben Boyle, Eagle Wrestling Club. Boyle won two brackets, Open HS Group 4 and Open MS Group 6, going 5-0 with four pins. Eagle teammates Connor Boyle (Open 12U Group 3) and Andrew Zuercher (Open 10U Group 3) also won titles.
Sterling Budd, Pursuit. Budd was a runner-up at Stow in October. In Columbus he went 3-0 to win Open 10U Group 4, with an overtime win, a 14-0 tech fall and a 10-0 major decision.
Caleb Fields, Bloom Carroll Bulldogs. Fields went 4-0 with two tech falls to win Open MS Group 4B.
Fastest fall. Beast Mode's Bruce Palmer pinned his opponent in seven seconds, the quickest of the day. He won Open HS Group 7 with two pins.
Team Race
Eagle won 11 of the day's 43 brackets and went 40-14 as a team. Grit Wrestling Club took second with six champions, four of them in the Open 8U and Rookie 6U divisions. Rising Kingz finished third with four titles, two of them McCoy's.
| Place | Team | Points | Champions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eagle Wrestling Club | 277.5 | 11 |
| 2 | Grit Wrestling Club | 196.5 | 6 |
| 3 | Rising Kingz | 116 | 4 |
| 4 | Pursuit | 80 | 2 |
| 5 | Bloom Carroll Bulldogs | 77 | 1 |
| 6 | Beast Mode | 71 | 1 |
| 7 | Westfall Elementary School | 64 | 2 |
| 8 | Johnstown | 48 | 2 |
| 9 | Dublin Coffman High School | 47.5 | 1 |
| 10 | Liberty Union | 46 | 0 |
By the Numbers
62 teams and 43 brackets
255 matches wrestled
11 champions for Eagle Wrestling Club
6 wins for Josie McCoy and Brentlee Runyon, the most of the day
0:07, Bruce Palmer's fall and the fastest of the day
Division Champions
| Division | Champion | Team | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rookie 6U · Group 1 | Nolan Zolendziewski | Johnstown | 3-0 |
| Rookie 6U · Group 2 | Jonah Lewis | Grit Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Rookie 8U · Group 1 | Matthew Taylor | Westfall Elementary School | 2-1 |
| Rookie 8U · Group 2 | Josie McCoy | Rising Kingz | 4-0 |
| Rookie 8U · Group 3 | Logan Corder | Grit Wrestling Club | 2-1 |
| Rookie 8U · Group 4 | James Davis | Westfall Elementary School | 2-0 |
| Rookie 8U · Group 5 | Jack Dumolt | Chosen Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Rookie 10U · Group 1 | Harrison Justice | Lancaster Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Rookie 10U · Group 2 | Nicholas Ramos Webber | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Rookie 10U · Group 3 | Caleb Cross | Cedarville | 2-0 |
| Rookie 12U · Group 1 | Max Bain | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Rookie 12U · Group 2 | John Robinson | Ohio Capitals Club | 2-0 |
| Open 8U · Group 1 | Silas Scipio | Grit Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open 8U · Group 2 | Marcus Rosales | Grit Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Open 8U · Group 3 | Lincoln Ogden | Grit Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open 8U · Group 4 | Jonathan Intrieri | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open 10U · Group 1 | Brentlee Runyon | Rising Kingz | 5-0 |
| Open 10U · Group 2 | Kaleb Brown | Abbott Wrestling | 3-0 |
| Open 10U · Group 3 | Andrew Zuercher | Eagle Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Open 10U · Group 4 | Sterling Budd | Pursuit | 3-0 |
| Open 10U · Group 5 | Brody Bogart | Grit Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Open 12U · Group 1 | Xavier Martin | Rising Kingz | 3-0 |
| Open 12U · Group 2 | Logan Scott | Eagle Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Open 12U · Group 3 | Connor Boyle | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open 12U · Group 4 | Jackson Davis | Johnstown | 2-0 |
| Open MS · Group 1 | Michael Zuercher | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open MS · Group 2 | Eli Walters | Pursuit | 4-0 |
| Open MS · Group 3 | Channing Uriostegui | CP Wrestling | 3-0 |
| Open MS · Group 4A | Ethan Rafferty | Eagle Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Open MS · Group 4B | Caleb Fields | Bloom Carroll Bulldogs | 4-0 |
| Open MS · Group 6 | Ben Boyle | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open MS · Group 7 | Patrick White | Eagle Wrestling Club | 2-0 |
| Open HS · Group 1 | Dustin Woodruff | Dublin Coffman High School | 3-0 |
| Open HS · Group 2 | Zemir Moorhead | Granville High School | 3-0 |
| Open HS · Group 3 | Mason Joseph | Dublin Scioto | 3-0 |
| Open HS · Group 4 | Ben Boyle | Eagle Wrestling Club | 3-0 |
| Open HS · Group 5 | Xzavior Beach | Disabito | 3-0 |
| Open HS · Group 6 | David Fakhratov | Grey Wolves | 3-0 |
| Open HS · Group 7 | Bruce Palmer | Beast Mode | 2-0 |
| Girls 8U · Group 1 | Josie McCoy | Rising Kingz | 2-0 |
| Girls 10U · Group 1 | Rowan Van Horn | Pickerington Central | 2-0 |
| Girls 12U · Group 1 | Dorothea Pressly | Worthington Youth Wrestling | 2-0 |
| Girls HS · Group 1 | Morgan Kohnen | Bulldogs | 2-1 |