2024 Super 32: Women's Freestyle Takeaways
2024 Super 32: Women's Freestyle Takeaways
The 2024 Defense Soap Super 32 Challenge is complete. Here is what we learned from the women’s freestyle competition.
The 2024 Defense Soap Super 32 Challenge is complete. Here is what we learned from the women’s freestyle competition. Click here for brackets.
We Are The Champions
Here are the 2024 Super 32 Champions.
95: Hailey Delgado, Texas
100: Jaclyn Bouzakis, North Carolina
106: Kayla Batres, Connecticut
112: Reagan Mathers, Arizona
118: Epenesa Elison, California
124: Everest Leydecker, Arizona
132: Taina Fernandez, Maryland
138: Riley Hanrahan, Wisconsin
148: Violette Lasure, Pennsylvania
160: Kaili Manuel, Michigan
175: Jael Miller, Pennsylvania
200: Josephine Larson, Illinois
Taina Fernandez Is Good — Really Good
Fernandez won her third consecutive Super 32 title, and her numbers are staggering. Here are the 15-year-old's match scores.
2024 (132 pounds): 10-0, 12-0, 11-1, 11-0, 10-0
2023 (132 pounds: Fall (leading 6-0), 10-0, 10-0, 10-0, Fall (leading 7-0)
2022: (123 pounds): 10-0, 10-0, 10-0, 10-0, 11-0, 11-0
We’ll do the math for you. Fernandez outscored 16 opponents by a 159-1 count. That’s 14 techs and two falls.
The Unseeded Champion
Arizona’s Reagan Mathers was the surprise of the weekend. She entered unseeded and left with a Super 32 belt. She knocked off the 8, 9, 1, 5, and 2 seeds in sequence to take the 112-pound title.
Her match scores were 12-9, 8-7, 6-5, 13-2, and 6-3. Expect to see her high in the rankings soon.
Who’s Number One?
New Jersey’s Ella Poalillo fell in the 148-pound quarterfinals to Sarah Henckel but wrestled back for third. She pinned 2024 Who’s Number One winners Janiya Johnson and Henckel in consolation.
Poalillo took third place with this late fall
Life Of Riley
Riley Hanrahan wasn’t unseeded but entered the 138-pound bracket as the 11-seed. She defeated the 6, 3, 2, and 4 seeds to take the belt.
The Fall Is Still The Ultimate
Violette Lasure secured a late takedown in the 148-pound semifinals for a win, but three of her five wins ended with a fall, including a finals pin.
The Stars Shine Bright In Texas
Hailey Delgado gave up two points in her first match before securing a 12-2. She outscored her next four opponents 41-0 for the 95-pound title.
Zero Points Surrendered
Epinesa Elison entered as the two-seed and dominated the 118-pound bracket, outscoring six opponents 56-0, including a first-period fall.
First-time Champion
Arizona’s Everest Leydecker was fresh off her third Who’s Number One win when she entered Super 32 for the first time. She outscored six opponents by a 60-0 count for the 124-pound title.
Fighting Back For Third
Twelve wrestlers fought back for third place but two deserve special mention. Julia Horger (106) and Gigi Bragg (112) are past Who’s Number One participants who didn’t reach the finals at Super 32. Both showed resilience on the backside of their respective brackets.
Horger fell in the quarterfinals but bounced back with a fall followed by 11-5 and 11-10 wins and a fall in the consolation finals.
Bragg fell in the semifinals before a 6-3 win and a 10-7 win for third place over the top seed.
Match Of The Tournament
Top-seeded Jaclyn Bouzakis won an 8-6 thriller over second-seeded Katey Valdez in the 100-pound finals. The two went back and forth before Bouzakis secured a second-period takedown for the win. The match is worth watching below.
