Somers junior Brian Realbuto is on his way cementing his legacy as perhaps the greatest wrestler in the history of Section 1.
Realbuto pinned Salesian’s Josh Tusaneza in 15 seconds at the Eric D’Agnese tournament today, giving him an even 200 wins for his career. He is now only one of two wrestlers in the history of the section to reach that milestone, along with Beacon’s Ryan Tompkins.
Tompkins’ record is 228, which Realbuto should have an opportunity to break before season’s end. It’s really incredible to think that he could enter his senior season as Section 1’s all-time wins leader.
“He’s put together one of the greatest careers ever seen by a Section 1 wrestler — by far,” coach Dennis DiSanto said. “I’ve been coaching a long time, and you always have wrestlers who define an era that you’re coaching. He’s definitely taken it to another level.”
Said Realbuto, “I don’t really think about it like that—at least I try not to. I’m still wrestling and I have a lot more to accomplish.”
I’ll be covering tomorrow’s finals at Somers, so I’ll get a chance to see Realbuto firsthand. My full story on Realbuto’s accomplishment, along with my wrestling notebook, will be featured in tomorrow’s paper.
I’ll be back tomorrow, but until then I’ll leave you with some food for thought.
When it’s all said and done, where will Brian Realbuto stand in terms of all-time great Section 1 wrestlers? How will you remember him?
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i will remember him as the kid with most wins in section one history, but the rest of the story will be written in albany. probably 5x all state 1st ever in section 1, but his legacy depends on state titles.
how about mentioning the fact that there mid-hudson tournament even exists, mention of local wrestlers who placed ?
Hmmm,
Please fill us in. I can’t find results anywhere.
Anyone?
nothing on section 1 blog either but some guy finally took the time to do small school indv rankings and full team rankings
if it doesnt happen in their coverage area, it doesnt exist. these guys have no clue its happpening. ossining and fordham prep only local teams there so expect 0 coverage of that tourney. dont worry they will cover pearl river and somers. sucks but its a westchester rockland blog not a section 1 blog. so evn though midhudsons is a much better tournament and alot of top match ups you wont see a peep here.
This blog has produced the widest range of results faster and more detailed than the Section One blog, and even the beloved Tony’s MSG Varsity Report, yet we continue to see the same old complaints about what is “not” here. Funny, no one has the guts to complain on those other blogs, only here.
Keep up the great work boys of LoHud Blog, you are doing an excellent job this season.
im not complaining im stating facts that the guys wrote. they do not/will not have anything to do with dutchess they said that in their first rankings. its just not in their coverage area.
Congrats on the 200 win mark Brian. If you counted all of the off season wins Brian has he probably has more like 400 wins in his high school career. I got to witness first hand his work ethic and drive this past summer as he prepared and competed on the New York team in Fargo for the freestyle national tournament. It was a pleasure to see a young wrestler so driven to do his best. Good luck in your pursuit for a second state title to add to your already outstanding resume. I hope you continue this summer and follow up that title with a title in Fargo!
Coach Rogers
NYS Freestyle Coach
I get that it is not in their coverage area. I was just hoping that someone who might have been there and reads this blog could shed some light on who won and what matches were exciting.
Wrestleone- not complaining just did not know where else to ask if anyone had results.
here i come to save the day!
heres midhudson results
ill put the top 6 kids in order of finish with school listed but not scores just too much work for me.
96 Strameillo (pb), tolli (arl), cuccolo (pb), murtagh (corn), rivera(nfa) dwyer-mcnulty(rh)
103 de lacruz (oss), bastone(nfa), duckham (arl), lewis( vc), badger(arl), fochinni(nfa)
112 krieder (corn), bolger(vc), blue (oss), storer (corn), foy(rck), murphy(rck)
119 pineda(arl), hodes (rv), mann (corn), davis(bea), mcmullen(king) muira(jjef)
125 roth (corn), minasi (jjef), robles(pb), shann(bea), ruso(fp), green(king)
130 dimler(rv), santos(arl), storer (corn), isales(corn), sause(pb), robinson(bal)
135 costello (king), treu (rh), dingman(pb) wasweiller(bea), morse(rv), simpfenderfer(rck)
140 keelnburh (nfa), cohen (bal), johnson (jjef), giantetta (corn), marvin (rck), melchor(bea)
145 white(jjef), munoz (nfa), waterhouse (rh), balcomb(oss), irwin(king), rodriguez(bal)
152 grella (bea), wilkie(rck), dibella(nfa), grella(bea), natale(corn), jamison(rh)
160 Barry(arl), Lawlor (corn), moore(nfa), perry(jjef), way (bea), robinson(bal)
171 mcgugh (arl), tondini (rh), nunziata(arl), mcweeny(king), gagnon(corn), weiner(vc)
189 bova(arl) mancusso(corn), gaynor (pb), panken(oss), emond(king), hasan(vc)
215 panken (oss), twynam(corn), orourke, (nfa), day(arl), rampe(pb), rios(bea)
285 stauble(king), evans(rck), kinder(fp), cheeks(nfa), clarke(bal), fekete(rck)
a few notes, tourney was good everyone got 6 matches, tourney was not seeded, and there were no wrestlebacks so if you lost in quaters you could only take 5th at best. its an early season tournament so what you placed didnt matter as much as who you beat/lost to. because the tourney wasnt seed there were a few semis and quaters that should have been actual finals.
prob biggest news was that delacruz beat duckham in the semis 9-7 in overtime and andrew panken got injured 10 seconds into his semi match and had to forfeit out, didnt look good hope he is ok.
mow’s fresh delacruz, softmore white, jr dimler(rv), sr barry