Meet the 14 local wrestlers set to compete in state quarter and semifinals
The day started with 78 local wrestlers vying for individual gold inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the 2026 Oregon high school state wrestling championships.
After a couple rounds, there are 14 grapplers still alive for crowns, eight boys in the 6A quarterfinals and six girls in the 6A/5A semifinals.
Here’s a breakdown for each school and what they have coming up for Saturday when wrestling picks back up at 9 a.m.
Cleveland
Eli Borrayo made the semifinals as a freshman and quarterfinals as a sophomore at Lincoln the past two years.
Now at Cleveland, the junior is back to making noise at the state tournament as the 120-pound No. 1 seed.
Borrayo picked up a first-round pin in 1 minute, 55 seconds, and followed it up with a pin in 3:45 in the second round to advance to the quarterfinals.
“I feel pretty good, pretty strong and I feel a lot bigger than most of these kids,” Borrayo said. “I think I’m coming into this with a better mindset, better physicality. … Everything about me is different, more mature. It’s just a different feeling this year.”
Getting those two pins is a good sign for Borrayo since he said this season he’s been working on his top game and trying to get guys more on their back.
“I’m pretty good at holding people down, but I can’t really turn so I’ve been working on that,” Borrayo said. “On my feet, I’ve been working on hand fighting. Freshman and sophomore year I tried shooting from the outside and it didn’t really work, got me fourth place both times. So I figured, let’s try something new.”
The work has paid off as Borrayo secured the No. 1 seed for the first time in his three years at state and will be trying to make good on that ranking come Saturday.
Up next is a matchup with Tualatin’s Isaac Mitchell, the No. 8 seed in the quarterfinals.
Borrayo won’t be alone either as senior Ben Suzuki was able to break through to the quarterfinals despite being unseeded.
Suzuki received a first-round bye and was able to pull off the upset of No. 6 Tristan Waage out of Oregon City with a pin at 2:44.
The quarterfinals will be an even bigger task with a matchup loading against No. 3 Warren Cook out of Forest Grove.
Jefferson
Senior Titus Rodela has made a name for himself with two runnerup finishes the past two years.
The No. 1 seed at 157, he’ll be back in the quarterfinals again, but he wasn’t the Rodela making the biggest splash on the first day of big-school action.
His younger sibling Dominic Rodela, the No. 8 seed in the girls 170 bracket, pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the day by pinning top-seeded Evelyn Wirfs out of Sprague in 1:30.
“It was things my brother told me, ‘You can win this, you just need to lock in,’” Dominic Rodela said. “My coach was just telling me, ‘Make a name for yourself, you’re not your brother’s sibling. Just go out there and take what you want, don’t let anyone stop you.’”
Dominic had to fight for the initial takedown when both grapplers looked to have an opening toward getting the first three points.
The junior was able to spin around for the takedown and eventually turned it into a pin in the closing moments of the first period.
“When we were fighting, it was just like, ‘I can’t let her get this,’” Dominic Rodela said. “After I got that, I was just like, ‘The match isn’t over until I win.’”
Dominic hasn’t wrestled in high school the past two years but has still been involved with the sport.
Now a member of the Democrats program, the junior has exploded on the scene and will have a chance at making the finals when he takes on Ionela Macavei out of Hillsboro in the girls 170 semifinals on Saturday.
“This season has just been so great for me,” Dominic said. “I’ve made so many good friends, my coaches are so (great), such a good community that I’m in. I feel like they’ve really helped me succeed and get to where I am today. I’m so excited for wrestling.”
Of course big brother Titus will be looking to advance as well on Saturday. He received a first-round bye at the top of the boys 157 bracket and took down his second round opponent with an 18-2 tech fall in the second period.
Up next is a matchup with Sprague senior Josh Wardell in the quarterfinals.
Roosevelt
No school has more wrestlers alive than the Roughriders with three advancing to the second day still in the hunt.
Junior Johawna Bass was the first to punch her ticket at the girls 110 as the No. 4 seed, and she did it by living on the edge a little bit.
She won her first match by a 10-4 decision, but was trailing 9-2 in the quarterfinals to Chloe Warren out of Liberty. Instead of dropping the decision, Bass started on top in the third period and got the pin with only seven seconds left in the match.
Up next will be the toughest test of the season, taking on No. 1 seed Lauren Echeverria, who is 48-0 out of Crook County.
Up next for Roosevelt was No. 8 seed Connor Hutcheson in the boys 144 bracket. He survived day one thanks to a 12-2 major decision in the first round, followed by a pin in 2:18 in the second round.
Hutcheson’s quarterfinals opponent will be Ethan Stock out of the Mountainside, the No. 1 seed in the bracket.
The last Roughrider through was junior Emony Greely in the girls 190 bracket where she is the No. 1 seed.
The first match was a little dicey as Greely needed a reversal in the third period to win 9-7, but she left no doubt in the quarterfinals with a tech fall of 20-5.
Greely, who made the semifinals as a freshman in 2024, will look to make her first finals appearance but will have to go through No. 4 Giselle Nimon-Toki out of Southridge first in the semifinals.
Ida B. Wells
Zorina Johnson already made school history last season when she won her second state title, becoming the first wrestler to ever win multiple crowns for Wells.
Now, she’ll be going for title No. 3 after breezing through the competition as the No. 1 seed in the girls 135 bracket.
Johnson had a first-period tech fall of 17-2 in round one, followed by a pin in 45 seconds in the quarterfinals.
Kaelyn Folsom out of Ridgeview is the next road block for Johnson in the semifinals.
Johnson will have a teammate competing on the mat with her after sophomore Shae Morrison was able to advance to the boys 126 quarterfinals.
The unseeded Morrison got a first-round bye and then dominated No. 7 Connor Wren out of Nelson with a 19-4 tech fall.
Morrison will try to keep things going against the No. 2 seed in Carter Dawson out of Roseburg in the quarterfinals.
Grant
The Generals will also have two competitors in the running on Saturday, both on the boys side.
Senior Judah Barnett was the first one through at 175 where he is the No. 3 seed. Barnett cruised with a 17-1 tech fall in the first round and then a pin at 2:58 in the second round.
Barnett is matched up with No. 6 Victor Shipley out of Westview for the quarterfinals.
One weight class up was the next General to get through in senior Cole Thomas. The No. 8 seed at 190, Thomas won his first match via pin at 1:37 and kept it going with another fall at 5:21 in the second round.
Thomas, who is a student at Central Catholic and wrestles for Grant since the Rams don’t offer wrestling, will take on No. 1 Isaac Reynoso out of Glencoe in the quarterfinals.
McDaniel
The PIL team champions got one wrestler through to the quarterfinals on the boys side in senior Lucas McCall-Petke, the No. 2 seed at 215.
The senior had no problems on day one, winning in the first round with a pin at 2:41, followed by another pin at 1:47 in the second round.
No. 7 Aidan McGuire from Mountainside will be the next opponent for McCall-Petke in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
Lincoln
The Cardinals will make an appearance on Saturday thanks to sophomore Sofia Patterson earning her way to the girls 105 semifinals.
Patterson, seeded No. 6, picked up a pin in the first round at 3:32 and then upset No. 3 Dezirae Martinez Castanon in the second round with an 11-0 major decision.
She’ll need another upset in the semifinals, this time one against No. 2 Yoselin Nunez out of Dallas.
David Douglas
The Scots are sending one through to day two still looking for a crown in the form of junior Sequoia Chorn.
The junior entered the girls 235 bracket as the No. 2 seed and earned a spot in the semifinals by pinning her first opponent in 1:36 and then by winning a 9-2 decision in the quarterfinals.
The road now leads to No. 3 Eliza Henderson out of Aloha in the semifinals.
