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Palma receives another national honor

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Along with being named on Wrestling USA's Dream Team in it's latest issue, Eloheim Palma may have cemented his claim to the most ever accolades of any NC wrestler by being named the heavyweight for ASICS 1st Team All-American Team.
 
The short list of Eloheim's recent awards and accomplishments, according to coach Jerry Winterton, includes:
 
Winner of the Dapper Dan
Winner of Senior Nationals, has defeated or finished ahead of 4 top ranked heavy's including asics #2, #4,#6, #8.
Named Nation's Junior Schalles award winner by WIN Magazine
Named to Asics All-American team 1st Team
Named to Wrestling USA Magazine's "Dream Team" (1st Team) 

Also, Palma won his third straight individual state title this year and was a part of seven championship runs at Cary in his four years, winning the dual-team championship three times and the team tournament title four consecutive years. 

Palma finished his career 225-9, with 159 by pin. He went 61-0 this year.

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About the blogger

J. Mike Blake has played against or covered teams in southern Wake County for six years. He is the Sports Editor for The Cary News and Southwest Wake News. He graduated from N.C. State in 2008. He loves getting young athletes' names in the paper, but hates hearing "CALL IT BOTH WAYS REF!!" 4,000 times every game.

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