Hi Scott

It is intentional to display results first- if you take a look at the demos you will find this is the case.

The only thing you could do is to hide the results with CSS, and then display them if a filter is selected in the search form.

You could detect if a filter is selected by checking the docs here:

http://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/accessing-search-data/#Check_to_see_if_anything_has_been_filtered

Thanks