Athletics: Wrestling

Wrestling: Madison and Oakland

By Thomas King

January 25, 2010

The team travelled to Madison and came away with the runnerup trophy out of 15 teams with Madison winning it. We had a lot of kids step up and really wrestle well in a weekend that we dubbed a mental weekend that would be just like the district tournament which we will hold in 3 weeks here at Stanton. We will have to wrestle mentally and physically tough each match to qualify for state.
We scored a 152.5 points at Oakland and finished 5th out of 14 teams. Winside won it with 182 points.
The team’s results for the weekend are:
Jake Betzen finished 2nd at Madison and 4th at Oakland for another great weekend.

Josh Eastwood GI 2-0
Billy Breitkruetz WIS pin
Tanner Walker FRI pin L
Clay Roubal NB pin
Nick McDowell KEN pin
Sheldon McAllister ELK pin
Zach Goodvin WWD 9-6
Dalton Graybeal WPC pin L

Colby Wolff won the Madison tournament and then avenged a loss to Wyatt Chapman of NB to finish 3rd after losing to the #1 state ranked Eric Coufal Howells.
Angelo Dominguez WIS pin
Dylan Graudreault MAD pin
Paul Hansen WIN 8-2
Eric Coufal HOW pin L
Grant Wilkson KEN pin
Wyatt Chap,man NB 5-2

Mick Clausen finished a disappointing 6th at Madison, but came back and showed me the heart he has and the wresler we know he can be by finishing 2nd at Oakland losing 3-0 in the finals.
Lucas Wiechman WIS 8-4
Lucas Wiechman WIS 6-1 L
Parker Ridgeway COL 4-1 L
Joe Logue ELK pin
Josh Fischer OC pin
Austin Elfrey ELK pin
Tucker Spellmen KEN 3-0 L
Michael McCarthy has really came along ways from the beginning of the season and had his first win of the season at Oakland and then almost came up with his second losing a close one but the nice thing is he is fighting and not getting pinned.

Gustavilo Avilia MAD pin L
Garrett Voswler WAY 12-4 L
Ethan Thies WIN pin L
Brayden Tuirner NC pin
Eban Foster KEN 9-4 L
Grant Nordby finished a 10 match weekend with a 4th place finish at Madison losing a close one to Nate Merchant Crofton 4-0 and then at Oakland in a 3rd place finish highlighted by an 11-5 loss to Jeff Green WPTB ranked #1 in the state.

Nick Stevenson COL pin
Nick Stevenson COL pin
Jose Ramirez MAD 15-0 Nate Merchant CRO 4-0 L
Roman Roberts WAY 11-6 L
TJ steffies ELK pin Jordan Rodriguez KEN 11-5
Jeff Green WPTB 11-5 L
Dylan Field NC pin
Oscar Orellana NB 5-4

Brennan Borgmann came up with a big win over state ranked Jeff Obrien of WPCC to finish 3rd at Oakland losing to Sean Pillie OC. We need to get him more consistent and wrestle with the confidence he has in the big matches as he fell to 6th place at Madison after beating a Skutt kid in the first round. He has the heart to wrestle with anyone when he believes in him.

Taylor Rothanzel SKT 7-3
Taylor Rothanzel SKT 6-4 L
Josh Eisenmann MAD 16-0
Trevor Rose WAK 6-4 L
Hunter Love NC pin
Jeff Obrien WPCC 4-2
Sean Pilie OC pin L
Dustin Scott WWD 8-2
Jeff Obrien WPCC forft

Paul Cheyney finished 1st at Madison with a pin of Jake Smutny Madison and then in the semifinals at Oakland he won his 100th match of his career with a 21-4 win over Ben Burmeister. He then defeated hometown favorite Kevin Jacobson Oakland to win the tournament. When he wrestles to our game plan he is unstoppable but when he lets down and lets the other guy hang around it gives them a shot to pull the upset.

Mitchell Sudbeck HCC pin
Jesse Mayo MAD pin
Kyle Hansen NOR pin
Jake Smutny MAD pin
Adam Burnheide HOW 14-3
Ben Burmeister PEN 21-4
Kevin Jacobson OC 6-5

Jeb Nordby finished another weekend of 5 matches a day which seems to be his goal each week, the best thing is he’s winning more of them then he is losing so mat time is good. He finished tied for 3rd with match limits at Madison and then came back Saturday and finished 3rd losing only to state ranked Zach Brokaw WIN who at this point wrestles more physically then we do, but the score was closer this time.

David Huisman MAD 7-2 L
David Huisman MAD 10-0
Brady Steffen CRO pin
Tyler Wescott GI 3-1
Dakota Adams COL 5-0
Cogan Thompson KEN 11-9 OT
Lance Lyman PON pin
Zach Brokaw WIN 5-0 L
Colin Murphy NB 4-2 OT
Michael Ellis KEN forft

Jacob Bohac finished a nice weekend with a win at Oakland and then wrestling great matches when finishing his shots would have resulted in two more wins. He keeps going hard and when it clicks he will be tough.

Brendan Nicholson WAK pin L
Nathan Liese HCC pin L
Brant peters PEN 6-4 L
Neal Hathaway ELK pin
Nathan Liese HCC 6-4 L

Our experiment with Bryant continues for one more week as we make decisions based on his weight class. He finished 2nd to state ranked Chad Koch HCC in a 6-2 loss at Madison. We then bumped up to 25 where we would see the top 4 wrestlers all undefeated in the state and 2 of them ranked #1 and the other two ranked #2 in the state. He had good matches, but with some work on his shots they end up going the other way. He lost 5-3 to Nathan Bazata How and then lost to Josh Powell 5-3 of Kenesaw.

Taylor Johnson CRO pin
Andrew Lorenz HCC pin
Jordan Hawkins NOR 6-0
Chad Koch HCC 6-2 L
Nathan Bazata HOW 5-3 L
John Tomasek OC pin
Juan Munoz WWD pin
Josh Powell KEN 5-3 L
Cody Stowe NC forft