Wrestling at Battle Creek

By King, Thomas

January 14, 2012

The Mustangs travelled to Lincoln to watch the Nebraska vs Iowa dual at the Coliseum on Friday night. The dual didn’t turn out to be much of a fight as Nebraska didn’t put up much of a fight in their matches. The highlights included getting autographs and pictures taken with Joba Chamberlain of the New York Yankees and Jordan Burroughs a two time NCAA champion and current World Champion in wrestling. We had a great time and got to see what it is like to dominate an opponent without backing off. We then headed to Battle Creek on Saturday where we would place 5th out of 24 teams scoring 103.5 points in a meet that featured a lot of our district teams.

Caleb Goeken at 106 really stepped up today in his first two matches where he lost by a pin to Juan Gonzalez of Wakefield late in the match , he then pinned Dakota Heitmann LAU and lost to Scott Boettcher NG by a pin.

Colby Wolff 120 won the championship over state ranked Drew Smith of EV with a 1-0 decision, he also pinned Jacob Newton WAK and majored Nick Gonzalz WAK.

Jake Betzen 126 finished runner up losing to state ranked Brandon French SSN by a pin, beat Alex Calderon WAK 1-0 and beat Zach Kirby BC 6-1.

Mick Clausen started out the day winning with pins over Samson Merceir NOR and Zech Thoene HCC, then hit a rough spot as Troy Ebel of SSN won 9-2 avenging a loss from earlier in the season, he tech falled Jordan Zautke BC 16-0 and then finished 4th losing to Devin Anderson WAK 2-0.

Brennan Borgmann won a championship over state ranked Brad Lanman BC 9-6, pinned Eric Schmoldt BC, Dustin Ellwanger lost 16-1 and Dakota Ruhnke NG 18-1 lost by tech falls.

Houston Huss won the championship with a 7-2 decision over Andrew Lorenz HCC, majored Daniel Muller WAK 11-1 and pinned Derek Gall Randolph.