“Matthew Tuel and Reece Hansen as double individual qualifiers is not something we have had in quite a while,” noted Coach Hansen.  “Reece made the state cut time by over 1 second in the 100 back, which is really difficult to do.  Matthew was less than 1 second off the cut time in the 500.  They both were focused and really went for it.  I am so happy for Logan Rott qualifying in the 100 Breast as a senior.  He has worked so hard and has earned that trip.  And for Jaden Kwapinski to repeat in the 200 IM is quite the feat.  Not too many 9th graders can say that they have gone to state twice.  The 400 free relay dropped over 10 seconds from yesterday and almost made the state cut time.  They were so focused all year on going to state and it was fun to see it all come together and the Medley relay gelled at just the right time.  The guys in the consolation heat also swam their hearts out.  So many of them dropped time again today and they are a big reason why we were able to sneak ahead of DL for 3rd place as a team.” 

Melrose/Sauk Centre won the team title with 523 points and Alexandria was runner-up with 476.5.  Fergus Falls was third with 313.5, just ahead of Detroit Lakes with 308.5.  

Here are the Final Results by event.

200 Medley Relay
2. DL/Perham 1:44.36 (Blake Swenson, Bjorn Anderson, Ryan Erickson, Micah Barberg), 3. Fergus Falls 1:44.59 (Reece Hansen, Ethan Strande, Logan Rott, Jaden Kwapinski)

200 Freestyle
1. Cooper Running (AL) 1:47.94, 2. Matthew Tuel (FF) 1:51.09, 4. Landon Votava 1:54.10, 7. Carson Bumgarner (AL) 2:07.20, 8. Eli Wimmer (AL) 2:12.61, 10. Cayden Abell 2:09.72, 14. Tony McLeod (DL/PER) 2:14.87, 15. Keaton Votava (FF) 2:21.61, 16. Simon Runyan (DL/PER) 2:21.92

200 IM
2. Jaden Kwapinski (FF) 2:06.11, 2. Andy Wacek (AL) 2:06.11, 6. Bjorn Anderson (DL/PER) 2:16.19, 7. Mark Meece (AL) 2:18.67, 8. Keaton Dummer (AL) 2:20.40, 9. Lucas Tuel (FF) 2:20.57, 11. Ben Mathiason (DL/PER) 2:23.37, 14. Dominic Rootham (DL/PER) 2:39.08, DQ. Isaac Rott (FF), Micah Overshiner (AL)

50 Freestyle
1. Eric Peterson (AL) 21.96, 2. Blake Swenson (DL/PER) 22.12, 4. Ryan Erickson (DL/PER) 22.90, 6. Adison Newman (AL) 23.44, 7. Micah Barberg (DL/PER) 23.84, 9. Zachary Iverson (AL) 24.18, 10. Micah Kietzmann (AL) 24.19, 12. Adrian Blondeau (FF) 24.81, 13. Ethan Strande (FF) 24.85, 15. Gabe Carlson (FF) 25.00

Diving
1. Kyler Kavanagh (AL) 471.10, 3. Krew Muscha 372.60, 4. Lucas Lundberg (DL/PER) 324.40, 5. Lane Yliniemi (DL/PER) 311.65, 8. CarsonJensen (DL/PER) 237.05, 10. Neil Trowbridge (DL/PER) 205.40, 11. William Nuss (FF) 190.05

100 Butterfly
3. Reece Hansen (FF) 57.57, 4. Logan Rott (FF) 57.65, 6. Jaden Kwapinski (FF) 58.49, 7. Adison Newman (AL) 69.32, 8. Gavin Peterson (AL) 1:00.95, 9. Micah Kietzmann (AL) 1:00.86, 11. Keaton Dummer (AL) 1:02.21, 12. Lucas Tuel (FF) 1:02.47, 13. Alex Mack (DL) 1:03.20

100 Freestyle
1. Eric Peterson (AL) 48.24, 2. Ryan Erickson (DL/PER) 49.98, 8. Andrew Crowser (AL) 54.40, 9. Zachary Iverson (AL) 54.22, 10. Camden Kosters (AL) 54.37, 11. Adrian Blondeau (FF) 55.98, 13. Henry Mathiason (DL/PER) 58.75, 14. Brian Morrison (DL/PER) 58.88, 15. Andrew Barberg (DL/PER) 1:02.79

500 Freestyle
1. Cooper Running (AL) 4:59.07, 3. Matthew Tuel (FF) 5:06.76, 5. Landon Votava (FF) 5:22.32, 8. Bjorn Anderson (DL/PER) 5:35.47, 10. Carson Bumgarner (AL) 5:47.14, 11. Eli Wimmer (AL) 5:52.69, 13. Tony Olson (AL) 5:55.39, 15. Tony McLeod (DL/PER) 6:21.58, 16. Isaac Rott (FF) 6:24.48

200 Freestyle Relay
1. Alexandria 1:31.64 (Adison Newman, Andy Wacek, Cooper Running, Eric Peterson), 2. Detroit Lakes/Perham 1:32.65 (Blake Swenson, Bjorn Anderson, Micah Barberg, Ryan Erickson), 4. Fergus Falls 1:34.71 (Logan Rott, Adrian Blondeau, Landon Votava, Matthew Tuel),

100 Backstroke
1. Blake Swenson (DL/PER) 54.88, 2. Reece Hansen (FF) 55.75, 5. Gavin Peterson (AL) 1:00.89, 7. Micah Barberg (DL/PER) 1:02.13, 9. Mark Meece (AL) 1:01.28, 10. Andrew Crowser (AL) 1:02.09, 11. Cayden Abell (AL) 1:04.41, 13. Gabe Carlson (FF) 1:06.64, 14. Keaton Votava (FF) 1:09.32

100 Breaststroke
2. Andy Wacek (AL) 1:03.98, 3. Logan Rott (FF) 1:06.44, 4. Ethan Strande (FF) 1:07.07, 5. Camden Kosters (AL) 1:08.94, 6. Ben Mathiason (DL/PER) 1:09.76, 11 Alex Mack (DL/PER) 1:17.41, 13. 13. Dominic Rootham (DL/PER) 1:19.63, 15. Eli Peterson (AL) 1:22.27, 16. Cohen Lussenden (AL) 1:23.72

400 Freestyle Relay}
1. Alexandria 3:21.99 (Andrew Crowser, Adison Newman, Cooper Running, Eric Peterson), 2. Fergus Falls 3:24.96 (Landon Votava, Matthew Tuel, Reece Hansen, Jaden Kwapinski), 6. Detroit Lakes/Perham 3:58.07 (Alex Mack, Tony McLeod, Brian Morrison, Henry Mathiason)