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Knights Sending Three to State Wrestling Tournament

By Kevin Fick, 02/24/19, 10:45PM CST

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Saturday, February 24 the West Central Area/Ashby/Brandon-Evansville wrestlers competed in the Section 6A individual tournament. There are many reasons why this tournament is important such as team growth, maturity, gaining experience...the list goes on but the real reason that the ten area teams face off is to send the top two athletes from each weight class to represent at the State Tournament.

Out of the 14 weight classes there are 28 positions open for a berth at the Xcel Energy Center next weekend. WCAABE wrestled hard and out of the 12 weights the Knights locked horns in they reached the podium in 11. The Knights finished the day going 24-18 in their bouts posting 1 Champion in Wyatt Olson, a pair of Runners-up in Anthony Sykora and Jordan Lohse, 3 Third Place finishers (Kaleb Getz, Hunter Mickelsen, Austin Mattson), 2 Fourth Place wrestlers (Ashton Danner, Reubens Swanson) and 3 grapplers ended their year in Fifth Place (Shad Swanson, Colton Lindquist, Devin Stone).

 

Head Coach Brandon Gruchow commented, “It was definitely a series of ups and downs. We had a couple of guys go above and beyond expectations and others that placed lower than what we wanted. We are excited to take Wyatt, Jordan and Anthony to the state tournament and see what they can do down there!”

 

Wyatt Jordan and Anthony will each enter a 16 man bracket that medals the top six. Action for them begins Friday, March 1. Congratulations and good luck wrestlers!

 

The following is a breakdown of state entrants from each program.....

Ottertail Central                                                     3 Champions, 4 Runners-up (7)

Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale/Parkers Prairie               4 Champions, 1 Runner-up (5)

Staples-Motley                                                      3 Champions                         (3)

West Central Area/Ashby/Brandon-Evansville    1 Champion, 2Runners-up   (3)

Breckenridge                                                                                 3 Runners-up (3)

New York Mills                                                    1 Champion, 1 Runner-up     (2)

Border West                                                          1 Champion, 1 Runner-up     (2)

Barnesville                                                                                    2 Runners-up (2)

Pelican Rapids                                                       1 Champion                          (1)

Wadena-Deer Creek                                                                                            (0)

 

Photos by Tammie Olson Photography


State Entrants Anthony Sykora, Wyatt Olson, Jordan Lohse (back row Coaches, Weeding, Lohse, Gruchow, Ray and Wales)


Wyatt Olson vs. Daniel Erlandson


Jordan Lohse vs. Ethan Nachbor (BW)


Anthony Sykora vs. Carter Johnson (PR)