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Posted Local at Jan 12, 2011
Sam Ireland pins his second round opponent
This past weekend the wrestling team traveled to Presho for the MidDakota Monster Wrestling Tournament. This was definitely the toughest tournament we have been to this year, boasting 3 of the state’s top rated teams and many of the state’s top rated wrestlers. With over 300 kids competing (averaged over 4 rated kids per wt. class, including six #1’s) it made for two very long days of tough competition.
Teams competing, in order of finish: Redfield (R) 198.5, Kimball/White Lake (KWL) 187.5, Philip Area (PA) 183.5, Hot Springs (HS) 179, Stanley County (SC) 171.5, Spearfish/Lead Deadwood (SLD) 159.5, Winner (W) 156.5, Newell (N) 122.5, Gettysburg (G) 122, Custer (C) 115, Bennett County (BC) 105, Mobridge/Pollock (MP) 104.5, Rapid City Central JV (RCC) 75, Sunshine Bible Academy (SBA) 64, Douglas (D) 54, Lyman 53, St. Thomas More (STM) 50.5, Hill City (HC) 42, Todd County (TC) 26, Pine Ridge (PR) 20.5, Red Cloud (RC) 17.
The first day of this tournament was a long day of tough battles as they whittled the field down to the top 8 wrestlers in each weight class. We advanced 5 into the semi-finals and had four more that missed advancing to the second day (and placing) by one match (Brandon, Brad, Marcus and Lincoln).
Overall we wrestled well. We lost several close matches to highly ranked kids where we were competitive but not quite where we needed to be to win. Despite being losses, these were good learning experiences in a couple of ways: First, our team learned that the gap between the top kids and themselves isn’t as big as they might have thought and secondly, those matches gave us some things to review and work on to elevate our skills to a level where the outcome will be in our favor the next time around.
Individual Results:
112 (5th) – Sam Ireland: Pinned Brody Schatz (G) 3:40, def Jordan Jessop (L) 14-5, Pinned Jacob DeSersa (HS) 1:41, def by Korbin Bely (KWL - #1) 2-4, def by Dominick Schooler (HC) 3-10, def Jade Jandel (R) dft.
112 (DNP) – Chandler Bakley: Pinned by Grady Carley (PA) 1:10, def by Kyle Hegstrum (RCC) 0-9.
125 (DNP) – Jeremy Huether: Pinned by Dakota McTaggart (N) 3:45, pinned by Cody Engesser (SLD) 4:23.
130 (4th) – Skyler Livermont: Pinned Conrad Good Voice (TC) 1:43, pinned David Jensen (MP) 1:10, pinned Cole Geditz (G) 3:33, pinned by Brady Edgar (R - #1) 1:04, def Adam Farner (W) 6-0, def by Andy Nelson (SLD) 1-3.
135 (DNP) – Brady Hicks: Pinned by Nick Montieth (SLD - #2) 2:34, def Alan Rutan (HS) 6-2, pinned by Brandon Middlesworth (W) 4:30.
135 (DNP) – Brandon Blanco: pinned Brent O’Dell (HC) 1:14, pinned by Nick Montieth (SLD - #2) 2:43, pinned by Austin Haberer (G) 1:21.
140 (4th) – Seth Ireland: Def Forrest Cerv (W) 4-0, def Red Johnson (PA) 9-6, pinned by Logan Phelps (HS - #5) 1:16, pinned Nolan Donahue (W) 2:41, pinned by Thomas Tolton (SC) 0:55.
140 (DNP) – Tyler Bakley: Pinned by Tronson Allen (TC) 1:00, pinned by Blake Fryberger (C) 1:43.
145 (2nd) – Taylor Scherer: Pinned Joe Zwetzig (N) 1:12, def Josh Claymore (W) 4-0, def Chantry Norman (SC) 5-4, def by Austin Lake (G - #4) 4-5.
145 (DNP) – Brad Hahn: pinned by Clayton Wahlstrom (C) 2:00, pinned by Josh Claymore 0:40.
152 (DNP) – Marcus Heath: Pinned by Trevor Larson (W) 1:12, pinned Austin Flood (PR) 2:12, pinned by Joe Brown (D) 1:25.
160 (DNP) – Lincoln Whirlwind Horse: Pinned by Blaine Schmidt (G - #2) 1:05, def Luke McFarland (SLD) 10-6, def Daniel Hintz (MP) 6-2, pinned by Sean Schwartz (R) 4:01.
171 (2nd) – Dalton McCollam: Pinned Cody LaCompte (SC) 2:26, pinned Casey Guliuzza (RCC) 1:57, def Tanner Eisland (C) 6-2, def by Dallas Jungwirth (R - #2) 2-8.
285 (DNP) – Sawyer Rous: Pinned by Josh Hunt (SBA) 1:27, pinned by Kacie Herrig (SLD) 3:45.