Knights Ranked Ninth in Class A Wrestling Poll

By Craig Olson

The West Central Area/Ashby/Brandon-Evansville wrestling team is ranked ninth in the latest Minnesota Class A poll.
Minneota, Adrian and Frazee are the top three teams in the poll, followed by Kenyon-Wanamingo, Lake Crystal-Wellcome-Memorial Area, Jackson County Central, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg, Chatfield, WCA/A/BE, Pierz, Badger/Greenbush-Middle River and Zumbrota-Mazeppa. Barnesville is among the teams listed in the Lean and Mean category as receiving votes.
Individually, the Knights have three wrestlers in the top ten in their respective weight classes.  Hunter Fick is ranked number one at 195, Jake Nohre is third at 106 and Royal Crow is sixth at 152.
Barnesville has Zac Anderson ranked seventh at 138, Rylee Anderson eighth at 145 and Dan Berg sixth at 220.
Pelican Rapids senior Danny Franco is ranked tenth at 113 pounds.
Frazee has several ranked wrestlers, including top-ranked Garrett Malstrom (285), fourth-ranked Jonah Lange (182), sixth-ranked Tanner Reetz (120), seventh ranked Austin Skillings (145), eighth ranked Tanner Schermerhorn (106), Ethan Byer (126) and Byron Byer (132) and tenth-ranked Grant Jepson (138).
New York Mills has two ranked wrestlers, Jeremiah Harper is eighth at 120 and Sam Erkenbrack is ninth at 195.
From Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale, Dillon Card (220) is ranked first, Ethan Kimber (160) fifth and Anthony Kern (120) seventh.
Border West has Cameron Sykora (120) ranked number one and Tracer Lee (126) ranked third.