By: Kevin Fick
The wrestler’s completed their regular season with a makeup dual in
Upsula with the Royalton-Upsula Royals
and a tournament in Morris. The Royals
proved hard to handle for the young WCAAE team.
In Fact the WCAAE grapplers pulled out just one victory. There was some good wrestling in Morris and a
bit more success was produced.
Part of athletics, especially during the physical contests, teaches an
athlete a lot about themselves. During
the football season we promote the fact that everyone gets knocked down
sometime…the successful athlete is the one who gets back up, learns from it and
moves forward. Each week these young men
have taken the mat and faced in most cases an older more experienced
wrestler. There was plenty of being
knocked down but during this time valuable experience has been picked up. For some, this will pay dividends yet this
season as sections are now upon us. For others, the experience gained this year
will transfer into what should prove a very successful campaign next year as
WCAAE will be very junior and sophomore heavy in the roster.
Thursday, Feb. 7th
WCAAE 6 Royalton-Upsula 63
106-Jake Nohre (WCAAE) defeated by
Michae Petron per decision 4-8, 113-Tyler Onstad (WCAAE) defeated by Joe Jensen
per decision 0-5, 120-Wyatt Odegaard (WCAAE) defeated by Matt Neu per fall
3:49, 126-Keaton Long (WCAAE) defeated by Cody Wensmann per technical fall,
132-Alex Olson (WCAAE) defeated by Brady Moulzolf per fall :45, 138-Kode
Seifert (WCAAE) defeated by Brad Kroll per
fall 1:35, 145-Kyle Mickelsen (WCAAE) defeated by Tyler Hegna per
decision 1-5, 152-Braedon Long (WCAAE) defeated by Shawn Urbanski per fall
3:01, 160-Blake Amundson (WCAAE) defeated by Tim Valencia-Louden per decision
2-7, 170-Koel Seifert (WCAAE) defeated by Kyle Lang per major decision 3-13,
182-Sid Kamrath (WCAAE) defeated by Mitch Lange per fall :30, 195-Hunter Fick
(WCAAE) defeated Tony Gadacz per fall 5:33, 220-Cory Wensmann (RU) won per
forfeit, 285-Clint Gadacz (RU) won per forfeit, the JV went 4-5
From Coach Gruchow…”We had two of our starters out of the lineup this
week (Jake Larkin and Royal Crow), which did not help when we are young and
struggle to fill the 14 weight classes the way it is. Thursday night was rough but kudos to Hunter
Fick for pulling off the team’s only win.
It is mentally tough to pull out a big win against a good wrestler when
every other guys in front of you have all lost.
I was happy with the way the boys wrestled we were just overpowered by
the age and experience of the RU wrestlers.
Saturday was a great learning experience for our wrestlers as the boys
wrestled with the competition the Morris tournament had to offer. This is a tournament we like to get in at the
end of the year to boost the confidence in our wrestlers. They wrestled well and for the most part I am
pleased with their performance.”
Saturday, Feb. 9th
MAHACA Tournament (Morris)
Teams participating…Benson, Breckenridge/Campbell-Tintah, Fosston/Bagely,
Kerkhoven/Murdock/Sunberg, Morris Area/Hancock/Chokio-Alberta, Ortonville,
Pequot Lakes/ Pine River/ Backus, West Central Area/ Ashby/ Evansville
2nd Place 195-Hunter Fick, 3rd 106-Jake Nohre, 4th place 113-Tyler Onstad,
120-Wyatt Odegaard, 5th Place 138-Kyle Mickelsen, 152-Braedon Long
Top three teams for the day were in order KMS, PLPB and MAHACA. WCAAE finished 7th.
WCAAE will begin team sections Tuesday, Feb 11th in Wheaton
facing the Prairie Valley Nighthawks.
Like most sports this is a win and your in type event. The winner of that match will face-off with
#2 seed Border West the same evening.
Wrestling will begin at 5:30 and will be covered by KKOK 95.7 FM.
Best
of luck to our grapplers in the post season!
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