Thursday, February 13, 2014

Knight Wrestlers are PR Conference South Champs By: Kevin Fick



The final week of regular season competition provided conference championship wrestling and a last chance for the grapplers to tune up their skills before sectional competition begins.
The wrestlers began their week in search of the Park Region South conference championship.  The wrestling took place in Elbow Lake against a depleted Long Prairie/Grey Eagle Thunder team.  With a fleet of forfeits by the Thunder a win was not the question but could the Knights score enough points (52) to separate them in the three way tie with Osakis and Roylaton/Upsula.  Following a 63-13 decision the boys in red clearly took their destiny into their own hands and doing so in front of a large crowd as it was ‘Parents Night’ for the Knights.  Royal Crow picked up his 75th career victory against the Thunder.  The Knights finished the regular dual season 16-3.
The win against the Thunder enabled the Knights to challenge for the overall conference championship against the victors from the north side.  Thursday the Knights traveled to Bertha to face off with a very upperclassman heavy Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale team.  The Raiders took it to the Knights with a 43-24 win as WCAAE had too many starters out of the lineup with injuries to put up any real fight.  This may change in a week though as the Knights are seated number three in the section and Raiders are seated second.  If both teams make it to the semi-finals with a healthy lineup this competition should be much closer than Thursday evening.
The WCAAE wrestlers traveled Saturday to Morris for the MAHACA Invitational.  With this being the last chance during regular season to sharpen the tools in the tool box we saw 10 of the 13 athletes competing place.  It was interesting watching the wrestlers as some switched up styles.  We saw some of our aggressive wrestlers slow it down and work on riding skills, we saw some of the non-aggressive kids turn it up and take it to the opponent.  There was good competition in Morris and even without two of the top scoring starters the Knights managed a 3rd place finish with four athletes making it to the first place round, four making it to the 3rd place round and one making it to the 5fth place round.  Jake Nohre picked up his 50th victory in Morris.


Tuesday, Feb. 4th   Elbow Lake
WCAAE 63, LPGE 13
106 lb. Jake Nohre (WCAAE) defeated Jaden Buntjer per fall 4:43
113 lb. Levi Larkin (WCAAE) won per forfeit
120 lb. Aiden Winter (WCAAE) won per forfeit
126 lb. Nicholas Middendorf (LPGE) defeated Keaton Long per major dec. 14-4
132 lb. Tyler Onstad (WCAAE) defeated Thomas Pesta per major dec. 9-1
138 lb. Creg Donabauer (LPGE) defeated Alex Butcher per fall 1:54
145 lb. Remington Meagher defeated Kyle Mickelsen per dec. 6-5
152 lb. Royal Crow (WCAAE) defeated Cody Johnson per fall 1:40
160 lb. Zach Salo (WCAAE) won per forfeit
170 lb. Blake Amundson (WCAAE) won per forfeit
182 lb. Sid Kamrath (WCAAE) won per forfeit
195 lb. Hunter Fick (WCAAE) won per forfeit
220 lb. Buzz Miller (WCAAE) defeated Keegan Cavellero per tech fall
285 lb. T.J.Waskosky (WCAAE) won per forfeit
Thursday, Feb 6th Bertha
Coach Gruchow…“Tonight wasn't our night. It's as simple as that. We have to go back to the drawing board improve on some things and we need to get everyone healthy to beat BHV. Being banged up and having nuisance injuries is common problem this time of year. These boys have put their bodies through a lot in the last 3 months, competition has been tough, practices have been intense, and they have been pushing themselves through the season as hard as they can. If we can get things back on track and we beat Staples on Tuesday I think we could score more points and give up less on Saturday if/when we wrestle them next Saturday.”
106 lb. Jake Nohre (WCAAE) defeated Jarrett Kveton per fall :45
113 lb. Anthony Kern (BHV) defeated Levi Larkin per dec. 6-1
120 lb. Justin Gordon (BHV) defeated Keaton Long per dec. 10-4
126 lb. Tyler Onstad (WCAAE) defeated Marshall Willis per dec. 7-0
132 lb. Zack Waln (BHV) defeated Wyatt Olson per fall :16
138 lb. Holton Truax (BHV) defeated Alex Butcher per fall :30
145 lb. Ethan Kimber (BHV) defeated Kyle Mickelsen per dec. 6-3
152 lb. Royal Crow (WCAAE) defeated Bradey Baker per fall 4:26
160 lb. Andrew Cihlar (BHV) defeated Zack Salo per fall 2:34
170 lb. Nick Bennett (BHV) defeated Blake Amundson per major dec. 15-1
182 lb. Sid Kamrath (WCAAE) defeated John French per dec. 2-1
195 lb. Hunter Fick (WCAAE) defeated Andrew Bounds per fall 3:06
220 lb. Dillon Card(BHV) defeated Buzz Miller per fall 2:09
285 lb. Dalton Baker (BHV) defeated T.J.Waskosky per fall :34
Saturday, Feb. 8th  Morris
Coach Gruchow…“We wrestled not having our best performance today but it definitely wasn't our  worst performance either. We had the majority of our guys place and we took third in the tournament. I think some of our wrestlers know as well as I do that they could have placed higher than they did. It was a great tournament in the fact that we knew that each wrestler could only get a maximum of 3 matches. It gave our wrestlers like Jake Nohre a chance to wrestle without going over match count. Freshman Jake Nohre earned his 50th win today as well, which is pretty awesome! Jake has only been able to wrestle the last two seasons because he was not heavy enough his seventh grade year. I felt we were a little flat in the last round, we weren't moving as well as I thought  we could. I think the wear and tear of the season has hit our guys. It will be good for them to have Sunday to rest and recuperate. We will have an intense-shorter practice on Monday and prepare for our first round match against Staples on Tuesday.”
1.      247 Kerkohvan/Murdock/Sunburg
2.      171 Morris Area/Hancock/Chokio-Alberta
3.      147 West Central Area/Ashby/Evansville
4.      140 Fosston/Bagley
5.      122 Benson
6.      101 Holdingford
7.      80 Ortonville
8.      45 Breckenridge
106 lb. Jake Nohre    1st Place
Defeated Cody Ballard (ORT) per fall :33, Defeated Jacob Carlson (KMS) per fall :50, defeated Jared Knutson (BEN) per major dec. 12-1
113 lb. Levi Larkin     3rd Place
Defeated Wyatt McGee (BEN) per fall 2:29, defeated by Jamey Koetter (HOLD) per dec. 9-2, defeated Tristan Eastman per fall 3:41
120 lb. Keaton Long    3rd Place
Defeated Jared Rohloff (MAHACA) per dec. 9-2, defeated by Casey Thorson (KMS) per dec. 9-2, defeated Ryan Skroch (HOLD) per fall 2:50
126 lb. Tyler Onstad    3rd Place
Defeated Chase Young (BEN) per fall 1:08, defeated by Cody Peters per fall 1:43, defeated Lane Olson per dec. 6-4
145 lb. Kyle Mickelsen   5th Place
Defeated by Nicholas Meyer (KMS) per dec. 7-0, defeated Dan Lenarz (BEN) per fall 3:08, defeated Devin Larson per fall 5:50
152 lb. Royal Crow    2nd Place
Defeated Austin Snyder-Lein (BRECK) per tech fall 19-2, defeated Jake Ubert (FB) per fall 4:41, defeated by Bryce Goeff (BEN) per dec. 5-2
160 lb. Chase Kamrath
Defeated by Mitch Koosman (BEN) per fall 3:33, defeated by Danny Tracy (MAHACA) per fall 2:28
170 lb. Koel Seifort     5th Place
Defeated by Travis Lamecker (KMS) per major dec. 16-3, defeated Steven Kohl (MAHACA) per dec. 6-3, defeated Matt Wieber (BEN) per dec. 8-7
170 lb. Blake Amundson
Defeated by Jordan Thooft (MAHACA) per fall :53, defeated by Matt Wieber (BEN) per dec. 8-4
182 lb. Sid Kamrath    4th Place
Defeated Aaron Nelson (MAHACA) per dec. 6-4, defeated by Karter VanHeuvlen (KMS) per fall 3:46, defeated by Zach Larson (FB) per dec.3-1
195 lb. Hunter Fick     2nd Place
Defeated Kyle Wrobleski (BEN) per fall 1:06, defeated Zach Como (FB) per dec. 3-1, defeated by Chase Norton (KMS) per fall 3:38
220 lb. Buzz Miller     2nd Place
Defeated Tyler Jacobson (ORT) per fall 1:01, defeated Alec Gausman (MAHACA) per dec. 4-2, defeated by Luke Juve (FB) per fall 1:26
285 lb. T.J.Waskosky
Defeated by Mathew Collins (KMS) per fall :46, defeated by Taylor Zeltwanger (MAHCA) per dec. 1-0
WCAAE will open up Tuesday, Feb. 11th in Elbow Lake hosting a team section meet against Staples-Motley.  Wrestling will begin at 7pm.  Should the Knights win they will travel Saturday, Feb 15th to Pelican Rapids to wrestled in the section semi-finals and possible finals.

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