Crookston’s Carter Coauette advanced to the Minnesota State High School League Individual State Wrestling tournament after winning the Section 8A Championship on Saturday. Carter is making his fourth state tournament appearance overall and third as a Section 8A Champion. Carter received good news on Sunday as he earned the #3 seed at 172 pounds. Coauette is 42-2 on the year and ranked in the top 10 all season.
In the Section 8A championship match, he dominated the #5 ranked Preston Mayfield of Frazee in a 7-3 score, with all three of Mayfield’s points coming from Coauette cutting him free. Mayfield received the #12 seed.
Carter will wrestle Nicholas Leibold of Royalton-Upsala in the first round of the state tournament on Friday at the Excel Energy Center. Leibold is 31-14 on the year.
SECTION 8A WRESTLERS AT STATE (Seed – Name – School – Record)
107 POUNDS –
#6 seed Trevor Neisen (Mahnomen/Waubun) 35-8
#9 seed Chase Hauck (Barnesville) 28-19
114 POUNDS –
#4 seed Keegan Vonende (BGMR) 30-8
#14 seed Cooper Rife (United North Central) 24-18
121 POUNDS –
#5 seed Ian Phrakonkham (Fosston-Bagley) 35-3
#9 Liam Hamm (Frazee) 30-14
127 POUNDS –
#8 seed Aaron Lake (United North Central) 32-6
#10 Drew Rasch (Fertile-Beltrami) 35-9
133 POUNDS –
#5 seed Ayden Hauck (Barnesville) 36-7
#14 seed Zach Hendrickson (United North Central) 32-12
139 POUNDS –
#6 seed Zach Thompson (Fosstob/Bagley) 33-3
#12 Manny Johnson (Mahnomen/Waubun) 28-19
145 POUNDS –
#3 seed Bailey Peichel (Frazee) 26-5
#6 seed Aiden Wolfe (Fosston/Bagley) 35-3
152 POUNDS –
#7 seed Tyler Moe (Frazee) 36-10
#12 Zach Davidson (United North Central) 25-10
160 POUNDS –
#5 seed Cameron Halverson (Barnesville) 34-5
#16 seed Cade Nagel (Frazee) 23-18
172 POUNDS –
#3 seed Carter Coauette (Crookston) 42-2
#12 Preston Mayfield (Frazee) 37-7
189 POUNDS –
#6 seed Eli Roiko (United North Central) 27-5
#15 seed Jack Graham (Frazee) 27-16
215 POUNDS –
#13 seed Ryan Peterson (United North Central) 28-13
#16 seed James Flynn (Fertile-Beltrami) 37-6
285 POUNDS –
#3 seed Tristan Nichols (BGMR) 36-5
#16 Jonathan Rose (Fosston-Bagley) 13-4
