Two Crookston Pirate Wrestlers are competing with the Grand Forks Gladiators Wrestling Club this spring and competed in the 16U and Junior Folkstyle National Championships last weekend in Iowa.
Mauricio Arriaga competed at 120 pounds and Kolton Barenfuss competed at 138 pounds.
Arriaga beat Ethan Lowe (Huntsville, Alabama) by pin at 1:51. In the second round he lost to Zachary Donalson (Bentonville, Arkansas) by tech fall 15-0 (2:00). Mauricio bounced back with a pin of Beckett Svuba (Laurens, Iowa) at 2:58. In the next match, he lost to Lucas Stirling (Gillette, Wyoming) and was eliminated one win shy of placing.
Barenfuss lost his first match to Landon Conover (Chubbock, Idaho) by a pin at 1:01. In the second match, Kolton lost to Duran Clark (Harvest, Alabama) by pin in 49 seconds and was eliminated.
