The Crookston Pirate Wrestling team had six wrestlers in the championship and came away with two champions and a team runner-up finish with 162 points, 51 points behind United North Central, as they hosted the Rodd Olson Invitational Wrestling tournament at the Crookston High School gymnasium.
TEAM RESULTS –
1. United North Central – 213
2. Crookston – 162
3. Park Rapids – 142
4. Mahnomen-Waubun – 110
5. Walker-Hackensack-Akeley – 106
6. New York Mills – 105
7. Hillsboro/Central Valley
8. Roseau – 0
PIRATE INDIVIDUAL TOP FINISHES –
CHAMPIONS –
At 138-pounds, Casey Weiland had a first-round bye and won his second match by a 9-5 decision. In the championship match, he pinned Callen Whitney in the second period to become the first Pirate champion of the day.
At 195 pounds, Ethan Boll received a first-round bye and in the semi-finals, he won his match by a pin in 30 seconds. The win was the 125th career victory for Boll, who is a junior. In the championship, Boll jumped out to a 5-0 lead before getting a pin in 1:43 to win the second Pirate championship of the day.
SECOND-PLACE
At 106-pounds, Evin Trudeau received a bye in his first round before winning the semi-final match 4-0 to advance to the championship match. Evin ran into a tough opponent in the championship as Robby Sherk of Park Rapids beat him by a pin in 47 seconds and Trudeau finished runner-up.
At 120 pounds, Gavyn Hlucny received a bye in the first round and won by a 12-1 major decision in the semi-finals. In the championship, he was pinned in the first period and finished runner-up.
At 152 pounds, Ethan Bowman won his first-round match by an 11-0 decision and he won the semi-final match by pin in the second period. In the championship, he lost a heart-breaking 3-2 decision to finish second place.
At 182 pounds, Hunter Knutson won his first match by pin in the first round and won an exciting 5-4 decision in his second round. In his final match of the round-robin bracket in his weight class, he lost by a pin in the first period and finished second place.
All the rest of the results are listed below.
Crookston | Opponents/Results | Place | |
106 | Evin Trudeau | Bye Beat Trevor Neisen (MW) 4-0 Lost Robby Sherk (PR) pin :47 |
2nd |
113 | OPEN | ||
120 | Gavyn Hlucny | BYE Beat Carson Kozojed (HCV) 12-1 Lost Sawyer Owens (HCV) pin 1:21 |
2nd |
126 | Lucas Perala | Lost Dawson McGee (WHA) Pin 1:55 Lost Spencer Erickson (UNC) pin :57 Lost Kaleb Stearns (PR) pin 1:46 |
3rd |
132 | OPEN | ||
138 | Casey Weiland | Bye Beat Wyatt Olson (UNC) 9-5 Beat Callen Whitney (WHA) pin 3:18 |
1st |
145 | Carter Coauette | Beat Manny Johnson (MW) pin 1:32 Lost Henry Nelson (HCV) 7-4 Beat Braxton Volker (Crox) 4-2 Lost Simon Snyder (NYM) 6-2 |
4th |
145 | Braxton Volker | Lost Simon Snyder (NYM) 11-0 Beat Patrick Locklear (Ros) Tech Fall Lost Carter Coauette (Crox) 4-2 Beat Andy Johanning (PR) pin 1:19 |
5th |
152 | Ethan Bowman | Bye Beat Thomas Azure (MW) pin 2:20 Lost Dane Niemi (NYM) 3-2 |
2nd |
160 | Spencer Ness | Beat Blake Unger (NYM) 7-3 Lost Will Olson (MW) 5-2 Beat Jacob Brunell (UNC) 13-2 Lost John Geray (HCV) pin 2:50 |
4th |
170 | Layten Fuentes | Beat Sophia Rojas (MW) pin 1:37 Lost Eion Ness (UNC) pin 3:51 Lost Mason Plautz (UNC) pin 4:52 Beat Sophia Rojas (MW) pin 1:46 |
5th |
182 | Hunter Knutson | Beat Payden Yeats (WHA) pin 1:03 Beat Shawn Hendrickson (UNC) 5-4 Lost Bode Roberts (NYM) pin 1:28 |
2nd |
195 | Ethan Boll | Bye Beat Malachi Brower (MW) pin :30 Beat Barrett Willison (HCV) for 1st |
1st |
220 | Hunter Kresl | Beat Nathan Keiser (WHA) 3-1 OT Lost Torrey Carlson (UCW) pin 2:44 Bye Lost Tristan Hill (PR) 6-3 |
4th |
285 | OPEN |