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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Minnesota section wrestling team finals

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Minnesota section wrestling team finals
Minnesota section wrestling team finals
Find out which teams are heading to state.

The minnesota section wrestling tournament concluded today and our cameras were there for all the highs and lows.

Kimt news 3 sports zach gilleland joins me with the latest.xx if you haven't been to a wrestling meet in minnesota or iowa, you're missing out the energy is second to none.

The wrestling season is winding down and before the individual section tournament takes place next weekend, we're finding out which teams are heading to state.

Some experienced the thrill of victory, and others the agony of defeat.

Here's all the action from today's meet.// always a packed house at the mayo civic center.

Starting in the semifinals in 1á a, it's doverá eyota versus zumbrota mazeppa.

The cougars luke krier taking on the eagles landon lehnertz, krier would escape with a 3 to 1 win as zám takes the early lead.

But don't count out dáe, at 285 pounds in the final matchup with a six point lead, spencer welsh would outlast jack haglund with a five to three decision..

To send the eagles into the finals.

They'll face the winner of this one... chatfield and top seeded gámá láoás.

At 138 donovan felton in the second round would pin the gophers thad evans as the bulldogs take the lead.

This would be a close one throughout, chatfield's seth goetzinger pins rece voigt and the gophers close within four.

But the bulldogs are the top seed for a reason, at 182 noah sayles with two points over grady schott... he would go on to win 14 to 7 as gmlos heads to the finals.

In class two jamie heidt leads kasson against lake city.

The komets would dominate the tigers... a trio of state champions would lead the way as carlos ruffo wins by tech fall at 152, undefeated bennett berge would do the same at 170.

And three time state champ patrick kennedy would need just 19 seconds to take care of ethan roberson.

Into the finals now, in 1áa doveráeyota and gmlos.

At 106 pounds, anthony romero would start the bulldogs off on the right foot, taking nearly the entire time limit to pin brodie kellen.

At 126 landon lehnertz would redeem himself, scoring a pin over wes soltau to get the eagles on the board.

State champion jackson hale on to support gmlos noah sayles would do it again with these two points, being one of six consecutive bulldogs to win their matchups.

For the first time since 2005, gmlos is heading to the state tournament.

"feels wonderful, we worked way too hard for this, we put in all this work in for this moment.

We worked way too hard in the past to lose and it feels good to pull it off and actually be section champs."

"you come up short all those years, and you know these guys have it in them and you know you almost sometimes believe in them more than they believe in themselves.

They took it in their own hands to take care of business."

In the 2áa finals it's kasson versus the team that ended their dynasty last year in simley.

The spartans would take the first four matches before logan vaughn would get the komets on the board.

The 132 pounder would win by tech fall over james diaz.

At 145 simley would throw out their own state champion in ryan sokol.

The former hawkeye and current cornell commit defeats tanner paulson by tech fall.

With a huge decifit, km would grab some points from their aces.

It would take bennett berge nearly three minutes, but the sohomore would pin marshall spychalla.

And patrick kennedy wrestling at 195 would tech fall gavin nelson, winning 22á7.

But kasson would fail to avenge last years loss to the spartans, as simley wins 46 to 19.

"it hurts

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