Piles Up 405 Points While Claiming 11 Individual Titles At 10-Team Meet; Baker MVP The Coleman Cougars repeated last year’s winning performance at the Shawano Invitational, but this time did it in completely dominating fashion.
The Cougars won just one weight class last year and edged the host team by one point.
This year, the Cougars racked up 405 points to win by nearly 200 and crowned 11 champions.
Elsewhere at the tournament, the Peshtigo Bulldogs had two of the three other champs, including the undefeated Mack Drees winning at 112 pounds.
Oconto Falls continued their dominance of the Bay Conference by knocking off West De Pere 84-0 on Thursday.
The Bulldogs lost on Thursday to Sturgeon Bay, while Crivitz used a bevy of forfeits to pull out a win over Crandon.
-Thursday’s Results-
Three Forfeits
Leads To Close
Bulldog Defeat
In 11 contested matches, the Peshtigo Bulldogs came away victorious.
In the three that weren’t contested, the Bulldogs gave up 18 points on forfeits, while also losing four more via pinfall and falling to Sturgeon Bay 42-38 Thursday night in a non-conference match-up.
The Bulldogs came away with a split in terms of weight classes, winning seven and losing an equal amount, but got five pins and two major decisions and fell four points short.
The Bulldogs were able to jump out to a 10-0 lead when Shawn Oestreich pinned Jon Hendricks in 43 seconds and Jake McClain followed it up with a dominating four-point win at 160 pounds.
Peshtigo would sandwich two forfeits around Dylan Meeks’ third-period pin at 189, and after Alex Schenk was pinned at heavyweight, Peshtigo fell behind 18-16.
Again, the Bulldogs were able to grab consecutive matches, getting pin wins from 103-pounder Josh Bayer (35 seconds) and 112-pound standout Mack Drees (3:49).
After forfeiting at 119 pounds, the Bulldogs were pinned two consecutive times and fell behind 36-28.
Derrik Maye cut the lead to two with a late second-period pin at 135 pounds, but Sturgeon Bay’s Michael McCauley pinned Brad Kmiecik in 24 seconds to lock up the win for Sturgeon Bay.
Mitch Johnson won 12-0 in the night’s final match at 145.
Crivitz, Forfeits
Make Quick
Work Of Crandon
The Crivitz Wolverines, backed by seven forfeit wins, made quick work of the Crandon Cardinals, winning 54-30 Thursday night in non-conference action.
The Wolverines won at 112, 145, 152, 160, 171, 215 and heavyweight by forfeit, and Jay Brown (103 pounds) and Parker DelosSantos (125) picked up pinfall victories to lead the Crivitz effort.
Titans Struggle
With Shiocton
The Lena/STAA wrestlers managed victories in only four weight classes, falling to Shiocton 46-24 Thursday night.
Ryan Yost (125 pounds), Chad Heise (160) and heavyweight Danny Miller all secured wins via pinfall, while Tom Beschta won by forfeit at 171.
That was all the Lena/STAA grapplers could muster up in the defeat.
Oconto Falls
Perfect...Again
For the second time in a week and against the second Bay Conference opponent, the Oconto Falls Panthers finished a wrestling dual without allowing a point and without letting any slip away.
After beating Marinette 84-0 less than a week earlier, the Panthers duplicated the feat by knocking off West De Pere by an identical perfect score Thursday night.
“This Oconto Falls team may well be the best team I have ever coached against,” West De Pere coach David Bernarde remarked with the results on the website trackwrestling.com. “Oconto Falls is the real deal.”
Five of the wins came via forfeit for Oconto Falls, as standouts Cullan Morrissey and Aaron Heidersheid, as well as Mitch Friedman, Josh Zeitler and Matthew Damp, didn’t have to wrestle for their six points.
The rest of the Panthers won with pins, with only one (Kyle DeBauche at 145) going into the third period.
Cody Nielsen (152), Jacob Morrissey (160) and Brock Gagnon (119) all got their matches over in less than a minute, while Bryce Iverson (140), Matt Samsa (189), Riley Delzer (215) and Lee Athey (112) also secured first-period wins.
Clayton Selsmeyer (171) won in 2:55.
Marinette Manages
One Win In Loss
The Marinette Marines got just one win, albeit a forfeit, in their 78-6 laugher against Denmark Thursday night.
The Marines lost by either forfeit or pinfall in every single weight class except for Kordel Breszko’s forfeit victory at 215 pounds.
-Saturday’s Results-
Coleman Dominates
Shawano Invitational
Last year at this very invitational, the Coleman Cougars had a plethora of second and third-place finishes and only one win, but still inched away with a title.
How much difference can a year make?
Last year the Cougars collected points everywhere on their way to 295 points, edging Shawano by a point at the Shawano Invitational.
This year, the Cougars racked up 11 individual championships, a second and two thirds to place every single wrestler in the top three and race away from any competitors, scoring 405 points to win the event by 194 over Shawano.
Bonduel was in third place with 185 points, Wausau East was fourth (175) and Peshtigo, led by champions Mack Drees (112) and Shawn Oestreich (152), was fifth with 152 points.
The long list of Cougar winners begins with 103-pounder Darek Behnke and ends with heavweight Jordan Zeitler, with nine others in-between.
125-pound senior Cody Baker was named the tournament MVP for his solid performance.
Russell Townsend, a 160-pounder finally seeing extensive varsity action, earned the pin award.
The Cougars seemed to pull out every close match along the way and simply dominated a tournament that is no slouch.
Also winning for the Cougars was Mitch Mergener (119), Mitch Champagne (130), Jacob Engels (135), Mike Mergener (140), Myles Magee (145), Troy Stillings (171) and Mitch Kuchta (189).
Jerit Zeitler landed in second place at 215, while Chett Birr (112) and Jordyn Schaal (152) finished in third.
In addition to the wins from Drees and Oestreich, Peshtigo got a pair of third-place finishes from 103-pounder Josh Bayer and 140-pounder Mitch Johnson.
Behnke’s toughest match at 103 came against Bayer, who fell behind 7-0 but rallied way back to tie it at 8 before an escape as time ran out cost him the match.
Behnke won two of his matches in 22 seconds or less, and another by a 7-2 decision.
Drees was also impressive for the Bulldogs at 112.
The defending state runner-up won by decision over Mason Bohm of Shawano, the Division 1 runner-up at 103 pounds last year, clipping the junior 7-4.
He also won by a pair of pins and defeated Birr 4-0.
Mitch Mergener scored one win via pinfall, two more by major decision and the final one on an 8-7 decision over Shawano’s Desmond Thome.
Baker arguably clinched the MVP award in his third contested match, beating top-ranked Jared Kust of Shawano in triple overtime.
With the match deadlocked at one, the wrestlers tested their endurance and Baker finally got an escape to win it over the two-time state medalist.
He gave up only one point in his other three wins, winning 17-1, 4-0 and 5-0.
Champagne, the top seed in the 130-pound bracket, lived up to the hype by winning three matches in the first round and taking the final match 7-0 over runner-up Rory Rusch.
Jacob Engels was part of a group of three wrestlers that finished with one loss at 135, but he won the tiebreaker and took the top spot.
He lost to Wausau East’s Connor Whitehead but defeated Sam Coe of Shawano 3-2. Coe knocked off Whitehead 4-2.
Mike Mergener needed a pair of overtimes to get past Johnson at 140, winning 4-3, before a 2-1 win, an injury default win, and an 11-0 major decision.
Magee had some close calls in the 145-pound bracket, winning by 5-4 and 5-3 decisions, but he also got a pin late in the second period and won 5-0 for a perfect day.
Oestreich was simply dominant in the 152-pound weight class, winning 15-0 and 17-2 in his first two matches before taking out Schaal 8-3 and securing the title with a 10-0 win over runner-up Taylor Kelley of Bonduel.
Townsend, who was in a completely full weight class, had to wrestle into the championship pool even as the second seed, and he did it with a pin in 1:32.
That started a trend for Townsend, who won in 3:47, 42 seconds, 1:31 and 1:02 to secure the pinner’s award.
Stillings, who has to be a little nearer to his comfort zone at 171 after wrestling 215 last season, won by an 11-0 decision before going on a run of pins, winning his final three matches in the first period.
Kuchta was the five seed in the packed 189-pound bracket and won his way in with a pin in 1:18.
He kept the pin streak alive by taking down Dylan Meeks of Peshtigo in 49 seconds, before winning a pair of close decisions (4-2 and 4-3). He won the title on a 7-0 decision.
Jordan Zeitler won at heavyweight but no information was available.
Lena/STAA Crowns
Three, Takes Fourth
Ryan Yost, Chad Heise and Mike Crozier all picked up individual victories as the Lena/STAA wrestlers took fourth place at the Green Bay Preble/East Invitational Saturday.
The Titan wrestlers were able to secure 188 points, while Preble/East won the event with 310.5 points.
All three Lena/STAA winners won three of their five matches by pinfall.
At 125 pounds, all of Yost’s pins came in the first period, while he also won by a 6-0 decision and took the title match 9-5.
Heise’s pins were all in the first period as well, while he also won by a 15-0 technical fall and took the title with a 9-2 win.
Continuing an apparent team trend, Crozier’s three pin wins came in the first period of action. He won his other match by a 6-5 decision over Chiton’s Ross Groeschl. His fifth match was a bye.
Richard Garrigan added a second-place finish for the Titans at 130 pounds.
Gillett-Suring Gets
Two Runners-Up
Despite not getting a win at the Kewaunee Invitational Saturday, the Gillett-Suring Matmen had two second-place finishers as well as a third.
The Matmen scored 92 points as a team to finish in seventh place. Seymour won the event with 241 points.
Brad Mueller (135 pounds) and Kyle Kallies (189) were the runners-up in their respective fields, while Andrew Olson (152) finished his day in third place.
Mueller, who received a bye and won by quick pins (51 and 48 seconds), was pinned in the title match by Kiel’s Jay Wallace.
Kallies was also pinned in the title match, losing to Bay Port’s Stephen Wisniewski in 4:23.
In getting to the title event, Kallies received a bye and won by late third-period pins.
Olson won by a pinfall before getting pinned by Ryan Geiger of Brillion. In the third-place match, Olson won by an 11-8 decision.
Menominee Struggles,
Theuerkauf Second
The Menominee wrestlers struggled on their way to a ninth-place finish (78 points) at the Tomahawk Invitational Saturday, which was won by Hortonville (365.5).
Nick Theuerkauf was the one bright spot for Menominee, as the 125-pound standout finished as a runner-up.
Theuerkauf received a bye into the quarterfinals, where he would edge Reed Barrington of Hortonville in 3:40.
In the next round, Theuerkauf decisioned Chippewa Falls’ Josh Reedy 13-7.
In the final match, the Maroon standout lost 5-0.
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