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Northwest, Summit, Lindbergh Wrestlers Advance at State
Some local teams fare well in the wrestling tournament as others make early exits.
COLUMBIA, MO -- Wrestling fans from across the state speckled the typically gold-filled seats of Mizzou Arena all day on Thursday for the 81st Missouri State Wrestling Championships.
It took eight simultaneous matches at a time, but all four different classes completed their first round matches and also their consolation (wrestleback) rounds.
“There are a lot of logistics that go into it,” said Jason West, Communications Director of the Missouri State High School Activities Association. “We have over 1,600 matches over the next three days. There are four classes. There’s a lot of planning.”
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Midway through the first day of competition, West said he felt like everything was running smoothly.
“The good thing is that this particular championship is at the point where it’s sort of a well-oiled machine now,” West said. “It’s more of planning logistics to just make sure the dominos fall the way they’re supposed to.”
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It also requires a large number of workers to come in and make sure the various operations run efficiently.
“There are approximately 65-70 different workers and volunteers,” West said. “We’ve got mat officials, table officials, people entering computer stats and other things like that. There’s a lot of volunteer work as well.”
After a long day of grappling, here’s how some local schools fared on Day 1:
Class 3:
Rockwood Summit – Tied for sixth place with 24 points.
Aaden Aaden, Dylan Heiney, Boone McIntosh, Mitch Mays, Ian McIntosh, Drew Lance and Abram Reynolds all won their opening bouts. Spenser Mathews, Rudy May, Josh Martin, Nick Strauder and Mitchell Baer lost their first matchups.
Class 4:
Fox – Tied for 42nd with three points.
Alex Vaughn, Chris Repple and Kenny Hanes all lost their first bouts.
Seckman – In third place with 25.5 points.
All of Seckman’s wrestlers won their first-round bouts. They are Brock Winbermue, Matt Kraus, Danny Farrell, Denny Kleinschro, Blake Pepper, Corey Matt and Timothy Niewald.
Lindbergh – Tied for 17th place with 10.5 points.
Tom Korenak and Michael Slyman won their first matches. Matthew Ratterre, Sam Stinebrook and Christopher Kew all lost.
Northwest – In 16th place with 11 points.
Justin Nahlik, Robert Martin, Brenden Southard, Zachary King and Nick Tufts all won their first bouts. Cameron Noland lost.
