Arcadia wins Whitehall wrestling invite
Arcadia’s Landen Pehler worked to secure a pin during a match at the Whitehall Invitational on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Whitehall’s Broc Coburn worked to secure a pin during a tournament hosted by the Norse on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Sam Marsolek of Independence/Gilmanton tried to lock up Arcadia’s Eduar Suares for a pin during their match at the Whitehall Invitational on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Billy Miller of Blair-Taylor tried to keep his opponent inbounds during a match at the Whitehall Invitational on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Arcadia Raiders left as the winners at an invitational wrestling tournament that featured numerous other Trempealeau County teams at Whitehall last Friday.
Arcadia narrowly edged Mondovi 124-121 for the team title on Friday. Fellow county schools Blair-Taylor (third) and Independence/Gilmanton (fourth) were also near the top.
Kickapoo/La Farge finished fifth, followed by Brookwood, Whitehall, North Crawford/Seneca and Flambeau.
A pair of Arcadia wrestlers won their weight classes last weekend.
Landen Pehler pinned all three of his opponents at 120 pounds to rack up points for the Raiders, while teammate Ivan Aguilar also finished 3-0 with a pair of decision wins and a pin at 126 pounds.
Arcadia’s Logan Breska also competed in the 126-pound bracket and finished second with his only loss coming to teammate Aguilar.
Ony Zaragoza (106), Matthew Badillo (132), Logan Conrad (138) and Derek Tamke (150) finished third in their weight classes.
Five Arcadia wrestlers finished fourth on Friday and three more wrestled to fifth.
Blair-Taylor finished third on Friday despite only bringing six wrestlers to the event.
Defending state champion Jackson Shramek won the 215-pound bracket, and Blair-Taylor also got individual championships from Ben Lien at 165 pounds and Ryan Flynn at 150 pounds.
Easton Rogstad took second at 157 pounds, while Billy Miller (144) finished fourth and Leeland Yurske (285) placed fifth.
The Indees also had numerous wrestlers finish in the top groups last weekend.
Drew Bragger won two of his three matches at 285 pounds to place second, as did teammate Grant Klimek at 132 pounds. Teammate Sam Marsolek (144) won three of four contests to also place second in his weight class.
Landon Stamper took third at 157 pounds. Other I/G wrestlers finishing in the top four included Alex Johnson (138) and James Carrillo Taylor (215).
The hosts saw seven of their nine wrestlers place in the top five.
Frank Juresh IV pinned Zaragoza of Arcadia in his opener before beating the Raiders’ Zayden Sanchez with a major decision to secure a second-place finish at 106 pounds.
Oriah Anderson also took second for Whitehall, winning his final three matches after dropping his opening match at 138 pounds.
Two Norse wrestlers finished third in Broc Coburn and Lukas Paske, while Luke Matejka (190) and Cash Kulig (132) took fourth.
Nolan Thompson wrestled to fifth at 126 pounds.
