WAGNER - It went to the wire in Wagner Saturday, but Winner Area pulled out the Region 3B wrestling team championship.
The Warriors used a championship pin from Kayleb Brozik at 170 pounds to help propel them past Bon Homme/Scotland for the team title with 138 points. Bon Homme/Scotland was second with 134 points and Parkston-which had a tournament-best four individual champions-was third with 129 points.
Winner Area, which has eight state qualifying wrestlers, was led by Brozik, who improved to 42-4 on the season with a pin in 2 minutes, 58 seconds of Cole Soulek, of Wagner. Wyatt Turnquist won the 113-pound championship for Warriors, as well.
"We started slow and that's what forced us to play some catch up later in the tournament," Winner Area coach Spencer Novotny said. "Once we got going, we started getting the bonus points and the wins we needed but we didn't perform at our best today."
Kaden Keiser (106) finished in second place, while Atlas Willuweit (120), Trevor Peters (126), Avery Gilchrist (152) and Tre`zen Doren (285) finished third, while Jayden Schroeder was fourth at 220 pounds.
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The top-seeded Doren fell victim to the upset of the tournament, when Wessington Springs/Woonsocket's Riley Schmiedt scored a 6-2 overtime victory in the semifinal round, forcing Doren to the third-place match, which Doren won on injury default.
BH/S will send seven wrestlers to the state tournament and had three region champions. Jordan Rueb started the championship round with a furious comeback win by fall. He was trailing Keiser of Winner Area 8-6 late in the third period when he managed to gain control and record a pin with 12 seconds remaining for the victory.
Kaleb Crownover had a pin at 120 pounds to win the region and Stas Sutera picked up his 38th win of the season in a 3-2 grinder of a match over Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes' Sam Kruger at 138 pounds. Also qualifying for BH/S was second-place finishers Zach Sykora (138), Josh Crownover (145) and Sam Caba (152), with Kade Hellmann (170) taking fourth.
Parkston will take seven wrestlers to the state tournament, including four region champions. Logan Mahoney won a 6-2 decision over Ben Soukup at 126 pounds and Kyler Holzbauer won 4-0 in a decision at 145 pounds. Dawson Semmler won 3-1 over Burke/Gregory's Jeremiah Beck at 160 pounds and Slayton Neugebauer held off Sunshine Bible Academy's Jed Konechne for a 4-3 decision at 182 pounds.
Also qualifying for Parkston was Rocky Berg (138), Brady Schoenfelder (195) and Noah Riechert (220), each of whom finished in third place.
MVPCS will take six wrestlers to Sioux Falls, led by Marcus Urban and Jesse Hastings. Urban won his 40th match of the year with a 9-2 decision over Caba at 152 pounds. Hastings won by injury forfeit at 220 pounds for the region title. Hunter Pranger and Tanner Risseeuw finished second for the Titans at 113 and 195 pounds, respectively, while Jed Vissia (182) and Thomas Baker (160) finished third.
The host Red Raiders will send six to state, with Ben Soukup (126) and Cole Soulek (170) finishing second. Lance Soukup (106) was third and Preston Nedved (132), Colton Frei (145) and K.J. St. Pierre (182) each finished fourth.
KWLPG finished with five state qualifiers, led by Austin Moore's championship pin at 285 pounds. In addition to Kruger's second-place finish at 132 pounds, Ty Namanny was third at 145 pounds and Caden Lenz (138) and Tyler Resick (195) were both fourth.
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Burke/Gregory's five state qualifiers include Jeremiah Beck (160) and Jackson Eklund at 120 pounds with second-place finishes. Jordan Vosika (113), Vladik Johnson (152) and Colten Nelson finished fourth.
Along with Riley Schmiedt's second-place finish at 285 pounds, Bailey Schmiedt finished in third place at 170 pounds for Wessington Springs/Woonsocket.
The state tournament brackets will be announced Sunday afternoon, as the state moves to a seeded bracket process for the first time in 2017. The top eight wrestlers in each weight class will be seeded to consider head-to-head competition, records against common opponents, returning state placewinners, region finish and winning percentage. The top seeds will also be considered by the SDHSAA wrestling advisory committee on Sunday before being announced around 4 p.m. Sunday.
Region 3B
Saturday at Wagner
Team scores: 1. Winner Area 138, 2. Bon Homme/Scotland 134, 3. Parkston 129, 4. Mount Vernon/Plankinton/Corsica-Stickney 103, 5. Wagner 81.5, 6. Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes 81, 7. Burke/Gregory 75, 8. Wolsey-Wessington 57.5, 9. Sunshine Bible Academy 45, 10. Wessington Springs/Woonsocket 40.5, 11. Miller/Highmore-Harrold 36.5
Placing matches and state qualifiers:
106: Championship: Jordan Rueb (W-W) over Kaden Keiser (Winner) (Fall 5:48). Third: Lance Soukup (Wagner) over Iver Paul (SBA) (Tech fall 17-2)).
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113: Championship: Wyatt Turnquist (Winner) over Hunter Pranger (MVPCS) (Dec 6-2). Third: Tate Haider (W-W) over Jordan Vosika (B/G) (Dec 6-1).
120: Championship: Kaleb Crownover (W-W) over Jackson Eklund (B/G) (Fall 1:57). Third: Atlas Willuweit (Winner) over Colton Borah (W-W) (Fall 2:06).
126: Championship: Logan Mahoney (Parkston) over Ben Soukup (Wagner) (Dec 6-2). Third: Trevor Peters (Winner) over Blade Forman (MHH) (Fall 3:12).
132: Championship: Stas Sutera (W-W) over Sam Kruger (KWLPG) (Dec 3-2). Third: Teigan Clark (SBA) over Preston Nedved (Wagner) (Fall 3:57).
138: Championship: Connor Bertsch (MHH) over Zach Sykora (W-W) (Fall 5:33). Third: Rocky Berg (Parkston) over Caden Lenz (KWLPG) (Dec 4-3).
145: Championship: Kyler Holzbauer (Parkston) over Josh Crownover (W-W) (Dec 4-0). Third: Ty Namanny (KWLPG) over Colton Frei (Wagner) (MD 10-0).
152: Championship: Marcus Urban (MVPCS) over Sam Caba (W-W) (Dec 9-2). Third: Avery Gilchrist (Winner) over Vladik Johnson (B/G) (Fall 3:08).
160: Championship: Dawson Semmler (Parkston) over Jeremiah Beck (B/G) (Dec 3-1). Third: Thomas Baker (MVPCS) over Jace Burma (SBA) (Dec 7-0).
170: Championship: Kayleb Brozik (Winner) over Cole Soulek (Wagner) (Fall 2:58). Third: Bailey Schmiedt (WS/W) over Kade Hellmann (W-W) (Fall 3:49).
182: Championship: Slayton Neugebauer (Parkston) over Jed Konechne (SBA) (Dec 4-3). Third: Jed Vissia (MVPCS) over KJ St. Pierre (Wagner) (Dec 7-2).
195: Championship: Caleb Brandt (W-W) over Tanner Risseeuw (MVPCS) (Dec 5-3). Third: Brady Schoenfelder (Parkston) over Tyler Resick (KWLPG) (Dec 8-1).
220: Championship: Jesse Hastings (MVPCS) over Dylan Hines (W-W) by injury default. Third: Noah Riechert (Parkston) over Jayden Schroeder (Winner) (Fall 2:29).
285: Championship: Austin Moore (KWLPG) over Riley Schmiedt (WS/W) (Fall 4:28). Third: Tre`zen Doren (Winner) over Colten Nelson (B/G) by injury default.
