Three Carson City-Crystal wrestlers placed in the Division 4 state wrestling tournament last weekend at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Dallas Green was third at 125 pounds. He had lost in the quarterfinal but came back to win four straight. In the third-place match, he beat Austin Wilt of Adrian-Madison. Darren Decker placed fifth at 145 pounds. In the fifth-place match, he pinned Zack Taubitz of Montabella. Dillen Decker was fourth at 152 pounds with a 4-2 record.
Montabella had three wrestlers place in the Division 4 state wrestling tournament last weekend at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Jonny Durham was fifth at 171 pounds after going 4-2. He won by decision over Roger Fox of Sand Creek at 171 pounds. Dan Davison was 3-2 at 285 pounds. He won by decision over Tom Devos of Kent City. Zack Taubitz was sixth at 145 pounds. He was 3-3.
Jesse Scheidel of Belding and teammate Neil McCully both wrestled in the Division 3 state finals last weekend at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Scheidel lost all three matches. McCully was unable to wrestler. Both wrestlers did not place.
The season is over for Bay City John Glenn’s wrestling team. The team had one wrestler at 152 pounds in the Division 2 finals. Ethan Smith was 1-2 and did not place. His only win was a decision over Caleb Norris of Eaton Rapids 13-10.
The season is over for Bay City Central’s wrestling team. Central sent three wrestlers to the Division 1 finals at the Palace of Auburn Hills but each one wasn’t able to place. Davon Jackson at 160 and Andre Houston at 189 were both 1-2. Tyler Vincent at 103 was 0-2.
The season is over for Bath’s wrestling team. Bath sent one wrestler, Chris Boot, with a 33-6 record, to the state finals at The Palace of Auburn Hills. He lost his first and third matches and won his second, but did not place. His victory was by injury default over Sam Johnson of Holly.
Bay City Western’s venture to the state finals for Division 2 at The Palace of Auburn Hills was highlighted by a second-place effort from Jacob Alarie at 215 pounds. Alarie won his first three matches including a 7-6 decision in the semifinals over Chase Challender of Charlotte. In the finals, he was pinned in 1:50 by Josh Colegrove of Lowell. Thomas Schoenherr at 135 pounds and Christian Schoenherr at 140 were fourth-place finishers.
Boyd Hubbard of Alma is an all-state wrestler. Hubbard placed eighth at the state finals last weekend at The Palace of Auburn Hills for Division 3 wrestlers at 150 pounds. Hubbard was 2-3 for the weekend. His wins were 14-9 over Trip Thommen of Whitehall and 4-3 over Austin Pawlak of Richmond. Damian Castillo was 1-2 at 130 pounds and did not place.
Both wrestlers that qualified for the meet from Big Rapids, Nate Weckesser at 125 pounds and Alim Muhammed at 140, were all-state. Weckesser placed third and Muhammed was fifth in Division 3.
Weckesser won a decision over Zach Blevins of Dundee 6-2 and then won the third-place match with the ultimate tie breaker over Matt Santos of Saginaw Swan Valley 3-2.
Muhammed lost his consolation match in the semis to Jordan Bennett of Lake Odessa-Lakewood 5-3. But he won his match for fifth place over Dylan Unger of Shelby 4-2.
Chippewa Hills sent eight wrestlers to the Division 3 state meet at The Palace and three came home with all-state finishes.
Richie Ostrander triumphed in overtime 6-5 over Ethan Woods of Manchester in the consolation semifinals. For third place, he beatd Nick McGhan of Tri County 8-5.
Briscoe beat Jake VanScoter 5-3 in the consolation semifinals at 145 and in the third-place match on Saturday, he lost 4-3 to Adam Kehr of Reed City.
Dey, wrestling at the same class, had lost to Kehr 4-1 in the consolation semifinals. In his fifth-place match, Dey lost 11-8 to Jake VanScoter of Richmond to take sixth place.
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