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Chippewa Hills has eight wrestlers at the meet and four went 1-0 on Thursday at the Division 3 state finals.

Zach King improved to 46-4 at 112 pounds with a 6-0 tech fall over Dominic Gardner of Portland. Slade Tood is 36-13 at 130 pounds after pinning Jesse Scheid of Belding in 29 seconds. Kevin Briscoe is 35-14 at 145 pounds after winning by major decision 12-2 over Derek Gardner of Portland. Richie Ostrander of Chippewa Hills improved to 24-6 at 103 pounds with a 5-3 decision in overtime over Ethan Woods of Manchester.

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Big Rapids’ two wrestlers both won their first round Division 3 matches on Thursday at the state finals in Auburn Hills.

Nate Weckesser, 43-3, got a 7-1 decision over Adam Grim of Birch Run 7-1 at 125 pounds. Alim Muhammed at 140 pounds improved to 36-2 with a 20-5 technical fall win over Dylan Briggs of Corunna.

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Freeland’s three wrestlers at the Division 3 state finals all lost their first-round matches on Thursday at The Palace. Kolten Radaz at 125 fell to 46-8 with a tech fall loss to Foster Karmon of Allegan. Josh Schlak at 130 pounds is 44-9 after a major decision loss to Brendan O’Connor of Dundee. Charlie Ferens is 49-7 after a 5-4 loss to Charlie Ferens of Freeland.

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Farwell’s two wrestlers at the Division 3 state finals both won their opening round matches on Thursday at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Glenn Beardsley is 45-4 after winning a major decision over Domenic Ciucci of Grand Rapids Catholic at 112 pounds. Tristen Zienkiewicz is 46-2 after winning by major decision over Cody Proudfoot of Perry-Morrice.

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Both of DeWitt’s wrestlers competing in the Division 2 state finals at The Palace of Auburn Hills won in first round action Thursday. Austin Melton is 45-3 after taking a decision over Donald Janice of Warren Woods-Tower. Kameron Melton at 135 is 33-7 after a pin over Ethan Douglas of Ortonville-Brandon in 3:09.

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Clare has three wrestlers in the Division 3 state finals at Auburn Hills and was led Thursday by Brandon Ayris at 171 pounds. Ayris improved to 38-6 with a decision over Alex Brown of Buchanan. The Pioneers have two other wrestlers competing. Logan Emery, 32-10 lost 12-8 in the 160-pound first round while Brenden Hensley, 37-5, fell to Quintin Wilber of Montrose-Hill-McCloy 14-12.

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Zachary Wamser at 171 pounds is representing Cedar Springs in the Division 2 state finals at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Thursday, he lost his first round match to Max Dean of Lowell on a major decision and now has a 26-4 record.

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Carson City-Crystal had three wrestlers win their first-round matches in Divison 4 on Thursday in the state finals at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Dallas O’Green at 125 is 42-3 after a tech fall against Elliott VanDreumel of Pine River. Darren Decker is 43-2 after a major decision over Nick Klemm of Adrian Madison. Dillen Decker is 39-2 after a tech fall against Andrew Grady of Springport.

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Dan Davidson of Montabella improved to 28-4 by winning his opening round match in the Division 4 state finals Thursday at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Davidson pinned Isaiah Espinoza of Adrian-Madison in 4:54. Montabella’s other four wrestlers, Jared Gauthier at 125, Zack Taubitz at 145, Joey Durham at 160 and Johnny Durham at 171 lost their first-round matches and will wrestle Friday in the consolation round. Scott is 35-6, Taubitz 32-9, Durham 35-5 and Jonny Durham 35-4.

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Birch Run has seven wrestlers at the Division 3 wrestling finals at The Palace and five won their first-round matches on Thursday.

Jerry Fenner at 125 pounds improved to 46-5 with a 26-11 over Tucker Martin of Tri County. Logan Bovee at 145 pounds took a 6-3 decision over Sam McLean of Saginaw Swan Valley and is 24-4. Mitch Franklin at 152 improved to 48-6 with a 12-5 decision over Colton Toney of South Haven. Jared Elliott at 160 is 46-6 after a 7-1 win over Boyd Hubbard of Alma. George Lahar at 215 is 49-5 after a pin in 2:43 against Devlin Philo of Benzie Central.

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Chip Hills wrestlers at state finals

Big Rapids wrestlers at state finals

Freeland wrestlers at state finals

Farwell wrestlers at state finals

DeWitt wrestlers compete at state finals

Clare wrestlers at state finals

Cedar Springs wrestler falls at state finals

Carson City-Crystal wrestlers at state meet

Montabella wrestlers at state finals

Birch Run wrestlers open at state fnals