By Colin Pfeiffer
The Sutherland Invite on Saturday appears on paper to be a premier tournament in Class D this week. We will see a clash of 3 top ten teams in Class D as well as some top tier individual battles in weights. 160 should be a great weight as defending state champion Austin Garcia of Morrill has made his way down to 160 after competing the first two weeks at 170. Also at 160 is current D#1 Seth Simants of Stapleton who will be looking to take out a defending state champion in consecutive weeks. A couple other weights that look to be very competitive this weekend are 120, 170 and 195. 120 has returning state medalist from the weight a year ago in Isaiah Shields of Amherst, as well as 106 defending runner up Tyler Nagel of Morrill. Also at 120, don’t sleep on freshman Cyrus Wells of Anselmo-Merna as he will look to continue his hot start. At 170 we have two ranked wrestlers that have entered in D#4 Talan McGill of North Platte St. Pats and D#5 Jain Potts of Amherst. Also at 170 we will see Derek Gibson of Maxwell who is up a weight for the second consecutive weekend after opening the season at 160. 195 is loaded with talent and should be worth the price of admission alone. The three top ranked wrestlers in Class D as well as C#2 Beau Wood of Perkins County are all entered.
Teams Competing
D#1 Mullen
D#5 Amherst
D#9 Morrill
Anselmo/Merna
Bayard
Brady
Dundy County
Garden County
Hitchcock County
Hyannis
Leyton
Maxwell
McPherson County
North Platte St. Pats
Perkins County
Rawlins County KS
Sandhills/Thedford
South Loup
Southwest
Stapleton
Sumner/Eddyville/Miller
Sutherland
Ranked Wrestlers and Who to Watch for
106
D#6 Samuel Foster – Sutherland
113
D#1 Teven Marshall – Mullen
D#5 Nathaniel Murillo – Morrill
120
D#4 Isaiah Shields – Amherst
Cyrus Wells – Anselmo/Merna
Tyler Nagel – Morrill
Brady Warman – Dundy Coutny Stratton
126
D#3 Jeremy Larson – Brady
D#4 Quinten Frank – Amherst
132
D#2 Brady Gracey – Mullen
D#3 Tayten Eggelston – South Loup
138
D#5 Jade Lovitt – Mullen
Drake Yates – Garden County
145
D#1 Brett Riggs – Maxwell
D#5 Zachary Sweet – Mullen
D#4 Kaden Guerrero – Southwest @138
152
D#5 Zachary Sweet – Mullen @145
Matthew Van Pelt – Southwest
Dalton Whisenhunt – Maxwell
160
D#1 Austin Garcia – Morrill @170
D#1 Seth Simants – Stapleton
D#6 William White – Sutherland
Cole Stokebrand – Amherst
170
D#4 Talan McGill – North Platte St. Pats
D#5 Jarin Potts – Amherst
Derek Gibson – Maxwell
Gavin Roberson – South Loup
Josh Cox – Mullen
182
Steven Tabacco – Bayard
Ty Rowe – Hyannis
Riley Kessler – Mullen
195
D#1 Ty Kvanvig – Mullen
D#2 Drew Bogard – Amherst
D#3 Karsen Hunter – Bayard
C#2 Beau Wood – Perkins County
Zane Musgrave – Hyannis
Spencer Bloomer – South Loup
Austin Wolfe – Medicine Valley
220
D#2 Clayton Hassett – Mullen
Delton Haines – Dundy County Stratton
285
Graeson Stillwagoner – Dundy County Stratton
Chris Sciortino – Garden County
Remington Hodges – Hitchcock County
Drey Smith – Maxwell