By: Kevin Fries
Twitter – @kwfry
Email – kdfries@hotmail.com

Class B – Week 1 Recap

How Did They Fare? – NEwrestle Top Ten Teams

1. Skutt Catholic
Thur – Nebraska City (Dual)
L 35-39

Sat – Gardner Edgerton (KS)
14th Place

2. Hastings
Sat – Kearney Invite
2nd Place

3. Arlington
Fri – Blair Invite
5th Place

4. Northwest
Thur – Aurora (Dual)
W 42-36

Sat – York Duals
3rd Place

5. Gering
Thur – Chadron (Dual)
W 50-24

Sat – Cozad Invite
6th Place

6. York
Thur – Seward & Norris (Tri)
W vs Norris 42-38; L vs Seward 42-37

Sat – York Duals
6th Place

T7. Ogallala
Fri – Alliance (Dual)
W 48-28

Sat – Cozad Invite
5th Place

T7. Waverly
Thur – at Syracuse (Dual)
L 52-27

Sat – Pius X Duals
4th Place

9. Bennington
Thur – Beatrice (Dual)
W 40-30

Sat – Bennington Invite
2nd Place

10. Beatrice
Thur – at Bennington (Dual)
L 30-40

Sat – Pius X Duals
1st Place

Thursday

Class B Noteable Results:
106 – #4B Tristen Obermiller (Adams Central) over #6B Cole Kunz (Central City) Fall 5:16
138 – #6A Stone Sindelar (PLVS) over #6B Hank Frost (Blair) Dec 2-0
138 – #3B Trevor Kluck (Aurora) over #2B Collin Quandt (Northwest) Dec 10-4
170 – #2C Burton Brandt (Syracuse) over #1B Evan Canoyer (Waverly) Fall 2:24
220 – #3B Dylan Meyer (Norris) over #4B Brayan Rodriguez (York) Dec 6-5
220 – Jordan Kavulak (Seward) over #3B Dylan Meyer (Norris) Fall 3:11

Friday

Blair Invite
The Bears repeated as champions, taking their home invite with 189.0 points over second place #6C Logan View. #3B Arlington finished in 5th place. Blair crowned five champions – #5B Landon Templar (126), #6B Hank Frost (138), Trey Lewis (170), Branden Hanson (182), and Lance Hume (220).

Class B Noteable Results:
220 – Lance Hume (Blair) over #5C Andrew Cone (Logan View) Fall 3:22
285 – #1A Cade Haberman (Omaha Westside) over #2B Remington Gay (Arlington) Fall 1:23
285 – #1A Cade Haberman (Omaha Westside) over #4B Brady Soukup (Blair) Fall 2:16

Lakeview Invite
Lakeview also repeated as team champions, edging Raymond Central by 5.5 points. The Vikings had 12 medalists and were led by #4B Joel Lemburg (138) and Bradyn Kucera (285) who both took home the gold.

Class B Noteable Results:
106 – Blaine Christo (Ashland) over #8B Owen Bargen (Lakeview) Dec 2-0
126 – #5C Reece Jaqua (Wayne) over #8D Josh Spatz (East Butler) TF 18-3
182 – #6C Kyle Sterup (Cross County) over #6B Reid Korth (Wayne) TF 20-5
182 – #6C Kyle Sterup (Cross County) over #8B Trent Nafzinger (Ashland) MD 12-3
182 – Landon Ternus (Lakeview) over #8B Trent Nafzinger(Ashland) Dec 8-2

Saturday

Bennington Invite
#9B Bennington finished in second place with 171.0, just 9.5 points behind champion #2A Columbus. The Badgers were lead by freshman #2B Kael Lauridsen (106) and #8B AJ Parrish (113) along with seniors #6B Colby Puck (152) and #2B Garrett Menke (220) who all took home the championships at their respective weight classes. Also medaling for the Badgers were Matthew Coe (132) runner-up, Conner Brecht (160) 3rd, Logan Burmester (170) 4th, Luke MacDonald (195) 2nd, and Jake Stier (285) 3rd.

Cozad Invite
In the premiere Class B tournament of the weekend, Aurora came out of top winning by over 25 points to runner-up North Platte. Aurora had ten medalists. #3B Trevor Kluck (138) and Aaron Jividen (285) took home the championship medals at their respective weight classes. #5B Gering finished in 6th place while #7B Ogallala finished in 5th place.

Class B Noteable Results:
106 – #4B Tristen Obermiller (Adams Central) over #3B Caden Svoboda (Aurora) Dec 7-6
113 – Brayden Schmalz (Holdrege) over #4B Ivan Lazo (Lexington) Dec 9-5
113 – Braiden Kort (Adams Central) over #5B Austin Munier (Sidney) Dec 13-6
120 – #2B Paul Ruff (Gering) over #3B Ean Bailey (Lexington) Dec 6-3
138 – #3B Trevor Kluck (Aurora) over #2B Gage Stokey (Ogallala) 1-0
138 – #2B Gage Stokey (Ogallala) over #2B Nate Rochleau (Gering) 6-2
145 – Daniel Wellnitz (Chadron) over #7B Sean Martin (Seward) Dec 7-4
152 – Josh Colgrove (Plattsmouth) over #8B Landon Towne (McCook) Dec 3-0
160 – Trey Shanahan (Wahoo) over #4B Jacob Awiszus (Gering) Fall 3:59
195 – Kole Fiala (Aurora) over #6B Matthew Escamilla (Alliance) Dec 3-2
220 – Jacob Deckert (Adams Central) over #6B Trent Weak (Holdrege) SV-1 9-7

York Duals
#4A Omaha Burke took home the championship defeating Papillion-La Vista South 45-26 in the championship match. Class B was led by #4B Northwest in 3rd place and Schuyler in 4th place.

Northwest
W – Fairbury 72-12
W – Lincoln Southeast 48-33
W – Schuyler 57-24
L – PLVS 39-36
W – Omaha Westside 54-29

Schuyler
W – Lincoln Southeast 42-32
W – Fairbury 70-10
L – Northwest 24-57
L – Omaha Burke 24-60
W – York 50-30

Class B Undefeated Wrestlers (min 4 matches):
106 – Cole Kunz (Central City)
113 – #3B Grand Arends (Northwest)
120 – #4B Thomas Ivey (York)
126 – #6B Kaleb Eilker (York)
138 – #2B Collin Quandt (Northwest)
145 – #5B Owen Friesen (Northwest); #8B Tanner Schneiderheinz (Central City); Nicholas Asche (Omaha Concordia)
160 – William Ludacka (Omaha Concordia)
182 – #7B William Marxsen (Schyler)
195 – #2B Seth Firmanik (Fairbury)
220 – #1B Grady Griess (Northwest)
285 – Neil Hartman (Omaha Concordia)

Class B Noteable Results:
132 – #1A Jakason Burks (Omaha Burke) over #1B Dyson Kunz (Central City) Fall 1:49
152 – #4A Caleb Conner (PLVS) over #5B Austin Cooley (Northwest) Fall 0:50
182 – #7B William Marxsen (Schuyler) over #8 Domenic Hyson (Fairbury) Fall 4:42