Mar 4

Written by: ngreditor
3/4/2008 10:29 PM 

Newman Grove hosts Junior Wrestling Tournament

By Larry Boschen

Well the Junior Jay wrestling is in full swing now and the kids have made it to a few tournaments already.

In week one there were tournaments at Elgin Pope John, Palmer, DC Aquinas, and Norfolk Catholic. Here’s the results from those: Nolan Wondercheck 2nd, Andy King 2nd, Joe O’Brien 1st, Billy O’Brien 2nd, Alex Wiese 1st, Derek Wallin 1st, Parker Wallin 1st, Dakota Ruhnke a 2nd and 3rd, and Jacob Sueper with a 3rd.

This last weekend Newman Grove had their own home tournament and we had a great turnout. There were 186 young wrestlers from 15 different schools. There were wrestlers from as far away as Grand Island and Bennington. It sure was tough competition with a ton of real high quality wrestlers from the area. Things went real smooth thanks to the great help from all the volunteers.

Home town wrestler results were as follows: Carson Brownfield 2nd, Tony Coleman 2nd, Matthew Rast 3rd, Joab Carlson 3rd, Conner Rankin 3rd, Brighton Fowlkes 3rd, Riley Montoya 3rd, Levi Krueger 2nd, William Sanderford 3rd, Andy King 2nd, Nolan Wondercheck 2nd, Preston Mindt 4th, Joe O’Brien 2nd, Saul Carlson 3rd, Steven Arreguin 2nd, Alex Wiese 1st, Kyle Stone 3rd, Parker Wallin 2nd, Jacob Sueper 2nd, Trevor Herchenbach 2nd, Ryan Pfeifer 1st, Billy O’Brien 3rd, Braydon Kopejtka 3rd, Spencer Wallin 3rd, Dylan Zoucha 3rd, Brock Donelson 3rd, Derek Wallin 1st, Dakota Ruhnke 3rd.

These young athletes really put in a great effort and wrestled real hard. We’re pretty proud of them. The Junior Jay wrestling family would like to give a heart felt thanks to John Williamson for all of his help on Friday night. He really stepped up to the plate and made our night a lot easier. Thanks John.