The large schools took their turn on the State Wrestling Tournament mats at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines and 23 area athletes were in action on Wednesday night. The first round involvesdmatches with wrestlers seeded ninth through 24 with the one through eight seeds getting a bye into round two. The large school resumes wrestling at 6 o’clock tonight.
First round results for area wrestlers are below.
113 Ayden Beck, Dallas Center-Grimes won by fall
120 Blake Forrester, DC-G lost by fall 3:03
132 Logan Gard, DC-G won major decision 8-0
138 Carson Springer, DC-G won by fall 1:42
145 Luke Benson DC-G lost 7-4
152 Logan Stotts, Waukee Northwest won 10-3
152 Ethan Riesselman, DC-G won 7-6
160 Brendon Smith, DC-G lost 4-0
182 Abe Parker, Waukee NW won 7-5
182 Ben Brushaber, DC-G won by fall 3:11
195 Lane Nelson, Waukee NW lost 3-2
195 Brayden Williams, Waukee NW lost by fall :55
285 Jamal Neeway, Waukee NW won by fall 2:39
Here are second round results from Waukee, Waukee NW, and DC-G.
113 Ayden Beck, DC-G lost by fall 1:51
120 Koufax Christensen, NW won 16-12 technical fall
126 John King, NW won 21-3 technical fall
145 Dom Rubino, NW won 12-9
152 Logan Stotts, NW lost 7-5 sudden victory
152 Ethan Riesselman, DC-G lost 7-4
170 Jacob Fistler won 20-5 technical fall
170 Blake Hauck, Waukee lost 8-4
182 Ben Brushaber, DC-G , lost by fall :57
182 Abe Parker, NW lost 4-0
220 Cael Winter, NW won 3-1 sudden vicdtory
285 Jamal Neeway, NW lost by fall :46