Winner wrestlers placed fourth at the Class B state tournament

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Winner wrestling team took fourth place at the state tournament in Sioux Falls. Pictured in front from left are Brianna Gilchrist, Hudson Peters, Mason Curtis, Jude Sargent, Saylor Schuyler and coach Spencer Novotny. Second row from left are coach Jayd Schuyler, Legend Benedict, Roukyn Robbins, Konner Osborn, state champion Maxton Brozik, Rylan Robbins, Karson Keiser, Ryken Orel and Stetson Shelbourn.

By Dan Bechtold

Editor

Winner wrestlers placed fourth at the Class B state tournament this weekend in Sioux Falls.

The Warriors scored 114.5 points and were just one point behind third place Custer.

Canton had three individual state champions and finished first. Second went to Philip/Kadoka Area/Wall Badlands Brawlers.

Winner had one champion in senior Maxton Brozik at 126 pounds. Brozik won 3-1 overGavin Braun of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes.

Also wresting for a state championship was Rylan Robbins.

Brozik said he was confident going into the match. “I wrestled passive in my first couple of matches. I knew that was not the way it was going to get it done in the finals,” said Brozik.

“I knew I had to attack. I kept attacking and finally got the takedown to win.”

The wrestler also had an escape for a 3-1victory.

This was the second state championship for Brozik who won as a sophomore. Last year he placed third.

The Winner senior has wrestled Braun three times this year and won all three.

“It feel great to win a state championship. I like to do it for the younger kids on our team to let them know they can do it,” he said.

“I want to be  role model to them and I hope they can look up to me,” he added.

When asked what the coaches told him before the match he said their message was “just be yourself and you will win.”

There were no nerves. “The nerves were gone, I  have been there before and I knew the pressure was on my opponent,” Brozik explained.

Also wrestling in a state championship at 106 pounds was Rylan Robbins. He was defeated 3-2 and stood second place for the Warriors.

In the placing rounds, Karson Keiser was third, Ryken Orel was third, Konner Osborn, fourth and Stetson Shelbourn, 5th.

Osborn, 132, was defeated 5-0 by Riley Scott of Custer.

Keiser won 6-4 over Conner Giedd of Kingsbury County.

Orel won by a medical forfeit.

Shelbourn took fifth with a 2-1 decision over Parker Bode of Faulkton Area.

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