Wrestlers Placed 2nd in Tournament

Wyatt Turnquist Defeated 4-3 in KWLPG Finals

Winner Area wrestling team opened the season by taking second place at the Kimball tournament on Saturday.

First place went to Atlas Willuweit, Kaleb Brozik and Tre Doren.  Taking second were Wyatt Turnquist and Avery Gilchrist.  Kaden Keiser and Jayden Schroeder placed third.  Landon Debus and Aaron Gilchrist placed fourth.  Trevor Peters, Riggin Shippy, Chet Bryan, Achilles Willuweit and Nick Blare all took fifth place.

“We had a great tournament on Saturday. We wrestled really well but we still have a lot of little things to work on,” said coach Spencer Novotny.

All three wrestlers who won first place had records of 3-0.

Atlas Willuweit won the championship match with a 10-3 decision over Hunter Pranger of Mount Vernon/Plankinton.  Brozik won the 170 pound championship match with a 7-1 decision over Kaylor Pinney of Philip area.  Doren at heavyweight won his championship match with a 3-1 overtime win over Austin Moore of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes.

Turnquist and Avery Gilchrist also wrestled in the championship match. In the finals, Cadyn Coller of Philip Area won by decision 4-2.  Gilchrist was pinned in the championship in 48 seconds by Keagan Fitch of Philip Area.

Keiser won his third place match with a 5-1 decision over Bradyn Lhotak of Wagner.  Schroeder won by pin in 3:30 over Blake Crowser of Philip Area in the third place match.  Debus was defeated 11-0 by Cody Donnelly of Philip Area in the third place match.

Aaron Gilchrist was pinned in 2:03 by Hunter Wright of Redfield/Doland in the third place match.  Peters won by decision 5-3 over Wyatt Stevens of Wessington Springs/Woonsocket.  Shippy won by fall in 45 seconds in the fifth place match. Shippy pinned Austin Severson of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes.  Bryan was also in a fifth place match and won by pin in 1:44 over Geoffrey Devries of Philip Area.

Achilles Willuweit won the fifth place match in a pin in 56 seconds over Warren Soulek of Kimball/ White Lake/ Platte-Geddes.
Blare won a 3-2 decision in the 5th place match. He won over Alex Cruz of Redfield/Doland.

Coach Novotny said the team’s technique was pretty good. “I knew going into this weekend that we wouldn’t be in great condition but we worked through it and even had some over time matches that we didn’t run out of gas in.”

The coach said the team is going into a busy week. The team will wrestle in a triangular in Gregory on Thursday and in the Rapid City tournament on Friday and Saturday.