Tool, Fenton lead PCM wrestling at Ed Winger

URBANDALE — The top five teams at the Ed Winger Invitational on Saturday are all ranked in Class 3A.

That gave the 2A PCM wrestling team plenty of competition and the Mustangs finished 14th in the 20-team field.

Colby Tool and Landon Fenton led the way with top-three finishes. Cooper Sloan and Remington Fry were both sixth in their weight classes.

Class 2A No. 3 Tool placed second at 152 pounds. He won his first match by fall and then defeated Heart of Iowa Conference rival Nathan Black (21-3) of Greene County 9-2.

In the finals, Tool (30-2) lost 19-4 to 3A No. 4 Carson Martinson of Southeast Polk.

Fenton, who is now ranked sixth in 2A, returned to action after missing several weeks with an illness. He opened the tournament with a win by fall and then suffered his first loss of the season, losing 7-5 in SV-1 to 3A No. 5 Brent Slade of Ames.

He bounced back with a 17-2 victory in his next match and then defeated 3A No. 4 Peyton Westlin of North Scott 5-4 in a consolation match.

That put Fenton (27-1) into the third-place bout and gave him a rematch against Slade. This time, Fenton knocked off Slade 5-3. Fenton’s 145-pound bracket also featured the No. 1 wrestler in both 2A and 3A.

Sloan was 2-3 at 220 and finished sixth. He opened the tournament with back-to-back pins to reach the semifinals. In the semifinals, he lost by fall to 3A No. 1 Kalob Runyon of Southeast Polk.

Sloan lost his next two matches 5-3, one of them was in the ultimate tiebreaker to 3A No. 10 Ralston Rumley of Dowling Catholic.

PCM brought nine wrestlers in all. The other Mustangs to win a match included Nate Richards at 182 and Donovan Nickelson at 195.

The Mustangs scored 58.5 points in 14th. Class 3A No. 3 Waukee (217.5) edged 3A No. 2 Southeast Polk (212) for the title. The rest of the top five included 3A No. 5 Bettendorf (149), 3A No. 8 North Scott (126.5) and 3A No. 10 Norwalk (123).

Tool wins HOIC title, Mustangs place fourth

JEFFERSON — Tool won his second straight conference title at 152 pounds, the Mustangs secured six top-three finishes and the team finished fourth in the final standings.

With three open weights at 126, 132 and 145, the Mustangs scored 151 points in fourth. West Marshall won the title in its first year back in the HOIC, scoring 197 points.

Greene County (180), Roland-Story (172) and South Hamilton (139) rounded out the top five.

The lone win came from Tool at 152. His second HOIC title featured two first-period pins and a 17-2 technical fall win in the finals.

Nickelson and Sloan were both second at their weights. Nickelson was 1-1 with a pin at 195 and Sloan won by fall and 7-0 before losing 7-6 in the finals.

Fry, Wyatt Wheeler and Kinser Sloan all were third. Fry was 2-1 with a pin and technical fall win at 106, Wheeler was 2-1 with two pins at 160 and Kinser Sloan was 3-1 with two pins at 285.

Alex Courtney (113), Hewitt Brinegar (120), Zeb Padget (170) and Richards (182) placed fourth.

Class 2A No. 6 Fenton did not wrestle at 145. Fenton finishes his career as a two-time conference champion.