Wheeler, Clark lead PCM wrestlers at Osage

OSAGE — It was a mixed bag kind of day for the PCM wrestling team on Saturday.

Four Mustangs combined for 11 wins and placed eighth or better and the other five were just 3-10 overall. And it added up to a 14th-place finish in the team standings at the Osage Boys Varsity Wrestling Tournament.

PCM scored 59.5 points with its nine wrestlers and finished 14th in the 17-team field. Every team in the top 10 entered at least 11 wrestlers and eight of them had 15 or more.

Tucker Wheeler led the Mustangs with a third-place finish at 157, Kaden Clark was fourth at 285 and Kaliber Fry and Zach Richards both won twice at their weights.

Algona won the tournament with 199 points, while Osage (185), Class 1A No. 7 Denver (175), Benton Community (168) and 2A No. 8 Humboldt (148.5) completed the top five.

Class 2A No. 4 West Marshall (137), Anamosa (128), Nashua-Plainfield (126), North Polk (100.5) and Clear Lake (98) rounded out the next five.

Wheeler, who is ranked seventh in 2A at 157, was 4-1 and placed third. He improved to 25-4 with three pins and one technical fall win. His only loss was a 4-1 setback to 2A No. 5 Tate Slagle (8-2) of Algona.

Class 2A No. 4 Clark (25-2) suffered his first two losses of the season. Both defeats came against Algona’s Jack Limbaugh (12-7), who defeated Clark 5-1 and 10-7 in SV-1.

Fry (23-6) was sixth at 126 and Richards (12-6) placed eighth at 144. Both wrestlers were 2-3 at their weights.

One of Richards’ losses came against 2A No. 2 Barrett Morgan (13-4) of Algona.

Class 2A No. 12 Fry lost 10-7 to 2A No. 8 Owen Mayall (12-5) of Humboldt and fell to 1A No. 1 Gavin Landers (26-0) of Denver.

Harrison Brinegar (150), Sawyer Bouwkamp (165) and Danson Drake (175) all went 1-2 and Finn Wilson (190) and Kaiden Valcore (215) finished 0-2.