Three Hawks, two Tigerhawks clinch state wrestling berths

COLFAX — A pair of wrestlers from Lynnville-Sully and Colfax-Mingo won district championships, and the Hawks sent a third grappler to the state tournament during the Class 1A District 1 tournament on Saturday.

Nearly half of the Hawks entered in the district meet qualified for this week’s state tournament and Lynnville-Sully scored 91 points and finished fourth with only seven wrestlers.

Host Colfax-Mingo entered 10 grapplers in the tournament and placed fifth with 87 points. Lisbon won the district championship with 202.5 points and 1A No. 4 Jesup was the runner-up with 202 points.

Montezuma (84.5), Moravia (56.5), HLV (30), Baxter (27) and Pekin (25) completed the 10-team field.

The top two finishers at each weight in each 1A district advance to the state tournament.

Jett Kramer and Matthew Mintle both won district titles for the Hawks, while Caden Sykes and Teagan Dybevik dominated their brackets to lead the Tigerhawks. Baxter’s trio of wrestlers fell short of clinching state berths.

Class 1A No. 12 Kramer (41-6) was 2-0 with two pins at 113 pounds. One of his pins came against No. 7 Cael Stricker (39-9) of Lisbon in the finals.

Class 1A No. 12 Mintle also faced a state-ranked foe in the finals and defeated 1A No. 10 Keyten Jacobsen, 4-3, at 132. Mintle (45-6) was 3-0 with one technical fall to advance.

The Hawks’ final state qualifier is 1A No. 10 Kimball Elliott, who placed second at 126. Elliott (39-6) was 4-1 for the day with a pin and a technical fall. His loss was a 12-11 decision to Lisbon’s Cade Happel, and he defeated 1A No. 11 Cason Fitch of Colfax-Mingo, 9-3, in a true-second wrestleback to advance.

Lynnville-Sully’s other four wrestlers were Burt Johnson (138), Wyatt Mathis (165), Chase Deal (190) and Ben Squires (235).

Squires (28-11) was 3-1 with three pins and finished third at 285, while Mathis placed fourth at 165 after a 2-2 day. He had two pins.

Johnson finished 1-2 at 138 and one of his losses came against No. 6 Treven Delagardelle of Jesup. Deal was 0-2 at 190.

Sykes and Dybevik led the Tigerhawks with 2-0 days. Sykes (37-6) advanced to his first state meet after one win by pin and one by major decision at 175. Dybevik (19-3) also advanced to state for the first time after winning twice by fall at 285.

Fitch’s third-place finish at 126 included a 2-2 day with one pin. Fitch (36-7) lost the wrestleback against Elliott and also dropped a match to Happel (39-10) of Lisbon.

Jayden Cherveny (120), Alex Hartson (190) and Allan Bregar (215) all were fourth at their weights.

Cherveny (22-18) was 1-2 with one of those losses coming against No. 2 Cooper Hinz of Jesup. Hartson (22-15) was 2-2 with two pins and Bregar (19-14) finished 1-2 with one pin.

The rest of Colfax-Mingo’s lineup featured Logan Roam at 106, Xavier Cross at 138 and Kyle Wood at 157. Cross was 0-1, while Roam and Wood both went 0-2.

Baxter’s trio included Jack Anderson, Maddox Peters and Derek Rominger, who was 1-2 at 132.

Anderson (46-8) came one spot shy of state with a third-place finish at 138. He was 3-1 with two pins and one major decision. The loss came against No. 6 Delagardelle of Jesup.

Peters (33-23) placed fourth at 157 following a 2-2 day. He had one pin and one of his losses came against No. 11 Isaac Messamaker (44-5) of Moravia.

Kramer and Mintle both earned first-round byes in their first state tournament appearances.

Kramer could face Stricker again in Des Moines. Stricker gets Ty Tallmon (21-29) of East Union for the right to meet Kramer in the second round.

Mintle gets the winner of Highland’s Tyler Pierson (31-16) and Lawton-Bronson’s Breighton Carlson (38-5) in the second round.

Elliott meets Sumner-Fredericksburg’s Sam Eagan (33-7) in the opening round. Third-ranked Mason Shirk (37-2) of Wilton gets the winner in the second round.

Sykes opens with Kingsley-Pierson’s Calvin Harvey (37-12) in the opening round. That winner faces No. 3 Justin Wirtz (37-1) of Emmetsburg in the next round.

Dybevik’s first-round opponent is Hudson’s Alston Loeb (30-10). That winner meets No. 9 Grant Gray (42-2) of Northeast in the second round.