Mid-Prairie, New London lead area at WACO

A host of area wrestling teams met up in Wayland on Tuesday for the WACO Warrior Invitational. The meet was previously scheduled to be over the weekend, but was moved back a couple of days due to weather.

Mid-Prairie and New London showed out the most from the Union coverage area. Mid-Prairie finished second in the meet with 138 points, 51 behind first-place Notre Dame. New London was close behind in third, with 127 points.

Mid-Prairie’s second-place finish came on the backs of a pair of winners. Both Cael Garvey, at 195 pounds, and Gannon Callahan, at 285, picked up victories.

Garvey picked up a first-round bye in the 195-pound bracket before collecting a pair of pins. He pinned Washington’s Curtis Stender in 57 seconds, and took first after pinning New London’s Trent Wilkerson, in 3:34.

Callahan had a similar road, receiving a quarterfinal bye before winning via pinfall twice. He beat Wapello’s Dakota Boline in two minutes exactly, and took the title over Columbus/Winfield-Mount Union’s Russel Coil with a pin, in 3:29.

New London had a pair of winners as well, and they both came from the same family. Marcel Lopez won the 126-pound bracket, and Dominic Lopez took it at 152.

Marcel cruised to victory after receiving a first-round bye. He pinned Notre Dame’s Aman Ghandi in 1:21 to reach the finals, and then beat Mediapolis’ Grady Gunn on a 25-8 technical fall in the second period.

Dominic made the finals with a pair of tech falls, one over Graen Wilkerson or Wapello and one over Lane Genkinger of Columbus/WMU, but he had to work in the finals. Notre Dame’s Isaiah Fenton pushed it to the limit before Dominic pulled out a 2-1 win via the ultimate tiebreaker in overtime.

Columbus/WMU was fourth overall, finishing with a score of 120.5. The Wildcats’ lone winner was Lane Scorpil, at 120 pounds.

Scorpil won three matches on the day. He pinned WACO’s Deacon Bird in 23 seconds and Mid-Praire’s Colin O’Rourke in 43 seconds, before ending his day with a 16-1 tech fall over Zach Harbison of Wapello in the third period.

Hosting WACO finished in sixth place, with 103.5 points. Jonah Clark was the Warriors’ lone champion, taking the bracket at 220 pounds.

Clark had a dominant outing at 220. He won his first match over Wapello’s Jacob Miller via an 18-3 technical fall in the second period, and pinned Mid-Prairie’s Terry Bordenave in 3:09 to take the crown.

Washington finished the night in eighth place with 75 points. The Demons’ only winner was Aaron Boone, who won the 113-pound bracket.

Boone picked up a first-round bye and defeated Mediapolis’ Gavin Gerber via a fall in 2:42 to get to the final. He clashed with Columbus/WMU’s Ty Scorpil in the final, and won on an 8-2 decision.

Pekin finished right behind Washington, in ninth. They scored 68 points. Highland was 10th, with 45 points. Neither of those schools had an individual winner on the day.

TEAM SCORES

1. Notre Dame 189

2. Mid-Prairie 138

3. New London 127

4. Columbus/WMU 120.5

5. Wapello 107

6. WACO 103.5

7. Mediapolis 79

8. Washington 75

9. Pekin 68

10. Highland 45

11. Lone Tree 0