Mid-Prairie wrestling team wins home duals Thursday

WELLMAN ? The Mid-Prairie wrestling team won a dual meet at home Thursday, Dec. 8. They beat North Cedar 42-27 and won over West Branch 51-21.

Brent Foster wrestled in the 160 weight class and pinned Devon Willis from North Cedar in 3:21. Jason Tew (220) won by fall in 5:03 over Chase Gallagher. Duncan McCain (132) won by fall in 3:00 over Brody Hawtrey.

Ethan Danner (170) lost by a 7-5 decision to Byron Boleyn. Jacob Leonard (182) lost by fall in 3:15 to Tyler Thurston. Tristan Novy (285) lost by fall in 5:02 to Dillon Pierson. Levi Stultz (106) lost by fall in 0:43 Zacary Kauffman.

Timothy Grepl (126) lost by a 7-6 decision to Cole Taylor and Miles Burrows (138) lost by a 4-0 decision to David Galloway.

Mason Hartley (152), Visouth Peterschmidt (195), Dallas Miller (113) and David Murray (145) each won by forfeit.

Winning over West Branch was Tew who pinned Nick Madsen in 3:41 and McCain won by fall over Dalton Depoorter in 1:47.

Murray pinned John Hatfield in 0:30. Foster wrestled in the 152 weight class and won by a 6-4 decision over Jacob Graves while Hartley faced John Yates in the 160 weight class and won by fall in 2:00.

Danner lost by fall in 0:56 to Cale Donovan. Stultz lost by fall in 1:55 to Barrett Walsh. Miller lost by fall in 4:47 to Tyler Siemen and Burrows lost by a 7-1 decision to Zach Wright.

Winning by forfeit were Grepl, Novy, Leonard. Peterschmidt won by forfeit as well, giving him his 100th high school career victory.

He said of the win, ?Obviously the win didn?t feel the same had I had the chance to go out there and wrestle someone. I wish it could have happened differently.?

Each win has been different. ?It?s been a long experience from my freshman year where I was going with a .500 record to where I?ve grown to where I am now,? Peterschmidt says. ?My opponents are bumping away from me in matches.?

When looking forward to the rest of the season he says, ?I?ve put in a lot of work over the summer with training, eating right, so I think it should be pretty good.?

The Golden Hawks will next take to the mats tomorrow at Mediapolis starting at 10 a.m.