Fifteen Upper Peninsula Wrestlers Reach Podium
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DETROIT---Fifteen Upper Peninsula high school wrestlers reached the podium and earned medals Saturday at the MHSAA Individual State Finals at Detroit's Ford Field. Three wrestlers finished as state runners-up, with another finishing third and two finishing fourth.
In all, 36 Upper Peninsula wrestlers competed at the state finals, and 23 of them won at least one match. Saturday's finals saw three U.P. wrestlers battling for state championships.
Iron Mountain's Fulton Stroud went up against two-time defending state champion Sebastian Martinez of Riverview Gabriel Richard, and lost on a 9-1 major decision.
Kingsford's Eli Rouse, who won a state championship last year, went toe-to-toe against Jack Ward of Belding High School. Rouse lost a heartbreaking 2-1 decision in that match.
And Gladstone's Drew Hansen had a marathon state championship match against Kade Kulce of Dundee. The match went to triple overtime before Kulce eeked out a 2-1 decision win.
For the girls, North Central's Maddy Corrigan (fourth place) and Iron Mountain's Shayna Hruska (fifth place) made the Ford Field podium.
The foll list of all 37 U.P. wrestlers is posted below:
UPPER PENINSULA WRESTLERS WHO MEDALED
GLADSTONE BRAVES
126: Drew Hansen finished 2nd, losing in the state championship match to Kade Kluce of Dundee in triple overtime, on a 2-1 decision.
150: Austin Solis finished 7th, winning 7th place match over Hawk Harding of Williamston, on a 9-3 decision.
ESCANABA ESKYMOS
132: Cade Kreuger finished 7th, winning 7th place match over Perrin Dimmitt of Bay City John Glenn on a 14-3 major decision.
BARK RIVER-HARRIS BRONCOS
190: Lucas Sischo finished 6th after losing his 5th place match to Eli DeYoung of Gobles, on a 7-5 decision.
IRON MOUNTAIN MOUNTAINEERS
165: Fulton Stroud finished 2nd, losing in the state championship match to Sebastian Martinez of Riverview Gabriel Richard on a 9-1 major decision.
105: Shayna Hruska finished 5th after winning her 5th place match over Sparrow Centeno of Southgate Anderson, on a pin at 2:25.
138: Daniel Manier finished 6th after losing his 5th place match to Chase Nickerson of Vassar, on an 8-3 decision.
120: Alex Wilson finished 7th after winning his 7th place match over Devin Doorlag of Gobles on a 7-4 decision.
165: Brandon Walstrom finished 7th after winning his 7th place match over Owen Mikulka of Ithaca on a ;pin at 4:30.
126: Tyler Winch finished 7th after winning his 7th place match over Owen Kimmons of Bronson on a 9-4 decision.
KINGSFORD FLIVVERS
215: Eli Rouse finished 2nd after losing his state championship match to Jack Ward of Belding on a 2-1 decision.
165: Max Sundquist finished 4th after losing his third place match to Fred Hammond of Lakeville, on a 3-0 decision.
NORTH CENTRAL JETS
113: Cooper Raab finished 3rd after winning his third place match over Mazzy Lambert of White Piegon, on a 4-2 decision.
115: Maddy Corrigan finished 4th after losing her 3rd place match to Alexandra Stiltner of Harper Creek, on a 9-2 decision.
ST. IGNACE SAINTS
157: Jax Lipnitz finished 8th after losing his 7th place match to Drew Challendar of St. Louis on a 5-2 decision.
OTHER UPPER PENINSULA STATE QUALIFIER WRESTLERS
150: Gabe Werkheiser (St. Ignace) went 0-2.
113: Dalton Champion (St. Ignace) went 0-2.
144: Will Ohman (Sault Ste. Marie) went 0-2.
144: Hayden O'Neill (Newberry) went 0-2.
105: Delaney Bliss (Newberry) went 0-2.
113: Phoenix Espinoza (Negaunee) went 1-2.
144: Korbyn Smith (Munising) went 0-2.
165: Joe Kelley (Munising) went 1-2.
120: Logan Gould (Munising) went 0-2.
285: Dasan Smith (Marquette) went 1-2.
215: Michael Bouche (Manistique) went 1-2.
106: Landon Weber (Manistique) went 0-2.
113: Jonathan Weber (Manistique) went 0-2.
138: Tegan Ray (Kingsford) went 0-2.
126: Reed Degroot (Kingsford) went 0-2.
100: Keira Wilson (Ishpeming) went 0-2.
126: Di'Angelo Saldana (Iron Mountain) went 0-2.
175: Connor Dalton (Gwinn) went 1-2.
175: Trevor Thorbahn (Gladstone) went 1-2.
190: Aubree Croasdell (Escanaba) went 0-2.
285: Charles Walker (Bark River-Harris) went 1-2.
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