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Flathead grapplers win Pacific NW tourney

by Daily Inter Lake
| January 4, 2020 10:23 PM

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Flathead Brave Brawlers won another tournament, and it’s a big one – three individual winners helped them take the Pacific Northwest Classic at University High School.

Cade Troupe (126 pounds), Tanner Russell (170) and Asher Kemppainen (132) all won their weight classes, with Troupe earning the Outstanding Wrestler for the tournament.

Flathead scored 214.5 points to 182 for Mt. Spokane. Mead, Washington was third at 148.

Glacier, which had a champion in 106-pounder Josh Melton, was 12th in the 17-team tournament, scoring 72 points.

Flathead coach Jeff Thompson was just as pleased with Garett Rieke, whose strong return from a torn ACL and then a broken leg continued with a second-place showing at 182 in Spokane.

“It was just so exciting to watch Garett Reike step back on the mat after a two-year break,” Thompson said. “This Flathead team just worked so hard over the Christmas break and that hard work is paying dividends.”

Fin Nadeau was also a runner-up for Flathead at 145 pounds. Placing third were Zaybin Stewart at 195, Brendan Barnes at 138 and Noah Poe-Hatten at 152.

Glacier’s Melton added three falls to his narrow 8-6 first-round win on Friday.

“Josh had a great two weeks of winter break practices and it showed today,” Glacier coach Ross Dankers said. “He had made some great strides since the start of the year.”

The Wolfpack’s Lance Fretwell rallied from a first-round loss to take fourth at 132. He avenged that pin by Mt. Spokane’s Hudson Buth with a 4-3 wrestle-back win over Buth.

Pacific Northwest Classic

at University High School, Spokane, WA

Saturday

106

Quarterfinals – Josh Melton, Glacier, pinned Crosby, MTS, 3:36; Williamson, UNI, md. Dylan Kratofil, Flathead, 11-3.

Wrestleback – Boone, SRDG, by default over Kratofil, Flathead.

Semifinals – Melton, Glacier, pinned Ereaux, LC, 3:14.

Championship – Melton, Glacier, pinned Garcia, HAN, 4:00.

113

Wrestlebacks – Cade Gardner, Flathead, pinned Thomas Putnam, Glacier, :15; Schafer, UNI, pinned Gardner, Flathead, 2:24.

120

Wrestlebacks – Nolan Cate, Flathead, pinned Torres, FER, 2:45; Cody Frost, Glacier, pinned Birkhimer, SAND, 1:01; Cate, Flathead, md. Hernandez, FRE, 13-0; Walker, UNI, dec. Frost, Glacier, 5-0; Cate, Flathead, pinned Hambleton, WEN, 2:01; Mark, MEA, pinned Cate, Flathead, 2:44.

Fifth-sixth – Patton, HAN, pinned Cate, Flathead, :27.

126

Quarterfinals – Cade Troupe, Flathead, pinned Perkes, HAN, :57.

Semifinals – Troupe, Flathead, pinned Randall, MEA, 1:23.

Championship - Troupe, Flathead, pinned Williams, SRDG, 2:5.

Wrestlebacks – Anastassi, FER, pinned Hunter Magness, Glacier, 3:55.

132

Quarterfinals – Asher Kemppainen, Flathead, md Werner, FRE, 14-1.

Semifinals – Kemmpainen, Flathead, dec. Buth, MTS, 5-1.

Championship – Kemppainen, Flathead, dec. McCorkle, HAN, 8-2.

Wrestlebacks – Lance Fretwell, Glacier, pinned Swanson, EV, 1:10; Fretwell, Glacier, pinned Martinez, WEN, 1:58; Fretwell, Glacier, dec. Buth, MTS, 4-3.

Third-fourth – Gonzalez, SNO, dec. Fretwell, Glacier, 4-2.

138

Quarterfinals – Brendan Barnes, Flathead, pinned Stricklin, HAN, 2:40.

Semifinals – Sundheim, EV, dec. Barnes, Flathead, 7-5.

Wrestlebacks – Kyle McCollam, Glacier, pinned Isaiah, UNI, 5:07; Stricklin, HAN, md. McCollam, Glacier, 11-3; Barnes, Flathead, pinned Sepulveda, SRDG, 2:13.

Third-fourth – Barnes, Flathead, dec. Riley Buth, MTS, 1-0.

145

Quarterfinals – Fin Nadeau, Flathead, pinned Viau, Glacier, 1:09.

Semifinals – Nadeau, Flathead, tech. fall over Nelson, SAND, 4:00.

Championship – Haney, MTS, dec. Nadeau, Flathead, 10-4.

Wrestlebacks – Richardson, LAK, pinned Viau, Glacier, 2:23.

152

Quarterfinals – Keller, HAN, dec. Noah Poe-Hatten, Flathead, 10-8; Alexander, UNI, dec. Royce Conklin, Glacier, 8-2.

Wrestlebacks – Poe-Hatten, Flathead, pinned Montano, FER, 2:58; Conklin, Glacier, dec. Gideon, SRDG, 7-3; Poe-Hatten, Flathead, inj. Default over Alexander, UNI; Caralis, SAND, dec. Conklin, Glacier, 7-3.

Third-fourth – Poe-Hatten, Flathead, md. Caralis, SAND, 11-2.

160

Quarterfinals – Chase Youso, Flathead, pinned Singley, MTS, 1:03.

Semifinals – Cote, SNO, dec. Youso, Flathead, 7-5.

Wrestlebacks – Kael Willis, Glacier, pinned Hackworth, MEA, 2:31; Singley, MTS< pinned Willis, Glacier, 2:31; Youso, Flathead, pinned Mendenhall, HAN, 2:44.

Third-fourth – Howard, LAK, dec. Youso, Flathead, 6-4.

170

Quarterfinals – Andrew Russell, Flathead, pinned Munir LC, 3:44.

Semifinals – Russell, Flathead, pinned Gegg, SRDG, 4:00.

Championship – Russell, Flathead, tech. fall over Nutting, LAK, 3:14.

Wrestlebacks – Caden Gilmond, Glacier, pinned Lenhartzen, UNI, 1;08; Gilmond, Glacier, inj. Default over Larson, UNI; Munir, LC, dec. Gilmond, Glacier, 8-4.

182

Quarterfinals – Garett Rieke, Flathead, pinned Nelson, LIB, 4:37.

Semifinals – Rieke, Flathead, pinned Miethe, MTS, 1:18.

Championship – Whitcomb, LAK, pinned Rieke, Flathead, 3:01.

Wrestlebacks – Bushman, HAN, de. Thomas Crofts, Glacier, 5-4.

195

Quarterfinals – Zaybin Stewart, Flathead, dec. Tellinghusen, UNI, 7-0.

Semifinals – Clark, LAK, pinned Stewart, Flathead, 3:54.

Wrestlebacks – Stewart, Flathead, dec. Thorne, MEA, 2-0.

Third-fourth – Stewart, Flathead, dec. Tellinghus, UNI, 2-0.

220

Quarterfinals – Dremann, LAK, pinned Caedon Seymour, Glacier, 5:19.

Wrestlebacks – Manza, UNI, dec. Estaban Barahona, Flathead, 2-0; Slatter, SRDG, dec. Seymour, Glacier, 1-0.

285

Wrestlebacks – Rocco Beccari, Glacier, pinned Twineham, SAND, 3:10; Aydan Prieto, Flathead, pinned Goodwin, UNI, :55; Parson, LAK, pinned Beccari, Glacier, 2:16; Prieto, Flathead, dec. Jorgenson, UNI, 6-3; Prieto, Flathead, pinned Parson, LAK, 4:30; Hughes, LAK, pinned Prieto, Flathead, 2:34.

Fifth-sixth – Prieto, Flathead, inj. Default over Vargas, EV.