Goetzinger, Herber Win at FCLMC Invite

It was a bit of a down year for county teams, champion-wise, at FCLMC’s annual Holiday Wrestling Tournament.  Only two guys won titles, but there were seven second place finishers and eight third place guys.  GMLOS (227.5) rode eight first place finishers to the team title over Chatfield (198.5), which was participating in its first action of the year.  LARP (125.5) tied for fourth and FCLMC (79) took sixth (of nine total).  Chatfield’s fourth-ranked Seth Goetzinger grabbed the 126-pound title (three pins), scoring a fall amidst trailing in the championship bout with Decorah’s Kyzer Engen.  Gophers Jacob Stephas (160 > W 9-4 D, W pin, L pin), Grady Schott (170 > W pin, W 17-2 TF, L pin), and A.J. Karver (220 > W pin, W pin, L pin) took second.  Cael Bartels (120 > W pin, L 7-3 D, W pin, W pin), Nathan Goldsmith (145 > W pin, L 10-9, W pin, W pin), and Campbell Berge (160 > L pin, W pin, W pin, W pin) took third, combining for nine pins (all their wins came that way).  Ninth-ranked Davontae Goldsmith (182 > W pin, L 17-8 MD, W FF, W 9-0 MD) also took third.   LARP’s 4th-ranked Noah Herber grabbed the 182-pound title courtesy of a couple of pins.  The Screamin’ Eagles then had a trio of runner-ups in #7 at 113 Ross Herber (120 > W 7-3 D, L pin to Winona’s #2 in AAA Ryan Henningson), Gable Speltz (132 > W pin, win 8-2 D, L 5-0 D), and Dominic Jenkins (145 > W pin, W 10-9 D, L 9-8).  Jenkins battled Chatfield’s Nathan Goldsmith and GMLOS’s #2 at 132 Jackson Hale in high-scoring one-point decisions.  Tyler Kreidermacher (106 > W pin, L pin, W 10-0 MD) and #4 at 120 Carter Jonsgaard (126 > W pin, L 14-11 D, W pin, W 17-2 TF) took third.   FCLMC got a second from 10th-ranked Caden Anderson (138 > W pin, win 11-10 MD, L 11-3 MD), thirds from Bradon Knutson (113 > L pin, W pin, W pin) and Michael Barrett (220 > L pin, W pin, W Injury, W 16-15).  Barrett lost to LARP’s Carter Weidemann (pin) early.  In the third place bout, Barrett won 16-15 over Weidemann despite finishing the third period on bottom in a headlock.  All told, 11 kids ranked in Minnesota competed in the tourney.