Duellman gets to title bout, edged by Marko
WOLFPACK WRESTLING
Troy Duellman wrestled his way to the championship match and Braeden Person took seventh in a strong 152-pound bracket to lead the Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombe Wolfpack to a 16th-place finish at Saturday’s St. Croix Falls Interstate Wrestling Classic.
Duellman went 2-1 in the 13-man bracket at 145 pounds and finished the day with a rematch against sophomore Griffin Marko of St. Croix Falls, who beat Duellman last year in WIAA Division 3 sectional and state competition.
Marko got the better of the Wolfpack junior again in a defensive-minded 3-1 decision that dropped Duellman to 16-3 for the season. Marko is 20-3.
After a first-round bye, Duellman pinned Chetek-Weyerhaeuser/Prairie Farm junior Wylee Huset in 2:14 to advance to the semifinals, where he won an even more defensive-minded matchup with the tournament’s second seed, Noah Vanderbeek (11-4), a senior from Princeton, Minn. Duellman won the match 1-0 to get his rematch with Marko, who he won’t see in the post-season this year with St. Croix Falls bumping up to Division 2.
Person (21-9) opened Saturday’s tournament as the fifth seed at 152 pounds, but he was upset by senior Alex Campbell (16-18) of Chetek-Weyerhaeuser/ Prairie Farm in a 4-2 overtime decision. The loss pushed Person to the consolation quarterfinals, where he defeated Osceola’s Reed Church (23-11) by a score of 4-0. Cumberland sophomore Jack Ow- ens (23-11) downed Person 8-1 to get to the fifth-place match, which he won 10-5 over Alex Hoff of St. Croix Falls. Person finished in the seventh-place match with a 3-1 victory in a rematch with Campbell.
Preston Fredrickson and Anthony Schofield both went 0-2 for the Wolfpack. At 132 pounds, Fredrickson (11-13) was beaten by Cumberland’s Logan Peterson in a 19-2 technical fall and by Travis Moelter of River Falls in a 20-5 technical fall. At 220 pounds, Schofield (9-14) was pinned in 1:07 by West Salem-Bangor’s Cameron Sidie and in 2:59 by Northwestern’s Devon Walker.
The Wolfpack scored 28 points in the tournament to finish ahead of Abbotsford- Colby (27.5), Pine City, Minn. (25), North Branch, Minn. (21.5), Spencer-Columbus (16), Turtle Lake-Clayton (12) and Flambeau (6).
Stillwater, Minn. won the team title with 227 points, with Princeton, Minn. (191.5), St. Croix Falls (175), Totino Grace, Minn. (158) and West Salem-Bangor (134) rounding out the top five.
The Wolfpack lost their third midweek, multi-dual meet of the season due to weather with Thursday’s cancellation of the Phillips Quad. However, they will get one of them back on Tuesday with the rescheduled Clear Lake double-dual that includes Shell Lake. It starts at 7 p.m.
Tonight, Thursday, the Wolfpack hosts a 6 p.m. Lakeland Conference double- dual in Cornell with the Luck Co-op and Unity.
