WOLFPACK WRESTLING - Duellman, Angell capture weight-class titles at Auburndale

WOLFPACK WRESTLING

The Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombe wrestling co-op maximized its success on Saturday, getting three championship match appearances and a fifth-place finish out of its four wrestlers who combeating peted in the 15-team Auburndale Invitational.

Troy Duellman won the 157-pound bracket for his second weight-class title in as many weekends, while freshman Tayden Angell captured his first high school bracket championship by going 4-0 at 215 pounds.

Freshman Kadyn Jones got to the 138-pound final before settling for second place, while junior Preston Fredrickson bounced back from an opening loss to win twice and place fifth.

Together, the four wrestlers compiled 180 team points, good for 10th place in the final standings. The Wolfpack finished ahead of the Osseo-Fairchild Co-op (163), Adams-Friendship (160), Spencer-Columbus (130), Thorp/Owen-Withee (96) and Manawa (93).

Marathon won the team title with 494 points, easily outscoring Auburndale (418), Royall/Wonewoc-Center (378), Black River Falls (272), Rosholt (248), Amherst (243) and Eau Claire Memorial (241).

Angell was placed in the 215-pound bracket as the fourth seed based on his 3-1 start at Barron Dec. 9, but he proved he was the best of the 14-man group by the top two seeds at the end of his day.

Angell started with a 14-second pin over Darrin Vesely of Marathon and then pinned Auburndale senior Greg Brummond in 55 seconds to reach the semifinals.

There, he took out the top seed, Chequamegon junior Darrick Bonga (72) with a 13-3 major decision. That put him in the championship against secondseeded Brad Neve (9-4) of Pittsville. Angell improved to 7-1 on the young season by outlasting him with a third-period pin at 4:38.

Duellman went to 7-0 for the year at 157 pounds with a 3-0 day. The two-time state qualifier from Gilman pinned Auburndale’s Russell Teska in 4:40, pinned Eau Claire Memorial’s Xander Hebert in 1:58 in the semifinals and stuck Auburndale’s Wyatt Malsin in 1:54 to finish his day.

Jones, who was seeded third, went 2-1 at 138 pounds, starting with a 32-second quarterfinal pin over Chequamegon’s Skyler Ottosen. A 30-second pin over Marathon’s second-seeded Jaden Her put him in the championship, where he was pinned by 9-2 sophomore Boede Wallner of Adams-Friendship.

In the eight-man 144-pound weight class, Fredrickson was defeated 7-2 by Marathon’s 11-4 Tate Sonnentag in the quarterfinals. Fredrickson (5-2) bounced back by pinning Black River Falls freshman Logan Thompson in 1:09 and sophomore Austin Lund, also of Black River Falls, in 3:59 to win the consolation bracket and finish fifth.

The Wolfpack is off until the Dec. 2829 Northern Badger Invitational in River Falls. That will be followed by a busy January filled with weekend invites and weeknight quads in the Lakeland Conference.