By: Coach Bergeron
On Thursday, February, 7th the Gator wrestling team traveled to TRF for the final regular season dual of the year. The Gators were determined to go into team sections on a high note and that is just what they did as they pulled away from a solid Prowler wrestling team and took home the victory 46-33.
The Gator knew they needed to get out to a fast start and that is exactly what they did as Isaak Isane got the bench to their feet with a solid pin over Josh Bernier at the 1:31 mark of the first period. The Gators continued to feed off this energy as Wyatt Becker avenged an earlier season loss to Stephen Holecek and took home the major dec. with a 14-6 victory to give the Gators and early 10-0 lead. Devin Dostal at 120 took the mat and was in a battle with Tae Malone, Dostal was ahead 9-2 when Tae slammed Dostal for a penalty point. Dostal was not able to continue so Dostal won by disqualification by rule to give the Gators a 16-0 lead. Nick Kaml followed with an impressive match as he dominated the action with Dre Malone and pinned Malone at the 4:21 mark to give the Gators a dominating 22-0 lead.
The Prowlers would get on the board when a solid Noah Bernier would record a fall over Trevor Undeberg. At 138 Brandon Waage would do battle with a familiar foe in Austin Hjelle. This proved to be a match- up of two state caliber wrestlers as Hjelle held on in the final seconds to win a close 2-1 match. This would close the match score to 22-9 in favor of the Gators.
The Gators would get back on a short roll as Jake Jenson had a solid performance and pinned Spencer Hron at the 1:43 mark. Dakota Gullikson followed with a similar performance as he controlled Jake Brinkman before recording a fall at the 3:37 mark in the second period to give the Gators the lead at 34-9.
Standout and state ranked wrestlers from TRF Holden Nelson and Nathanael Holecek took the mat for the Prowlers and both recorded pins. Nelson pinned Collin Berard and Holecek pinned Daron Sikorski to close the gap to 34-21.
The Gators matched those 12 points by scoring 12 of their own as senior Tomm Ingle took the forfeit and senior John Westman recorded a solid pin at the 1:09 mark of the first period to give the Gators their last points of the night and a 46-21 lead.
TRF closed out the scoring as Tyshaun Brown and Chris Kucera both recored falls. Brown pinned Beau Blumer and Kucera recorded a fall over Doug Peterson, to close out the scoring and give the Gators a hard fought 46-33 victory.
The final regular season victory gave the Gators their 16th victory of the season as they head into team sections with a 16-1 record. Seniors Tomm Ingle and John Westman currently lead the team in victories. Ingle is currently posting a 27-4 record and Westman is currently at 28-4. Both seniors will lead the young Gators into team sections in TRF on Saturday, Feb. 16th at the Engelstad Arena. Action will start at 10:30 am seeds are still to be determined.
The Gators would like to thank the fans for an excellent turnout in TRF, it was greatly appreciated. The Gator coaching staff would like to congratulate the Gator JV on a great year as they closed out there season with a dominating performance as they won 12 of the 15 matches wrestled to close out a great season for them. Keep up the hard work and the Gator tradition will continue to be successful for years to come.
Go Gators!!!
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