SAYDEL — In a wrestling tournament dominated with Class 3A and 2A teams, Lynnville-Sully, a Class 1A program, entered four wrestlers and three place in the top six of their respective weight classes.
The Hawk wrestlers scored 35.5 points and took 13th out of 16 teams at Saturday’s Saydel Varsity Invitational. There was only one other 1A team in the event, Baxter, which had five wrestlers competing and was 16th as a team.
The top five teams were Class 3A programs led by tournament champion Des Moines Lincoln with 177 points. Marshalltown was second at 169 followed by Des Moines East with 159, Boone with 135 and Waukee JV with 114.
Seniors Cayden Johnson and Carson Dunsbergen finished fourth at 160 pounds and 152 pounds respectively. Junior Ben Van Wyk took sixth at 113. Freshman C.J. Snethen lost out in the consolation semifinals at 120.
“They wrestled well. We learned a lot that will help us going forward,” Lynnville-Sully head coach Jason Walston said.
All four of Lynnville-Sully’s wrestlers had first-round byes. In the quarterfinals, Dunsbergen beat Bondurant-Farrar’s Cody Hall with a 19-4 technical fall and Johnson recorded a 16-9 decision over Marshalltown’s Braydon Arnote.
Snethen lost in overtime, 8-6, to Saydel’s Nico Garcia of Saydel. Van Wyk was pinned in 1:47 of his 113 quarterfinal by Boundurant-Farrar’s Colby Lillegard. Snethen and Van Wyk moved into the consolation brackets.
Dunsbergen was pinned by North Polk’s Sully Hartsook in 1:25 in the 152-pound semifinals. He was injured and forfeited the third-place match to Des Moines Lincoln’s Allen Shepherd.
Johnson lost by a fall also in the semifinals of the 160 division to Boone’s Jimmy Boustead. Waukee JV’s Zach Walberg pinned Johnson in 57 seconds in the third-place match.
Van Wyk recorded two quick pins in consolation action at 113, pinning Iowa Falls-Alden’s Jackson Kobe in 44 seconds and Boone’s Skyler Walters in 27 seconds. In the fifth-place match, Van Wyk was pinned by North Polk’s Ryan Davidson in 52 seconds.
Snethen returned to the mat in the 120-pound consolation second round. He pinned Boone’s Jace Schultz in 1:05. He was pinned by Bondurant-Farrar’s Kanon Ekstram in two minutes.
Next up for Lynnville-Sully is a quadrangular at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Sigourney. Then it will be the Lynnville-Sully Invitational on Saturday.
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