ST. PAUL – It just had to be Jackson County Central. Frazee lost to the Huskies in the championships of the Minnesota Class 1A state wrestling tournament in 2010 and 2013 and tied with them in the 2011 state championship. “We don’t like them very much,” Frazee 285-pounder Garrett Malstrom said. The stakes were not the same, but the heartache was all too familiar. Frazee fell to Jackson County Central 33-32 in the third-place match to finish fourth Thursday at the Class 1A tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Everything came down to Malstrom. The No. 2-ranked wrestler at 285 pounds needed a pin to win third place for Frazee with the Hornets trailing 33-25. Malstrom won a 13-3 major decision, but it was not enough. “It was kind of rough knowing I had to go into the match and get a pin, because that’s tough,” Malstrom said. “When a guy knows his one job is to not get pinned, he’ll just ball up, and you can’t do anything, and he’ll stall as much as he can.” Frazee came into the tournament as the No. 2 seed, and JCC entered as the No. 5 seed, but rankings go out the window when the two square off.
“They just have some horses,” Frazee coach Marty Aho said. “They got a few guys who will probably place No. 1 or No. 2 in the state. We are just a well-balanced team. We don’t have the studs, but we fought hard and won the ones we should have.” Hunter Sorenson’s technical fall gave Frazee a 25-6 lead with seven weight classes to go. Then came the JCC horses. Paden Moore got a pin in 1 minute, 13 seconds; Luke Norland got a pin in 1:06; Christopher Baker got a pin at 2:41; and Keegan Moore’s pin at 50 seconds had Jackson County Central up 30-25. “We knew coming in that it was going to be tough,” Aho said. “Any draw you get here is going to be a battle. I thought our kids battled all right and did as good as they could.” Kody Van Den Eykel’s 5-2 decision cut the JCC lead to 30-28, but Justin Tirevold took those three points right back with a 4-1 decision at 220 pounds for the Huskies. After the dual, Malstrom seemed ready to start training already. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"559251","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"400","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"370"}}]] “It’s rough,” Malstrom said. “We have to build on it for next year I guess. The seniors wrestled their butts off. They did a hell of a job. It was tough for the senior class, but we should be strong next season if we just keep everybody working hard.” Frazee had been to the state finals in its last three trips to state before Thursday. The Hornets got by Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale in the quarterfinals with a 32-22 win to open the tournament, but lost to No. 3-seeded Chatfield in the semifinals 38-19. Chatfield had two decisions, two major decisions and two pins in six of the first eight matches to open with a 26-6 lead. Van Den Eykel’s major decision cut the lead to 29-13, but Cody Bly won a 6-0 decision at 195 pounds to clinch it for Chatfield. “This weekend wasn’t our night,” Aho said. “Jackson has been on top the last few years and we’ve been lucky to meet them. This happened to be for third and fourth, but it is what it is. You get down to state there’s a lot of teams that wish they were in this position.” Championship quarterfinals Frazee 32, Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale 22106: Kern, B, dec., 10-0, Eischens113: Reetz, F, pin, 1:12, Kveton120: B. Byer, F, dec., 4-0, Gordon126: Willis, B, dec., 8-2, E. Byer132: Jepson, F, dec., 11-6, Waln138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Truax145: Sorenson, F, dec., 7-5, Kimber152: Starry, F, dec., 6-2, Cihlar160: Truax, B, dec., 10-7, Bachman170: Bennett, B, dec., 4-0, Streeper182: Van Den Eykel, F, pin, 2:21, French195: Bounds, B, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Card, B, pin, 0:50, Tapper285: Malstrom, F, dec., 5-3, Baker. Championship semifinals Chatfield 38, Frazee 19106: Hussein, C, dec., 14-3, Eischens113: Goldsmith C, pin, 2:40, Reetz120: B. Byer F, dec., 7-6, Van Sickel126: Jepson, F, dec., 15-12, Mandt132: Meeker, C, dec., 12-4, Olson138: Hank Friederichs, C, dec., 5-3, Skillings145: Riley, C, dec., 5-0, Sorenson152: Harvey Friederichs, C, pin, 0:34, Beaty160: Starry, F, dec. (OT), 9-7, Bradt170: Haffner, C, dec., 7-5, Bachmann182: Van Den Eykel, F, dec., 16-3, Dahl195: Bly, C, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Bleess, C, pin, 1:11, DeGroat285: Malstrom, F, pin, 3:15, Karver. Third-place dual Jackson County Central 33, Frazee 32106: Eischens F, dec., 5-4, Tvinnereim113: Reetz, F, technical fall, Wagner120: B. Byer, F, dec., 8-0, VanderWoude126: Biehn, J, pin, 4:08, E. Beyer132: Jepson, F, dec., 8-3, Rossow138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Bakalyra145: Sorenson, F, technical fall, Peterson152: P. Moore, J, pin, 1:13, Starry160: Norland, J, pin, 1:06, Streeper170: Baker, J, pin, 2:41, Bachmann182: K. Moore, J, pin, 0:50, Hedlund195: Van Den Eykel, F, dec. 5-2, Ziemer220: Tirevold, J, dec., 4-1, Brand285: Malstrom F, dec. 13-3, HornST. PAUL – It just had to be Jackson County Central. Frazee lost to the Huskies in the championships of the Minnesota Class 1A state wrestling tournament in 2010 and 2013 and tied with them in the 2011 state championship. “We don’t like them very much,” Frazee 285-pounder Garrett Malstrom said. The stakes were not the same, but the heartache was all too familiar. Frazee fell to Jackson County Central 33-32 in the third-place match to finish fourth Thursday at the Class 1A tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Everything came down to Malstrom. The No. 2-ranked wrestler at 285 pounds needed a pin to win third place for Frazee with the Hornets trailing 33-25. Malstrom won a 13-3 major decision, but it was not enough. “It was kind of rough knowing I had to go into the match and get a pin, because that’s tough,” Malstrom said. “When a guy knows his one job is to not get pinned, he’ll just ball up, and you can’t do anything, and he’ll stall as much as he can.” Frazee came into the tournament as the No. 2 seed, and JCC entered as the No. 5 seed, but rankings go out the window when the two square off. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"559250","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"308","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"400"}}]] “They just have some horses,” Frazee coach Marty Aho said. “They got a few guys who will probably place No. 1 or No. 2 in the state. We are just a well-balanced team. We don’t have the studs, but we fought hard and won the ones we should have.” Hunter Sorenson’s technical fall gave Frazee a 25-6 lead with seven weight classes to go. Then came the JCC horses. Paden Moore got a pin in 1 minute, 13 seconds; Luke Norland got a pin in 1:06; Christopher Baker got a pin at 2:41; and Keegan Moore’s pin at 50 seconds had Jackson County Central up 30-25. “We knew coming in that it was going to be tough,” Aho said. “Any draw you get here is going to be a battle. I thought our kids battled all right and did as good as they could.” Kody Van Den Eykel’s 5-2 decision cut the JCC lead to 30-28, but Justin Tirevold took those three points right back with a 4-1 decision at 220 pounds for the Huskies. After the dual, Malstrom seemed ready to start training already.
“It’s rough,” Malstrom said. “We have to build on it for next year I guess. The seniors wrestled their butts off. They did a hell of a job. It was tough for the senior class, but we should be strong next season if we just keep everybody working hard.” Frazee had been to the state finals in its last three trips to state before Thursday. The Hornets got by Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale in the quarterfinals with a 32-22 win to open the tournament, but lost to No. 3-seeded Chatfield in the semifinals 38-19. Chatfield had two decisions, two major decisions and two pins in six of the first eight matches to open with a 26-6 lead. Van Den Eykel’s major decision cut the lead to 29-13, but Cody Bly won a 6-0 decision at 195 pounds to clinch it for Chatfield. “This weekend wasn’t our night,” Aho said. “Jackson has been on top the last few years and we’ve been lucky to meet them. This happened to be for third and fourth, but it is what it is. You get down to state there’s a lot of teams that wish they were in this position.” Championship quarterfinals Frazee 32, Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale 22106: Kern, B, dec., 10-0, Eischens113: Reetz, F, pin, 1:12, Kveton120: B. Byer, F, dec., 4-0, Gordon126: Willis, B, dec., 8-2, E. Byer132: Jepson, F, dec., 11-6, Waln138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Truax145: Sorenson, F, dec., 7-5, Kimber152: Starry, F, dec., 6-2, Cihlar160: Truax, B, dec., 10-7, Bachman170: Bennett, B, dec., 4-0, Streeper182: Van Den Eykel, F, pin, 2:21, French195: Bounds, B, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Card, B, pin, 0:50, Tapper285: Malstrom, F, dec., 5-3, Baker. Championship semifinals Chatfield 38, Frazee 19106: Hussein, C, dec., 14-3, Eischens113: Goldsmith C, pin, 2:40, Reetz120: B. Byer F, dec., 7-6, Van Sickel126: Jepson, F, dec., 15-12, Mandt132: Meeker, C, dec., 12-4, Olson138: Hank Friederichs, C, dec., 5-3, Skillings145: Riley, C, dec., 5-0, Sorenson152: Harvey Friederichs, C, pin, 0:34, Beaty160: Starry, F, dec. (OT), 9-7, Bradt170: Haffner, C, dec., 7-5, Bachmann182: Van Den Eykel, F, dec., 16-3, Dahl195: Bly, C, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Bleess, C, pin, 1:11, DeGroat285: Malstrom, F, pin, 3:15, Karver. Third-place dual Jackson County Central 33, Frazee 32106: Eischens F, dec., 5-4, Tvinnereim113: Reetz, F, technical fall, Wagner120: B. Byer, F, dec., 8-0, VanderWoude126: Biehn, J, pin, 4:08, E. Beyer132: Jepson, F, dec., 8-3, Rossow138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Bakalyra145: Sorenson, F, technical fall, Peterson152: P. Moore, J, pin, 1:13, Starry160: Norland, J, pin, 1:06, Streeper170: Baker, J, pin, 2:41, Bachmann182: K. Moore, J, pin, 0:50, Hedlund195: Van Den Eykel, F, dec. 5-2, Ziemer220: Tirevold, J, dec., 4-1, Brand285: Malstrom F, dec. 13-3, HornST. PAUL – It just had to be Jackson County Central. Frazee lost to the Huskies in the championships of the Minnesota Class 1A state wrestling tournament in 2010 and 2013 and tied with them in the 2011 state championship.“We don’t like them very much,” Frazee 285-pounder Garrett Malstrom said.The stakes were not the same, but the heartache was all too familiar. Frazee fell to Jackson County Central 33-32 in the third-place match to finish fourth Thursday at the Class 1A tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.Everything came down to Malstrom. The No. 2-ranked wrestler at 285 pounds needed a pin to win third place for Frazee with the Hornets trailing 33-25. Malstrom won a 13-3 major decision, but it was not enough.“It was kind of rough knowing I had to go into the match and get a pin, because that’s tough,” Malstrom said. “When a guy knows his one job is to not get pinned, he’ll just ball up, and you can’t do anything, and he’ll stall as much as he can.”Frazee came into the tournament as the No. 2 seed, and JCC entered as the No. 5 seed, but rankings go out the window when the two square off.
“They just have some horses,” Frazee coach Marty Aho said. “They got a few guys who will probably place No. 1 or No. 2 in the state. We are just a well-balanced team. We don’t have the studs, but we fought hard and won the ones we should have.”Hunter Sorenson’s technical fall gave Frazee a 25-6 lead with seven weight classes to go. Then came the JCC horses.Paden Moore got a pin in 1 minute, 13 seconds; Luke Norland got a pin in 1:06; Christopher Baker got a pin at 2:41; and Keegan Moore’s pin at 50 seconds had Jackson County Central up 30-25.“We knew coming in that it was going to be tough,” Aho said. “Any draw you get here is going to be a battle. I thought our kids battled all right and did as good as they could.”Kody Van Den Eykel’s 5-2 decision cut the JCC lead to 30-28, but Justin Tirevold took those three points right back with a 4-1 decision at 220 pounds for the Huskies. After the dual, Malstrom seemed ready to start training already.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"559251","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"400","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"370"}}]]“It’s rough,” Malstrom said. “We have to build on it for next year I guess. The seniors wrestled their butts off. They did a hell of a job. It was tough for the senior class, but we should be strong next season if we just keep everybody working hard.”Frazee had been to the state finals in its last three trips to state before Thursday. The Hornets got by Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale in the quarterfinals with a 32-22 win to open the tournament, but lost to No. 3-seeded Chatfield in the semifinals 38-19.Chatfield had two decisions, two major decisions and two pins in six of the first eight matches to open with a 26-6 lead. Van Den Eykel’s major decision cut the lead to 29-13, but Cody Bly won a 6-0 decision at 195 pounds to clinch it for Chatfield.“This weekend wasn’t our night,” Aho said. “Jackson has been on top the last few years and we’ve been lucky to meet them. This happened to be for third and fourth, but it is what it is. You get down to state there’s a lot of teams that wish they were in this position.”Championship quarterfinalsFrazee 32, Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale 22106: Kern, B, dec., 10-0, Eischens113: Reetz, F, pin, 1:12, Kveton120: B. Byer, F, dec., 4-0, Gordon126: Willis, B, dec., 8-2, E. Byer132: Jepson, F, dec., 11-6, Waln138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Truax145: Sorenson, F, dec., 7-5, Kimber152: Starry, F, dec., 6-2, Cihlar160: Truax, B, dec., 10-7, Bachman170: Bennett, B, dec., 4-0, Streeper182: Van Den Eykel, F, pin, 2:21, French195: Bounds, B, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Card, B, pin, 0:50, Tapper285: Malstrom, F, dec., 5-3, Baker.Championship semifinalsChatfield 38, Frazee 19106: Hussein, C, dec., 14-3, Eischens113: Goldsmith C, pin, 2:40, Reetz120: B. Byer F, dec., 7-6, Van Sickel126: Jepson, F, dec., 15-12, Mandt132: Meeker, C, dec., 12-4, Olson138: Hank Friederichs, C, dec., 5-3, Skillings145: Riley, C, dec., 5-0, Sorenson152: Harvey Friederichs, C, pin, 0:34, Beaty160: Starry, F, dec. (OT), 9-7, Bradt170: Haffner, C, dec., 7-5, Bachmann182: Van Den Eykel, F, dec., 16-3, Dahl195: Bly, C, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Bleess, C, pin, 1:11, DeGroat285: Malstrom, F, pin, 3:15, Karver.Third-place dualJackson County Central 33, Frazee 32106: Eischens F, dec., 5-4, Tvinnereim113: Reetz, F, technical fall, Wagner120: B. Byer, F, dec., 8-0, VanderWoude126: Biehn, J, pin, 4:08, E. Beyer132: Jepson, F, dec., 8-3, Rossow138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Bakalyra145: Sorenson, F, technical fall, Peterson152: P. Moore, J, pin, 1:13, Starry160: Norland, J, pin, 1:06, Streeper170: Baker, J, pin, 2:41, Bachmann182: K. Moore, J, pin, 0:50, Hedlund195: Van Den Eykel, F, dec. 5-2, Ziemer220: Tirevold, J, dec., 4-1, Brand285: Malstrom F, dec. 13-3, HornST. PAUL – It just had to be Jackson County Central. Frazee lost to the Huskies in the championships of the Minnesota Class 1A state wrestling tournament in 2010 and 2013 and tied with them in the 2011 state championship.“We don’t like them very much,” Frazee 285-pounder Garrett Malstrom said.The stakes were not the same, but the heartache was all too familiar. Frazee fell to Jackson County Central 33-32 in the third-place match to finish fourth Thursday at the Class 1A tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.Everything came down to Malstrom. The No. 2-ranked wrestler at 285 pounds needed a pin to win third place for Frazee with the Hornets trailing 33-25. Malstrom won a 13-3 major decision, but it was not enough.“It was kind of rough knowing I had to go into the match and get a pin, because that’s tough,” Malstrom said. “When a guy knows his one job is to not get pinned, he’ll just ball up, and you can’t do anything, and he’ll stall as much as he can.”Frazee came into the tournament as the No. 2 seed, and JCC entered as the No. 5 seed, but rankings go out the window when the two square off.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"559250","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"308","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"400"}}]]“They just have some horses,” Frazee coach Marty Aho said. “They got a few guys who will probably place No. 1 or No. 2 in the state. We are just a well-balanced team. We don’t have the studs, but we fought hard and won the ones we should have.”Hunter Sorenson’s technical fall gave Frazee a 25-6 lead with seven weight classes to go. Then came the JCC horses.Paden Moore got a pin in 1 minute, 13 seconds; Luke Norland got a pin in 1:06; Christopher Baker got a pin at 2:41; and Keegan Moore’s pin at 50 seconds had Jackson County Central up 30-25.“We knew coming in that it was going to be tough,” Aho said. “Any draw you get here is going to be a battle. I thought our kids battled all right and did as good as they could.”Kody Van Den Eykel’s 5-2 decision cut the JCC lead to 30-28, but Justin Tirevold took those three points right back with a 4-1 decision at 220 pounds for the Huskies. After the dual, Malstrom seemed ready to start training already.
“It’s rough,” Malstrom said. “We have to build on it for next year I guess. The seniors wrestled their butts off. They did a hell of a job. It was tough for the senior class, but we should be strong next season if we just keep everybody working hard.”Frazee had been to the state finals in its last three trips to state before Thursday. The Hornets got by Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale in the quarterfinals with a 32-22 win to open the tournament, but lost to No. 3-seeded Chatfield in the semifinals 38-19.Chatfield had two decisions, two major decisions and two pins in six of the first eight matches to open with a 26-6 lead. Van Den Eykel’s major decision cut the lead to 29-13, but Cody Bly won a 6-0 decision at 195 pounds to clinch it for Chatfield.“This weekend wasn’t our night,” Aho said. “Jackson has been on top the last few years and we’ve been lucky to meet them. This happened to be for third and fourth, but it is what it is. You get down to state there’s a lot of teams that wish they were in this position.”Championship quarterfinalsFrazee 32, Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale 22106: Kern, B, dec., 10-0, Eischens113: Reetz, F, pin, 1:12, Kveton120: B. Byer, F, dec., 4-0, Gordon126: Willis, B, dec., 8-2, E. Byer132: Jepson, F, dec., 11-6, Waln138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Truax145: Sorenson, F, dec., 7-5, Kimber152: Starry, F, dec., 6-2, Cihlar160: Truax, B, dec., 10-7, Bachman170: Bennett, B, dec., 4-0, Streeper182: Van Den Eykel, F, pin, 2:21, French195: Bounds, B, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Card, B, pin, 0:50, Tapper285: Malstrom, F, dec., 5-3, Baker.Championship semifinalsChatfield 38, Frazee 19106: Hussein, C, dec., 14-3, Eischens113: Goldsmith C, pin, 2:40, Reetz120: B. Byer F, dec., 7-6, Van Sickel126: Jepson, F, dec., 15-12, Mandt132: Meeker, C, dec., 12-4, Olson138: Hank Friederichs, C, dec., 5-3, Skillings145: Riley, C, dec., 5-0, Sorenson152: Harvey Friederichs, C, pin, 0:34, Beaty160: Starry, F, dec. (OT), 9-7, Bradt170: Haffner, C, dec., 7-5, Bachmann182: Van Den Eykel, F, dec., 16-3, Dahl195: Bly, C, dec., 6-0, Brandt220: Bleess, C, pin, 1:11, DeGroat285: Malstrom, F, pin, 3:15, Karver.Third-place dualJackson County Central 33, Frazee 32106: Eischens F, dec., 5-4, Tvinnereim113: Reetz, F, technical fall, Wagner120: B. Byer, F, dec., 8-0, VanderWoude126: Biehn, J, pin, 4:08, E. Beyer132: Jepson, F, dec., 8-3, Rossow138: Skillings, F, technical fall, Bakalyra145: Sorenson, F, technical fall, Peterson152: P. Moore, J, pin, 1:13, Starry160: Norland, J, pin, 1:06, Streeper170: Baker, J, pin, 2:41, Bachmann182: K. Moore, J, pin, 0:50, Hedlund195: Van Den Eykel, F, dec. 5-2, Ziemer220: Tirevold, J, dec., 4-1, Brand285: Malstrom F, dec. 13-3, Horn
