Friday, Dec. 14, the Annandale-Maple Lake wrestling team traveled to Glencoe-Silver Lake High School for a dual meet tournament.
It was the first year of the meet and was hosted by Glencoe-Silver Lake- Lester Prairie. Participants included Eden Prairie, Becker, Tri-City United, Paynesville, Red River Valley, Glencoe-Silver Lake-Lester Prairie, Norwood-Young America and the ANML Lightning.
The Lightning ended up with fourth place in the eight team dual tournament.
Annandale 42
Eden Prairie 35
106: Zach Pribyl loss 0-3
113: Zane Brown loss 4-6
120: Carson Cooper win, forfeit
126: Jed Wester win fall
132: Forfeit loss
138: Riley Hall loss 1-16
145: Forfeit, lost
152: Ben Schuldt win, fall
160: Adam Neumann win, fall
170: Logan Arnold loss, fall
182: Forfeit, lost
195: Daniel Luna win fall
220: Kessler Kenning win forfeit
285: Cole Patch win, forfeit
The Lightning started off the night against Eden Prairie and pulled off a close win despite giving up three forfeits. One forfeit was due to an injury and one not making weight.
"This was a classic, back and forth dual," said Head Coach Ben Youngs.
The Lightning lost the first two matches by decision, won by forfeit at 120, then Jed Wester picked up a nice pin.
Next the lightning gave up a technical fall and another forfeit, but then Ben Schuldt and Adam Neumann picked up big pins to put ANML up by one.
Eden Prairie then picked up 12 points on a pin and forfeit,..
Next, the Lightning earned the win with 18 unanswered points; Daniel Luna’s pin and two wins by forfeits. and the Lightning answered with Daniel Luna’s pin and two wins by forfeit.
This put the Lightning into the final four.
Becker 42
ANML 25
106: Mitch Koss win, 6-4
113: Noah Gindele win, 8-5
120: Carson Cooper loss, fall
126: Jed Wester win, fall
132: Forfeit loss
138: Riley Hall loss, fall
145: Forfeit, lost
152: Ben Schuldt loss, 2-4
160: Adam Neumann win, 13-0
170: Logan Arnold loss, fall
182: Alex Klatt loss, fall
195: Linus Brown win, 2-0
220: Kessler Kenning loss, 2-7
285: Cole Patch win, fall
"Last season the Lightning dropped a close dual with Becker in December only to avenge that loss in the Section 6AA meet," Youngs said.
Once again the two teams are meeting in December in the tournament semi-final.
The first match saw Mitch Koss win at 106. His match went into overtime, where he won the match with a dramatic takedown.
Noah Gindele, wrestling at 113, won the second match in a 8-5 decision. It was Gindele’s first ever varsity win.
Jed Wester, wrestling at 126, pinned his opponent making the score 12-6. Becker followed, wining four in a row.
"In one of the highlights of the night ANML’s Adam Neumann won a match 13-0 against an opponent who had beaten him twice last season," Youngs said.
After the Neumann win, the Lightning dropped two in a row at 170 and 182.
The Lightning won two of the final three weights.
Linus Brown won an evenly contested match 2-0 at 195.
"At 220 pounds, Kessler Kenning wrestled extremely well dropping a 7-2 match to one of the top 220 pound wrestlers in the section," Youngs said. "Kessler is only in his second year of wrestling and he battled that kid very well.
"With a little more confidence he will start to win matches like that."
Cole Patch won the final match of the dual, racking up enough points to win by technical fall and then pinning his 285 pound opponent.
Youngs sees Becker as a final four-type team in Section 6AA.
"When we get our three starters back from injury and get everyone down to weight it should be a completely different dual if we meet them again."
Red River Valley 43
ANML 18
106: Mitch Koss loss, 203
113: Noah Gindele loss, 4-9
120: Zayne Brown win, fall
126: Jed Wester win, fall
132: Double forfeit
138: Riley Hall loss, fall
145: Forfeit loss, forfeit
152: Ben Schuldt loss, fall
160: Adam Neumann loss, 6-11
170: Logan Arnold win, fall
182: Alex Klatt loss, fall
195: Daniel Luna loss, fall
220: Kessler Kenning loss, fall
285: Cole Patch loss, fall
The Lightning then moved on to the third place match.
"In our final match we had a letdown and under performed after wrestling really well in the first two duals," Youngs said.
The Lightning started out the dual with two losses at 106 and 113. Zayne Brown at 120 won by a fall over his opponent and so did Jed Wester score a pin.
"Zayne got aggressive and despite giving up the first takedown got a look in his eyes that showed he wasn’t going to quit and came back to pin his opponent," Youngs said. "Jed picked up his third pin of the night showing he is a force to be reckoned with."
The rest of the dual saw only Logan Arnold picking up a win, pinning his opponent at 170.
"Other than that Red River Valley proved too much for the Lightning," Youngs said. "Not every match will go our way, and we need to forget about that one and move on.
"We are seeing some really good things but we also need to work on a lot of basics."
Youngs pointed out that his wrestlers are doing some things well in the practice room, but it does not always transition to the matches.
"We need to stay loose and not be closed and worried about results," Youngs said.
Up next
n Thursday, Dec. 20, the Lightning host a triangular at Annandale High School with Glencoe-Silver Lake – Lester Prairie and St. Cloud Tech.
The first round ANML will face GSL-Lester Prairie in their first Wright County Conference meet at 5 p.m. At 6:30 GSL-LP will wrestle St. Cloud Tech High School.
At 7:45 p.m. Annandale-Maple Lake will face St. Cloud Tech. The St. Cloud Tech team now includes wrestlers from St. Cloud Tech, St. Cloud Apollo, Granite City Baptist and St. Cloud Cathedral.
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