Handful advance

Five Huskies headed to state individual tourney

Jackson County Central qualified five wrestlers for the state Class 1A wrestling tournament from Saturday’s Section 3A tourney in St. James.

Two Huskies are advancing as a section champion, Kayden Eller (114) and Kyler Thier (127).

Headed to state as second-place finishers are Isaac Rodriguez (121), Dallas Gossen (139) and Ryan Haley (189).

The individual portion of the state tournament is Friday and Saturday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Here’s how all the JCC wrestlers placed in the Section 3A tournament.

• 107: Mathias Leopold, 3rd

• 114: Kayden Eller, 1st

• 121: Isaac Rodriguez, 2nd

• 127: Kyler Thier, 1st

• 133: Geovany Munoz Mazarieuos, 6th

• 139: Dallas Gossen, 2nd

• 145: Braeden Tufvesson, 6th

• 152: Ben Dahlin, 2nd

• 160: Cael Entriken, 4th

• 172: Carson Kolander, 5th

• 189: Ryan Haley, 2nd

• 215: Jack Mix, 3rd

• 285: Michael Hansen, 3rd

State qualifiers

The number of state qualifiers per team from the Section 3A tournament.

• Jackson County Central 5

• Adrian/Ellsworth 5

• Pipestone 5

• Fulda/Murray County Central 4

• Redwood Valley 4

• St. James/Madelia 1

• Tracy-Milroy-Balaton/Westbrook-Walnut Grove 1

• Wabasso 1

• Red Rock Central 0

• Springfield 0

First-round matches

First-round matches for JCC wrestlers at the state tournament Friday.

Listed are seed, name, school, year and record.

• 114: No. 2 Kayden Eller, JCC, fr., 36-5 vs. No. 15 Vincent Schmid, Mille Lacs, soph., 47-2

• 121: No. 4 Isaac Rodriguez, JCC, jr., 37-11 vs. No. 13 Tryg Olson, Border West, soph., 22-14

• 127: No. 2 Kyler Thier, JCC, fr., 22-9 vs. No. 15 Evan Dingwall, West Central Area-Ashby-Brandon-Evansville, fr., 30-14

• 139: No. 9 Dallas Gossen, JCC, soph., 30-14 vs. No. 8 Shane Thompson, Fosston-Bagley, soph., 38-5

• 189: No. 13 Ryan Haley, JCC, sr., 29-17 vs. No. 4 Hank Meyer, Kimball, sr., 11-1