Jackson County Central High School senior Nolan Ambrose will be among three dozen of the state’s top wrestlers to compete in MN#1 at 4 p.m. Saturday at The Shop Performance Training in Minnetonka.
There will be a total of 18 matches, with Ambrose scheduled to wrestle for the Blue team against the Red team’s Parker Lyden of Forest Lake in the 17th match.
Ambrose is a three-time state champion, winning at 106 pounds (40-2) as a freshman in 2021, 113 (52-0) as a sophomore in 2022 and 132 (40-3) as a junior in 2023.
He has committed to wrestling for Augustana University.
There are three former Huskies on the Augustana roster as Ambrose will join Logan Butzon, Payton Handevidt and Caleb Vancura. Another JCC graduate, Cooper Moore, is a graduate assistant with the Vikings.
Lyden is a three-time state qualifier and two-time place winner in Class 3A. He qualified at 106 pounds (28-12) in 2021, placed fifth at 113 (34-10) in 2022 and third at 132 (47-5) in 2023.
Two other Section 3A wrestlers are scheduled to compete for the Red team, Devin Hernandez of Tracy-Milroy-Balaton/Westbrook-Walnut Grove and Miklo Hernandez of Pipestone.
Matches
Here are the scheduled matches for Saturday’s event. Wrestlers listed first are on the Blue team, with the second wrestler on the Red team. Streaming information is available at rofkin.com.
Titan Friedrichs (Watertown-Mayer/Mayer Lutheran) vs. Javier Berg (Chatfield)
Davis Parrow (Farmington) vs. Devin Carter (Tracy-Milroy-Balaton/Westbrook-Walnut Grove)
Joel Friedrichs (Watertown-Mayer/Mayer Lutheran) vs. Miklo Hernandez (Pipestone)
Ben Schultz (Maple Grove) vs. Evan McGuire (Mahtomedi)
Parker Zutter (Pequot Lakes/Pine River-Backus) vs. Chase Smith (Minnewaska)
Elijah Greenwald (Staples- Motley) vs. Logan Schwanz (Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart)
Connor Peterson (Maple Grove) vs. Cole Musteneiger (Mound-Westonka)
Kaleb Lochner (Zumbrota-Mazeppa) vs. Patrick Kubisa (Hopkins)
Aspen Blasko (Forest Lake) vs. Olivia Sackor (Fridley)
Colbe Tappe (Staples-Motley) vs. Owen Denstad (Caledonia/Houston)
Christian Jelle (Hibbing) vs. Logan Davis (Albert Lea)
Marcell Booth (Apple Valley) vs. Zac McPhee (Proctor/Hermantown)
Easton Dircks (Brainerd) vs. Ethan Sylvester (Totino-Grace)
Zytavius Williams (Eden Prairie) vs. Trey Gunderson (Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg)
Austin Grywinski (Simley) vs. Leo Edblad (Cambridge-Isanti)
Griffin Lundeen (Thief River Falls) vs. Noah Torgerson (St. Michael-Albertville)
Nolan Ambrose (Jackson County Central) vs. Parker Lyden (Forest Lake)
Alex Braun (Woodbury) vs. Matthew Randolph (Scott West)