Four state-ranked teams are 29 rated individuals are scheduled to compete Saturday in the 17-team Pizza Ranch Invitational at Jackson County Central High School.
Wrestling starts at 9:45 a.m. with the varsity tournament in the main gym and JV in the auxiliary gym.
Adrian/Ellsworth won last year’s team title.
Three of the ranked teams are from Class 1A where host JCC was sixth in the latest poll by The Guillotine, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial fourth and Paynesville Area ninth. Albert Lea is fifth in Class 3A.
The Huskies have four of the rated wrestlers as Kyler Thier is fifth at 121 pounds in Class 1A, Kayden Eller second at 127, Isaac Rodriguez second at 139 and Evan Bartholomaus fifth at 160.
Martin County has two ranked wrestlers in Class 2A as Pierce Rohman is fourth at 127 and Torrey Paplow fourth at 139.
Ranked teams (4)
There are four teams scheduled to compete in the Pizza Ranch tournament that were ranked by The Guillotine this week.
Albert Lea, 5th 3A
Jackson County Central, 6th 1A
Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, 4th 1A
Paynesville Area, 9th 1A
Other teams (13)
Here are the other teams scheduled to compete in Jackson Saturday.
Adrian/Ellsworth
Aitkin
Fulda/Murray County Central
Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart
Luverne
Maple River/United South Central
Martin County
Red Rock Central
Wabasha-Kellogg
Waseca
Western Christian
Windom/Mountain Lake Area
Worthington
Rated wrestlers
There are a total of 29 state-ranked wrestlers on the 17 teams. Following is the listed of wrestlers and where they are ranked by The Guillotine, although they won’t necessarily compete at that weight on Saturday.
107 (2)
Keagan Steen, sr., Red Rock Central, 7th 1A
Kaston Clarke, soph., Fulda/Murray County Central, 8th 1A
114 (2)
Brody Herbst, fr., Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial Area, 3rd 1A
Jamison Meagher, fr., Paynesville Area, 4th 1A
121 (1)
Kyler Thier, fr., Jackson County Central, 5th 1A
127 (6)
Kayden Eller, fr., Jackson County Central, 2nd 1A
Moe Erdman, sr., Adrian/Ellsworth, 3rd 1A
Roman Roberg, soph., Paynesville Area, 5th 1A
Ryder Antony, soph., Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial Area, 7th 1A
Pierce Rohman, soph., Martin County, 4th 2A
Logan Davis, sr., Albert Lea Area, 2nd 3A
133 (1)
Mason McNab, sr., Paynesville Area, 8th 1A
139 (3)
Isaac Rodriguez, jr., Jackson County Central, 2nd 1A
Carson Othoudt, soph. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, 9th 1A
Torrey Paplow, jr., Martin County, 4th 2A
145 (1)
Brody Ignaszewski, sr., Albert Lea, 7th 3A
152 (3)
Mason Hansen, soph., Paynesville Area, 7th 1A
Zach Palmer, jr., Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, 4th 1A
Nick Korman, sr., Albert Lea, 4th 3A
160 (4)
Ryan Palmer, sr., Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, 3rd 1A
Evan Bartholomaus, jr., Jackson County Central, 5th 1A
Mitch Blonigen, sr., Paynesville Area, 7th 1A
Slade Barnett, jr., Waseca, 8th 2A
172 (1)
Byron Getchell, sr., Maple River/USC, 3rd 1A
189 (2)
Peyton Hemmesch, sr., Paynesville Area, 3rd 1A
Nick Slater, sr., Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, 1st 1A
215 (3)
Mason Adams, soph., Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, 8th 1A
Jacob Williams, sr., Aitkin, 9th 1A
Matthew Veroeven, jr., Waseca, 10th 2A
285 (0)
None
2023 champions
The champions at each weight class last year.
107: Judah Perrault, 8th, Hutchinson/BLHS
114: Dallas Gossen, fr., Jackson County Central
121: Pierce Rohman, fr., Martin County
127: Logan Schwanz, jr., Hutchinson/BLHS
133: Torrey Paplow, soph., Martin County
139: Max Martin, jr., Hutchinson/BLHS
145: Nolan Ambrose, sr., Jackson County Central
152: Kenny Erickson, sr., Aitkin
160: Ryan Palmer, jr., Lake Crystal Welcome Memorial
172: Luke Hoag, jr., Hutchinson/BLHS
189: Nick Slater, sr., Lake Crystal Welcome Memorial
215: Lucas Kooima, sr., Western Christian
285: Jaren Winselman, sr., Adrian/Ellsworth