Jackson County Central will host the 13-team Pizza Ranch Invitational wrestling tournament on Saturday.
Wrestling starts at 9:30 a.m. with varsity in the main gym and JV in the auxiliary gym.
Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart is the defending team champion.
Teams competing
There are 13 teams scheduled to compete on Saturday. Listed are the teams and state ranking if applicable.
Adrian/Ellsworth, Class 1A RV
Aitkin
Fulda/Murray County Central
Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector Stewart
Jackson County Central, Class 1A No. 1
Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, Class 1A RV
Luverne
Martin County
United South Central
Wabasha-Kellogg
Waseca
Western Christian
Windom/Mountain Lake
Worthington
Ranked wrestlers
There are a total of 23 state-ranked wrestlers on the 13 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
Kyler Thier, Jackson County Central, Class 1A No. 5
114
Moe Erdman, Adrian/Ellsworth, Class 1A No. 4
Preston Xayachak, Windom/Mountain Lake, Class 2A No. 4
Ryder Antony, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, Class 1A No. 10
121
Kayden Eller, Jackson County Central, Class 1A No. 6
Pierce Rohman, Martin County, Class 2A No. 10
127
Logan Schwanz, Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart, Class 2A No. 1
Isaac Rodriguez, Jackson County Central, Class 1A No. 10
133
Griffin Gimenez, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, Class 1A No. 9
Isaiah Nelson, New London-Spicer, Class 2A No. 6
Max Martin, Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart, Class 2A No. 4
139
Parker Kamm, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, Class 1A No. 9
145
Nolan Ambrose, Jackson County Central, Class 1A No. 1
Nathan Trotter, Aitkin, Class 1A No. 4
Raydon Bipes, Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart, Class 2A No. 7
152
None
160
Ryan Palmer, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, Class 1A No. 6
Trey Rossow, Jackson County Central, Class 1A No. 10
172
Sam Rock, Luverne, Class 2A No. 4
Luke Hoag, Hutchinson/Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart, Class 2A No. 6
189
Jacob Williams, Aitkin, Class 1A No. 3
Nick Slater, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial, Class 1A No. 6
215
Matthew Veroeven, Waseca, Class 2A No. 7
285
Jared Winselman, Adrian/Ellsworth, Class 1A 285 No. 3
Local connections
There are local connections with two of the teams competing on Saturday.
Hutchinson/BLHS coach Todd Card is a former coach at Jackson High School, HLOL/Jackson and JCC.
Western Christian coach Jerssie Regalado is a JCC grad and wrestled for the Huskies.
Card is a member of the Jackson County Wrestling Hall of Fame and Regalado will be inducted this winter.