Thirty-Three Tea youth wrestlers qualify for State
Sixty-nine Tea youth wrestlers participated in the Region 5 AAU wrestling tournament in Harrisburg on Saturday March 15th. The Titans had forty-two wrestlers place in the top four at the region tournament. Thirty-three of those wrestlers punched their ticket to the SDWCA State Youth Wrestling Tournament to be held in Rapid City on March 28th-30th. The top three wrestlers from each weight class in all age divisions advance to the State tournament except the 6U division where the top four advance. There were 618 wrestlers competing at the Region tournament from twenty-four different clubs. The Titans will also have five wrestlers join them in Rapid City to compete in the 19U division which include Tyler Woodring, Jeremiah Wilgers, Lainey Haines, Lilli Matthews, and Bailey Miller. Thirty-nine state participants and thirty-three qualifiers both set new club records.
Below is a listing of all 33 wrestlers that fought their way into the State Tournament (Name, Division, Weight, and Place):
Griffen Muth, 6U Boys, 49, 4th
Jack Sprang, 6U Boys, 67, 2nd
Liam Jensen, 6U Boys, HWT, 1st
Logan Reemtsma, 8U Boys, 40, 1st
Wyatt Neugebauer, 8U Boys, 44, 2nd
Rush Wilson, 8U Boys, 47, 1st
Ryker Watkins, 8U Boys, 61, 1st
Adrian Fritz, 8U Girls, 50, 3rd
Elyse Mitchell, 8U Girls, 53, 1st
Mya Nelson, 8U Girls, 57, 1st
Halle Levene, 8U Girls, 83, 1st
Carter Reemtsma, 10U Boys, 50, 3rd
Carter Hatch, 10U Boys, 63, 1st
Brecken Nelson, 10U Boys, 96, 1st
Hank Bartels, 10U Boys, 113, 3rd
Jaina Voelker, 10U Girls, 70, 2nd
Cassandra Halbur, 10U Girls, 84, 2nd
Jack Hilleson, 12U Boys, 72, 2nd
Nathaniel Halbur, 12U Boys, 82, 2nd
Ella Haines, 12U Girls, 90, 1st
Aliyah Steveson, 12U Girls, 100, 1st
Trigg Gaspar, 14U Boys, 75, 2nd
TJ Fortin, 14U Boys, 80, 2nd
Drake Mitchell, 14U Boys, 90, 3rd
Braylon Hoyer, 14U Boys, 95, 2nd
Anders Munoz, 14U Boys, 105, 2nd
Dalton Cooper, 14U Boys, 150, 2nd
Adam Giles, 14U Boys, 160, 1st
Kade Eimers, 16U Boys, 113, 1st
Henry Fortin, 16U Boys, 120, 1st
Slater Wilson, 16U Boys, 132, 1st
Mason Woodring, 16U Boys, 132, 2nd
Kooper Dumdei, 16U Boys, 157, 1st