3rd Place finish for the Reapers at Prairie Central Hawk Classic

Ten Reaper Wrestlers placed to earn a 3rd place finish at Saturday's Prairie Central Hawk Classic. The kids wrestled extremely well and I couldn't be prouder of them. Plano finished with 140.5 points behind Champaign Centennial (AA) and LeRoy (Ranked 6th in state) and finished ahead of Argenta -Oreana who scored 135.0 points. We were only able to take 11 guys down total to the tournament so to place 10 of them was an outstanding accomplishment for our team. Shaun Wollenweber was our lone champion and had one heck of a tournament winning his final match by tech fall. Abel Gonzalez wrestled the best he has all year and avenged a previous loss to the Seneca 112 pounder with a final score of 13-0 in the 3rd place match. Koty Bennet fell a little short in the 5th place match, but wrestled solid all day. His best match was against another Seneca wrestler in Gary Wantroba. Ivan Lopez also fell a bit short in the 5th place match at 130 but pinned the #1 seed (Zack Wheeler, Seneca) just to get to the final round. Tyler Hausler wrestled well but lost his two matches to the eventual runner up and 5th place winners. Nick Leibundguth had another strong tournament placeing 6th  win wins over Hutson from El Paso, Keeton from Richwoods and Bauer from Dwight. Wes Brown ended up on the wrong end of the 3rd place match but wrestled extremely well all day. He was beat by the eventual champions from Hoopston and LeCrone from unity in a 4-3 last second dog fight. Kelby Gann also had a good tournament placing 4th and going 2-2 on the day. Jonathan Pickett placed in his first varsity tournament and continues to get better with every match. Ryno Smith place 5th after loosing to conference foe Bolte from Dwight. And finally Trent Bowers place in his first varsity tournament as well finishing 2-2 on the day. It was a great day and a lot of fun to get so many of our guys some great success.