Thirty prep grapplers from Lincoln County will head to Omaha this weekend for the state championships after the district tournaments concluded on Saturday. North Platte finished in second place in the A-1 district in Grand Island and qualified eleven wrestlers for state, including four individual champions. In the D-4 district event in Sutherland, St. Patrick’s finished second as a team and qualified seven wrestlers for state. Maxwell finished six overall, with six wrestlers earning state berths, while Sutherland came up with a seventh-place finish and five state qualifiers. Each team has one individual district champion. In the C-4 district tournament, Hershey’s Aksel Wiseman won the individual crown at 132 pounds to be the lone Panther to earn a state tournament berth.
STATE TOURNAMENT QUALIFIERS (* = district champion)
Colton Thompson, 106
Jonah Navarrette, 113*
Paul Kraye, 132
Zack Denney, 145*
Shawn Roblee, 152
Grant Holscher, 160
Bobby Cahill, 170
Jason Lienemann, 182
Jesse Henne, 195*
Steven Torres, 220
Bradan Erdmann, 285*
Aksel Wiseman, 132*
Trey Dodson, 113
Adam Pasquinelly, 120
Josiah Allison, 132*
Barrett Pieper, 160
Joel Melton, 170
Henry Aufdenkamp, 182
Bryan Shurigar, 285
Colin Fleecs, 113
Chandler Tyan, 120*
Colt Corbin, 126
Greg McKain, 138
Logan Baxter, 152
Ethan Lunkwitz, 120
Drew Riggs, 126
Jacob Whisenhunt, 132
Jaylon Sturdivant, 138
Dylan Gage, 160
Connor Norton, 170*