(Corning, IA) — Atlantic has the lead after day one of the John J. Harris tournament hosted by Southwest Valley. The lead changing frequently on Friday and Winterset would take the team lead when Gavin Day had to come from behind to pin Luke Cleaver of Missouri Valley at 5:20. Next on the mat was Kalvin Hayes for the Trojans and he got put in a tight spot in the 2nd period and was almost pinned — instead the Sophomore fought through a spladle from Cole Scanman of Shenandoah, reversed him and pinned him at 3:18. That put Atlantic back into first place in the team standings going into Saturday.
Seven Trojans will be in the semifinals on Saturday — at 106 Keaton Schroeder won at 1:11 and 1:19, at 113 Collin Harris won at 4:18 in his only match, at 120 Braxton Hass won at 1:44 and 2:48, at 138 Aiden Smith won both matches by tech falls, at 144 Kalvin Hayes won at 2:26 and 3:18, at 190 Donovan Hedrington won his only match 9-6 thanks to a takedown with 30 seconds left, and at 285 Evan Sorensen only 33 seconds to win his two matches, :11 and :22.
For Nodaway Valley, at 106 Josh Nelson went 2-0 both falls and both at 1:36, at 126 Keyin Steeve went 2-0 with a TF and fall, at 175 Caleb Christensen went 2-0 with 2 falls, and at 215 Ashton Honnold won both his matches by fall.
For Riverside, semifinalists included Kingston Carrigan at 113 went 1-0 with a fall in 54 seconds, Davis Bramman at 126 went 2-0 with a TF and fall at 1:33, Drew Anderson at 132 went 2-0 with two tech falls, Jaxon Gordon at 150 went 2-0 with 2 TF, Taven Moore at 157 went 2-0 with a tech fall and 5-4 win in the quarters, and AC Roller at 175 won his only match at 2:49
For Tri Center, Tucker Olsen is in the semis at 106 with a 12-0 MD and a fall in 43 seconds, and Brent Freeberg at 138 went 2-0 with a fall and tech fall
Three wrestlers competed for CAM and Kason Calhoun had the only win in the first round over Jett Christensen of Nodaway Valley in 50 seconds — Calhoun is still in the consolation bracket. Keegan Croghan and Reilly Becker both went 0-2.
Griswold still has two wrestlers in the back end — RJ Dishong won by fall 1:43 in the first round but lost in the quarters at 4:46. Wyatt Peterson had a double bye but lost by fall.
AC/GC got shut out of the semifinals — those still alive in the back end are Chase Slaybaugh, Ty Ganzer, Lane Stringer, Angel Martinez, Carter Richter, Mike Fuller and Jack Sheeder.
The host school Southwest Valley was shut out of the semifinals. Gavin Wetzel was upset in the quarterfinals 7-3. Timberwolve wrestlers still alive in the consolation round are Sawyer Wilkinson, Brylan Marks, Brody Sparks, Wyatt Shires, Jax Herring, Degan Farwell and Wetzel.
Team Standings
1) Atlantic 86
2) Winterset 82
3) Riverside 71.5
4) Creston 69
5) Nodaway Valley 53.5
6) Earlham 63
6) Shenandoah 63
8) Lenox 47
8) Missouri Valley 47
10) Centerville 34.5
11) Tri Center 29.5
12) Red Oak 29
13) Central Decatur 27.5
14) Clarinda 27
15) Washington 26.5
16) AC/GC 25
17) Wayne 23.5
18) Mount Ayr 20.5
19) Clarke 20
20) Panorama 19
21) Southwest Valley 16
22) Bedford 14
23) Denison Schleswig 10
24) CAM 4
24) Griswold 4
26) Southwest Iowa 3
