While every wrestling season is unique in its own way, this season we will be happy with any season at all and it will surely be one to remember. This past Saturday we were scheduled to wrestle Coleman. Thursday afternoon we were informed that Coleman could not wrestle for Covid reasons and had to withdraw from the dual.

 

Current WIAA guidelines only allow a team to wrestle every 7 days so we knew if we couldn’t get another competition scheduled for Saturday we would get one less chance to compete. Fortunately, we were able to work things out with Bay Port due to a schedule change they had earlier in the week. Unfortunately, they had already told their wrestlers that they would not be wrestling Saturday so some wrestlers had other commitments and some were overweight by the time we got the times and location hammered out so they could not safely make weight.

Thankfully the WIAA changed the rules for this season allowing us to wrestle numerous matches during dual meets. Using this format we quickly wrestled the only 5 Varsity duals we could arrange. The coaches then arranged 30 exhibition matches. It was a very good experience for everyone with opportunities to wrestle up and down weights. By matching wrestlers by skill, we were able to get some very good matches for both teams.

 

In the varsity dual, the final score was SD 48 - Bay Port 22. Winning for SD were Alex Buhr over Trevor Finger (2-0), Kyle Conard over Colton Klimex (6-0), and Grant Englebert over Brian Priebe (fall 1:49). Also winning by FFT were Griffin Slezewski, Jonas Jandrin, Riley Phillips, Brodie Overbeck, Mason Motquin, and Spencer Slezewski.

 

Coming into the season we were looking forward to a strong freshman class. They did well in their first high school matches with the highlight being Buhr’s 2-0 varsity win at 126. Other freshmen include Mason Motquin 106, Spencer Slezewski and Abi Tooley 113, Trevor Englebert 120, Zach Lynch and Thomas Jackson 145, and Hayden Jeanquart 170.

 

It seems that moving forward the only thing we know for sure is that things will change. We’ll try to be ready for whatever is thrown at us each week. This Saturday we are scheduled to start our conference duals at Oconto. Wrestling is currently scheduled to start at 10:00.