West Michigan Conference wrestling: Roundup from Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2023

Several West Michigan Conference teams wrestled on Wednesday this week.

Here is a brief roundup from those meets.

Montague Wrestling Quad

Oakridge, North Muskegon, and Ravenna made the trip North to Montague to wrestle in this quad meet. In round one, the Norsemen defeated the Bulldogs of Ravenna (41-36) while Montague beat out Oakridge (62-15).

In the second round, Oakridge defeated Ravenna (42-24) and Montague handled North Muskegon (76-6).

Top finishers for Montague:

Savannah Winkleblack 2-0

Jimmy Thommen 2-0

Tristan Winkleblack 2-0

Michael Moore 2-0

Aydan Everett 2-0

Joe Winkleman 2-0

Ava Pelton 2-0

Natalie Bassett, Issac French, Malachi Plunkett, Tyler Risch, Connor McKeown, and Chris Evans all finished 1-0 on the day.

Top finishers for Ravenna:

Brody Deater (150) 2-0

Jackson Peeble (157) 2-0

Malachi Desmond (165) 2-0

Caiden Nawrocki (215) 2-0

Taytum Goerbig (145) 1-0  

Top finishers for Oakridge:

No stats submitted

Top finishers for North Muskegon:

No stats submitted.

Dual Meet at Hesperia

Shelby’s team traveled East to take on Hesperia in a dual meet that was dominated by the Panthers. (57-18)

The following wrestlers won their respective matches and finished 1-0 on the day for Hesperia:

Alex Sayer (120)

Blake Sayer (126)

Dominick Smith (132)

Wyatt Roberson (138)

Skyler Stalbaum (144)

Ryan Fuentes (150)  

Alex Gleason (157)

Brock Bolles (165)

Deegan Klaus (175)

Noah Walker (285)

Stephen Priese(113)

Top performers for Shelby:

Travis Boughan (190) 2-0

Nick Cano (106) 1-0

Dual Meet at Mason County Central

Mason County was defeated by the Hart Pirates squad but took down the Ludington Orioles Wednesday night.  

Three wrestlers finished 2-0 on the night for MCC:

Zane McCabe

Colter Kirchner

Hunter Sanford

MCC’s Gradyn Wilson and Brayden Overmyer also managed to record falls against their Ludington opponents.

Orchard View Host Meet

Orchard View was host to both the Whitehall Vikings and Manistee Chippewas on Wednesday night.

Orchard View dominated the Chippewas (66-4) but were beaten soundly by Whitehall (66-12). Whitehall also swept Manistee (84-0).

No individual stats were submitted for the meet.