Slinger 36 Oconomowoc 30
| Slinger 36 Oconomowoc 30 January 14, 2010 Nowhere was the beauty of high school wrestling displayed better than at Oconomowoc High School Thursday night. Oconomowoc hosted the Slinger High School Owls in a Wisconsin Little Ten Conference dual meet with the Owls winning, 36-30. A dual meet is made up of fourteen weight classes, 103, 112, 119, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 152, 160, 171, 189, 215 and 285 pounds and can be done by either a boy or girl from freshmen through seniors. Whoever goes out for the sport and earns the right to represent the school through scholastic achievement, hard work, a lot of practice and determination and meets the weight requirements goes to the mat. The start of the dual meet is determined by draw, thus it may be 103 pounds or it may be 285 pounds or anywhere in between. Usually the lighter weights are younger wrestlers while the heavyweights are the older students. The dual meet between Slinger and Oconomowoc began at 112 pounds and ended with the 103 pounders and the outcome came down to the 103 pounders, Slinger sophomore Reed Luengen and Oconomowoc freshman Lars Anderson. The score was tied at 30-30 and the body language of both grapplers was evident as they strode to the center of the mat. Luengen and Anderson both knew the outcome of their battle would determine the team winner. Luengen got a takedown almost immediately, managed to get a cradle hold and as hard as Anderson squirmed, Luengen was able to hang on for the pin at 56 seconds. Slinger won 36-30. Slinger got the first points on the board as Lucas Fassbender defeated Cooney freshman Jacob Carroll at 112 pounds on a technical fall at 5 minutes 37 seconds and then at 119 Mike Borst pinned Cooney freshman Matt Dorney at 1:45. That brought Oconomowocs strength to the mat as the Raccoons won the next six bouts with 125 pound senior Zach Mommaerts leading the charge. Mommaerts, who is ranked No. 4 by wiwrestling.com, pinned Chad Strupp at 1 minute 14 seconds. At 130 pounds junior Gavin Liesener followed with an 8-1 win over Josh Kovacevich and then sophomore Taylor Mommaerts, ranked honorable mention, added three more team points as he defeated Alex Schlough 9-2 at 135 pounds. Oconoowoc now had a 12-11 lead. The Raccoons then had three more wins as senior Jake Morrison, who is ranked at No. 8, won a 9-1 major decision over Mitch Kramoris at 140 pounds, freshman Eric Lease battled Owen Ciriacks for a 4-1 win and senior Tyler Yost followed with a pin of Dace Bregantini at 2:45. Yost came from behind as he went into the second frame trailing 2-1. He took the down position, reversed his situation almost immediately and then flattened Bregantinis shoulders for the pin. Cooney led 25-11. But then the Owls had back-to-back-to-back wins at 160, 171 and 189 pounds. Peter Stolling pinned junior Rob Peters at 1:09, Ben Kanas defeated senior Mike Finn, 6-4 and Jake Zenner had a 14-0 major decision over Cody Bear-Potter, respectively. Oconomowoc still led but only by a single point, 25-24. At 215 pounds Scott Fillmore and Logan Galezio tangled with Fillmore never being in trouble. The Cooney junior was leading 8-0 after the first two minutes, 10-0 after the second stanza and then he won on a technical fall at 5:03, putting the Raccoons up 30-24. At this point the fans in the stands were fully engaged as the probability of a tie was in the making at 285 pounds. A tie would send the outcome to the next match while an Oconomowoc win would determine the team winner. Neither big man, Cooneys Cody Bear-Potter nor Slingers Jake Schall, wanted to make the move that led to a mistake. The first period ended 0-0. In the second period, Bear-Potter chose to begin in the neutral position and then the official decided it was time to begin calling stalling on both wrestlers. Scholl was the first to be awarded a point for Bear-Potters stalling, then both wrestlers were awarded a point for stalling and the period ended with the Owl leading, 2-1. In the final frame Scholl chose the down position, escaped and then he went on a tear. He got a takedown, three-point near fall and then two more points for the Raccoons stalling. The Owl then ended the bout with a pin at 5:30. That tied the score at 30-30 and brought the little guys to the mat, the fans to their collective feet and the great finish. It was high school wrestling at its best. -Joann Walla Jan. 14, 2010 Slinger 36 Oconomowoc 30 112 - Lucas Fassbender, S, defeated Jacob Carroll on technical fall at 5:37 119 - Mike Borst, S, pinned Matt Dorney at 1:45 125 - Zach Mommaerts, O, pinned Chad Strupp at 1:14 130 - Gavin Liesener, O, defeated Josh Kovacevich 8-1 135 - Taylor Mommaerts, O, defeated Alex Schlough 9-2 140 - Jake Morrison, O, defeated Mitch Kramoris 9-1, major decision 145 - Eric Lease, O, defeated Owen Ciriacks 4-1 152 - Tyler Yost, O, pinned Dace Bregantini at 2:45 160 - Peter Stollberg, S, pinned Rob Peters at 1:09 171 - Ben Kanas, S, defeated Mike Finn 6-4 189 - Jake Zenner, S, defeated Coty Wandersee 14-0, major decision 215 - Scott Fillmore, O, defeated Logan Galzio on technical fall at 5:03 285 - Jake Schall, S pinned Cody Bear-Potter at 5:30 103 - Reed Luengen, S. pinned Lars Anderson at 56 seconds
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