Sheldon/South O’Brien has qualified three wrestlers for State based on results from the Class 2A District Wrestling Tournament held February 12 at Sioux Center. Grapplers needed to finish either first or second at Districts to move on to the State Tournament which is being held February 17-19 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Orabs Cason Johannes at 145 and Jarrett Roos at 170 each finished first and will return to Des Moines. Josh Hoffmann placed second at 106 pounds and will also be making the trip. Carter Wohlert at 220 pounds and Coy DeBoer at 132 just missed qualifying as each placed third. Wohlert is the only one of the five participants Saturday who is from the South O’Brien school district.
The Class 2A wrestlers take the mat for Session 1 at the State Meet. That Session is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday.
At the District Tourney, Johannes pinned his semifinal opponent in 2:25 and also won the first place match by fall in 3:56. The Orab senior heads to State with a season record of 39-5.
Roos opened District action with a 15-0 technical fall win. In the 1st Place Match his opponent was Ethan DeLeon of Sioux City Bishop Heelan. Three periods did not decide the matter as the score was tied 3-3. There was no scoring in the first tie breaker period. In the second tiebreaker period, Roos started down and earned one point for an escape. Starting up in the next period, Roos was able to maintain control over DeLeon for the entire 30 seconds to earn the hard-fought 4-3 victory. Roos, a sophomore, takes a 41-4 record to State.
Hoffmann pinned OA-BCIG’s Myles Beck in their semifinal match but lost by fall in the 1st Place Match. When Beck won his third place match it meant the Sheldon/South O’Brien freshman would be moving on to State with a record of 29-14.
Wohlert lost his semifinal match by fall to Sioux Center’s Ty Hulsof. In the 3rd Place Match, Wohlert pinned Naeron Bisse of Heelan in just 44 seconds. The Sheldon/South O’Brien senior got the opportunity to wrestle back for second place but, after a valiant fight, was pinned in 3:30 to finish the season with a 16-13 record.
DeBoer dropped his semifinal round match 9-3 to Noah Parmelee of Sergeant Bluff-Luton. The Orab junior was on the right side of an 8-0 decision in the 3rd Place Match. He did not get the opportunity to wrestle back as Parmelee was the loser of the 1st Place Match. DeBoer ends the season at 35-10.
Sheldon/South O’Brien wrestlers earned 70.5 team points, allowing the Orabs to place second to Sergeant Bluff-Luton. The Warriors finished far ahead of the pack with 148 points.
Team Scores
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 148, Sheldon/South O’Brien 70.5, Sioux Center 70, Bishop Heelan 64, West Lyon 60, Central Lyon-George-Little Rock 47, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 41, Spirit Lake Park 31, MOC-Floyd Valley 18, OA-BCIG 16, Cherokee 0.
Sheldon/South O’Brien Individual Results
106-Josh Hoffmann (second place) – Semifinal – won by fall over Myles Beck (OA-BCIG) in 2:20; 1st Place Match – lost by fall to Ethan Skoglund (Sergeant Bluff-Luton) in :29. No wrestleback.
132-Coy De Boer (third place) – Semifinal – lost a 9-3 decision to Noah Parmelee (Sergeant Bluff-Luton); 3rd Place Match – won an 8-0 major decision over Gerson Ramos (MOC-Floyd Valley). No wrestleback.
145-Cason Johannes (first place) – Semifinal – won by fall over Landon Veit (OA-BCIG) in 2:25; 1st Place Match – won by fall over Hunter Steffans (Sergeant Bluff-Luton) in 3:56.
170-Jarrett Roos (first place) – Semifinal – won by technical fall (15-0) over Kipp Huss (MOC-Floyd Valley) in 5:34; 1st Place Match – Jarrett Roos won 4-3 in tie breaker – 1 over Ethan DeLeon (Bishop Heelan).
220-Carter Wohlert (third place) – Semifinal – lost by fall to Ty Hulshof (Sioux Center) in 2:00; 3rd Place Match – won by fall over Naeron Bisse (Bishop Heelan) in :44; 2nd Place Match – lost by fall to Lyle Moore (Central Lyon-GLR) in 3:30.