Jarrett Roos topped off a spectacular season by finishing third at the State Wrestling Tournament held February 15-18 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. A loss in the Class 2A semifinals at 182 pounds was the only blemish on a season that featured 44 wins. The Orab junior placed fourth in last year’s State Tourney.
Three other Sheldon/South O’Brien wrestlers also earned the trip to Des Moines.
Coy De Boer finished eighth at 152 pounds. The senior is a three-time State qualifier, missing out only in his junior year. This year he finally reached the podium, finishing with a record of 43-5.
This season marked the first State Tourney appearance for both junior Zach Brinkman, wrestling at 195 pounds, and for freshman heavyweight Jack Leng. Each saw his tournament end with a pair of losses on day one.
The second-seeded Roos received a bye into round two where he pinned Humboldt junior Gaige Allen. His quarterfinal match was also decided by fall with the victim being Zach Adelmund of Dike-New Hartford. Third-seeded Brody Sampson carried a 50-2 record into his semifinal encounter with Roos. The Ballard junior advanced to Saturday night’s championship match with a 3-2 decision over Roos. That moved the Sheldon/South O’Brien grappler into the consolation semis. There Roos met Jace Mulder of Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley. Roos had earlier claimed two sudden victory wins over the Nighthawk senior, who was unable to exact revenge at State as Roos scored a 3-1 victory. That put the Orab senior in the third-place match where he again pinned Dike-New Hartford’s Adelmund.
De Boer won his first round match 6-2 over Winterset’s Zeke Hoven. A loss by fall to Jase Goodell of Humboldt sent the Orab senior into the consolations. De Boer then ran off a three-match win streak, defeating Red Oak’s Adam Baier 7-5, scoring an 8-4 decision over Triston Miller of Columbus/WMU and pinning Knoxville’s Chaz Graves. The Sheldon/South O’Brien wrestler then ran into Goodell for a second time and again lost by fall. The seventh-place match pitted De Boer against Aiden Flora and the ADM junior won by fall.
Brinkman lost both of his matches by fall to finish the season with a 26-20 record. Leng suffered the same fate and closed out his first varsity campaign at 26-19.
The 22 team points earned by Roos and the eight scored by De Boer allowed Sheldon/South O’Brien to tie for 25th with 30 team points.
Sheldon/South O’Brien Individual Results
152-Coy De Boer (43-5 final record) eighth place – Champ. Round 1 – won a 6-2 decision over Zeke Hoven (Winterset); Champ. Round 2 – lost by fall to Jase Goodell (Humboldt) in 1:26; Cons. Round 2 – won a 7-5 decision over Adam Baier (Red Oak); Cons. Round 3 – won an 8-4 decision over Triston Miller (Columbus/WMU); Cons. Round 4 – won by fall over Chaz Graves (Knoxville) in 5:23; Cons. Round 5 – lost by fall to Goodell in 2:51; 7th Place Match – lost a 12-0 major decision to Aiden Flora (ADM).
182-Jarrett Roos (44-1) third place – Champ. Round 2 – won by fall over Gaige Allen (Humboldt) in 3:27; Quarterfinal – won by fall over Zach Adelmund (Dike-New Hartford) in 1:07; Semifinal – lost a 3-2 decision to Brody Sampson (Ballard); Cons. Semi – won a 3-1 decision over Jace Mulder (Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley); 3rd Place Match – won by fall over Adelmund in 1:01.
195-Zach Brinkman (26-20) did not place – Champ. Round 1 – lost by fall to KJ Fry (Clarke, Osceola/Murray) in :28; Cons. Round 2 – lost by fall to Cole Jeffries (Osage) in :44.
285-Jack Leng (26-19) did not place – Champ. Round 1 – lost by fall to Max Chapman (Creston) in 1:00; Cons. Round 2 – lost by fall to Evan Sorensen (Atlantic) in 2:46.