When Is Wrestling Coming to Watertown Again
Expectations are once more very loftier for the 2021-22 Watertown High School wrestling team.
The Arrows return five state place winners off a squad that went 13-5 overalls in duals, shared the Eastern South Dakota Conference dual team championship with a 6-1 record, won the Region 1A title, qualified for the state Grade A dual team tournament and finished fourth in the individual portion of the state Form A tourney.
"They've got some very high goals, that's for sure," said Watertown head passenger vehicle Chas Welch. "Beingness ESD champions is a large deal in Watertown, so that'southward certainly a goal. Nosotros'll just have things twenty-four hours by day and see what we can go accomplished."
Watertown is one of ii surface area high schools that compete in the state's Course A wrestling ranks. There are 9 area teams competing in Grade B.
Below is a preview of the Arrows forth with wrestlers and other things to watch for surface area teams this winter:
Watertown
• Caput Double-decker — Chas Welch.
• Assistants — Aaron Althoff, Scott Stone, Dexter Gaikowski and Nate Althoff.
• 2020-21 Summary — Many of the squad's highlights were mentioned above, merely it was definitely a unique season for the Arrows final wintertime. Watertown had a two-week COVID shutdown in Dec and withal was able to share the ESD title with Brandon Valley (7-ane), despite non being able to brand up a dual against Brookings that was called off during the shutdown.
The Arrows suffered a 39-28 first-round loss to Harrisburg in the dual team portion of the state tournament.
• Returning Land Place Winners — The group of returnees is led by sophomore Sloan Johannsen, who capped a 33-1 season past winning the 106-pound championship and senior Ben Althoff, who went 30-7 and finished second at 152 pounds.
Senior Connor Hanson went xx-10 and placed fifth at 120, senior Mac Young 30-10 and placed six at 160 and sophomore Brock Eitreim 27-15 and sixth at 195. Junior Weston Everson was a state place winner in 2020.
• Other State Qualifiers — Senior Carson Hansmann and junior Ian Johnson each as well competed in concluding twelvemonth's land tournament.
• Others to Watch — Senior Draven Bau; juniors Jax Kettwig, Stonemason Krause, Jackson Maag, Braden Le and RJ Nichols; sophomore Derek Hanson; freshmen Nate Briggs, Leo Stroup and Micah Hach; and eighth-grader Markus Pitkin.
• Teams to Watch — Welch lists Brandon Valley, the defending state individual tourney champion and a semifinalist in the dual team tourney, equally the team to shell. The Course AA field should again be potent with Rapid Urban center Stevens, defending dual team champion Pierre, Sturgis, Harrisburg, Mitchell and Tea Expanse. Brandon Valley, Pierre, Harrisburg and Mitchell are all ESD foes.
Tea Expanse, Brookings, Dell Rapids and W Central will expect to challenge Watertown in Region 1A.
• Double-decker's Comments — "Nosotros have six place winners back and ii other country qualifiers along with a whole bunch of other guys who have paying their ante for the last couple of years," said Welch.
"Staying healthy and getting everyone in the right weight class volition be the key to success for the Arrows. Nosotros have an first-class and decorated schedule that will prepare us to exist at our best at the end of Feb."
• Schedule — Watertown kicks off its flavour Thursday by wrestling Beresford/Alcester-Hudson and Yankton in a triangular at Yankton. The Arrows make their habitation debut on Saturday by hosting the newly-named Marv Sherrill Wrestling Dual Tournament at x a.m. in the Civic Arena. The only other dwelling house appearance for Arrows will be Dec. xvi when they host Brookings in a dual.
Watertown will compete in regular-flavor tourneys at Rapid City, Sioux Falls (2), Bismarck (N.D.), Mitchell, Sioux City (Iowa), Aberdeen and Yankton.
The Region 1A tournament is set for Feb. 19 at O'Gorman Loftier Schoolhouse, followed by the iii-day state tourney Feb. 24-26 at Sioux Falls.
Other Teams
Other surface area teams include Milbank in Region 3A and Britton-Hecla, Clark-Willow Lake, Deuel, Hamlin-Castlewood, Kingsbury Canton, Sioux Valley, Sisseton, Tiospa Zina and Webster Area in Region 1B.
Milbank finished 19th out of 29 teams in the land Class A private tourney last Feb with 26 points.
In the Grade B tourney, Clark-Willow Lake was 15th (35 points), Kingsbury County 19th (23), Sisseton 20th (22), Webster Expanse 22nd (21.5) and Sioux Valley 29th (12). Hamlin-Castlewood scored 3 points and Britton-Hecla 1.
County and Winner Surface area are once again expected to be amongst the teams to vanquish in Class B. Canton has won the past four state private titles and has won both dual team title since it was re-started in 2020. Winner Area has been second in the private tourney each of the last three years and lost to Canton in the dual team title each of the by ii years.
Returning Expanse Country Identify Winners
• Brayden Christensen, Milbank — The junior went 26-17 and placed 8th at 132 pounds in the land Class A tourney.
• Barrett Schneck, Milbank — The junior went 29-thirteen and finished 8th at 152 pounds in the state Class A tourney.
• Holden Hawkins, Sisseton — The eighth-grader compiled a 35-7 record on the way to quaternary-identify finish at 106 pounds in the state Class B tourney. He reached the semifinals.
• Gannon Gilligan, Kingsbury County — A freshman, Gilligan went 26-8 and placed sixth at 106 pounds in the state Form B tourney.
• Ian Metz, Sisseton — Metz, a freshman, is coming off a 28-17 season that included a 6th-place finish at 113 pounds in the state Class B tourney.
• Gunnar Kvistad, Clark-Willow Lake — The Cyclone senior also reached the semifinals in last yr's country Course B tourney earlier finishing fifth at 120 pounds. The ii-time state place winner went 39-5.
• Dylan Zell, Kingsbury County — Besides a 2-fourth dimension state Class B place winner, the junior went 23-9 and took eighth at 126 pounds last February.
• Cael Larson, Webster Area — The Bearcat senior is looking to put the finishing touches on a stellar career that has already included being a iii-fourth dimension identify winner in the land Class B tournament, including a 3rd-place finish at 132 in 2021. He compiled a 32-five record.
• Russell Sheets, Sioux Valley — The senior is coming off a 19-vii season that included a 7th-identify stop at 152 pounds in the state Class B tourney.
• Gage Burke, Clark-Willow Lake — Shush is a 5-time country Class B identify winner who went 38-v and finished 4th at 182 final February. He missed most of the football flavor with a knee injury merely is listed on the Cyclones' roster. He reached the semifinals last wintertime.
• Lucas Kannegieter, Clark-Willow Lake — Another Cyclone senior, he did non identify in the state Grade B tourney final winter but took 5th at 126 pounds as a sophomore in 2019.
Girls
The 2020-21 season was the commencement official season of high school girls wrestling in Southward Dakota and 13 wrestlers (seven in Class A and half dozen in Class B) won private championships in the country tournament.
The group of champions included Sisseton's Hannah Goodhart, a senior last winter who went viii-0 to win the Grade B 275-pound partitioning.
Seven area girls — two each from Britton-Hecla, Clark-Willow Lake and Webster Area and some other from Tiospa Zina — are listed on rosters on the South Dakota High School Activities Association web site for this winter.
The grouping of area wrestlers includes Clark-Willow Lake inferior Abi Reil, who went ii-6 and finished third in the 275-pound Class B division.
Source: https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/sports/2021/12/01/prep-wrestling-expectations-high-again-watertown-number-area-state-place-winners-return/8802440002/
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