The Becker Bulldog wrestling team lost to Albany last Thursday, then wrestled in a tournament Saturday in Tartan and took third.

 

 

In round one of the Tartan tournament,  Becker lost to Grand Rapids by 21 (no individual results for the matches were made available to the Citizen-Tribune). 

 

New Prague 48, Becker 18

 

In round two, Becker lost to New Prague by 30 points (no individual results for the matches were made available to the Citizen-Tribune).

 

Becker 42, Tartan 33

In round three, Becker beat Tartan, 42-33 to capture third place.

 

At 106-lbs., Becker’s Jake Nelson won by fall (1:29) over Tartan’s Cody Alvarado. At 113-lbs., Nathan Alvarado of Tartan beat Becker’s Brenton Arbuckle by a 3-1 decision. At 120-lbs., Josh Lumley of Becker pinned Zach Dox of Tartan at 5:32.

 

Wrestling at 126-lbs., Becker’s Andrew Berglund beat Eric DeLacy by fall at 1:14. Adam Bauman did the same to Lucas Froemel of Tartan at 1:09 of their 132-lb. match. Bemba Turay of Tartan beat Becker’s Blake Paulson (TB-1, 3-2) at 138-lbs.

 

Colten Demant won by forfeit for Becker at 145-lbs., Zack Fisher lost by fall (1:32) to Tartan’s Andrew Johnson and Justin Burg got a win by forfeit at 160-lbs.

 

Tartan’s Jared Schmitz also got a win by forfeit at 170-lbs., before Becker’s Jaylin Hildebrandt stopped the bleeding by beating Santiago Garcia by fall at 47 seconds of their 182-lb. match.

 

Alex Bahl of Tartan received the team’s last forfeit win at 195-lbs. and Trey Staves beat Becker’s Austin Benkowski by a 4-1 decision at 220-lbs.

Heavyweight Casey Vesledahl secured the win for Becker when he pinned Brandon Floyd at 1:12 in the 285-lb. category.

 

 

The Bulldogs lost by 27 to the Albany Huskies last Thursday night on the road.

 

106-lbs.: Jacob Berning (BB) decision over Will Mergen (AH) 7-5; 113-lbs.: Lucas Womack (AH) major decision over Brenton Arbuckle (BB) 14-2; 120-lbs.: Jacob Hudock (AH) decision over Josh Lumley (BB) 5-5 (overtime); 126-lbs.: Thomas Desautel (AH) fall over Kevin Andres (BB) 1:29; 132-lbs.: Adam Bauman (BB) major decision over Adam Weichmann (AH) 12-4; 138-lbs.: Blake Paulson (BB) decision over Logan Wenzel (AH) 4-0.

145-lbs.: Marcus Mergen (AH) decision over Mikey James (BB) 4-5; 152-lbs.: Colten Demant (BB) decision over Cody Kerfeld (AH) 2-1; 160-lbs.: Gabe Zierden (AH) fall over Zack Fisher (BB) 3:57; 170-lbs.: Carter Fish (AH) wins by forfeit (BB); 182-lbs.: Mitchell Kotschevar (AH) fall over Jaylin Hildebrandt (BB) 3:02; 195-lbs.: Hunter Mergen (AH) fall over Austin Benkowski (BB) 1:27; 220-lbs.: Wyatt Mergen (AH) fall over Brady Gruenhagen (BB) 1:29; 285-lbs.: Casey Vesledahl (BB) fall over Tyler Baird (AH) 2:22.

 

The Bulldogs hosted a triangular at Becker High School Friday night against Watertown-Mayer and Dassel-Cokato (full report on matches in next week’s Citizen-Tribune). Then they play host again, this time against Sauk Rapids-Rice Thursday at 7 p.m.