The Becker Bulldog wrestling team competed in the individual Section 6AA tournament last weekend at Annandale High School. Casey Vesledahl took home the title at 285-lbs. and is competing at state this weekend.

 

Vesledahl (31-2) began his day with a bye in the first round. Next, he took on Brok Huikko (16-20) of Dassel-Cokato and won by fall at :22. In the semi-finals, Vesledahl faced off against Mitchell Trigg (30-12) of Foley and won by fall at :23.

 

In the championship match, Vesledahl went head-to-head with Tyler Baird (21-8) of Albany and won by fall at 5:20.

 

Becker also had two other wrestlers place at sections — Jacob Berning  at 106-lbs (4th) and Josh Lumley at 120-lbs (4th), Berning (16-13) won his first round match against Cullin Stiller (10-22) of Monticello by a fall at 3:35. He proceeded to lose to Carson Tschudi (25-10) of Delano by an 11-4 decision. Berning dropped to the consolation bracket and beat Noah Halonen (16-18) of Dassel-Cokato by a major decision (11-2).

 

In Berning’s next match, he faced Will Pouliot (17-23) of Zimmerman and won by a 9-2 decision. Berning then lost to Tschudi again in the third place match by a 6-3 score.

 

Lumley (21-11) beat Peter Schulte (11-23) of Rockford in his first round match by a fall at 3:29. He then beat Ryan Sok (21-20) of St. Cloud Apollo by a 5-2 score before losing to John Dierkes (23-7) of Foley. Lumley then faced Jacob Huddock (21-13) of Albany and beat him by a 3-2 score before losing to Ethan Quast (24-11) of Delano in the third place match by a fall at 3:09.

 

Kevin Andres (11-9) went 2-2 at 126-lbs.; Logan Jurek (7-6) was 2-2 at 132-lbs.; Mikey James (5-11) was 1-2 at 138-lbs.; Colten Demant (11-9) was 1-2 at 145-lbs.: Zack Fisher (6-27) was 1-2 at 152-lbs. and Austin Benkowski (4-18) was 1-2 at 195-lbs.