HLWW wrestling invitational (UPDATES, VIDEOS*)

I won't have a better handle on the tournament until I arrive, but about one hour into the action, the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team sits in sixth place (33 points) out of 14 teams at the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted invitational.

Class 2A "lean and mean" Big Lake is out in front with 62 points.

More to come. Time to pack my gear!

UPDATE at 2:36 p.m.! I've been here almost an hour, and we've had some great wrestling in that amount of time! I just watched Louie Tensen come back from a 1-0 deficit in the third period (consolation bracket) to win by fall (3:29) to get himself into the 120-pound fifth-place match. Nice! I'm still getting a handle on everything here at HL-W-W. Our Jaguars have risen to second place overall as a team at last glance. They have 117.5 points behind first-place and host HL-W-W with 121.5 points.

UPDATED team standings while we are still in the consolation/wrestleback round, as of 2:41 p.m.:
1. HL-W-W 127.5
2. B-B-E 123.5
3. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville 109.5
4. Annandale/Maple Lake 105.5
5. (tie) Big Lake and Rocori 83.5
7. Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 81.5
8. Mound-Westonka 72.5
9. Buffalo 44.5
10. Minneapolis Edison 39
11. BOLD 18
12. (tie) Minneapolis Washburn and Rockford Area 10.5
14. Spectrum 5.0


*UPDATE: the finals have started! They got rolling at about 3:30 p.m. at HLWW high school. At 132, Ryan Jensen will go for first place. At 138, Wyatt Engen will go for first place. At 145, Brett DeRoo will go for third place. At 152, Tanner Viessmann will go for fifth place. At 160, Hunter Laage will go for fifth place. At 170, Maximus Hanson will go for first place. At 182, Carson Gilbert will go for third place. At 195, Talen Kampsen will go for fifth place. At 220, Ethan Spanier will go for first place. At 285, Harley Weber will go for third place.

At 106, Aiden Mueller finished in sixth place. At 113, Louie Tensen finished in sixth place with a very tough loss by a 5-4 decision.

** I'll get more updated after 7:00 p.m. when I get home. It's open gym night so time to hurry back for that. 

*UPDATE: once the tournament concluded, the Jaguars ended in second place. HL-W-W took first place with 151 points, while the Jaguars finished with 140.5 points. In third place was LPGE/Browerville with 131.5 points.

**This is a video from the last 10 seconds of the first half last night in Kimball:


Now I'll circle back to wrestling videos from today at HLWW. Open gym was great tonight! Terrific turnout!!! Love it. Lots of student-athletes working to improve their game!!!

**Here's video from the 220-pound semifinals today:


*Here's action from the 106-pound consolation bracket today at HLWW:


At the HLWW invitational today...
For Jaguars who made it to their respective division championship matches today...
Ryan Jensen took second place at 132 pounds.
Wyatt Engen took second place at 138 pounds.
Maximus Hanson took second place at 170 pounds; he took his first loss of the season in the finals in a loss by an 8-4 decision; defeating him in the finals was HLWW's No. 6-ranked and senior Collin Boese.
Ethan Spanier took second place at 220 pounds.


Today was a very, very good day! I tallied over 13,100 steps. This is the most steps in one day since Saturday, December 10, 2022. On that day, I tallied over 16,000 steps.