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After a long winning streak,

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                                        wrestte~s  ecame chamnions.



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                                                                                                                             champions
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                                                                                                                              Grant Sat
                                                                                                                               accepts
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                                               After having an   wrestler Nate Hoeft said.   tional. We were able to beat        year
                                        undefeated season and  win-    According  to    a  team from South Sioux,   Sophomore   brought  he
                                                                                                                                his sec•
                                        ning every regular season   many wrestlers, their prepa-  NE that was supposed to be   Tom Ahern   consecu
                                                                                                                                   s·
                                        meet by at least I  00 points,  ration and motivation paid   really good," sophomore   puts the   champiom
                                                                                                                pressure on  his
                                        the  varsity wrestlers were  off because they were able   varsity wrestler Grant  Millard South   in  the 11;
                                                    able to bring  to  emerge from State com-  Sather said.     opponent.     weight cl;
                                                    home their  petitions with quite a  few    The JV wrestlers   photo  by Barb   photo by Be
                                                                                                                                  Allg
                                                                                                                 Domski
                "The coaches were a big             second state   records.             also had an exciting season,
                                                    title.  Their      In addition to win-  winning both the Bellevue
                help in  getting us                 last champi-  ning the championship with   East Tournament and  a
                                                    onship was   152  points and  beating the   Fresh m an/Sophomore
                motivated. "                        in  1991.   second place team by more   Tournament. "I think the
                                                      Consid-   than  20  points, they  also   biggest surprise for us  this
                                                    ering their  earned the  record for  the   season was the fact that
                                        both surprising and disap-  most consecutive tourna-  Gering did so well and gave
                                        pointing fourth pla"Ce  finish   ment titles with  eight,  the   us  some  competition,"
                                        last year, the state champi-  most team pins in  one sea-  freshman JV wrestler Scott
                                        onship was  their primary  son with 184, and the most   Kinsella said
                                        goal for this season.   pins in  the district with 19.   The   freshman
                                                 "We got really        Although  they    wrestlers, although they did
                                        pumped up  and ready  for   earned these achievements  not keep scores at  meets,
                                        State this  year.  Coach  at state, there were also some   also excelled.  They gained
                                        Allgood was also a  really   regular season meets  that   a feeling for what  competi-
                                        big help in  getting us  moti-  stood out in the varsity  wres-  tion was  li ke.  It also  pre-
                                        vated and ready to  take it   tlers'  minds.  "I really re-  pared them for  the JV and
                                        all ,"  sophomore varsity  member the Norfolk In vita-  varsity wrestling levels  .•























                                                                                                                 Senior Klint   Senior Dusl
                                                                                                                 Kudlacek pins   Gunderson
                                                                                                                 his opponent at   tries to pin I
                Va rsity Wrestling: front- R.J . Carreon, Joe Franzese, K.C.  Vaughn, Austin Rumbaugh,           the  Burke   opponent.
                Behrang Zand, Luke Kaspar, Bob Edmonds; back- coach Jeff Salberg, Greg Frazell, Bart             Invitational.   Gunderson
                Braunger, Jon Lozier, Bob Hoeft, Matt Domski, Aaron Stephenson, Scott Kinsella, coach            photo by Barb   ended up  v..
                Chuck Story  photo by Jack Martin Photography                                                    Domski      a third plact
                                                                                                                             finish  in  Sta
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