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The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk and WACO Warrior wrestlers competed in New London Saturday at the Jeremy Fulk Classic. Mid-Prairie finished second in the team standings with their score of 145.5 points. Cedar Rapids Washington won the team title with 171 points. Mid-Prairie crowned one champion on the day with Mose Yoder winning gold at 113lbs by fall over Nathaniel Velez of Cedar Rapids Washington. Landry Gingerich was runner-up at 132lbs as he was beaten by Marcel Lopez of New London in the finals by tech fall. Cael Garvey finished as runner-up at 220lbs when he could not finish the championship match against WACO’s Jonah Clark and injury defaulted. Other top finishes for the Hawks included Dalton Miller third at 120lbs, Evan Phillips third at 152lbs, Kaden Meader third at 170lbs, Jarron Thomas third at 182lbs, and Brodey Neal third at 285lbs.

WACO scored a total of 138 team points. The Warriors had two individual champions. Gage Samo won the title at 106lbs over Brennan Geers of Cedar Rapids Washington by 6-4 decision. Jonah Clark was crowned champion at 220lbs by injury default over Mid-Prairie’s Cael Garvey. Larz Smith was runner-up at 138lbs as he fell to Nick Foreman of Cedar Rapids Washington by 9-2 decision in the title bout. Louden Huisenga was runner-up at 145lbs as he was beaten 6-5 by Erich Rinderknecht of Cedar Rapids Washington. Kris Boone was runner-up at 170lbs when he fell to Kendal Pugh of Louisa-Muscatine by 8-2 decision. Drew Diers was second at 195lbs as he dropped the title match by fall to Trent Wilkerson of New London.

Mid-Prairie will next be on the mat Thursday at Monticello. WACO will next compete Thursday at Cardinal.