Individual results from Rochester Invite

Here are the individual results from the Rochester Invitational.  Also below is a link to a PDF of the brackets from the tournament.I think this is the last year the Spartans will be at this tournament.  Next year they plan on wrestling at the Kasson-Mantorville Swalla Duals, which is also in southern Minnesota.  This year, the tournament was won by Simley who is currently ranked 1st in Class AA (D2).  They defeated Kasson-Mantorville in the championship bracket 41-21.  Kasson-Mantorville is ranked 2nd in Minnesota Class AA.  To give you an idea of how good these teams are, Simley finished five spots ahead of Wisconsin Rapids in the ultra-competitive dual tournament The Clash at the beginning of this year.  Kasson-Mantorville lost in a head-t0-head dual against Rapids by a score of 38-26.In other words, Sparta will have some good competition next year.  The dual format also has a better guarantee when it comes to matches than tournaments.  Spartan wrestlers had numerous byes at Rochester this year.  Ben Schaitel went 0-2 in matches wrestled, but byes propelled him to sixth place.  Now onto the individual results...103  --  Dylan Winchel, 2nd Place, 2-1112  --  Tristan Zurfluh, 1st Place, 3-0119  --  Bryce Nowaczyk, Did Not Place, 0-2125  --  Derek VonRuden, 1st Place, 3-0 with a pin and major decision130  --  Nick Winchel, 1st Place, 3-0 with two major decisions135  --  Paul VanTassel, 1st Place 3-0 with a pin140  --  Michael Murnane, 1st Place, 3-0 with two pins145  --  Toby Mosley, 3rd Place, 2-1 with a pin152  --  Greg Skon, 6th Place, 0-2160  --  Xavier Lopez, 5th Place, 2-1 with a pin171  --  Kyle Burkhalter, 5th Place, 2-1 with a pin189  --  Ben Schaitel, 4th Place, 2-1 with two pins215  --  Tom Tourdot, 2nd Place, 2-1 with a pin285  --  Chris Beeler, 5th Place, 2-1To download a PDF of the brackets, please click here.And here is a list of the varsity wrestlers' records to date:  Dylan Winchel 26-12, Tristan Zurfluh 24-15, Bryce Nowaczyk 20-19, Derek VonRuden 30-9, Nick Winchel 33-5, Paul VanTassel 25-13, Mike Murnane 23-10, Toby Mosley 31-7, Greg Skon 0-3, Xavier Lopez 19-17, Kyle Burkhalter 10-8, Ben Schaitel 2-5,  Tom Tourdot, 34-3, Chris Beeler, 23-14Sparta is off until Thursday when they wrestle Tomah to clinch the MVC title outright.  An in-depth preview of Tomah will be coming early next week.