KILJ — Ten Nikes, five New London Tigers — among several other area qualifiers — will wrestle in this Saturday’s district tournament, with a trip to the State Tournament on the line.
Notre Dame will send Carter West, Kaiden Dietzenbach — a Mount Pleasant native —, C.J. Davis, Blaine Frazier — another Mount Pleasant native —, Tate O’Shea, Blake Wilson, Isaiah Fenton, Samuel West, River Belger and C.J. Walrath.
Only Wilson and Belger were not sectional champions.
The Nikes won the team team title by 32 points and will face 19th-ranked Albia Tuesday night in regional duals.
Should the win, they’ll get a bout with No. 9 Davenport Assumption with the champion advancing to State Duals on February 16th.
Mount Pleasant pushed one qualifier to districts.
138-pounder Bowen Davis was the runner-up at Solon.
New London will also compete in regional duals.
The Tigers will travel to Lisbon to battle Dyersville Beckman, with the winner getting second-ranked Lisbon.
New London is sending Gage Burden, Marcel Lopez, Dominic Lopez, Josh Glendening and Trent Wilkerson to this weekend’s district tournament.
Mediapolis advanced just one wrestler to districts. 4th ranked Quinten Aney won the 138-pound class at Sigourney.
Van Buren County will bring Dirk Boyles and Brant Tedrow to districts. Boyles won the 145-pound weight class.
WACO had three qualify for districts, competing at the English Valleys sectional.
Gage Samo (106), Louiden Huisenga (145) and Jonah Clark (220) were all sectional champions. All three have a great shot at qualifying for state.
Louisa-Muscatine had three district qualifiers.
The Falcons will be brining Skyler Beck, Kendal Pugh and Spencer Kessel.
Wapello qualified Zach Harbison and Garrett Dickey, while Columbus Community/Winfield Mount Union advanced No. 2 Lane Scorpil, Kai Malone and Russell Coil.
Districts will begin Saturday at noon.
Coverage on KILJ and kilj.com will begin shortly thereafter.