Reeths-Puffer freshman superstar Landon Learn continued his
outstanding season Saturday at the Division 1 individual district
tournament in Grand Haven, dominating three opponents at 113 pounds to
run his record to 45-0 and qualify for the regionals next week.
Learn
pinned the first two of his three foes, then defeated teammate Micah
Mills in the championship round after Mills made an impressive run to
the finals.
Learn will join teammates Mills and Devin Welch at the regional tournament. Welch finished fourth at 215.
Mills
was not seeded in the bracket but delivered an impressive performance,
scoring a first-round technical fall, then pinning the No. 3 seed, Dylan
Furlo of Forest Hills Northern, in the quarterfinals. He added an 8-1
decision victory over Hudsonville's Landon Evans in the semifinals
before running into Learn in the championship match.
Welch
took fourth with a 3-2 record on the day. He won his first two matches,
first by pin and then by decision, before going into the consolation
bracket. There he secured a pin in the 'blood round,' so named because
the winner continues on and the loser's individual season is over,
before falling in the third-place match.
Welch's win was the
lone bright spot in what was a rough blood round for Rocket wrestlers.
Seven other R-P athletes reached that round and fell short, ending their
individual campaigns.
Cory Judd (132), Hunter Eek (144), Jake
Rozycki (150), Tanner Cowles (157) and Aiden Neal (165) each posted
2-2 records before bowing out in the blood round. Andrew Corradin (175)
and Braxton VanHohenstein (106) each picked up one win before ending
their individual seasons.
