By Chad Koenen

Publisher

The Otter Tail Central Bulldogs came up just short in its bid to upset Wadena-Deer Creek in the opening round of the Section 6A tournament in Pelican Rapids on Friday night.

After dropping the opening four matches of the night, the Bulldogs went on a big run from 133-172 lbs. where they came away with five wins in six matches.

Among the highlights of that stretch was back-to-back pins by Peter Newark and Mason Christianson, as well as an exciting 23-20 overtime win by Tayden Soma over James Seelhammer at 145 lbs. The Bulldogs cut the Wolverines lead to 28-24 with back-to-back pins by Braxten Drechsel and Xavier Lewis at 160 and 172 lbs.

Unfortunately, OTC dropped two of the final three matches of the night by a pin, but Will Schwartz picked up a 14-5 major decision at 215 lbs. for OTC to fall by a score of 40-28. 

The Bulldogs will now turn their attention to the Section 6A individual tournament that is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. at Wadena-Deer Creek High School.

Wadena-Deer Creek defeated Ottertail Central 40-28

107 – Braxton Moore (WDC) over Colton Dolezal (OTC) Maj 9-1

114 – Rylan Wegscheid (WDC) over Everett Horn (OTC) Fall 0:29

121 – Logan Seelhammer (WDC) over Dylan Geihsler (OTC) Fall 3:47

127 – Noah Stroeing (WDC) over Houston Schwartz (OTC) Fall 4:59

133 – Peter Newark (OTC) over Tashaun Anderson (WDC) Fall 3:07

139 – Mason Christianson (OTC) over Hudson Schultz (WDC) Dec 11-6

145 – Tayden Soma (OTC) over James Seelhammer (WDC) SV-1 23-20

152 – Mason Brauch (WDC) over Anthony Rousu (OTC) Fall 2:52

160 – Braxten Drechsel (OTC) over Gunnar Goeden (WDC) Fall 1:48

172 – Xavier Lewis (OTC) over Ben Boen (WDC) Fall 1:21

189 – Ettore Pinnella (WDC) over Luitovio Faaaliga (OTC) Fall 0:32

215 – Will Schwartz (OTC) over Mitchell Schmitz (WDC) Maj 14-5

285 – Matthew Wegscheid (WDC) over Josh Larson (OTC) Fall 0:58