ROCHESTER — The Caledonia/Houston wrestling team crowned two champions and will send four qualifiers to the MSHSL Class A brackets of the state tournament after their performances at the Section 1A tournament on Saturday.
Senior Will Allen and sophomore Cooper Allen won brackets, and eighth-grader Kiplyn Meiners and senior Aiden Burns placed second in the two-day competition at the Mayo Civic Center.
Will Allen (39-2) won at 172 pounds and advanced to the finals with a bye, a pin and a technical fall. He beat Goodhue’s Jackson O’Reilly 7-1 for the championship.
Cooper Allen (29-11) won at 215 and also advanced with a bye, a pin and a technical fall before getting a takedown in the third period to beat Chatfield’s Will Boelter 3-1 in the finals.
Meiners (28-13) won three matches and lost one. He lost by technical fall in the finals but advanced by rul. Burns (30-9) was also 3-1 in the section bracket at 114 and lost the championship match to Goodhue’s Arlyn von Knobelsdorff 4-1 when von Knobelsdorff scored a takedown for sudden victory.
They will all compete at the Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul next week. The state tournament begins Wednesday and concludes Saturday.
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MSHSL state meet
ST. PAUL — Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston junior Vivian Kittleson placed 32nd on the balance beam in Class A at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium.
Kittleson, who advanced with a fourth-place section finish and became the team’s first state qualifier in 15 years, had an average score of 8.15 to finish 42nd.
