Iron Mountain Wrestlers Fall In D-4 Quarterfinal It was the end of the line for the Iron Mountain High School wrestling team on Friday. The boys lost to the Hudson Tigers, 57-15, in the Division Four state quarterfinals in Battle Creek. Ethan Lindquist had a pin at 171 pounds for the Mountainers. Three of his teammates also won matches: Ryan Gauthier at 119, Cameron Jones at 125, and Chase Gendron at 135. CLICK HERE to see the full summary. Hudson, is the two-time defending wrestling state champs.  Esky, Gladstone Wrestlers Advance To Palace                Two Escanaba Eskymos and two Gladstone Braves finished fourth in their respective weight classes Saturday at the MHSAA Indvidual Regional Tournaments. With the fourth place finishes, the four boys qualified for the MHSAA State Finals, to be held at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Escanaba freshman Travis Heller (125) and senior Garrett Johnson (152) both qualified at the D-2 Regionals in DeWitt. CLICK HERE to see the Division Two brackets. Marquette 215-pounder Dylan Mahler also qualified. Pictured above: Heller wrestling against Greenville in the regionals. Left photo: Johnson wrestling earlier this season in Gaylord. (Linda Bockman photos) Gladstone freshman Dylan Under (103 pounds) and Braves senior Brad Deno (189 pounds) both qualified at the D-3 Regionals in Benzonia. Ishpeming's Derek Willey, Manistique's Matt Gonzalez, and Menominee brothers Nick and Steve Theuerkauf also advanced to the Palace. CLICK HERE to see the Division Three brackets. Pictured below left: Unger wrestling in Gaylord. Lower right photo: Deno wrestles.               Iron Mt., St. Ignace Wrestlers Qualify For States  The Iron Mountain Mountaineers and St. Ignace Saints will be well-represented at the MHSAA State Finals next month at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Six Mountaineers and five Saints advanced to the Palace with their performances Saturday in Rogers City. Iron Mountain's Chase Gendron won the 135 pound championship, beating teammate Dylan Carr, 5-0. Carr also qualified for states. Also going to the Palace: Adam Gerhard, Ethan Lindquist, Ryan Gauthier, and Cameron Jones. St. Ignace had two regional champions: Joe Ostman at 189 pounds, and Galloway Thurston at 171. Four other Saints wrestlers will go to the Palace, as will Munising's J.J. Sadler and Cody Bronson. CLICK HERE  to see the Division Four brackets. Eskymo Wrestlers Fall In Regional Semifinals                  The Escanaba High School wrestling team was eliminated from the MHSAA Division Two wrestling tournament Wednesday, losing to a tough Greenville team, 60-19. Escanaba's Sherri Berube and Devon Slaga won by pin, while freshmen Travis Heller and Zach Priebe won by decision. The team may be done, but five Eskymos will wrestle in the Individual Regionals this Saturday. Berube (pictured above) is one of them, and she is one of only eight girls in Michigan wrestling history to make it to a regional. (Linda Bockman photo) 2011 HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING REGIONALS   Escanaba Greenville Kingsford Grayling Iron Mountain St. Ignace 19 60 36 43 41 28 Gladstone Roscommon Newberry T.C. St. Francis Iron Mountain T.C. St. Francis 30 54 18 66 43 21 Five Eskymos Qualify For Wrestling Regionals  The Escanaba High School wrestling team had a good day at the Division Two Individual District Tournament on Saturday in Gaylord. Kyle Lajoie, Devin Slaga (pictured at left), Garrett Johnson, and Travis Heller all made it to the district finals, and all finished second. Sherri Berube finished in fourth place. All five will wrestle in the individual regionals next week down in DeWitt. The Eskymo team will face Greenville in the regionals on Wednesday in West Branch. Click HERE  for the Eskymo wrestling results. Two Braves Win District Titles; Seven Qualify At the Division Three individual wrestling districts in Negaunee on Saturday, seven Gladstone Braves finished in the top four of their weight classes and advance to next week's regionals. Two of the six won district championships: Dylan Unger at 103 pounds and Brad Deno at 189. They go into the regionals amongst the top seeds. Brandon Gagnon took second at 152, Chris Walters was third at 160, and three other wrestlers ended up fourth: (Josh Kadish at 140, Jake Wydra at 145, Jared Syverson at 112). CLICK HERE  for the results. The Braves face Roscommon in the team regionals Wednesday in Kalkaska, then those six go to the individual regionals. 2011 HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING DISTRICTS

Escanaba (final) Marquette Ishpeming Negaunee Munising Rudyard Rogers City St. Ignace Gwinn West Iron County West Iron County Iron Mountain (final) Menominee Manistique 44 28 51 28 42 12 32 41 24 30 17 63 72 12 Click here  for Esky wrestling details. Kingsford (final) Ishpeming Newberry (final) Munising Onaway St. Ignace (final) Iron Mountain Norway   Gladstone (final) Menominee   49 30 39 22 29 39 66 18   42 25 Esky Wrestlers Win Great Northern Conference                        The Escanaba High School wrestling team completed a clean sweep of the season's major tournaments on Saturday, beating Marquette by three points to win the Great Northern Conference Championship. The 214.5-211 victory added to the Eskymo trophy case, which already includes the U.P. regular season (Mariucci Trophy) and U.P. Finals (Duvall Trophy) championships. Escanaba had seven guys win individual titles. CLICK HERE to visit the EHS wrestling page for more photos. Click HERE  to see all of the GNC individual results. Pictured: the Eskymos pose with their trophy. Left: Kyle Barron pins Marquette's Parker Newhouse. (Linda Bockman photos) Great Northern Finals 1. Escanaba 2. Marquette 3. Menominee 4. Gladstone 5. Kingsford Click here  to visit the Eskymo Wrestling Page to see more photos. ---- 214.5 211 167 149.5 96.5 GNC Individual Winner 103: Devin Slaga 112: Steve Theuerkauf 119: Nick Theuerkauf 125: Kyle Baron 130: Travis Heller 135: Austin Johnson 140: Jared Maycunich 145: Jake Wydra 152: Garrett Johnson 160: Curt Calovecchi 171: Jacob Gerdt 189: Jake Drage 215: Dylan Mahler 285: Kyle Lajoie ---- ESC MEN MEN ESC ESC MQT ESC GLAD ESC MQT MEN ESC MQT ESC