Raptors’ wrestling season ends at Amery Sectional
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AMERY — The 2024-25 season came to an end for the Bloomer/Colfax boys’ wrestling team last Saturday when its three representatives in the WIAA Division 2 boys’ individual sectional tournament held at Amery High School were unable to qualify for the state championships.
Neither of Colfax’s sectional participants, junior Blake Sparrgrove and freshman Jacob Wahl, nor Bloomer’s Zeke Anderson were able to place in their respective sectional weight classes and secure berths to the WIAA Individual State Wrestling Championships which will be held this Thursday through Saturday, February 27 to March 1 at the Kohl Center in Madison.
Only the top three place winners in each of the boys’ 14 weight classes qualify for the state tournament.
Jacob Wahl was the only Raptor wrestler to win a match in the February 22 sectional meet at Amery. Wahl recorded a pin of Chetek-Weyerhaeuser/Prairie Farm’s Jake Krager in a quarterfinal’s match at 165 pounds. Unfortunately, Wahl was pinned in the third period of his semifinal’s match versus Andrew Thompson of Baldwin-Woodville and then lost a close 3-2 decision to Hudson Evans of Tomahawk in the consolation semifinals to end his season. Wahl finished his junior campaign with a 15-10 record.
Zeke Anderson and Blake Sparrgrove both lost their quarterfinal matches at 126 and 132 pounds, respectively. While Anderson was eliminated, Sparrgrove was afforded another opportunity to wrestle when his quarterfinal’s opponent, Brady Gesler of Chetek-Weyerhaeuser/Prairie Farm, won in the semifinal round. Sparrgrove’s reprieve, however, was short lived as he was tech falled by Osceola’s Talon Berg 20-5 in the consolation semifinals to end his season.
Sparrgrove finished with a 33-21 record while Anderson was 33-15.
Osceola finished atop 23-team sectional meet with 132 points, just two points ahead of St. Croix Falls who won the team sectional championship held four days earlier in Medford. St. Croix Central, the team sectional runner-up, came in third with a score of 84 points, a half point ahead of host and fourth-place finisher Amery. Bloomer/Colfax took 19th thanks to the four points that were provided by Wahl’s quarterfinal win.