Blake Reiss tangled with an opponent.

Gruenes fifth; Esping eight at Rumble

Minneota has two wrestlers place in the top eight at the two-day Rumble on the Red wrestling tournament at the FargoDome in Fargo, ND this weekend.

At 138 pounds, Jonah Gruenes, now 13-3 on the year, pinned Clay Radenz of Bismark Century in 4:19 to take home fifth place for himself and the Vikings.

And Jackson Esping, wrestling at heavyweight, lost 10-6 to Rieley Fleming of Mankato East in the seventh place match and ended up in eighth place.

No other Vikings made it to the podium.

Minneota finished in 29th place with 35.5 team points. The event was won by New Prague with 146 followed by: Northfield 124; Farmington 124; Perham 112.5 and Foley 112 in the top five places.

Here are Minneota's varsity wrestlers:

106-Troy VanKeulen (0-2)

Lost major decision to Alvin Wasmoen (Albert Lea Area), 10-0; decisioned by Jacob Schultze (Minot), 6-0.

106-Peyton Gillund (1-2) No place.

Decisioned by Alex torres (Waconia), 6-0; deciisoned Blake Ersland (Bismarck Century), 11-8; pinned by Elijah Wald (Wayzata), :33.

120-Eric Carrasco (1-2) No Place.

bye; decisioned Tyson Kroells (Delano), 8-5; pinned by Chase Murphy (Northfield, 1:31; decisioned by Riese White (Waconia), 11-6.

138-Jonah Gruenes (5-2), Fifth.

Pinned Dan Decent (Aitkin), 1:06; decisioned Sam Fernholz (Sartell-St. Stephen), 6-2; Lost decision to Drew Woodley (Northfield, 6-1; Tech fall over Colton Bahr (Scott West), 15-0; Decisioned Brett Willaby (Windom-Mt. Lake), 5-2; decisioned by Connor Simmonds (Fairmont-Martin Co. West), 4-0; FIFTH PLACE-Pinned Clay Radenz (Bismark Century, 4:19.

138-Kade Lozinski (2-2) No Place.

Decisioned Isaac Felchie (Bismark St. Mary's), 11-4; Pinned by Payton Handevidt (Jackson Co. Central), 4:00; decisioned David Schulze (Minot), 3-1; pinned by Colton Bahr (Scott West), 3:43.

145-Blake Reiss (3-2) No Place.

Decisioned Gage Mueller (Waconia), 5-0; decisioned by Braeden Hendel (Mankato East), 7-3; decisioned Grant Woodruff (St., Franics), 4-3; decisioned Colton Sund (Prior Lake), 6-4; pinned by Gavin Anderson (Northfield), 3:26.

285-Jackson Esping (4-3) Eighth Place

Decisioned Aaron Voigt (St. Cloud Tech), 6-5; pinned by Bennett Weber (Waconia), 1:35; Pinned Andrew Keeler (Farmington), :44; decisioned Evan Anderson (New Prague), 7-5; decisioned Vincent Johnson (Andover), 7-1; pinned by Keegan Henjum (Bishop Ryan), 2:26; SEVENTH PLACE-Decisioned by Rieley Fleming (Mankato East), 10-6,

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