Team Scores:

Norton 161
Cozad, NE 136
Scott City 101.5
Hoxie 82.5
Mill Valley 80
Smith Center 77
Beloit 77
TMP 69
Atwood 37
Russell 31
Leoti 26.5
Quinter 9

103
1st Delich (MV) over Keiswetter (NT) 7-5 (OT)
3rd McDonald (TMP) over Popp (HX) 8-5

112
1st Madden (NT) over Chrisinger (CZ) 1-0
3rd Broadbent (MV) over Sauer (SC) 1st period fall

119
1st Mighelbrink (AT) over Broeckelmann (NT) 4-2
3rd Budke (TMP) over Kough (SC) 9-2

125
1st Baker (HX) over Pflaster (CZ) 3rd period fall)
Esterl (BE) over William (RU) 13-0

130
1st Weatherbee (TMP) over Logan Dreiling (SC) 7-3
3rd Jon Harding (NT) over McClung (MV) 2nd period fall

135
1st Farber (HX) over Banzhaf (CZ) 10-0
3rd Jeremy Harding (NT) over Warner (SM) 4-1

140
1st Jordan (BE) over Westin (MV) 4-0
3rd Pfannenstiel (NT) over Lemmer (CZ) 7-5

145
1st Sturgeon (CZ) over VanEaton (NT) 3-1
3rd Mettlen (SC) over Howard (AT) 6-2

152
1st Roe (NT) over Lang (RU) 2nd period fall
3rd Kriley (SM) over Love (CZ) 4-3

160
1st Newell (BE) over Rosin (SC) 8-1
3rd Nichols (SM) over Obermeyer (HX) 4-0

171
1st Kingsbury (SM) over Wright (BE) 3rd period fall
3rd Libel (CZ) over Simon (QU) 11-8

189
1st Osborn (CZ) over Weisner (TMP) 2-0
3rd Elliot (MV) over Vargas (LE) 2nd period fall

215
1st Rorobaugh (SM) over Fox (SC)
3rd Erwin (HX) over Gill (CZ) 11-1

275
1st Sprigg (NT) over Miller (SC) 3-2 OT
3rd Rodriguez (LE) over Higley (AT) 7-6

Outstanding Wrestler: Michael Sprigg; HWT; Norton

BUMP

Had heard he'd wrestled hurt early this year, but any word on when Schamberger will be back?

Mr. Church,
Did you make it out? Was it to your liking? From my vantage point it was a very tough tourney! I wish Hoxie hadn't been so down, they normally bring a lot more fans, and when the team title is on the line it gets cranked in there, but since Norton already had it locked up, the atmosphere wasn't quite as intenses as usual.

I see that Male Kann roped his school into traveling all the way to the sticks of Norton. Yikes. Poor guys.

Male- was Boyle in attendance? If so, was he provided adequate security so that Dingbat and his gi-normous mancrush could not overtake him? Please let me know.

Prant, Beff Joyle was in attendance, but was properly escorted by his bodyguards, known to common folk as the NCHS Cheer Squad, they provided adequate protection from any man crash....

I'd be curious to know of Mr. Church's thoughts too, if he made the journey.

Pretty easy to pick a polished wrestler out from the group, but difficult to know how good they are when you don't have a known measuring to stick to compare them against. So....I'd be curious to know of his observations.

and we all know that with Dingbat's lack of ability to talk to the ladies, females would be the best bodyguards against the powers of his mancrush. although i thought that Dingbat repelled women, not the other way around.

actually i dont even know dingbat, but i couldnt resist.

The finals were out of this world, it had to be one of the toughest tournaments of the week, as I seen some of the best wrestling in a very long time as there were several multi state Champions in the brackets.

I can not say which match was the biggest nail bitter.

I'd say the best match would have to be either the Pfannenstiel-Lemmer match or the Sprigg-Miller match.

that match was pretty good, as was the 112 match between Madden NT and Chrisinger Cozad Nebraska, 2-1 with Chrisinger in deep a couple times, but very good matches as was the 119 match with Brockelman NT and Migalbrink sp?

The OW Award went to Hwt Michael Sprigg from Norton. I was a little surprised because normally Heavyweights do not win this award.

Before the finals the following State Medalist were honored: See if any of these names ring a bell to anyone. Did you know they were from Norton ?

1945 Team: Vernon Archer (father of former Valley Center Wr. Coach Matt Archer). Duane Mulder, John Sides, Dean Shaw.

1965 Team: All Class State Champions
Charles Kaus, Myron Lowry, Gary Ulmer, Jim Rowh, Tom Tweed, Mike Ankenman, Darryl Leidig, Gary Lawlis, Ron Tacha, Larry Sumner, Mike Bennett, Tom Abbey, Bill Hackney.

1975 Team:
Dave Newell (1st ever Grand State Champion) Kevin Washburn, Frank Horning, Duane Eichman

1985 Team: Jim Voss, JD Hand

1995 Team: Jeff Boyle

Prant,
Unfortunately your question was answered far more wittingly (is that even a word?) than I could by Bronco Wrestler and chewbaca.

I am very glad we made the trip out west, I think it made us better, and showed some of our kids that they still have some work to do. It was also great to see alot of the people I don't normally get a chance to see during my brief trips back home.

Norton hosted another terrific tournament and they should be complemented on that. They even got the wrestlers beat out in the pig tails 1-2 more matches during the day, not many varsity tournaments do that.

Coach Johnson, Thanks again for your hospitality, it was a great experience for our kids!

Alex wat happened to u. y didnt u place?

Boyle was a State Champ? I'd have never guessed.

not jeff boyle. he only stuck his kid in the finals in 22 sec. his senior year. everytime i think of that match im in awe.

it was bad tournament for me, didn't wrestle well, didn't feel well, just everything that went wrong could have alas i ran into some stiff competition as well, lost to #1 in 4A logan dreiling 3-0 in the semis then slipped in the consosemis and got stuck by a 12-3 kid from mill valley, oh well i'll be ready for you saturday

Sounds like a man crush is brewin

BroncoWrestler:
What was the score when you "slipped"? If I remeber right it was something like 4 or 5 to 0. I just don't want to take anything away from the mill valley kid, who is a pretty tough freshman.

no man chrush/ big fan yes