Juan Perez brings home fourth place medal from Omaha
The State Wrestling Tourney
wrapped up Saturday Feb.
17. Perkins County took two
wrestlers, senior Mason Toner
at 144 pounds and senior Juan
Perez at heavyweight.
Toner struggled in his opening
match Thursday against
Kegan Payne of Neligh-Oakdale,
unable to get any offense
going. Payne won the match
with a 5-0 decision, sending
Toner into the consolation
rounds.
Friday afternoon, Toner
faced sophomore Cort Buss of
Burwell. In a close match, Buss
took a 5-3 decision over Toner
to end Toner’s tournament.
Perez , 29-5, had a great day
Thursday, pinning Paul Fehlhafer
of Centennial in 2:41 to
advance to the quarterfi nals.
Perez faced Zeb Wilde, D3
Champion from Sandhills/
Thedford, in the quarterfi nal
match. Perez toughed out a
6-4 decision to advance into
the semifi nals where he would
face the number one seeded
Collin Vrbka of Shelby-Rising
City with a 48-2 record.
Vrbka had his hands full Friday
evening, but squeeked out
a 1-0 decision over Perez. Vrb-
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Juan Perez brings home fourth place medal from Omaha
ka went on to win the title over
second seeded Josiah Brezina,
41-6 of Aquinas Catholic, with
a 6-4 decision Saturday.
Perez fell into the medal
rounds on Saturday morning
where he won his fi rst match
over Aiden Gubbels of Randolph
by decision, 6-2.
In the third place match,
Perez got caught by sophomore
Kyan Sones, 48-4 of Meridian
and was pinned in 1:43 to take
the fourth place medal.
Aquinas Catholic won the
team title in Class D with a
score of 118.5. Perkins County
tied for 43rd with Arcadia/
Loup City with 14 points.