G-R wrestlers wrap up season at conference tournament

Greybull-Riverside grapplers captured three individual titles at Saturday’s Big Horn Basin Conference middle school wrestling tournament in Thermopolis.

Maythe Garay, Harper Juneau and Marshall Brown went unbeaten in their respective weight classes to pace G-R, which was joined in the 10-team field by Powell, Thermopolis, Lander, Cody, Riverton, Worland, Rocky Mountain, Lovell and Shoshoni.

Garay won the girls 126-pound title, Harper Juneau took top honors at 138 (and finished third at 145) and Brown claimed victory in the B division’s 77-pound class.

G-R entered only one wrestler in the highly competitive A division. Riley Wiggins went 2-1, finishing second. “He wrestled well until he got to the finals, where the Jolley kid (from Rocky Mountain) was ready for us,” said Coach Mark Sanford.

Highlights on the girls’ side, meanwhile, included Garay’s win at 126 pounds, which included a “revenge” win in the finals over a girl from Lovell who beat her earlier in the year; third place finishes of Tatum Triplett and  Delta Craft; “a couple of nice wins” by Ryan Whisenant and the growth shown by Olivia Wenzel, Sophia Wilkinson and Jordan Potter.

The other B division placers, in addition to Brown, included Kaysen Nyberg, Quaide Houchin, Colby Thacker, Liam Wisehart, Noah Blakley and Hunter Craft.

Summing up the season, Sanford said, “We had a lot of kids who came out this year who had never wrestled before, some who had. Halfway through the season, they developed some bad habits that you just can’t have. I remember that week after that Tuesday dual in Basin as a turning point. We wired it up a little bit in practice, went to Lander and had a good tournament and then came to conference and did a good job.  I think it proved to some of them how hard they need to work, and as a coach, it made me realize some things I need push them on.  Some of it was, not worrying about adding more and more technical stuff, but rather, doing fewer things and doing the better.”

A DIVISION: Riley Wiggins went 2-1, placed second at 126.

GIRLS DIVISION: Tatum Triplett went 2-1, placed third at 70; Ryan Whisenant, 2-2, did not place at 98, Delta Craft, 3-1, placed third at 98; Olivia Wenzel, 0-2, placed fourth at 105; Sophia Wilkinson, 0-3, did not place at 115; Maythe Garay, 3-0, first place at 126; Harper Juneau, 0-0, first place at 138, and 3-1, third place at 145; Jordan Potter, 0-2, second place at 155.

B DIVISION: Marshall Brown went 3-0, placed first at 77; Kayson Nyberg, 2-1, second place at 77; Braxten Link, 3-2, did not place at 84; Quaide Houchin, 4-1, third place at 98; Jason Torres, 0-2, did not place at 105; Jayden Winkler, 0-2, did not place at 105; Colby Thacker, 1-2, fourth place at 110; Liam Wisehart, 2-1, second place at 115; Noah Blakley, 4-1, third place at 115; Haakan Craft, 0-2, did not place at 115; Hunter Craft, 2-1, second place at 145; Jack Winkler, 0-2, did not place at 155.