Bishop Carroll Wrestling Invitational

The Bishop Carroll Wrestling Invitational should be very entertaining on Saturday. By my count, if every wrestler wrestles, there will be 42 ranked wrestlers in action from classes 4, 5 and 6A. The only weight classes with no ranked wrestlers will be 103- and 152-pound weight classes. Nathaniel Martens of Newton will be the only ranked wrestler in the 189-pound weight class. Every other class will have at least two.

The weight classes to highlight are the 125- and 160-pound weight classes.

In the 125-pound class there are six ranked wrestlers, but there should not be much doubt the title will come down to a bout between Daniel Deshazer of Heights and Dylan Penka of Carroll. Both wrestlers are ranked number one in 6A and 5A respectively. These two will face off several times this year.

In the 160-pound weight class there are five ranked wrestlers including Andale’s Benny Armstrong (4A #1) and Carroll’s Kyle Detmer (5A #1). Depending on how the bracket shakes out, we may get to see 4A’s number one and two ranked wrestlers in the 160-pound weight class square off. Independent’s Derek Soucie (4A #2) will also be at the tournament.

Other top ranked wrestlers in attendance will be Kendric Maple (135-pounds) and Chase Nelson (171-pounds) of Heights. BJ Finney of Andale (285-pounds) will be the other number one ranked wrestler in attendance.

There are too many ranked wrestlers to mention in this blog, but there are guaranteed to a lot of good matches on Saturday!