Adrian junior Levi Bullerman turned in his team’s best individual performance at the state wrestling tournament by placing third at 189 pounds.By John RittenhouseThree Adrian High School juniors placed individually at the Minnesota State Class AA Wrestling Championships staged at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul Thursday through Saturday.As well as competing with Adrian’s state runner-up team, seven Dragons were pulling double duty as entries in state individual competition.Juniors Levi, Joey and Dusty Bullerman proved they are some of the state’s best wrestlers by placing in their respective weight classes.Levi Bullerman turned in the best individual effort by going 5-1 and placing third at 189 pounds.Bullerman won by injury default over La Crescent’s Tyler Wieser in the first round before running into the defending state champion in Becker’s Jeremy Pederson in the quarterfinals. Pederson, who placed second at 189, saddled Levi with an 8-3 setback.Bullerman proceeded to pin Waseca’s Jeremiah Flintrop (3:55) and post decision wins over Wadena-Deer Creek’s Dustin Uselman (5-2) and Sauk Centre’s Ethan Vogt (5-3) in the wrestlebacks. Levi coasted to an 11-2 major decision win over St. Michael-Albertville’s John Grygelko in the match for third place. Bullerman’s final record is 48-2.Joey Bullerman went 3-2 and finished fifth at 112 pounds.Joey posted a 7-4 decision win over Pelican Rapids’ Kip Anderson in the first round before pinning Maple River’s Aaron Norgren in 2:35 during the quarterfinals.Bullerman lost a 6-0 decision to Cannon Falls’ Seth Flodeen in the semifinals, and came up on the short end of a 3-0 decision to Yellow Medicine East’s Chad Listal in the wrestlebacks.Joey met Anderson in the match for fifth and sixth place, pinning the Pelican Rapids athlete in 4:23. Bullerman had a 37-12 record at season’s end.Dusty Bullerman went 2-3 and placed sixth at 140 pounds.Bullerman pinned Milaca-Faith Christian’s Steven Vetters in 2:35 during the first round before securing a 10-2 major decision win over Stewartville’s Matt Lawson in the quarterfinals.Annandale-Maple Lake’s Stephen Pilgram nipped Dusty 3-1 in the semifinals, and Bullerman lost a 12-1 major decision to Cannon Falls’ Levi Price in the wrestlebacks. In the match for fifth and sixth place, Becker’s Jon Korenda handed Bullerman a 9-5 setback. Dusty sports a 39-11 record at season’s end.Sophomore Brandon Bullerman went 2-2 without placing at 135 pounds.Brandon won by injury default against BOLD’s Cole Neubauer in the first round before dropping a 12-9 decision to Milaca-Faith Christian’s Clay Hoeck in the quarterfinals.Bullerman disposed of Minnewaska Area’s Trevor Larson 11-6 in the wrestlebacks before being eliminated from the competition with a 6-0 loss to Windom’s Jeff Stuckenbroker. Brandon ends the year with a 37-12 record.Senior Josh Winselman and junior Tony Sauer went 1-2 without placing at heavyweight and 152 respectively.Winselman won by forfeit against Wadena-Deer Creek’s Tim Richards in the first round. The Dragon was pinned by Plainview-Elgin-Millville’s Jesse Kahn in 1:04 of the quarterfinals before bowing out of the event with a 4-2 loss to Dassel-Cokato’s Pete Phillippi in the wrestlebacks. Winselman went 35-13 this season.Sauer pinned St. Michael-Albertville’s Josh Becker in 5:55 during the first round before losing an 18-4 major decision to Glencoe-Silver Lake’s Nate Matousek in the quarterfinals.New Prague’s Eric Olson eliminated Sauer from the competition by handing him a 7-4 setback in the wrestlebacks. Sauer went 37-11 this season.Adrian senior Michal Barrie, who went 37-8 this season, lost a 13-6 decision to Crosby-Ironton’s Brian Wood in the first round of competition at 125 pounds. Barrie was eliminated from the field when Wood lost his match in the quarterfinals.
