Luverne-Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth wrestler Chris Tiesler, pictured during an early-season match in Luverne, went 2-1 and placed second at 119 pounds during the Dave Roder Memorial Tournament in Montevideo Friday. During a home triangular Dec. 20, Tiesl er became the fifth Cardinal to reach the 100-win plateau for his career.
By John Rittenhouse
A short-handed Luverne-Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth wrestling team competed at the Dave Roder Memorial Tournament in Montevideo Friday.
With six varsity wrest l ers on hand, L-H-BC-E was unable to keep up with the seven-squad field in team competition.
Two Cardinals, however, placed in the top three individually in their respective weight classes to make the trip a good one.
L-H-BC-E rounded out the team sta n di ngs with 30 points.
Canby (185.5), Windom (161), Willmar (143), West Central Area (94), Montevideo (94) and MACCRAY (55) also competed in the tournament.
Chris Tiesler turned in the top performance by a Cardinal in individual competition by going 2-1 an d placing second at 119 pounds.
Tiesler reached the finals by posting a technical fall win over Canby's Andrew Full in the quarterfinals before topping Windom's Nick Kulseth 9-5 in the semifinals.
Willmar's Leo Ballesteras nipped Tiesler 5-3 in th e cham pionship match.
L-H-BC-E's Joel Evans went 3-1 to place third at 189 pounds.
Evans got off to a poor start when he was pinned by Canby's Ross Kockelman, who eventually placed second, in 2:53 during the quarterfinals.
Evans regrouped to record cons ecutive pins over MACCRAY's Ross Janeisch (:58), WCA's Tom Lohse (1:27) and Montevideo's Pat Huber (1:21) to place third.
Cardinals Dustin Donth, Dusty Seachris, Justin Mann and Cody Jagow all went 0-2 at 130, 135, 140 and heavyweight respectively.
The L-H-BC-E grapplers will compete at the Deuel Tournament in Clear Lake, S.D., Saturday.
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