Hills-Beaver Creek senior Dusty Seachris battles with Red Rock Central-Westbrook-Walnut Grove’s Cody Schroeder during the Section 3A Individual Wrestling Tournament in Windom Friday. Seachris capped his high school career by placing third at 135 pounds during the event.
By John Rittenhouse
A Hills-Beaver Creek High School senior came up one win short of earning a berth in the state tournament during the Section 3AA Individual Wrestling Tournament in Windom Friday and Saturday.
Dusty Seachris, a member of the Luverne-H-BC-Ellsworth team, made a bid to capture one of the two state tournament berths that were on the line in the 135-pound weight class during the weekend event.
Seachris opened the tournament by nipping Red Rock Central-Westbrook-Walnut Grove’s Cory Schroeder 13-11 in Friday’s quarterfinals.
Seachris ran into eventual section champion Justin Fruechte, of Pipestone, in Saturday’s semifinals and lost by technical fall in the third period.
The H-BC grappler recovered in the wrestle backs to pin Yellow Medicine East’s Spencer Sannerud in 1:11 before notching a 24-2 win over Windom-Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin’s Travis Winters in the match for third and fourth place.
Seachris then received an opportunity to square off against Jackson County Central’s Jordan Burmeister in a true second-place match. Burmeister ended Seachris’ 18-17 season with a 14-6 setback.
Kerry Fink, another H-BC member of the team, went 0-2 at 125 pounds in Windom.
Fink lost 11-3 to eventual runner up Blaine Weber, of YME, in Friday’s quarterfinals. Fulda-Murray County Central’s Loren Clarke eliminated Fink from the tournament by handing him a 14-1 setback in the first round of the wrestle backs Saturday.
