West Delaware Invitational

We're in Manchester. Nice seats on the stage overlooking all the action. I'm sitting next to one of my favorite people, Ken Boesenberg. He looks awfully tan. It must be lingering from the summer from all the fishing and golfing.At 103, Greg Keating of Linn-Mar beat Matt Paulus of New Hampton, 2-0, in the semifinals. Keating is ranked 10th in 3A and Paulus is 6th in 2A. Keating's first-period takedown was enough to advance to the final and face West Delaware's P.C. McEnany, who is rated ninth in 2A. Strong bracket.285 - #1 Tray Pendleton of Waterloo East and C.R. Washington's #2  Brandon Burrell will meet in the finals, advancing with semifinal pins. Burrell pinned #8 Mac Mahmens of Linn-Mar, and Pendleton pinned Ernie Vega of Fairfield.West Delaware has 8 finalists, New Hampton and  Waterloo East each have five and Marion and Linn-Mar have three apiece. Here are the FINAL team scores:1. West Delaware 205.5 points; 2. New Hampton 184.5; 3. Waterloo East 153; 4. Linn-Mar 132.5; 5. Decorah 129, 6. Marion 112.5; 7. Fairfield 110; 8. C.R. Washington 65.Consolation semifinals going on now. These are the championship matches (now with results):

103 - P.C. McEnany (West Delaware) vs. Greg Keating: Keating dominates the match, building 5-0 lead after the first. He adds a reversal in the second and a takedown in the third for a 9-0 win.

112 - Kirk Sallis Jr. (Waterloo East) vs. Jerad Hoefer (West Delaware): Sallis Jr. gets a takedown in the second then sinks in a deep half on the edge of the mat to get a pin in 2:55. Sallis was leading 6-2 before the fall.

119 -Chris Paulus (New Hampton) vs. Demetrious Taylor (Waterloo East): Paulus uses five straight points in the second period, including an escape, takedown and two back points to get a 9-4 win.

125 - Austin Weisinger (Marion) vs. Anthony Hable (Decorah): Hable scores a big headlock in the first for a 5-0 lead. Weisinger gets a reversal after a fresh start when the ref called hable's headlock potentially dangerous (Arm across the Weisinger's face). Hable gets a reversal before end of first (9-2 Hable). Hable adds a takedown in the second, then hits a reversal in the first 10 seconds of the third, catching Weisinger on his backk and getting the fall in 4:33.

130 - Nathan Vaske (West Delaware) vs. Tom Mahoney (New Hampton): All Vaske, who owned an 8-3 lead before sinking in a double-bar arm and getting a pin in 3:36.

135 - Andy Hugeback (New Hampton) vs. Pat Soppe (West Delaware): Hugeback locks up his second cradle of the match to get the second-period fall. Haven't kept close tabs on team race, but NH is closing the gap.

140 - Brett Yonkovic (West Delaware) vs. Eddie Rausch (New Hampton): Yonkovic gets some of those team points for the Hawks, posting an 8-3 win.

145 - Craig Mai (New Hampton) vs. Chris Ketchum (West Delaware): Two in a row for West Delaware. Ketchum wins 6-4 over Mai. Ketchum seemed to be in control of the match, having it in hand before giving up a late reversal.

152 - Alex Conway (Marion) vs. Quinten Haynes (Waterloo East): Still confused about all the trouble with the scoreboard scoring so I won't try to explain scoring. Haynes wins 12-6.

160 - Curtis Ette (Marion) vs. Tyler Ellingson (Decorah): Ellingson wins with a pin at 53 seconds.

171 - Kyven Gadson (Waterloo East) vs. Mark Atwater (Linn-Mar): Gadson doesn't waste any time getting the fall in 1:23.

189 - Carl Broghammer (West Delaware) vs. Jacob Pederson (Linn-Mar): Broghammer wins 4-1 match.

215 - Logan Metcalf (Fairfield) vs. Jamie Helmrichs (West Delaware): Metcalf trailed about the whole match before throwing Helmrichs to his back for fall in 5:45.

285 - Trayvonious Pendleton (Waterloo East) vs. Brandon Burrell (C.R. Washington): Pendleton looks tough. He opened up in the second, scoring two takedowns and then turning Burrell for the pin in 2:56.