Last week at a glance
Two matchups pitting No. 1 vs. No. 1 are worth a mention, one between top-ranked teams and the other matching up undefeated individuals.
- Mounds View, newly ascended to the top ranking in Class 3A, defeated host Simley, No. 1 in 2A, on Thursday, ending Simley’s 65-dual match winning streak. Simley led 17-12 after Cash Raymond defeated Apollo Ashby 14-7 at 152 pounds, but that was the last of Simley’s victories. Mounds View won the final five matches, two by pin, to remain undefeated. Mounds View has lost just once in the past two seasons: to rival Stillwater in the Section 4, 3A finals in 2023.
- Woodbury senior 145-pounder Alex Braun put his undefeated record on the line by moving up a weight class to face St. Michael-Albertville 152-pounder Landon Robideau. Both were 2023 individual state champions. The match proved compelling, with Robideau eking out a 7-5 victory. “The gym was packed, but it cleared out after that match, even though there were five more weights to be wrestled to championships,” Woodbury coach Justin Smith said. “It just showed the excitement for the match and the opportunity to watch two state champs go at it.”
State rankings
Class 3A: 1. Mounds View; 2. Shakopee; 3. Stillwater; 4. St. Michael-Albertville; 5. Hastings; 6. New Prague; 7. Waconia; 8. Wayzata; 9. Albert Lea; 10. Willmar; 11. Apple Valley; 12. Anoka.
Class 2A: 1. Simley; 2. Kasson-Mantorville; 3. Totino-Grace; 4. Zumbrota-Mazeppa; 5. Scott West; 6. Becker; 7. Dawson-Boyd/Lac qui Parle/Montevideo United; 8. Marshall; 9. Little Falls; 10. Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton; 11. New London-Spicer; 12. Annandale/Maple Lake.
Class 1A: 1 Chatfield; 2. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa; 3. Holdingford; 4. Jackson County Central; 5. Staples-Motley; 6. Kenyon-Wanamingo; 7. Royalton/Upsala; 8. Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial; 10. Minneota; 11. Paynesville; 12. Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale/Parkers Prairie.
Metro honor roll
Listed are wrestlers with 27 or more reported victories.
107 POUNDS
Turner Ross, Simley, 37-1
