The first rounds of the section team tournament will kick off on Thursday night in the Mazeppa gym. First match is at 6pm between #8 seed Byron vs #9 seed Lake City. The winner of that match will face #1 seed Zumbrota-Mazeppa at 7:15pm. The winner of that match will be wrestling in the Semifinals at the Mayo Civic Center on Saturday beginning at noon. Please join us in Mazeppa on Thursday night to show our support! We will have a live stream for those that cannot make it.
On Thursday night, ZM beat Caledonia-Houston 53-9. In the 2nd dual of the night, ZM blanked Lake City, winning 74-0. On Saturday, the team traveled up to Park High School for 4 duals against AAA opponents Mahtomedi, Anoka, Cambridge Isanti, and #7 ranked Park.
First dual ZM won 59-9 against Mahtomedi. Next beat Anoka 49-19. Cambridge Isanti 48-19. And finally beat Park 57-13. Dominate day against some pretty big schools! Pictures from all weeks duals can be viewed here.
The JH team was in Ellsworth WI in an 8 team bracket. ZM had wins over Farmington, STMA and Cambridge Isanti to win the tournament.
On Friday night, Zumbrota Mazeppa beat Pine Island 49-12. In the marquee matchup of the night, our #8 AA ZM beat the #9 AAA Rochester Mayo 49-21! On Saturday morning, ZM traveled to Glencoe for an individual tournament that included #6 AA Watertown-Mayer and #1 A Jackson County Central. ZM ran away from the field with a comfortable 52.5 point advantage. Jack Krier got Outstanding Wrestler at the tournament, and Zumbrota Mazeppa won the sportsmanship award at the trophy…The trifecta! Final results are here:
| #8 AA Zumbrota Mazeppa | 182.0 |
| #6 AA Watertown Mayer-Mayer Lutheran | 129.5 |
| #1 A Jackson County Central | 118.5 |
| New Ulm | 105.0 |
| LeSueur-Henderson | 81.5 |
| Glencoe-Lester Prairie | 59.0 |
| BOLD | 37.0 |
| Kimball Area | 29.0 |
The ZM JVs spent the day in Mazeppa finishing 2nd in the home JV tournament, beating Apple Valley, Holmen WI, Albert Lea and Dover Eyota while dropping a dual vs Shakopee.
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ZM wrestlers have 7 wrestlers moving onto the state tournament next weekend. The top 2 in the section get the opportunity to wrestle in the Xcel Center.
113 Noah Schaefer 2nd place
126 Jack Krier 1st place
132 Lucas Schiell 1st place
145 Laiken Copeman 2nd place
152 Kaleb Lochner 2nd place
182 Ryan Lexvold 1st place
220 Wyatt Mulder 2nd place
Other ZM wrestlers finished in the following places
106 Jent Beyer 3rd place
120 Ryan Stimets 4th place
138 Zayne Novek 4th place
160 Wilson Nordquist 8th place
170 Isaiah O’Reilly 3rd place
195 Max Ramer 8th place
285 Tucker Buck 4th place
13 ZM wrestlers headed to Jackson, MN to try to punch their ticket to the 9th grade state tournament. Only the top two in their bracket earn a trip to state next weekend.
4 wrestlers finished first in their bracket:
Samuel Moore (100)
Cain Lexvold (152)
Owen Lexvold (160)
Max Ramer (189)
2 wrestlers finished second in their bracket
Carl Murray (94)
Aiden Majerus (106)
All pictures from this event can be viewed HERE. These 6 wrestlers will travel to state next Saturday in Champlin Park High School…Good luck boys…
As a team, we finished in second place in team points behind Fulda/MCC in section 1:
| 1) Fulda/MCC | 225 |
| 2) Zumbrota/Mazeppa | 198.5 |
| 3) Albert Lea | 191.5 |
| 4) Chatfield | 155 |
| 5) Jackson County Central | 129.5 |
| 6) Adrian | 123 |
| 7) Owatonna | 123 |
| 8) Mankato West | 77 |
| 9) Fairmont / Martin County West | 67 |
| 10) Windom-Mountain Lake | 64 |
| 11) Kasson_Mantorville | 56 |
| 12) St James Area | 51 |
| 13) Austin | 19 |
The youth coaches have been raving about the effort and energy in the youth room this year. Sounds like they had a tough time to pick just one wrestler per room this week! Without further ado, here are your ZM Youth Wrestlers of the Week!
Zumbrota Mazeppa hosted 3 other teams on Saturday at the high school for a quad dual tournament: Centennial, Kenyon Wanamingo, and Owatonna. ZM led off with a 62-15 victory over Centennial, who is coached by Link Steffen’s son, Chase.
In the second match of the day, the Cougars beat traditional AAA power Owatonna by 58-13.
Finally, renewing the battle of Hwy 60, ZM topped Kenyon-Wanamingo 39-21. It was great seeing this rivalry happen again, as KW has changed conferences, we see each other fewer times.
Keep it going Cougars!
ZM wrapped up the Clash duals on Friday/Saturday last week finishing 7th overall as the number 24 seed in the 32 team tournament. ZM started off strong on day 1 with wins over the #8 seed Slaley, Missouri 30-29 and the #9 seed Vacaville, California 30-29. They also faced #1 overall seed STMA (and according to FloWrestling the #4 HS dual team in the nation) in the pool championship and was defeated 55-9.
Day #2 we wrestled #4 seed (and current #1-A in MN) Jackson County Central and defeated them 42-21. The last two matches, we lost to #2 seed Waverly ShellRock (Iowa) 35-25 and #3 seed Osage (36-28). For those keeping track ZM did not have a easy road to their finish, having to face the #1, #2, #3, #4, #8, and #9 seeds in the 32-team tournament. Very impressive!
Last Thursday, ZM rolled over Pine Island 64-3 in an HVL dual in many close matches that went in our favor.
Finally, on Saturday beginning at 9am, we will be hosting a quad with Owatonna, Kenyon Wanamingo, and Centennial at Zumbrota High School. If you get a chance, stop by and watch some great wrestling! For those that can’t make it, we will offer a live stream with announcers. We will be posting the link to the live stream on Facebook.
The K-6 team wrestled at NRHEG last Saturday. We have a young youth team and I heard there was a lot of good wrestling! Below are a few of the pictures from the duals.
The youth wrestlers that earned the Wrestlers of the Week honors were the following:
PreK/K: Zander Hammel
1-3 Grade: Axel Markham
4-6 Grade: Bo Holst
As a reminder, this Friday night is our youth tournament! Weigh ins are between 4:30-5:45. ZM wrestlers try to get there early to get weighed in before the crowd arrives! This is a great time and I hope to see everyone there!!
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