Prep Wrestling: Codden, Kukla go 5-0 at Pine River
From Manistee News Advocate
Published: Sunday, December 5, 2010
 
LEROY — The Manistee wrestling team went 1-4 in a six-team tournament at Pine River on Saturday.

The Chippewas, who were missing a couple of starters, defeated Mio 48-33, and lost to Traverse City St. Francis (40-37), Pine River (51-24), Kingsley (57-24) and Midland Dow (36-33), which went on to win the tournament.

“It’s good inspiration for me and the staff and the kids to know that if we would have been at full strength at this tournament we probably could have walked away with a few more wins,” said Manistee coach Chris Codden. “Nobody blew us out of the water. We basically held our own through the whole tournament.
"I take my hat off to the younger kids. They did a really got job this weekend." Six Manistee wrestlers took home metals as both Haydon Codden and Larryn Kukla bot finished the day 5-0, while Sean Stenzel, Alex Myers, David Engstrom and Raul Torres all went 3-2.

Logan Bond (125) went 1-0, Lane Gancarz (145), Tyler Knudsen (189) and Zach Nezki (171/189) all finished 1-1, Tucker Bruce (152/160) was 2-3, Jon Bailey (119) and Travis Meyers (125) both finished 1-3, Noah Blauwkamp (215) and Kyle Garber each went 1-4,  Christian Bullis (119), Brian Fisk (125), Stephen Schulte (145) and Dakota Girard (189) were all 0-1, Nathan Wallace (145) and Adam Ball (171/189) were both 0-2 while Brenna Ramirez (160) finished 0-3.

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