Sellnow, Zelinske win at Blue Earth; Warriors fourth

BLUE EARTH -- Vince Sellnow and Tom Zelinske of the Brainerd Warriors came home with individual championships at the Blue Earth wrestling invitational Saturday.

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The Warriors finished fourth in the team standings with 118 1/2 points.

"For the first tournament we wrestled we did pretty well," said Warriors coach Bob Brakke. "We saw some good improvement from the kids. Vince Sellnow was very dominating in his matches. He had one pin and a technical fall.

"Tom Zelinske wrestled very smart. He didn't make any mistakes."

Tom Zelinske

Sellnow won his championship with a 16-0 technical fall over John Humphrey of St. Paul Johnson. Zelinske won his match over Blake Murphy of Blue Earth Area 5-1.

Team scores -- Blue Earth Area 211, Waterville/Elysion/Morristown 137, Montgomery/Lousdale 133 1/2, Brainerd 118 1/2, Madelia Truman 107, St. Paul Johnson 94, Spring Lake Park 70, Alden-Conger 37

103 -- 1-Vince Sellnow tech fall. John Humphrey (SPJ) 16-0

119 -- 1-Tom Zelinske dec. Blake Murphy (BEA) 5-1

130 -- 3-Jake Smith dec. Matt Stoering (WEM) 9-7

135 -- 3-Dusty Pickar pinned Issah Morshing (WEM) 2:30

140 -- 3-Jesse Marohn dec. Kyle Clark (ML) 5-3

145 -- 3-Andy Pickar dec. R.J. Brezina (ML) 7-6

152 -- 5-Chad Weiss dec. Pea Pel (SPJ) 9-2

189 -- 3-Jay Fredrickson (BEA) dec. Brandon Moser 9-2

Next meet --Brainerd hosts Alexandria 6 p.m. Thursday.