January 30, 2023 at 7:57 a.m.
Hodag wrestlers fall to Tomahawk
Hodag wrestlers fall to Tomahawk
Rhinelander (0-5 Great Northern) won three of the six contested bouts on the night, and picked up a forfeit win with Owen Kurtz at 285 pounds. The Hatchets (3-2) scored seven forfeit wins, however, which were too many for the Hodags to overcome.
"We competed well, saw a lot of good things," Hodag coach Scottie Arneson said. "We're winning half the match we're wrestling. At the end of the day the matches I think we should have won, we won and the matches where we were maybe a little bit outmatched with experience and talent we ended up losing."
Aiden Ostermann, Kyle Wiese and Logan Schwinger all recorded wins via the pin for the Hodags on the night.
Ostermann scored the first fall of the night, stopping Tomahawk freshman Walter Horabik 1 minute, 6 seconds into the 120-pound bout. The sophomore scored the first takedown and never let Horabik off the mat.
"He's starting to find his groove and starting to wrestle into positions instead of forcing them," Arneson said of Ostermann, who scored his 20th win of the season Thursday night. "He's doing a lot better job of creating motion on his feet and getting to where he knows he can score points."
Wiese followed by controlling Tomahawk's Jack Delreth at 126. He led 4-0 after one period and then rode Delreth all of the second before finally pinning the Hatchet sophomore with two seconds left in the period. Wiese, a senior, bounced back from a 0-3 day the prior weekend in Wausau to score his 10th win of the year.
"Kyle was in complete control," Arneson said. "He took him down, had him on his back, got off the bottom, just everything that we're trying to do. Wrestling his best after going 0-3 just shows the kind of character that he has. It's the next match and what happened in the past really doesn't matter. Hopefully he'll turn it up another notch between now and next weekend and then (another notch) from conference week to regionals week and we'll see where we go from there."
Wiese's pin briefly tied the dual at 12 a piece, but the Tomahawk's Addison Piessig pinned Dresden Klaver less than a minute in to the 132-pound bout and then Tomahawk ran off four straight forfeit wins to go ahead 42-12. Schwinger (14-14) then scored Rhinelander's last contested win of the night, stopping freshman Kaiden Kapellusch late in the second period of the 170-pound bout. The Hodag sophomore was in control, up 8-0 at the time of the pin.
"After he got on top, Logan's been doing a really good job of getting turns," Arneson said. "He's been wrestling well the last two or three weeks and we're going to look to carry that into the postseason here."
Anthony Boldt (113) and Joey Evenson (182) lost via first period pins. Kurtz improved to 12-6 on the year with his forfeit win.
The Hodags return to Tomahawk this coming weekend for the GNC tournament. Rhinelander will enter last in the conference standings after going winless in the conference duals. However Arneson said he's hopeful his team and turn the tide in the tournament, especially after close losses to fourth-place Mosinee and fifth-place Antigo during the dual meet season.
"I think we'll surprise some people, get some wins back that I think we should have had earlier in those duals," he said. "Hopefully that means we score more points than at least one team. That means we're doing something right."
Jeremy Mayo may be reached at [email protected].
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