Lions win Dick Kennedy Dual Meet Tournament
    The Clear Lake wrestling team went 4-0 and won the Dick Kennedy dual meet tournament on Saturday at Webster City. Five Lion wrestlers went undefeated on the day.  They were Joe and Jacob Colon, Rudy Wieck, Patrick Kolker and Zach Linquist.
    The tournament was named after former Webster City coach and wrestler Dick Kennedy who passed away last year after battling cancer.
    Among the highlights of the day was Clear Lake’s dual with Ankeny. Both teams had four ranked wrestlers.
    Clear Lake beat Ankeny 41-27, Webster City 29-21, Roland Story 55-21 and Pella 63-13.
    The coach has provided comments about each wrestler’s performance at the event:
    103- Jacob Colon, 4-0.  Jacob has really looked this year. The Predicament has him ranked 10th in the state and he deserves it. He beat a very good Webster City kid on Saturday.
    112- Joe Colon, 4-0. Joe has picked  up right we he left off last year.  He will have a real test Thursday when he will wrestle Brandon Helgeson who placed third at state last year.
    119- Tucker Weber, 3-1.  Tucker lost to the fourth ranked kid in 3A.  Tuck got behind early and never really got his style going. Losses only make you better.
    125- Joe Bieber, 3-1. Joe had the toughest weight Saturday. He beat two state qualifiers and was leading a state place winner 7-1 when he was pinned. Again, I think he too will get better and learn from his loss.
    130- Jake Kopriva, 3-1. Jake wrestled three very intense matches after losing his first match of the day.  He is going to have a good year.
    135- Ray Teasdale, 2-2. Ray has made a huge improvement in just three weeks. He really looked good on Saturday.
    140- Christian Trebil, 3-1. Christian lost his first match of the day and stormed back very motivated. He, too, will have a great year.
    145- Rudy Wieck, 4-0.  Rudy had a huge pin against Ankeny.  He is 5-0 and primed for a great senior year.
    152- Ryan Wilke, 2-2.  Ryan is 3-2 in his first year on varsity and will even get better.  He made a couple of mistakes, but that will happen.
    160- Spencer Rollefson, 2-2. Spence lost a match he thinks he should have won, and he will learn from that.
    171- Levi Kellogg,  0-4. Levi lost four matches,  but they were all close.  He had a chance to win all four. He never went to his back and we are very proud of him for being just a sophomore at 171.
    189- Tanner Lacey, 0-2. Tanner filled in for the team on Saturday and that shows me a lot about his desire to wrestle up a weight class to help the team.
    215- Patrick Kolker, 4-0.  Pat had his best day as a Lion. He wrestled hard and showed good technique. He looks very confident.
    285- Zach Lindquist, 4-0. Zach wrestled as hard as I have seen him wrestle in the 16 years that I have known him. Last year’s district loss has made him much more motivated.