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Minnesota 2011 World Team Trials Results

By David Peterson, 06/14/11, 2:20PM CDT

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Ali Bernard earns spot on 2011 World Team

Minnesota was well represented at the USA Wrestling 2011 World Team Trials held June 9-11 in Oklahoma City, OK with three wrestlers, Ali Bernard, Paul Tellgren, and Jordan Holm, making the championship finals.


Ali Bernard (New Ulm, MN - Gator WC) defeated Iris Smith (U.S. Army) in the first two rounds (Dec 1-0,1-1 and Dec 3-1,1-3,1-0) of a best two out of three rounds to win the 72kg Women’s Freestyle Championship and earn the right to compete in the World Team Championships being held September 11-18 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Paul Tellgren (Anoka, MN - MN Storm) was defeated by Spenser Mango (U.S. Army) in two rounds to place second in 55kg Men’s Greco.

Jordan Holm (Northfield, MN - MN Storm) was defeated by Cheney Haight (New York AC) in three rounds to place second in 84kg Men’s Greco.

Full results of the 2011 World Team Trials are available via TrackWrestling.com.

Minnesota wrestlers who competed:

Women’s Freestyle
72kg Ali Bernard (Gator WC) - 1st

Men’s Greco
55kg Paul Tellgren (Minnesota Storm) - 2nd
Mike Fuenffinger (Minnesota Storm)
60kg Donavan DePatto (U.S. Marine Corps) - 4th
66kg Pat Smith (Minnesota Storm)

CP Schlatter (Minnesota Storm) - 3rd

74kg Andrew Bisek (Minnesota Storm) - 3rd
84kg Chas Betts (Minnesota Storm) - 3rd
Jordan Holm (Minnesota Storm) - 2nd
Travis Rutt (Minnesota Storm/Badger WC)
96kg Zac Nielsen (Minnesota Storm)
R.C. Johnson (Sunkist Kids) - 4th
120kg Jake Kettler (Minnesota Storm) - 4th
Nikola Bogojevic (Minnesota Storm)

Men’s Freestyle
55kg Zach Sanders - (Minnesota Storm)
66kg Nick Dardanes (Minnesota Storm)
Dylan Ness - (Minnesota Storm)
Kevin LeValley (Minnesota Storm)
96kg Tyler Lehmann (Minnesota Storm/OTC)

Friday Championship - WM 72 KG
1st Place - Ali Bernard of Gator WC
2nd Place - Iris Smith of U.S. Army
Round 1 - Ali Bernard (Gator WC) won by decision over Iris Smith (U.S. Army) (Dec 1-0,1-1)
Round 2 - Ali Bernard (Gator WC) won by decision over Iris Smith (U.S. Army) (Dec 3-1,1-3,1-0)

Friday Championship - GR 55 KG
1st Place - Spencer Mango of U.S. Army
2nd Place - Paul Tellgren of MN Storm
Round 1 - Spencer Mango (U.S. Army) won by decision over Paul Tellgren (MN Storm) (Dec 6-0,0-2,2-0)
Round 2 - Spencer Mango (U.S. Army) won by decision over Paul Tellgren (MN Storm) (Dec 2-0,4-0)

Friday Championship - GR 84 KG
1st Place - Cheney Haight of NYAC
2nd Place - Jordan Holm of MN Storm
Round 1 - Jordan Holm (MN Storm) won by decision over Cheney Haight (NYAC) (Dec 0-1,1-0,1-0)
Round 2 - Cheney Haight (NYAC) won by decision over Jordan Holm (MN Storm) (Dec 3-0,1-0)
Round 3 - Cheney Haight (NYAC) won by decision over Jordan Holm (MN Storm) (Dec 1-0,0-1,2-0)

Greco-Roman Challenge Tournament
60 kg/132 lbs.
3rd - Marco Lara, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army) dec. Donavan Depatto, Camp Le Jeune, N.C. (U.S. Marines), 3-0, 1-0

66 kg/145.5 lbs.
1st - Glenn Garrison, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army) dec. C.P. Schlatter, Minneapolis, Minn. (Minnesota Storm), 1-0, 2-0

74 kg/163 lbs.
3rd - Andrew Bisek, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Minnesota Storm) dec. Aaron Sieracki, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army), 1-0, 0-1, 1-0

84 kg/185 lbs.
3rd - Chas Betts, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Minnesota Storm) dec. Peter Hicks, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army), 1-0, 0-1, 2-0

96 kg/211.5 lbs.
3rd - Pete Gounaridis, Leominister, Mass. (Sunkist Kids) inj. dft. R.C. Johnson, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)

120 kg/264.5 lbs.
3rd - Pete Kowalczuk, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids) dec. Jake Kettler, Ramsey, Minn. (Minnesota Storm), 7-0, 3-0