Max Olson

FAIRMONT — Three Martin County Red Bull wrestlers and two Blue Earth Area Buc grapplers qualified for the Class AA and Class A individual state meets, respectively.

The Red Bulls’ No. 5-ranked 220-pounder Max Olson, No. 5-rated 160-pounder Carver Rohman and No. 10 145-pounder Aden Welcome all captured sectional championships to qualify for the Class AA state competition at 9 a.m. Friday at the Xcel Energy Center.

Blue Earth Area 160-pounder Kade Gaydon and teammate Parker Meyers (170) also will step to the center circle at the St. Paul-based facility for the Class A state preliminaries at 9 a.m. Friday.

As usual, Olson combined in his three matches to spend only 9 seconds more than one full 2-minute period to strike gold at the Section 3AA Meet.

Olson opened with a 40-second slap of the canvas over New Ulm’s Henry Waloch before quickly disposing of Marshall’s Gavin Schaefer in 46 ticks on the scoreboard during their semifinal clash.

Morris Area/Hancock Area/Chokio-Alberta’s Brock Marty lasted only 43 seconds as Olson sent him sprawling en route to a third consecutive fall and the light heavyweight gold medal.

Carver Rohman duplicated Olson’s feat during his initial match in 160-pound sectional action on the mat.

Rohman pinned New London-Spicer’s Brock Buffington in 3:44 before putting on a clinic to merit a 19-4 technical fall in 4:13 over New Ulm’s Lane Ruch in the semifinals.

Rohman then squared off with Big South rival Tate Condezo of Marshall for the 160-pound sectional title.

Rohman and the No. 7-ranked Condezo battled to a scoreless opening period before Condezo earned the lone point of the second frame by recording an escape.

Rohman then reeled off three takedowns while allowing two escapes during the third period to pocket an eventual 8-3 victory over Condezo.

Welcome also garnered an opening fall by pressing Redwood Valley freshman Max Dillon’s shoulders to the mat in 1:21 before defeating MAHACA’s Andrew Marty with a 7-3 semifinal decision.

After a scoreless first period against No. 8-ranked Treyton Card of Hutchinson, Welcome quickly escaped to start the second frame and recorded a takedown of Card.

Welcome tilted his Tiger opponent to his back twice for a pair of three-point near-falls to build a 9-0 lead after two completed frames en route to a 9-1 win to claim gold at 145.

Meanwhile, Pierce Rohman and Riley Cole battled their respective pathes through the wrestlebacks to gain a spot in the true-second matches, while teammate Rylan Cutler lost in the finals before losing to his true-second challenger for a state bid.

Pierce Rohman received a first-round bye at 106 before edging Worthington’s Alex Galvez by a 4-3 quarterfinal decision.

Windom/Mountain Lake’s Preston Xayachak pinned the Martin County eighth-grader in 3:24 during the semifinals.

Rohman displayed his mettle by edging New Ulm’s Kane Johnson in the consolation semifinals, 6-4, before downing Marshall’s Lincoln Christenson for third place.

Rohman then squared off against Ben Gunlogson of United and the No. 7-ranked freshman earned the fall over Rohman in the true-second clash in 22 seconds.

Cole gained momentum in the section’s 138-pound bracket by pinning Windom/Mountain Lake’s Aiden Holmberg in 1:16 in their opening clash before planting Redwood Valley’s Lincoln Ourada in 2:47 during the quarterfinals.

No. 3-ranked Davin Rose of MAHACA flattened Cole in the semifinals in 55 seconds before needing just 37 seconds to dispose of No. 8-ranked Zander Clausen of United in the 138-pound finale.

Cole pinned Holmberg in the consolation semifinals in a mere 31 seconds this time before outdueling Marshall’s Drew Chandler in the bronze-medal match by a 10-8 decision. Clausen then fended off Cole in their true-second challenge clash by pinning the Red Bull grappler in 5:03.

Cutler generated a 20-5 technical fall victory in 5:08 over Redwood Valley’s Austin Ourada during the 126-pound quarterfinals before edging Worthington’s Oscar Galvez in the semifinals, 3-2.

No. 6-ranked Daniel Gunlogson of United then produced the championship match’s only escape and takedown during the second period to earn a 3-0 win over Cutler.

Hutchinson’s Raydon Bipes then fought his way to the true-second tilt by pinning Galvez in the third-place clash with only 11 seconds left.

Bipes then won his challenge for a state bid by slipping past Cutler in the true-second duel by a 10-6 decision in Morris.

In the Section 2A Meet in Mapleton, Gaydon and Meyers each captured runner-up honors to earn a trip to St. Paul at the end of the week.

Gaydon followed back-to-back byes with a 29-second fall over Medford’s Kael Neumann during the 160-pound semifinals.

Maple River/United South Central’s Byron Getchell then edged Gaydon by a 6-3 decision in the championship.

New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva’s Harbor Cromwell pinned Neumann in the third-place match to earn a true-second challenge with Gaydon. The Buc junior 160-pounder then coasted to a 13-0 major decision over Cromwell to punch his ticket to state.

Meyers doubled Blue Earth Area’s individual state qualifiers by following a quarterfinal bye with a fall in 3:41 over St. Clair/Mankato Loyola’s Lucas Vaughan in the 170-pound semifinals.

No. 2-ranked Tate Hermes of Medford posted a 12-4 major decision over Meyers during the championship clash before Meyers merited a state bid when Vaughan pinned Madelia/Truman’s Logan Slater in the third-place match in 1:26. Meyers had defeated Vaughan, so there was no challenge.