TIFFIN — Solon’s varsity girls took fourth in the 2024 WaMaC Conference Wrestling Tournament last Friday at Clear Creek Amana (CCA) High School behind Conference Champion Vinton-Shellsburg (198.0), runner up West Delaware (163.0), and archrival Mount Vernon (161.0).
Kara VeDepo and McKenna Rogers won Conference titles at 100 and 105 pounds respectively.
VeDepo pinned Marion’s Wynter Morgan in 1:10 and won an 11-0 major decision over West Delaware’s Addison Schulte in the 1st place match after two rounds of byes while Rogers pinned CCA’s Emma Staebler (1:31), Marion’s Audrey Mike (1:15), Independence’s Sarah Greiner (1:51), and Kaelynn Roster from Vinton-Shellsburg (3:11). VeDepo was ranked tenth in Class 3A while Rogers was ranked third in IAwrestle.com’s weekly rankings last week.
Kate Richards and Alannah Mahoney took third place at 115 and 120.
Richards (115) pinned South Tama’s Keylee Holloway in the third consolation round (3:28), won a 6-4 decision over Marion’s Cadence Pastor in the consolation semifinals, and pinned Mount Vernon’s Audrey Tucker in 2:47 in the third-place match. Mahoney (120) pinned Benton Community’s Kaitlyn Bonewitz (1:15), fell to Williamsburg’s Keston Spratt in the semifinals and rebounded to pin West Delaware’s Lexi Bunting in 4:00 in the consolation semifinals before pinning Jordin Derr of Independence in 2:00 for third place.
Alexis Anderson, Olivia Bonnema, and Lucianna Miller placed fourth.
Anderson (135) defeated CCA’s Halle Bormann 2-1 in a tie breaker in the third consolation round, pinned Vinton-Shellsburg’s Aly Erickson (2:25) in the consolation semifinals, and lost to Independence’s Kennedi Bevans in the third-place match. Bonnema (140) pinned CPU’s Irelan Brown (5:43) in the second consolation round and Williamsburg’s Valerie Altenhofen (3:18) in the third consolation round before taking a 3-2 decision from Vinton-Shellsburg’s Sadie Burke in the consolation semifinals. However, Mount Vernon’s Adeline Whisner won the third-place match, pinning Bonnema. Miller (145) pinned Independence’s Kenleigh Trumblee (1:34) in the quarterfinals, fell to Williamsburg’s Phoenix Gryp in the semifinals, pinned West Delaware’s Addison Burger (1:42) in the consolation semifinals, but fell again to Trumblee in the third-place match.
Emily Pence, Kendall Jensen, and Haiden Wolfe came home with fifth-place finishes.
Pence (110) fell in the quarterfinal round and received two byes in the consolation brackets before falling to Vinton-Shellsburg’s Olivia Primrose in the consolation semifinals. Pence pinned South Tama’s Ava Hendricks in 31 seconds to win the fifth-place match. Jensen (155) fell in the quarterfinal round to West Delaware’s Parker Robinson but pinned CPU’s Makenna Brissey (4:19) in the third round of consolation matches and pinned Benton’s Madilyn Colburn (3:16) in the fifth-place match. Wolfe fell to West Delaware’s Samantha Murry in the quarterfinals and received two byes before falling to Marion’s Harper Griffin in the consolation semifinals, ultimately receiving a bye for the fifth-place match.
Gabrielle Jedlicka (125) and Makayla Keller (130) did not place.
Hagarty third in
WaMaC JV Tourney
Irelynd Hagarty placed third in JV-4 after a first round loss by decision to Williamsburg’s Hayden Wade, a second round 4-0 win over West Delaware’s Holly Gudenkauf, and a loss in sudden victory in the third round to Williamsburg’s Makenna Capper.
“We wrestled our strongest tournament of the season at the WaMaC Conference Meet,” said Coach Jake Munson. “We placed ten out of 12 wrestlers in the top five and crowned two conference champions with Kara VeDepo and McKenna Rogers. Kate Richards had a strong showing to finish 3rd in a difficult 115 lb. bracket and Alannah Mahoney has been wrestling really well of late and finished 3rd at 120 lbs. We had 11 wrestlers finish at their seed or higher in this tournament which speaks to the improvement the girls have made over the season and that we are wrestling our best heading into the state qualifier. We ended up finishing fourth which was great considering we were missing entrants in two of the fourteen weight classes.”

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McKenna Rogers won at 105 pounds last Friday in the 2024 WaMaC Conference Tournament at Clear Creek Amana HS in Tiffin.