At the 3A Region 2 championships in Glenwood Springs, three Bayfield Wolverines reached the finals to qualify for state while a couple others were still in the hunt for a top-four finish on Saturday.
Zaden Cundiff (138), Deegan Barnes (165) and Jordan Cundiff (285) all reached the finals for BHS to score one of the region’s four qualifying spots.
Keaton Pickering, meanwhile, won his first to matches by technical fall, but lost 3-2 in the semis to Alamosa’s Dempsey Gibbs. Pickering then came back and pinned his next foe, then won by a technical fall in his third-place match to also qualify for state.
At the 2A Region 2 championship in Hayden, two Ignacio Bobcats qualified for state.
Aven Bourriague finished third at 106 pounds, beating Jackson Dinsmore of Norwood 8-2 to punch his ticket.
Lincoln deKay also qualified with a fourth-place finish at 138.
At 144, Keaton McCoy won his fifth-place match and had a shot to wrestle for true-fourth at the weight and qualify for state .
In the CHSAA girls region 4 championships, several wrestlers from La Plata County were in position to qualify for state at press time while two reached their regional finals.
Gracie Patton of Bayfield reached the 190-pound finals with a pair of wins to qualify for state.
Faye Hackett of Ignacio was also a regional finalist at 130 pounds, pinning two foes to reach the finals. One girl Hackett beat was Kori Jenkins of Bayfield in the semifinals. Jenkins, however, wrestling for fifth and still had a chance to qualify, with a little help.
Hana Maletich of Durango was set to wrestle for third at 110. Amiah Hanson (125) and Samantha Collins (170) were both wrestling for fifth and not only needed to win their bouts, but needed a little help to get a shot at wrestling for a true-fourth.
Update:
Barnes, Zayden Cundiff, Jordan Cundiff and Patton all finished second for Bayfield.
Hackett also finished second for the Ignacio girls. Larissa Espinosa placed third at 190 to also qualify for state for the Bobcats.
Maletich will represent the DHS girls at state after placing fourth at 110. Hanson won her fifth-place match, but lost in a true-fourth contest at 125, 1-0, against Rylie McCabe of Nucla.
