Results

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Saint John's wrestling finished 10th out of 16 teams and five Johnnies placed at the NCAA Regional on Saturday, March 1, at Augsburg's Si Melby Hall.

Two Johnnies – freshman Thomas Holmquist (Mendota Heights, Minn./St. Thomas Academy) and sophomore Connor Krueger (Superior, Wis.) – just missed a trip to the NCAA Division III Championships with fourth-place finishes at their respective weights. The top three in each weight class advanced to nationals.

Holmquist continued his success through the 125-pound consolation bracket with a pair of bonus-point wins – a pin of Wisconsin-Platteville's Chris Karbash in 1:30 and a 17-0 technical fall over the Milwaukee School of Engineering's (Wis.) Jesse Johnson – but suffered a second-period fall to 10th-ranked Wyatt Kaczrowski of Augsburg for fourth place. He ended his first collegiate season with a 15-8 record.

Sophomore Connor Krueger (Superior, Wis.) defeated Concordia-Moorhead's Kie Anderson with a 4-1 decision and pinned Platteville's Brady Grennan in 1:09, but dropped the third-place match at 133 pounds with a 5-1 score to Wisconsin-La Crosse's Wyatt Magolski. Magolski was Krueger's lone loss, 7-3, yesterday in his second match of the day. Krueger ended the season with a 9-6 record.

Sophomore Aidan Wayne (Maple Grove, Minn./Osseo) was the lone Johnnie to win his final match of the season at heavyweight. He started the day with a 10-6 loss to Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Sloan Welch but avenged yesterday's 4-1 loss to Carthage's (Wis.) Mason Kochersperger with a 4-1 win of his own thanks to a last-second takedown for seventh place. Wayne finished with a team-leading 23-7 record.

Two seniors, D.J. Myles (Dayton, Minn./Champlin Park) and Logan Thorsten (Foley, Minn.), finished 2-3 for eighth place in the respective brackets. Myles started his day at 197 pounds with a major decision loss to Wisconsin-Stevens Point's Logan Neitzel and fell to Platteville's Kain Killmer via technical fall for eighth place and end the season with a 9-9 record. Thorsten, meanwhile, suffered a fall to Toren Vandenbush of the Milwaukee School of Engineering (Wis.) at 165 pounds and claimed eighth with a 6-2 loss to Carthage's Christian Gilbert. Thorsten finished with a 10-5 record.

125
-Thomas Holmquist (Fourth, 3-2)

133
-Connor Krueger (Fourth, 4-2)

141
-Jose De Los Santos (0-2)

157
-Kris Castro (1-2)

165
-Logan Thorsten (Eighth, 2-3)

174
-Laiken Copeman (1-2)

184
-Zachariah Hunter (1-2)

197
-D.J. Myles (Eighth, 2-3)

285
-Aidan Wayne (Seventh, 3-2)