The Rossville Invitational over the weekend featured 15 total wrestling squads with eight of them from the Kanzaland area. The tournament can easily be said that it had a Kanzaland flavor to it with many area grapplers performing well on the mat.

Leading the way of the top performances were the Sabetha Bluejays and Pleasant Ridge rams who finished second and third, respectively in the team standings with 165.5 and 122.5 total points each (Goodland finished 1st with 224.5 points). The other six area teams to compete at the Rossville Invite finished with their team performances: Santa Fe Trail 4th place (122.5 points), ACCHS 7th (108.5 points), Perry Lecompton 10th, Hiawatha 11th, Doniphan West 13th and Immaculata 15th.

The tournament featured round robin matches in some weight classes and regular bracket tournament action, also and area wrestlers performed well in both.

In the round robin action the Sabetha Bluejays pretty much dominated that action taking three first place finishes out of the six weight classes that had round robin style action. Bluejays added a third and fourth place finish on top of those three first place finishes. Thaine Allen (120lb), Levi Huneke (182lb) and Issac Wenger (220lb) all three captured tournament crowns in their weight classes win first place, while Jacob Leuthold (225lb) and Trei Herrell (106) each registered a third and fourth place finish, respectively.

There was one other first place finish from the area in the round robin action, while there was three second place finishes, three more third place finishes and three more fourth place finishes, also. Brenden Neal of Perry Lecompton captured the heavyweight title in the 285lbs weight class with ACCHS, Jared Hoffman taking second and Torres of Santa Fe Trail placing fourth in that weight class.

Other top performers in round robin action: 106lbs--Clayton Gum (Pleasant Ridge) 2nd, Hunter Idol (Doniphan West) 3rd; 113lbs--Tony Weber (Pleasant Ridge) 3rd; 120lbs--Christian Small (Hiawatha); 182lbs--Cashier (Santa Fe Trail) 3rd, McKinney (Pleasant Ridge) 4th; 220lbs--Johnson (Hiawatha) 2nd, Gabe Forrest (Santa Fe Trail) 4th.

In the regular bracket style portion of the tournament four first place finishes were captured by area wrestlers all coming from different schools. Andy Dennison (132lb) of Santa Fe Trail, Taylor Schuetz (160) of ACCHS, Jared Johnson (170) of Pleasant Ridge and Tyler Edelman (195) of Sabetha all went through their weight class brackets and won individual titles at the Rossville Invitational. On top of those performances one second place, three third places and four fourth place finishes were secured by area wrestlers in bracket action.

Other top performers in bracket action: 126lbs--Lehmkuhl (Hiawatha) 3rd, Tyler Mundy (Santa Fe Trail) 4th; 132lbs--Blake Graham (Pleasant Ridge) 2nd, Ben Meyer (Sabetha) 4th; 138lbs--Jesse Noll (ACCHS) 4th; 152lbs--Scott Brinkinsha (ACCHS) 3rd, Ball (Perry Lecompton) 4th; 195lbs--Tristan Speer (Doniphan West) 3rd.