By 605 Sports Staff

While Canton remains the favorite to win an eighth consecutive Class B wrestling team title the battle for second place just got interesting. 

Wrestling without Ryken Orel (ranked No. 2 at 144), Winner Area finished second at Saturday’s Tri-Valley tournament, finishing with 216.5 points, ahead of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes (194). 

In the latest Dakota Grappler rankings, Canton continues to lead the Class B team rankings. The C-Hawks are projected to score 140 points, ahead of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes (113) and Winner Area (113). Philip/Kadoka Area/Wall (98) and Tri-Valley (83) along with Bon Homme/Avon (83) round out the top-five teams. 

In this week’s rankings, McCook Central/Montrose senior Landon Flogstad (120) is top-ranked in a weight class that showed huge fluctuation this week. Last week’s top-ranked wrestler at 120, Canton’s Carter Kendrick, dropped all the way to No. 7 after not wrestling over the weekend. 

Wrestler of the Week: Apollo Willuweit, Winner Area (106) - Ranked No. 2 last week Willuweit topped previously top ranked Ryvr Larson of Bon Homme/Avon, 3-2, in the finals of the Tri-Valley Invitational. 

Dynamite Dozen: 1. Kellan Hurd, Miller/Highmore-Harrold; 2. Haeden Jorgenson, Webster Area; 3. Gannon Knebel, Wagner; 4. Karson Keiser, Winner Area; 5. Lucas Lenz, KWLPG; 6. Gavin Braun, KWLPG; 7. Tray Weiss, Custer; 8. Holden Hawkins, Sisseton; 9. Hunter Richmond, Canton; 10. Kale Crowser, PKAW; 11. Zach Bartels, Canton; 11. Camden Murray, Redfield. 

(All rankings provided by Dakota Grappler)

 Individual Rankings: 

106 - 1. Apollo Wiliuweit, Winner Area; 2.  Ryvr Larson, Bon Homme/Avon; 3. Cade Gaikowski, Clark/Willow Lake; 4. Maddon Odland, Redfield; 5. Cannin Snyder, Philip/Kadoka Area/Wall; 6. Bode Walker, Canton; 7. Chase Hendriksen, Kingsbury County; 8. Frank Krcil, Wagner; 9. Rhys Truman, KWLPG; 10. Cole Scott, Custer; 11. Wyatt Hagen, Groton Area; 12. Sean King, Tri-Valley. 

 113 - 1. Landon Walker, Canton; 2. Kaden Wookey, Clark/Willow Lake; 3. Kayden Tchida, Sisseton; 4.  Roykyn Robbins, Winner Area; 5. Michael Branaugh, Bon Homme/Avon; 6. Shay Weber, PKAW; 7. Ruger Smokov, Bennett County; 8.  Chase Odland, Redfield;  9. Keegan Kucker, Groton Area; 10. Kiptyn Schaefers, Parkston; 11. Preston Aesoph, Miller/Highmore-Harrold; 12. Legend Frederick, Tri-Valley. 

120 -  1.  Landon Flogstad, MCM; 2. Tyler Trant, Custer; 3. Maddux Risse, Bennett County; 4. Rylan Robbins, Winner Area;  5. Devonne Sessler, Bon Homme/Avon; 6. Owen Bundle, Tri-Valley; 7. Carter Kendrick, Canton; 8. Cooper Pommer, Clark/Willow Lake; 9.  Cash Edgar, Faulkton Area; 10. Jaymin VanDerWerff, Miller/Highmore-Harrold; 11. Teague Bergjord, Flandreau; 12. Dyson Eixenberger, Newell. 

 126 - 1. Zach Bartels, Canton; 2. Talon Ping, Miller/Highmore-Harrold; 3. Keegan Hill, Mount Vernon/Plankinton/Corsica-Stickney; 4.  Cody Zell, Kingsbury County; 5.  Logan Pankratz, Marion/Freeman; 6. Logun Pankratz, Marion/Freeman; 7. Drew Janke, Lead-Deadwood; 8. Zach Pederson, Flandreau; 9. Jaden Buchmann, Hamlin/Castlewood; 10.  Ian Metz, Sisseton; 11. Lane Stuwe, Potter County; 12. Chance Wagner, P/KA/W; 

 132 - 1. Gavin Braun, KWLPG; 2. Tray Weiss, Custer; 3. Jacksen Carter, WS/W/W-W; 4. Witt Myers, Stanley County; 5. Blake Steiner, Sisseton; 6. Chase Hurd, Miller/Highmore-Harrold; 7. Daniel Dorsey, MVPCS; 8. Alex Kuchta, Parker; 9.  Kasen Berry, Philip/Kadoka Area/Wall; 10. Kasey Hermann, Redfield; 11. Isaac Johnson, Clark/Willow Lake; 12. Donovan Block, Groton Area. 

 138 - 1. Haeden Jorgenson, Webster Area;  2. Karson Keiser, Winner Area; 3. Kaden Holzbauer, Parkston; 4. Gannon Gilligan, Kingsbury County; 5. Jackson Kaul, Bon Homme/Avon; 6. Boe Iverson,  Sisseton; 7. Jordan Schafer, Miller/Highmore-Harrold; 8. Cole Hendrixson, Tri-Valley; 9. Luke Swatek, Elk Point-Jefferson; 10. Lyle Noel, Bennett County; 11. Camdyn Ockenga, Canton; 12. Parker Millard, Lead-Deadwood. 

 144 - 1. Kellan Hurd, Miller-Highmore-Harrold; 2. Ryken Orel, Winner Area; 3. Johnny Lenz, KWLPG; 4. Greyson Nielson, Kingsbury County; 5. Connor Zens, Redfield; 6. Easton Tschetter, Marion/Freeman; 7. Leighton Sander, Custer; 8. Jaden Bult, Bon Homme/Avon; 9. Reed Gray, Sisseton; 10. Kalib Keller, Mobridge-Pollock; 11. Jeremiah Friman, Parker; 12. Holden Luper, Hot Springs. 

  150 - 1. Iden Myers, KWLPG; 2. Tate Miller, Howard; 3. Carter Sommer, Parkston;  4. Gavin Risse, Bennett Country; 5. Bryce Hawkinson, Britton-Hecla; 6. Calvin Caba, Bon Homme/Avon; 7. Michael Even, Parker; 8. Spencer Sargent, Stanley County; 9.  Lucas Yellow Hawk, Sully Buttes; 10. Ethan Rearick, WS/W/W-W;  11. Blake Jennings, Kingsbury County; 12. Landon Coyle, Faulkton Area. 

 157 - 1. Holden Hawkins, Sisseton; 2. Christian Ehresmann, Groton Area; 3. Carter Konechne, KWLPG; 4. Gavin Kloos, Deuel/Deubrook Area; 5. Gage Anderson, Lemmon/Mcintosh; 6. Jace Blasius, PKAW; 7. Treyson Richter, Tri-Valley; 8. Tasyn Ockenga, Canton; 9. Wyatt Anderson, Parkston; 10. Braydon Oldenkamp, Lyman; 11. Luke Guthmiller, Bon Homme/Avon; 12. Case Kolda, Stanley County. 

 165 - 1. Lucas Lenz, KWLPG;  2.  Aidan Kranz, Canton; 3. Brody Dybvig, Tri-Valley; 4.  Elliot Bratland, Clark/Willow Lake; 5. Gage Reichert, Parkston; 6. Clayton Pankratz, Parker; 7. Collin Dean, Redfield; 8. Kaleb Johnson, Kingsbury County; 9. Daniel Swenson, Chester; 10. Thayne Tjeerdsma, Wagner;  11. Gus Bartels, Winner Area; 12. Tyce Gropper, PKAW. 

 175 - 1. Kale Crowser, PKAW; 2. Landyn Reiser, Tri-Valley;  3. Colby Kolda, Miller-Highmore-Harrold; 4. Weston Remmers, Howard;  5. Hayden Roggow, Stanley County; 6. Korbin Kucker, Groton Area; 7. Tate Tolsma, MV/P/C-S; 8. Hunter Kunz, Hot Springs; 9. Chase Adam, Canton; 10. Justin Klein, Flandreau; 11. Kenyon Kuiper, KWLPG; 12. Kellen Cihal-Brozik, Winner Area. 

 190 - 1. Gannon Knebel, Wagner, 2. Josh Kannegieter, Clark/Willow Lake; 3. Teague Granum, Canton; 4. Jhett Eklund, Bon Homme/Avon; 5. Kash Neugebauer, Parkston; 6.Isaiah Crownover, Bon Homme/Avon; 7. Gunner Ewing, Elk Point-Jefferson; 8. Nolan Mentele,  Howard; 9. Dylan Murray, Redfield; 10. Christopher Cronin, St. Thomas More; 11. Ethan Harris, PKAW;  12. Von Morgen-Frankfort, Hot Springs.

 215 - 1. Camden Murray, Redfield; 2. Holden Havlik, WS/W/W-W; 3. Jensen Fitch,  PKAW; 4.  Gage Jodozi, Parkston; 5. Mason Curtis, Winner Area; 6. Tristan Baloun, Faulkton Area; 7. Jimmy Burma, Sunshine Bible Academy; 8. Tucker Hardy, Britton-Hecla; 9. Karrter Headrick, Flandreau; 10. Breyton Johnson, Kingsbury County;  11. Gabriel Martian, Howard; 12. Easton Meyer, McCook Central/Montrose. 

 285 - 1. Hunter Richmond, Canton; 2. Preston Cavalier, Warner/Northwestern; 3. Lincoln Dikoff, Faulkton Area; 4. Owen VandeWeerd, Sioux Valley; 5. Luke Nehlich, Tri-Valley; 6. Tanner Baatz, Garretson; 7. Randall Powers, Bon Homme/Avon; 8. Gavin Englund, Groton Area; 9. Aidan Novak, MV/P/C-S; 10.  Breckin Culbert, Parkston; 11. Jacob Johnson, MCM; 12. Derek Fenenga, Winner Area.