Wrestling: Craft Brings 4th State Title to Jackson

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It’s Wrestling Championship Day in the Schottenstein Center at Ohio State University Sunday, with a handful of local wrestlers still in battle Sunday.

Jackson’s Makenna Craft is a four-time State Champion. Craft defeated Tionra’s Bella Graziani Sunday 19-4 by technical fall for her 44^th win for an undefeated season. Craft was a winner her freshman year when Girls had an independent tournament. The last three titles have come after the Ohio High School Athletic Association created a Girls Division to its existing tournament.

Adena’s Kayla Grooms battled her way through the consolation rounds to wrestle on Sunday and earned a 5^th place finish. Grooms wrestled Rossford’s Noel Reinhart to open the tournament on Friday and had to face her a second time to open Sunday’s competition. Grooms dropped a 21-5 decision slipping her into the 5^th place match where she defeated Addyson Crane from Sheridan and won 1-0. Grooms finished the season with a 50-9 record.

Washington CH’s Lyndyn Gibbs placed 4th at 115 on Sunday. She took Warren’s Emma Gorrell in 2:12 but fell to Chippewa’s Gabi Gartlin in the 3^rd place match.   

Brooklyn Whited of Logan finished runner up for the 135-class championship Sunday, falling to Abigail Mozden of Alliance, 17-8.

Waverly’s Abby Green finished in 4th place in the 140-class. After scoring a 4-2 over Alliance’s Adilyn Mozden to start Day 3, she fell 6-4 to Rylee Dearwester from Harrison in the 3^rd place match. Green, committed to Otterbein University, finishes the season 41-9.

In Boys Division-I, Lancaster’s Luke Cox lost 2-1 in the 3^rd place match to Caleb Bowman of Toledo St. John’s Jesuit.

Logan Elm’s Dawson Hudson finished 4^th in D-II’s 113-class on Day 3.Hudson took Indian Valley’s Bronko Braun 15-8 to open Sunday, but then dropped the 3^rd place match 7-0 to Ontario’s Aiden Ohl.

Lyric Dickerson of Miami Trace also placed 4^th at 120. Dickerson defeated Wauseon’s Carter Stuckey in a major decision 10-2 but fell to Josh Sheets of DeSales 3-2 in the 3^rd place match.

Dickerson’s Panther teammate, Mythias Stuckey, who bounced Vinton County’s Travis Bucklew 10-9 on Saturday, lost 10-9 to Sawyer Smith from Perkins to open Sunday at 126. He won his 5^th place match 8-1 over Zander Joltin from West Geauga. Bucklew placed 7th.

Simon Imboden of Athens slipped into the 3^rd place match at 150 but fell 8-3 to Jake Hughes of Beaver Local Sunday.

Amanda Clearcreek’s Bodie Martin placed 7th in the D-III 150 Class.