Brookfield wrestlers shut out

Brookfield East and Brookfield Central did not qualify any wrestlers for this week's WIAA State Individual Wrestling meet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Kohl Center.

With only the two top wrestlers qualifying, the best the locals could do was three third-place finishes by East's Casey Dentino at 132 and John Leclaire at 195 and Central's Nic Veling at 182.

Burlington won the Waukesha West 15-team sectional with 136.5 points to easily beat out Waterford (85.5). The Spartans were eighth with 24 points and the Lancers were 14th with nine.

Dentino, who was 37-10 this year, scored 10 team points in his four matches.

He opened by pinning Connor Price (Muskego, 31-10) in 4 minutes, 4:46 seconds, but then lost a 6-2 decision to Matt Ehlen (Burlington, 41-8). He then won the third-place match with a 6-2 decision over Jose Calderon (Waukesha West, 22-9), but lost to second-place match by rule to Ehlen.

LeClaire (28-11) scored nine team points.

He won by a major decision (12-4) over TJ Stewart (New Berlin West/New Berlin Eisenhower, 35-9) in the first round, but then lost a major decision (15-3) to Nick Wall (Waukesha West, 34-7). He then won a 9-5 decision over Ben Leuzinger (Kettle Moraine, 33-10) but lost by rule to Wall in the second-place match.

Veling (45-3) scored nine team points, Central's entire total.

He opened by winning a 14-3 major decision over Joe Quaglieri (Mukwonago, 26-17), but then lost a tough 3-2 decision to Ryan Jazdzewski (Burlington, 37-10). He won a 4-2 decision over Drew Dunkleberger (Fort Atkinson, 35-11), but lost the second-place match by rule to Jazdzewski.

East's Andrew Sobczak (35-12) took fourth at 285 and scored five team points.

He won a 4-2 decision over Dion Hupke (Fort Atkinson, 34-15) in the first round, but lost a tough 3-2 double overtime decision to Tyler Ladwig (Mukwonago, 42-3). He then was pinned (6:58) in the third-match by Neal Miller (Burlington, 32-12).

Wrestlers who lost their only match were as follows.

Brookfield East

Josh Dempsey at 126 (27-19) lost a 10-2 major decision to Turner Albrecht (Union Grove, 32-8) and Sam Brunker at 170 (24-13) lost a 5-3 decision to Jesse Busch (Burlington, 18-13).

Brookfield Central

Nick Olsen at 113 (21-19) lost by pin (2:24) to Jake Vadnais (Mukwonago, 34-11); Joshua Peltier at 120 (26-21) lost an 18-3 technical fall to Kody Azarian (Waterford, 44-2); Sam Murphy at 138 (16-21) was pinned (2:33) by Brody Fitzpatrick (Burlington, 32-3); Tom Hughes at 145 (22-10) lost a 6-4 decision to Kirk Zylke (Mukwonago, 28-14) and Matt Wilcox at 220 (31-16) lost an 8-1 decision to Luke Belich (Mukwonago, 38-5).

Sectional Rankings

Saturday, at Waukesha West

1. Burlington (136.5), 2.Waterford (85.5), 3. Muskego (84), 4.Mukwonago (81), 5. Waukesha South (65), 6. West Allis Central (61.5), 7. West Allis Hale (57), 8. Brookfield East (24), 9. Waukesha West(23), 10.Fort Atkinson (20.5), 11.Whitnall (20), 12. Union Grove (16), 13. Kettle Moraine (11), 14. Brookfield Central (9), 15. New Berlin West/Eisenhower (0).