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GRANITE CITY - The Alton Redbirds pushed three qualifiers from the Granite City Regional to Saturday’s Normal Sectional.

The three sectional qualifiers were: KeOntay Holmes, second at 182 pounds. The Redbirds’ Garrett Sims was second place at 113 pounds and Keyondrick Russell third at 195.

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The top three finishers in each of the 14 weight divisions advance from regional to sectional tournament.

“The final round was a little disappointing,” Alton head wrestling coach Eric Roberson said. “We had a pretty, good start at the day. We had some matches where we made some mistakes. We have to make sure we finish the matches. The kids have been competitive; we just have to be finishers.”

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Complete first- and third-place match results are listed below.

CLASS 3A GRANITE CITY REGIONAL
TEAM STANDINGS: Edwardsville, 195.5; O'Fallon, 142; Granite City, 119.5; Collinsville, 113; Alton, 96; Quincy, 83; Belleville West, 63; Belleville East, 23.5

CHAMPIONSHIP AND THIRD-PLACE BOUTS
106: Luke Odom (Edwardsville) defeated Jalen May (Collinsville) by technical fall, 17-2 (championship bout); Blake Peter (Quincy) defeated Chris Santiago (Granite City 10-0 (third-place bout)
113: Noah Surtin (Edwardsville) defeated Garrett Sims (Alton) by technical fall 19-2 (championship bout)
120: Alek Ziegler (O'Fallon) defeated Josh Harsh (Granite City) 8-1 (championship bout)
126: Dylan Wright (Edwardsville) defeated Hunter Hobbs (Alton) 8-6 (OT – third-place bout)
132: Ben Schlueter (Edwardsville) defeated Matthew Peters (Quincy) 9-2 (third-place bout
138: Joe Griffin (Edwardsville) defeated Jalen Jones (O'Fallon) 7-2 (third-place bout)
145: Rafael Roman (Edwardsville) defeated Garrett Bass (Belleville West) 2-0 (championship bout); John Hirsch (Granite City) pinned Courteney Wilson (Alton) 4:11 (third-place bout)
152: Baylor Montgomery (Edwardsville) defeated Hunter Yohn (Quincy) 7-2 (championshp bout)
160: Jack Bond (O'Fallon) defeated Guy Brown (Edwardsville) 5-4 (championship bout); Cordelle Mackin (Granite City) defeated Nolan Wosczcynski (Alton) 8-6 (third-place bout)
170: Markell DeBerry (Edwardsville) defeated Reide Wilson (Granite City) 7-2 (championship bout)
182: Mason Hewitt (O'Fallon) defeated KeOntay Holmes (Alton) 3-2 (championship bout); Chase Nelson (Granite City) defeated Connor Mikulait (Edwardsville) by disqualification (third-place bout)
195: Kyle Thompson (Granite City) defeated Kobey Bosworth (O'Fallon) 4-3 (championship bout); Keyondrick Russell (Alton) pinned Sam Martin (Edwardsville) 1:13 (third-place bout)
220: Josh Anderson (Edwardsville) pinned Grady Womack (Alton) 2:43 (third-place bout)
285: Korinthian Nabors (Granite City) pinned Matthew Dade (Quincy) 5:08 (championshp bout); Mason Baker (O'Fallon) defeated Ryan Kane (Alton) 3-2.

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