By Chad Koenen

Publisher

The Frazee Hornets not only picked up their 13th win of the season last week, but they also secured the top seed in the Section 8A tournament. The tournament will kick off on Tuesday night in Frazee at 6 p.m., before heading to Fertile-Beltrami for the semi-finals and finals on Friday night. The Hornets will host eighth seeded Crookston in the opening round, who comes into the tournament with a record of 2-14. 

Frazee comes into the section tournament with a record of 13-7 overall and will look to advance to their first state tournament since 2018. 

The winner of Tuesday’s match between Frazee and Crookston will take on either fourth seeded Fertile-Beltrami (6-6 overall) or fifth seeded Mahnomen/Waubun (10-7 overall).

Fosston/Bagley (11-6 overall) received the second seed and will host seventh seeded Barnesville (1-13 overall), while fourth ranked United North Central (14-3 overall) received the third seed and will host Badger/Greenbush-Middle River (3-7 overall).

On Tuesday night the Hornets defeated Highway 10 rival Detroit Lakes by a score of 44-22. Frazee won seven of the final nine matches of the night to come away with their 13th win of the season.

Ashton Reller opened the night with a pin over Sutton Stroeing at the 4:41 mark at 107 lbs.

After three straight Detroit Lakes wins, including a pair of decisions and a major decision, made the score 10-6 in favor of the Lakers, Liam Hamm tied the score at 10-10 with a major decision at 133 lbs.

Cash Osterman followed up with a pin at 139 lbs, before Bailey Peichel made the score 21-10 with a tech fall at 145 lbs. 

Following a Detroit Lakes pin at 152 lbs., the Hornets put the match out of reach with a Blake Sonnenberg pin at 160 lbs., a Raymond Sanchez tech fall at 172 lbs. and a Tanner Moe pin just 10 seconds into the second period at 189 lbs. 

Cade Nagel capped off the night with a pin at 285 lbs. to give the Hornets the 44-22 win. 

Frazee 44 Detroit Lakes 22

107: Ashton Reller (FRAZ) over Sutton Stroeing (DL) (Fall 4:41)

114: Gage Weber (DL) over Christian Peichel (FRAZ) (Dec 10-4)

121: Jared Ohm Mehrer (DL) over Caleb Ratz (FRAZ) (MD 9-0)

127: Izaiah Vargas (DL) over Ethan Royer (FRAZ) (Dec 4-0)

133: Liam Hamm (FRAZ) over Talan Baker (DL) (MD 16-3)

139: Cash Osterman (FRAZ) over Everett Northup (DL) (Fall 4:21)

145: Bailey Peichel (FRAZ) over Jeremy Linn (DL) (TF 21-6 0:00)

152: Alex Chilton (DL) over Hunter Malone (FRAZ) (Fall 3:27)

160: Blake Sonnenberg (FRAZ) over William Thompson (DL) (Fall 1:20)

172: Raymond Sanchez (FRAZ) over Brian Morrison (DL) (TF 19-3 5:56)

189: Tanner Moe (FRAZ) over Andrew Bartnes (DL) (Fall 2:10)

215: Ryan Francis (DL) over (FRAZ) (For.)

285: Cade Nagel (FRAZ) over Eli Okeson (DL) (Fall 1:24)