Versailles wrestling team earns Sectional Championship

Versailles, Greenville and Arcanum send wrestlers to Districts

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Versailles Payton Platfoot. (Gaylen Blosser photo)

DARKE COUNTY – Arcanum, Greenville and Versailles competed in the OHSAA sectional wrestling tournament with wrestlers from each school advancing to Districts.

Versailles earned an OSHAA DIII team Sectional Championship with Payton Platfoot (144), Michael Osborn (165) and Kane Epperly (175) each taking first place. Trey Huber (106) placed second for the Tigers. Sam DeLand (113), Isaac Brown (120), Lane Bergman (132) and Ethan Stover (190) each placed third to advance to districts. Emmit Demange (126), Luke Batty (138), Quentin Grillot (150) and Joel Gehret (215) rounded out Versailles’ wresters making it out of sectionals to advance to district.

  1. 234.52 Versailles
  2. 166.53 Brookville
  3. 133.04 Indian Lake
  4. 117.05 Carlisle
  5. 116.56 Milton-Union
  6. 93.57 Valley View
  7. 83.58 Waynesville
  8. 71.00 Springfield Catholic Central
  9. 71.01 Madison
  10. 63.01 Greenon
  11. 62.01 Twin Valley South
  12. 46.51 Triad
  13. 46.01 Alter
  14. 42.00 South Charleston

Greenville placed tenth in DII with Andrew Winner (285) placing second and William Bush (144) finishing fourth to advance to the district tournament meet.

  1. 341.5 Graham

2.129.0 Tecumseh

  1. 120.5 Ben Logan
  2. 116.0 Carroll
  3. 115.0 Kenton Ridge
  4. 99.0 Eaton
  5. 93.5 Tippecanoe
  6. 89.5 Bellefontaine
  7. 87.0 Chaminade Julienne
  8. 63.0 Greenville
  9. 58.5 Springfield Shawnee
  10. 55.5 Urbana

Arcanum took 12th place with Wyatt Schwartz (126) wrestling to a fourth place finish and Malachi Wright (138) also placing fourth to advance to district.

1 196.5 Miami East

  1. 183.5 Legacy Christian
  2. 157.5 Preble Shawnee
  3. 137.0 Covington
  4. 115.0 Troy Christian
  5. 93.0 Springfield Northwestern
  6. 87.0 National Trail
  7. 73.0 West Liberty-Salem
  8. 68.0 Dayton Christian
  9. 67.0 Northridge
  10. 37.0 Dixie
  11. 28.0 Arcanum
  12. 22.0 Stivers
  13. 3.0 Tri-County North

OHSAA district tournaments are scheduled for March 3rd and 4th with Greenville traveling to Wilmington High School for the DII meet and Versailles and Arcanum wrestling at Troy’s Hobart Arena in DIII competition.