Led by two champions, Chadron State College had seven placewinners at the Younes Open Wrestling Tournament in Kearney on Saturday.  Several other Eagles also won four or five matches, but because of the size of the tournament, had to discontinue competing because they had reached the limit of six before everything was resolved in their weight classes.

              Head Coach Brett Hunter was extremely pleased with his wrestlers' performances.  There were 58 teams and 740 wrestlers in the competition, making it perhaps the largest collegiate tournament in the nation this season. 

              The Eagles' first place winners were senior Quen Campbell of Tifton, Ga., who won all four of his matches in the Elite 133-pound bracket, and redshirt freshman Logan Berger of Hartsville, S.C., who went 6-0 to win the 174-pound title in the Amateur Division.

              Campbell, the 133-pound silver medalist at last year's NCAAII National championships, allowed no more than four points to be scored against him in any of his four matches.  Berger pinned four of his foes and scored a technical fall in a fifth match. He also squeezed out a 2-1 sudden victory win in the semifinals over a Colorado Mines entry. 

              Also for the Eagles, graduate student Mason Watt of Broomfield, Colo., was the runner-up in the heavyweight bracket in the Elite competition with a 4-1 record.  Eagles' junior Quade Smith of Layton, Utah, finished 3-1 while placing third at 125 pounds in the Elite field.

              In addition, senior Ethan Leake of Compton, Calif., went 4-1 at 141 pounds, losing only in the opening round to Hunter Hollingsworth, who compete unattached was a one-time University of Oklahoma commit. Leake won his next four matches, sustained a minor injury and medically forfeited his next two matches, but still finished sixth.

              Also in the Elite competition, Brody Lamb of Wellington, Colo., went 3-1, including two pins, at 149 pounds and Eli Hinojosa of Imperial, was 2-1 at 197.  Both are seniors.

              Another of the Eagles' veterans, Torry Early of Oak Park, Ill., had a 5-1 record at 149 pounds in the Elite division, before reaching his six-match limit and was not able to compete for third place. The same thing occurred to a few of CSC's middle weights contestants in the Amateur Division. 

              That was particularly true at 157 pounds, where three Eagles did that. 

              They were Tayton Gillette of Gooding, Idaho, Brandon Paredes of Tucson, Ariz., and Clayton Robinson of Johnstown, Colo.   

              Paredes's only loss was by a 1-0 score, and he blanked two of his opponents with 15-0 technical falls. 

              Because of the way the bracket was configured, Robinson was awarded third place at 157 pounds. His only loss was to Anwar Alli, an Ohio native who competed unattached.  

              Dominic Joyce, a freshman from North Port, Fla., also was third at 185 pounds after winning five of his six matches.  He had a pin and two major decisions among his victories. 

              Freshman Grady Fox of Augusta, Kan., earned bonus points in all four of the matches he won at 149 pounds in the Amateur Division.  Redshirt Colton Gehlhausen of Pinedale, Wyo., was 3-2 at 165.