Pioneers travel to Augsburg Open

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The UW-Platteville team had multiple top-six finishes in the three levels offered at the ultra-competitive Augsburg Open Saturday at Augsburg College.

Lucius Rinehart took fourth place in the Gold-285 pounds level after he topped Iowa Lakes' Andre Bissainthe in a 2-0 decision and fell to the third place bracket with a 4-6 loss to Southwest Minnesota State's Andrew Peterson.

Grant Wedepohl ended the day with a 4-2 decision over Southwest Minnesota State's Griffin Osing in the Gold- 174 pounds 5^th place bout. Wedepohl started the day off with a 20-0 technical fall over St. Johns' Daniel Gainer. After being pinned by Upper Iowa's Jordan Gundrum who went on to finish second, Wedepohl defeated Central's Andrew McCracken by technical fall 16-0 to advance to the 5^th place match.

Chase Katzenmeyer finished in 6^th place in the Gold-141 pound bracket. Katzenmeyer won his first match in an 8-3 decision over Parker Huss to then drop by pin fall to Minnesota State Mankato' Louie Sanders in 1:35. Katzenmeyer came back with a 10-2 major decision over Upper Iowa's Ryan Schmalen before falling in the 5^th place round to Tanner Day.

In the Silver level, Devan VandenBush and Jacob Sklenar battled it out and took 1^st and 2^nd in the final 165-pound bout. VandenBush won the final match by a 10-2 major decision.

Also finishing in the top-six of their weight-classes were Peter Driscoll in Silver-174 pounds, Tanner Weber in Silver-285 pounds, and Brandon Lucht in the Bronze-157 pounds weight class.

The Pioneers will take a break until they hit the road in December and travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the MSOE invite.