- 1/15/00
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- 2000 St. Cloud Tech Kiffmeyer Duals
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- #5 Cambridge got a fall from Matt Henderson with the
score tied 4-4 and the team score tied at 26-26 to
capture the 2000 Kiffmeyer Duals. Cambridge won seven
matches with three coming by the way of the fall. Brad
Zilmer at 135, Travis Fuhol at 152, and Henderson at
heavyweight all recorded falls. The win ended Hastings
four year reign as Kiffmeyer Duals champs.
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- A large crowd once again attended the Duals which had
five state ranked teams and 16 state ranked wrestlers.
this years Duals were one of the closest contested duals
ever as many of the matches came down to heayweight.
Cambridge's win at heavyweight sealed their victory over
Hastings, St. Cloud Tech's win at heavyweight sealed
their victory over Hutchinson, Hutchinson won at
heavyweight to beat Moorhead, and Brainerd's heavyweight
won by a fall to beat Waconia.
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- This years B-squad matches were also closely
contested. In the B-squad division, Cambridge came back
from a 20-6 defecit to beat St. Cloud Tech in the finals
36-20, for third it was Hutchinson over Waconia. For 5th
place Elk River beat Hastings, and for 7th Brianerd beat
Moorhead.
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- The three state champions at the duals went 3-0 as
Josh McLay at 160 won by a fall, a tech fall, and a
major. Chris McAlpine won by a tech fall, fall, and a
fall, while teammate Clint Martin won 7-6 over Timm from
Waconia, 10-7 over Peterson of Cambridge, and a tech
fall. The Duals had 16 state ranked wrestlers and 20
wrestlers who were in the 1999 State Tournament.
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- The highest ranking matchup individually was #2 Zajac
of hastings wrestling # 3 Steve Schlagheck of St. Cloud
Tech. Zajac came away with a 4-3 win. another high
ranking match was at 112 where #4 Fiedler of Cambridge
beat Hasting's Jeff Kranz who was ranked #3 at 112.
Feidler beat him 8-4 scoring 7 points in the third
period.
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- The Kiffmeyer Duals are in honor of long-time
wrestling coach Jim Kiffmeyer who coached the tiger's for
27 years. Mr Kiffmeyer's son Kevin was the announcer and
host of the tourney. Jim Kiffmeyer wrestled at St. Cloud
Tech, wrestled for SCSU and caoched a tought at St. Cloud
Tech high. all who knew Jim would know that this great
sport is a little bit better because he was part of it.
the Kiffmeyer Duals, which is recognized now as one of
the strongest, classiest dual tournaments in the midwest,
is a fine tribute to a fine man, Jim Kiffmeyer.
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- Next year, all eight teams will be back to go at it
again. The only difference will be the color of the Dauls
shirts; red and blue instead of the previous champions
yellow and blue. next year the duals will be on Jan.
14th. see you there.
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- Dave Schorn
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