Buchanan’s Hutchison finishes sixth at the state wrestling finals

Published 11:52 am Sunday, March 7, 2010

Buchanan's Mack Green finished seventh at the Division 3 MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals. (Daily Star Photo/RON HARNER)

Buchanan's Mack Green finished seventh at the Division 3 MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals. (Daily Star Photo/RON HARNER)

From staff reports

AUBURN HILLS – Freshman Gage Hutchison and junior Mack Green of Buchanan finished sixth and seventh respectively at the Michigan High School Division 3 Individual Wrestling Finals over the weekend.

Edwardsburg’s Devin Bywaters placed eighth.

Hutchison (51-6) went 3-3 at the state tournament, which began on Thursday at The Palace of Auburn Hills and wrapped up on Saturday.

Hutchison was defeated by Richmond’s Roger Crump in the 160-pound fifth place match  6-3.

Green (51-4) was 3-2 at the finals, winning the seventh place match at 215-pounds over Jeff Tyburski of Grosse Ile 1-0.

Bywaters posted a 2-3 record at the state finals and finished the year at 37-12.

Bywaters, a senior, dropped his final match of the tournament to Darwin Mathis of Wyoming Godwin Heights 18-13.

Also in Division 3, Dowagiac’s Ben Luth went 1-2 and finished the year at 44-14.

Luth won his first match at 130-pounds on Thursday and then dropped back-to-back matches on Friday and was eliminated.

Buchanan’s Taylor Glavin (103) went 0-2 and finished at 41-14, while Jeff Mucha (130) also lost his first two matches to finish the season at 36-17.

The Bucks’ Adam Byrdak (152) won his first match of the tournament and then dropped the next two and finished at 40-14.

Edwardsburg’s Michael Kempton (112) and Terry Brasfield (140) were both eliminated after the first two rounds.

Kempton finishes the year at 46-15 and Brasfield at 42-18.

In Division 2, Niles’ Colin Burandt lost his first two matches at 130-pounds and ended the year with a 42-17 overall record.

In Division 4, Brandywine’s Chanc Ravish was 1-2 at 125-pounds and Ralph Sater was 0-2 at 135-pounds.

Ravish finishes the year with a 46-12 record.

Sater was injured in his first match on Thursday and then defaulted on Friday to finish with a 45-11 mark on the season.