A group of area wrestlers captured individual championships at the Lee Wolf Invitational Saturday at Golden Eagles Arena.
Aberdeen Central's Rayden Zens and Madyson Gillen, and Webster's Caleb McGregor and Annie Witt each claimed titles during the event which featured teams from South Dakota and North Dakota.
Zens won the 120-pound championship with a 5-0 victory. The sophomore said he learned from a previous match that he needed to be more aggressive in the final.
"Going into that match, I knew I needed to start shooting," Zens said. "The game plan was just to score as many points as possible."
Central coach Donnie Bowden said the sophomore put himself in good positions throughout the day.
"Rayden might have wrestled the best positionally that he’s done all year. He went out there and attacked," Bowden said. "He got to exactly where he needed to be. He was never in danger in any one of those matches."
Zens has now won back-to-back tournaments, taking one in Iowa la
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