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The Buena Vista Demons made it back-to-back fifth place state finishes when five wrestlers went to the medal stand on Saturday night at Ball Arena.

By Bob Marken

The Buena Vista Demons won the Tri-Peaks League team championship. Six Buena Vista wrestlers earned Tri-Peaks League All Conference.

Buena Vista went to another highly competitive multi-classification tournament the past weekend and finished fifth behind Centauri, Alamosa, Eaton and Mullen.

The Buena Vista grapplers head to Christmas break with a tournament victory in their final event of 2021.

The Buena Vista Demons wrestled to the regional championship by more than 50 team points and qualified nine to a pared-down state field Saturday. “This year’s region was different than in years past where 56 athletes per region would qualify. This year with lessening the numbers, only 28 athletes per region qualified,” BVHS coach Jared Todd explained. “State will be an 8-man bracket and not 16. “Your Demons ate up over 30% of the allocations in our region and finished t...

The third-ranked Demon wrestlers began the season with just a handful of grapplers at a quadrangular meet in Florence Saturday. Due to COVID protocols, Buena Vista filled just seven weight classes from an experience-laden squad and took their lumps in the opening match, were close in the second and won the third team match of the day. David Arellano, Elijah Evans, Haden Camp and Seth Moss had their hands raised for BV in a 52-18 loss to Lamar. “All seven athletes competed and never let the...