Southwest Iowa and Hawkeye 10 wrestling showed very well at the 2016 Iowa High School Wrestling Championships.  Out of the wrestlers we were following in the KJAN listening area there were 4 State Champions, 6 Runner-Ups, and 25 Place-winners.  Champions were: 3A-152 Colton Clingenpeel of Council Bluffs-Thomas Jefferson, 2A-152 Matt Malcom of Glenwood, 2A-170 Chase Shiltz of Creston/Orient-Macksburg, and 1A-126 Alex Thomsen of Underwood.

The Atlantic/CAM Wrestling team had a very good showing by tying a school record with 4 place-winners in one tournament.  Carter Cox led the way with a Runner-Up finish at 113.  Kole Hansen placed 5th at 106.  Zac Stork finished 8th at 182 and John McConkey was also 8th at 285. All Atlantic/CAM wrestlers that came to the tournament made it past day one with Chase McLaren and Keagan Hosfelt also reprenting the team and coming up short on day 2.  All of Atlantic/CAM’s State Qualifiers aside from Hosfelt will be back on a very strong squad next season.

The Creston Orient-Macksburg Panthers wrestling team took advantage of a deep, strong team and took the Class 2A team title.  Aside from Shiltz winning a title at 170 the Panthers also had two Runner-Ups in Seth Maitlen at 195 and Wyatt Thompson at 138.  They finished with 90.5 team points and edged out Clarion-Goldfield-Dows by 8 points in the final standings.  Glenwood finished 4th and Atlantic/CAM was 14th.

Also locally McGwire Midkiff of Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson was Runner-Up at 113 pounds in Class 3A.  Nathan Haynes of Missouri Valley was Runner-Up at 160 in Class 1A.  Tim Barr of AHSTW was Runner-Up at 170 in Class 3A.