Prairie Wrestling

This Uthoff is a wrestler for Prairie

If your last name is Uthoff, you can either play basketball during the winter or you can wrestle.

Sam Uthoff is a wrestler for Cedar Rapids Prairie. And he's a darn good one.

"The story that my dad always told me is, if you're tall and a Uthoff you go to Jefferson to play basketball," he said Saturday, "and the Uthoffs that go to Prairie are wrestlers.

"It makes the name sound good when they're both pretty good."

Uthoff upheld the family name Saturday by capturing the 126-pound title at the Independence Invitational with three pins and a decision.

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3 Metro teams make wrestling poll

Jefferson, Prairie and Linn-Mar have been ranked in the top 10 of the initial Class 3A wrestling poll for the 2014-15 campaign.

The J-Hawks are ranked No. 3, Prairie is ranked No. 4 and Linn-Mar is ranked No. 7.

Southeast Polk is ranked No. 1 in Class 3A, followed by Bettendorf.

Jefferson has seven ranked wrestlers with Brenden Baker No. 2 at 113 pounds, Luke Sedlacek No. 3 at 160, Kyle Briggs No. 4 at 132, Dalton Kuehl No. 5 at 285, Kelly May No. 6 at 182, Tavian Rashed No. 7 at 152 and Joseph Sibomana No. 10 at 120.

Prairie features six ranked wrestlers with Marcus England No. 2 at 106 pounds, Josh Wenger No. 2 at 138, Sam Uthoff No. 3 at 126, Jarod Cadena No. 8 at 182, Jonah Manson No. 8 at 220 and Taylor Mehman No. 9 at 195.

Linn-Mar has five ranked grapplers with Shea Hartzler No. 2 at 160, Matt Wempen No. 3 at 145, Noah Ajram No. 5 at 120, Sam Nowak No. 6 at 220 and Toby Northrup No. 8 at 152.

The Xavier Saints have three ranked wrestlers with Clint Lembeck No. 2 at 132, Josh Gerke No. 6 at 126 and Jeff Vipond No. 9 at 106.

Kennedy has two ranked wrestlers with Nolan Hromidko No. 3 at 120 and Logen Rodriguez No. 5 at 145.

CLASS 3A TEAM RANKINGS
The Predicament

1. Southeast Polk, 2. Bettendorf, 3. Jefferson, 4. Prairie, 5. Iowa City West, 6. Fort Dodge, 7. Linn-Mar, 8. North Scott, 9. Dowling, 10. Council Bluffs Jefferson.

No.4 Prairie Hawks pin Rams

The fourth-ranked Cedar Rapids Prairie wrestling team collected nine pins Thursday night and flattened Dubuque Senior, 74-6, in the Mississippi Valley Conference opener at Prairie.

Sam Uthoff, Seth Wennermark, Josh Wenger, Morgan Hood, Derek Horak, Nick Hogan, Jarod Cadena, Tyler Pasker and Mitch Demmer had pins for the Hawks.

Uthoff got his pin in 10 seconds.

PRAIRIE 74, DUBUQUE SENIOR 6

126 - Sam Uthoff (P) pinned Marty Steffen, 0:10

132 - Seth Wennermark (P) pinned Joe Budde, 2:42

138 - Josh Wenger (P) pinned Matt Connolly, 1:37

145 - Chase St. John (P) major dec. Luke  Hoerner, 12-4

152 - Morgan Hood (P) pinned Cameron Steffen, 2:41

160 - Derek Horak (P) pinned Jake Osterberger, 4:27

170 - Nick Hogan (P) pinned Payton Moeggenberg, 1:10

182 - Jarod Cadena (P) pinned Demarcus Johnson, 1:51

195 - Taylor Mehmen (P) major dec. Hunter Thoma, 13-5

220 - Tyler Pasker (P) pinned Jonny Massman, 3:19

285 - Mitch Demmer (DS) pinned Dylan Bevins, 3:14

106 - Marcus England (P) won by forfeit

113 - Lucas Harmening (P) won by forfeit

120 - Dylan Kleinschmidt (P) won by forfeit

No.4 Prairie Hawks pin Rams

The fourth-ranked Cedar Rapids Prairie wrestling team collected nine pins Thursday night and flattened Dubuque Senior, 74-6, in the Mississippi Valley Conference opener at Prairie.

Sam Uthoff, Seth Wennermark, Josh Wenger, Morgan Hood, Derek Horak, Nick Hogan, Jarod Cadena, Tyler Pasker and Mitch Demmer had pins for the Hawk.

Uthoff got his pin in 10 seconds.

PRAIRIE 74, DUBUQUE SENIOR 6

126 - Sam Uthoff (P) pinned Marty Steffen, 0:10

132 - Seth Wennermark (P) pinned Joe Budde, 2:42

138 - Josh Wenger (P) pinned Matt Connolly, 1:37

145 - Chase St. John (P) major dec. Luke  Hoerner, 12-4

152 - Morgan Hood (P) pinned Cameron Steffen, 2:41

160 - Derek Horak (P) pinned Jake Osterberger, 4:27

170 - Nick Hogan (P) pinned Payton Moeggenberg, 1:10

182 - Jarod Cadena (P) pinned Demarcus Johnson, 1:51

195 - Taylor Mehmen (P) major dec. Hunter Thoma, 13-5

220 - Tyler Pasker (P) pinned Jonny Massman, 3:19

285 - Mitch Demmer (DS) pinned Dylan Bevins, 3:14

106 - Marcus England (P) won by forfeit

113 - Lucas Harmening (P) won by forfeit

120 - Dylan Kleinschmidt (P) won by forfeit