Bloodhounds win SEC wrestling tourney

FAIRFIELD – Fort Madison brought home five titles at the Southern Iowa Classic in Fairfield Saturday.
The event functions as a Southeast Conference tournament and the Bloodhounds took the title with 199 points followed by Fairfield 152 and Mt. Pleasant 139.5
The Bloodhound’s heavyweight Baylor Ferreira (18-12) captured first place and had the most mat time of the day for Fort Madison. Berreira went 5-0 on the day without a bye. He did get a forfeit win over Fort Madison’s Cal Hennings, but wrestled out the rest of his matches for the title. Hennings was runner-up in the 285 lb. bracket.
A semifinal win over Washington’s Rudy Wolfe was one of the more dramatic wins for the Hounds. Ferreira got a takedown at the halfway point of the first period, but Wolfe was able to escape 10 seconds later. The two stayed at 3-1 until the third period when Ferreira executed a reversal from a down start for a 5-1 lead, but Wolfe would get a turnaround of his own a minute later to cut the lead to 5-3. Ferrier would get an escape with less than 10 seconds remaining to factor out any late Wolfe points to win the match and advance to the finals.
He would record a first period pinfall over Keokuk’s Dylan Whitaker for the title.
2025 State qualifier James Fuller went 3-0 on the day working some techniques and recording three technical falls at 126 lbs. His 21-6 tech fall over Mt. Pleasant’s Lane Beckler (23-10) earned him the title.
Zane Houtz captured first place at 113 lbs. also going 3-0 on the day including a bye in round one and two falls over Burlington’s Gavin Navarro and Fairfield’s Quinn Settles both in the first period.

Jack Benner (30-14) placed 1st at 165 lbs going 3-0 with the first round bye. He scored first period falls over Fairfield’s Kenneth Houston and Keokuk’s Zeke Scott.
Ren Watson breezed through the 215 lb. bracket with a first-round bye and then pins over Owen Ferch of Mt. Pleasant and Xavier Rice of Burlington both in the first period.
Easton Richers finished runner-up at 132 after falling to Fairfield’s Jasper Carpenter by tech fall 18-3 in the championship match. He went 2-1 on the day.
Fort Madison got another runner-up finish from Ryker Peters. Peters went 4-1 on the day with a second round bye. He lost to Fairfield’s Dusty Hayes by tech fall 16-0 in the title match at 150 lbs.
The other runner-up finish belonged to Peter Seyb who went 4-1 with a 3rd round bye. Mt. Pleasant’s Ramzy Davis defeated Seyb in the title match with a late pin in the third period with 30 seconds left in the match. Seyb trailed just 3-0 and had control in the final period, but Davis executed a reversal with Seyb getting aggressive for points and turned it into a fall for the win.
Adan Oronia and Clifford Stewart each had 3rd place finishes to help the Hounds to the team title.
The Bloodhounds wrap up the regular season Tuesday with a dual at Burlington High School against the Grayhounds.