The Bigfork wrestling teams went their separate ways the weekend of Dec. 12-13, with one Viking climbing atop the podium at Superior’s Bob Kinney Classic.  

Holland Jantzen won the heavyweight bracket, scoring pins in both his matches. He took care of Mission-Charlo's Ryan Sharbono in 5:05; in the final he got the fall over Aidan Emerson of Corvallis in 2:36, ending a match that Jantzen led 10-9.  

“He’s doing good,” Clayton Woll, Bigfork’s second-year head coach, said. “He is projected to do well this year. We have some things to work on — there are a couple tough opponents in the state to figure out, and they’re trying to figure us out. Should be a fun season.”  

At 215 Lincoln Ledingham shook off a pin by Libby’s Ian Thom (in 1:20) in the semifinals to pin to opponents — Xavier Sweet of Libby and Tate Smith of Deer Lodge — in a total of 66 seconds to take third.  

Tanner Browning was Bigfork’s third placer, taking fourth at 132 pounds.  

Corvallis won the meet with 204.5 points, followed by Libby with 166.5 and Fairfield at 102. Mission-Charlo was fourth with 80 and Bigfork had 64 points for seventh.  

That same weekend the Bigfork Valkyries competed in the Flathead Girls Invitational in Kalispell and scored 10 points: Aurora Rice went 3-2 at 170 to provide them all. She had three pins, two of them coming in 11 and 40 seconds.  

Another Val, Woll’s daughter Shannon Woll, won two matches in the Hard Luck 113-115 bracket to place first.  

This past week a flu bug hit and only a couple Bigfork wrestlers took part in one mixer, in Hamilton on Dec. 16. Callen Ballard (103) and Noah Rust (118) winning matches by fall and 1-0 decision. 

“We’ve got our home meet coming up Jan. 3 and we should have good numbers then,” said Woll, who has 11 boys and five girls out this season.