Going with only four wrestlers, two of those Bobcat grapplers placed and Superior scored 55 team points at the Cut Bank Invitational last Friday and Saturday.

Hoping to go with as many as seven wrestlers this week, coach Charlie Crabb and his Bobcats head to Missoula for the prestigious Jug Beck Rocky Mountain Classic in Missoula Friday and Saturday.

Originating in the baby-step days of prep wrestling in Montana back in the 1970s, the Classic, also referenced to as the RMC, plays host to some of the biggest and best teams in the northwest, from across Montana, but also including some from Idaho and Washington. Since its inception, Superior has been a player in it, a little local school competing with the giants of the sport on its biggest stage in Missoula.

In 1995 the tourney was renamed in honor of Beck, the Missoula coaching legend.

“We are the only Class C school in it, competing with mostly A and AA teams,” Crabb said. "We’ve been going to this tournament since the beginning and don’t want to give up our spot in it now. If we did, we probably wouldn’t be able to get back in it.”

To the surprise of no one in the Montana high school wrestling business, Bobcat grapplers have done quite well individually in particular at the RMC in the past. A tradition Crabb would undoubtedly like to continue.

In Cut Bank, junior Turner Milender returned to the mat last week after nursing an injury through the first month of the season, and wasted no time in returning to form, winning fourth place in a tough 175 pound weight class.

Senior Wade Calloway wrestled down fifth place at 144. Ethan Durvey went 1-2 at 157 and Cael Crabb 2-2 at 138.

“The kids wrestled pretty good, the competition was really good in Cut Bank,” coach Crabb said. “We look forward to getting everybody in the lineup and wrestling well in Missoula this week.