Rochester, MN hosts the MN Christmas Tournament featuring some of the best teams from across Minnesota. The tournament consisted of 14 weight classes and each weight class had a bracket of 32. Each wrestler was guaranteed four matches.

The Raiders had their best team finish in over a decade and came home with two tournament champions, Trey Beissel at

106 pounds and Blake Beissel at 113 pounds. As a team, they finished in third place out of 33 teams with a score of 430. Simley placed first with 485 and St. Michael-Albertville claimed second with 467.5. Here are the individual results.

106-Trey Beissel-1st place

113-Blake Beissel-1st place

120-Taylon Little Soldier-18th place

126-Peyton Erickson-20th place

132-Jack Bainbridge-9th place

138-Mark Svoboda-Consolation bracket-1st

145-Josh Route-6th place

152-Creed Peterson-12th place

160-Aiden Erickson-6th place 170-Ian Pepple-13th place

182-Rico Cooper-13th place

195-Derrick Steinke-7th place

220-Austin Leflay-4th place Heavy Weight-Blake Clemons-4th place Congratulations to all the Raider wrestlers on a solid weekend of wrestling. The Raiders travel to LaCrosse, Wisconsin on December 29 for the weekend long Bi-State Classic, the biggest tournament in the region for the regular season. They return to dual action at home against Two Rivers on January

12 at 5:00 p.m.