The big show: Mount Si trio of seniors cap wrestling season at state

Maybe it was coincidence that Mount Si wrestling's senior class of 2012 happened to compete at state. Maybe, too, it was the effort that the trio of Aaron Peterson, AJ Brevick and Josh Mitchell put in, battling their way through the season. Preparing for the Tacoma trip on their last day of practice, the three wrestled with vigor. "We're drilling hard," said senior Aaron Peterson. "This is all new muscle memory. We're doing a lot of live wrestling, working on stuff that's going to work for state."

February 20, 2012 3:14 pm

Maybe it was coincidence that Mount Si wrestling’s senior class of 2012 happened to compete at state.

Maybe, too, it was the effort that the trio of Aaron Peterson, AJ Brevick and Josh Mitchell put in, battling their way through the season. Preparing for the Tacoma trip on their last day of practice, the three wrestled with vigor.

“We’re drilling hard,” said senior Aaron Peterson. “This is all new muscle memory. We’re doing a lot of live wrestling, working on stuff that’s going to work for state.”

“State is one of my long-term goals,” the senior added.

Mount Si’s trio of seniors ended their season under the Dome. Mitchell, defender of the state title from last year, wound up with a third-place medal as a senior heavyweight.

Mitchell had a bye in the first round, then took down Josh Ingebretson of Hudson’s Bay on round two with a 2:46 minute fall. He then fell to Kyle Cosby of Spokane Valley’s University High School, 8-2. Cosby fell to eventual champ Ian Bolstad of Shorecrest in the final. Meantime, Mitchell clenched third with a 33-second win over Cody Fulleton and a 55-second pin of Sedro-Wooley’s Kevin Rabenstein.

Brevick capped his high school career with seventh place at 160 pounds.

Brevick fell, 16-5, to Connor Rosane of Southridge in the first round, then beat Andre Faciane of Hazen with a 2:14 fall in the consolation bracket. He beat Yelm’s Anthony Allred by points, then fell to Mount Vernon’s Jordan Watts in the third round. He then beat Sunnyside’s Sam Romero for seventh.

At 138 pounds, Peterson fell to University’s Ryan Gabiel in the first round, then beat Bainbridge’s Dylan Read, 4-2, before falling to Mount Spokane’s Sam Wilkes, 8-3.

This is Peterson’s first trip to the Dome. He took fourth at regionals for the opportunity, beating out his prior year’s take of sixth.

One local alternate, Mount Si’s 106-pounder Eli Clure, had a chance to taste state competition in a first round battle with Yelm’s Darren Harris, the eventual champ. Clure was pinned after 1:53.

Looking back on the season, head coach Tony Schlotfeldt was impressed by how his young team took the KingCo tournament.

“We had a lot of young kids who worked really hard,” he said. “It was good to see that.”