Five Nevada Tigers remain in contention for state wrestling championship rounds on Saturday

Nevada walked away from the first round of state wrestling with half of their wrestlers still fighting for a spot in the championship. Cole Bond pinned Kansas City Center's Greg Carroll in 3-minutes-59-seconds, Spenser Daniels posted a 16-0 technical-fall win over Clayton Dahlberg, of Chillicothe, Ryan Herda won with a major decision, 14-0, over Benton's Eli Relford and Jerrod Alexander pinned Sullivan's Joe Hulsey in 2:56. Mason Heard got the decision over Alex Larson, of Fort Zumwalt-East, 7-6. Trey Miller and Josh Palmer suffered first-round losses but came back with wins in the first round of wrestle-backs. Miller pinned Matt McDonald, of John Burroughs in 4:41 after he was pinned by Oak Grove's Kodie Morgason in 3:24. Palmer won with a 3-minute-45-second pin of Melvin Latimore of the Cleveland N-J-R-O-T-C after losing on a 25-7 technical fall to Odessa's Conrad Cooper. Three Tigers were eliminated with two losses each. Austen Payne suffered a 17-2 technical fall defeat in the first round and was pinned by Oak Grove's Josh Erickson in the wrestlebacks. Oak Grove's Tyler Russell pinned Colby Shepherd in 1:29 and the Nevada junior was eliminated with a 5-1 wrestle-back loss to Kirksville's Jacob Van Hoose. Austin Denning was pinned by Owensville senior Stephen Turner in 67-seconds and eliminated by Platte County's Brock St. Louis in a 40-second wrestleback pin.

Nevada's 22-and-a-half points put the Tigers in sixth place by the end of district two's first round, three-and a-half points ahead of clinton and half-a-point behind Clinton. Oak Grove was the team leader with 29 points. In today's second round, Heard will meet Savannah sophomore Aebersold, Bond wrestles Union's Jake Rice, Daniels is to meet Oak Grove's Tony McMullen, Herda will be matched against Robert Herman, St. Clair, and Alexander is to face Kansas City Ruskin's Anthony Duncan. The tournament continues through Saturday at the Mizzou Arena at Missouri University-Columbia.