When all was said and done Saturday night at the 2007 State Wrestling Tournament in at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines there was only one unbeaten 140-pound wrestler left in Class 3A; Zach McCool of West Delaware.

McCool polished off an unbeaten senior season with 40 straight wins with the last one coming in the Class 3A 140-pound title match.

Just half of the Class 3A champions, seven, finished their season undefeated.

The other six were Nate Moore, 46-0 of Iowa City West at 125-pounds; Nick Moore, 30-0 of Iowa City West at 130-pounds; Ryan Helenthal, 43-0 from Keokuk at 152-pounds; Robert Kellog, 53-0 of Sioux City North at 160-pounds; Jimmy Waters, 50-0 from Lewis Central at 189-pounds and Eric Thompson, 45-0 from Waverly-Shell Rock.

McCool started the tournament with a 5-4 decision over second rated John Nicholson of Des Moines Roosevelt on Thursday morning.

It did get a bit hairy during the final seconds as Edgington was able to turn McCool to his back but it was too late as time ran out before any back points could be awarded.

The climb to that number one spot on the podium has been one of steady progress for Zach. He placed eighth as a freshman at 103-pounds, sixth as a sophomore at 119-pounds and second as a junior at 130-pounds.

The Hawks took seven wrestlers to Des Moines.

Sophomore Nathan Vaske took the mat at 112-pounds and came home with a fifth place medal for the Hawks.

Nathan was seventh in Class 2A at 103-pounds in 2006.

Nathan started out the tournament with an 8-0 major decision over junior Alex Gonzales of Clinton. In his championship quarterfinals match he lost a hard fought 4-3 decision to Cody Swim of Indianola who ended up placing third at 112-pounds.

Nathan came right back after that tough loss to defeat Justin Mather of West Des Moines Valley by major decision, 8-0 to stay alive on the back side of the bracket.

Nathan then dropped a 6-2 decision to Brandon Briggs of Keokuk which landed him in the fifth, sixth place match on Saturday afternoon.

He responded with a 10-6 win over senior, Elijah Rivera of Cedar Rapids Washington to move up two spots on the podium to fifth place.

Freshman, Brett Yonkovic made his first appearance at the state wrestling tournament at 119-pounds for the Hawks.

In his first match Brett dropped a 4-2 decision to junior Drew Lindsey of LeMars before falling in his consolation match, 9-6 to senior Ricky Rodriguez of Johnston.

Rodriguez would go on to place eighth at 119-pounds.

Junior, Nick Ketchum was the Hawks representative at 135-pounds. He lost both of his matches, the first to James Tudor of Newton, 11-4 and the second in the consolation round to Joey Trizzino of Bettendorf, 2-1.

Trizzino went on to place eighth at 135-pounds.

Junior, Tyler Manternach made his first trip to state for the Hawks at 171-pounds.

Tyler won his first match of the tournament, 8-6 in overtime over Zach Slagle a senior from Davenport West.

On Friday Tyler faced the top rated Grant Gambrall of Iowa City West in the championship quarter-finals.

Tyler gave Gambrall a good match before losing, 17-5. In his consolation match Tyler dropped a 12-7 decision to Cory Stonebraker of Cedar Rapids Prairie.

Stonebraker would go on to place fourth at 171-pounds.

The Hawks sophomore 189-pounder, Carl Broghammer had the dubious honor of facing top rated Jimmy Waters of Lewis Central in his first round. Waters claimed an 18-3 tech. fall win over Carl.

In his first round consolation match Carl came right back and picked up his first ever state tournament victory by pinning Tyler Kacmarynski of Spencer at 4:54.

Carl was eliminated from competition when he lost a very close and hard fought, 3-2, match to senior Alex Grafft of Cedar Rapids Washington.

Both of Carl’s losses were to top four finisher’s, Waters was the champion and Grafft placed fourth.
At 215-pounds, senior Steven Broghammer made his first trip to the state wrestling tournament as a competitor.

He had an extremely tough draw in Bojan Djukic from Des Moines East and lost by all at 1:05.

He did a very nice job of coming right back off that loss with a 5-3 win over Gavin Whittaker of Muscatine.

In his third match of the tournament Steven came up just short as he lost to Brian Sievers of Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, 6-5.

Djukic would go on to place fifth and Sievers eighth at 215.