Brock chosen for Metro Classic
Tonganoxie High senior wrestler Matt Brock has been selected to participate in the 17th annual U.S. Army Metro Classic, an event that pits the best senior prep wrestlers from the metro Kansas City area against each other with grapplers from Kansas taking on Missouri opponents.
Brock (39-7), who will represent Kansas in the 135-pound weight class, will face Tyler Thompson (41-6) of Blue Springs, Mo.
The Metro Classic begins at 7 p.m. on March 11 at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Tickets at the door are $10. All of the profits from the meet go back into wrestling programs in Kansas and Missouri.
Kansas wrestlers
103 — Tyler Stokes, Gardner-Edgerton, 36-2
112 — Alan Calahan, Baldwin, 43-5
119 — James Wauer, K.C. Washington, 33-4
125 — Chaz Lawrence, Olathe South, 46-1
130 — Linwood Peoples, Blue Valley Northwest, 35-6
135 — Matt Brock, Tonganoxie, 39-7
140 — Dustin Zahorsky, Silver Lake, 34-3
145 — Nathan Sommer, Prairie View, 49-2
152 — David Lalo, Olathe East, 39-6
160 — Grant Hinckley, Lansing, 42-4
171 — Joe Newberry, Shawnee Heights, 19-8
171 — Josh VanHolland, Mill Valley, 39-7
189 — Jared Sanchez, Shawnee Mission West, 37-8
215 — Jacob Nowak, St. Thomas Aquinas, 46-1
285 — Jake Woten, Olathe East, 29-8