All-GNC

tional qualifier and with a 26-15 record.

Lissner, a sophomore, earned his first GNC title by going unbeaten at 138 pounds. He got two pins and three forfeits in the dual-meet season and finished things off with pins in all three of his contested matches at the GNC tournament. He stuck Mosinee’s Jack Schippers in 50 seconds, Rhinelander’s Dresden Klaver in 3:28 and Tomahawk’s Ryan Larson in 3:57 to win the championship. Larson was the runner-up last year too at 138 pounds.

Lissner finished the season at 35-17 after placing third at the super regional and qualifying for the sectional.

Kawa, a junior, was a GNC runner-up for the second straight season but ended his year as the sixth-place wrestler in the state in Division 2 at 160 pounds. He went 49-13 this year.

Kawa went 5-0 in GNC duals, winning matches at three different weight classes (170, 182 and 160). After finishing second at 170 pounds in the GNC last year, he took second at 160 in this year’s tournament, beating Antigo’s Nolan Kielcheski 6-0 and then falling in a tight 2-1 decision to Lakeland’s Zane Grams. Kawa beat Grams 5-2 in the teams’ Jan. 20 dual.

In the post-season, Kawa won the championship at the super regional and placed second at the Amery sectional. He won two matches at the state tournament, advancing to the semifinals where he ran into four-time state champion Braeden Scoles of Kewaskum.

Rothmeier, a sophomore, won the GNC’s 132-pound title last year, but he had a challenge bumping all the way up to 170 for this year’s tournament. He went 5-0 in the duals, rotating between 160 and 170 pounds. In the tournament, he racked up three pins and a 14-5 major decision over third-place finisher Logan Schwinger of Rhinelander. In the title bout, he was outlasted by Antigo senior Robby Hagerty 14-7. Rothmeier finished a solid second season at 24-11, earning one win at the super regional.

Weissmiller, a junior, earned his first All-GNC award with a strong run at 220 pounds. He went 4-1 in the duals with two pins and two forfeits. His only loss was a pin to Lakeland’s Division 1 state qualifier Landon Saglin and Saglin got him again in the GNC tournament, earning an 8-3 decision in the title bout. Before that match, Weissmiller got three pins, including one in 3:40 over third-place finisher Teryn Walls of Mosinee.

Weissmiller (34-21) ended his year at the Kohl Center after advancing with a third-place finish at the super regional and a third-place finish at the Amery sectional.

Dietzman, a junior in his first season as a wrestler, lost his first conference match by pin to Rhinelander’s Owen Kurtz on Jan. 5 but then completed the duals with two pins and two forfeits and pinned Lakeland’s Esaube Brown in 1:47 in the tournament to earn a championship rematch with Kurtz. Dietzman took Kurtz into overtime before losing 6-1 to place second. He advanced to the sectional with a second-place finish at the super regional, got a pin at the WIAA Division 2 team sectional semifinal against Baldwin- Woodville and ended a solid first year at 32-16.

Schilling, a freshman, gave Medford valuable points during the year at 106 pounds in a weight class not many teams were able to fill. He earned three forfeit victories there in the GNC duals and got three more in the tournament to earn honorable mention. He lost matches to champion and state qualifier Presley Gutbrod of Tomahawk and to junior Logan Gray-Ives of Lakeland.