On January 10th, the Goodhue varsity team competed in the PEM Invite. The team competed in 11 weights and finished in 2nd place behind PEM with 159 points, edging Byron by 7 points.
Joel Gadient and Charles Dahling were tourney champs at 126 and 182 pounds. Both recorded pinfalls in each match of the tourney. Jordan Ronningen lost his finals match to finish as a runner-up, and dropping close decisions in the finals were Mason Huemann, falling 3-2 to a Byron opponent that had pinned him in the first match of the year, and Logan Breuer, who fell 9-8 to a ranked Royalton wrestler.
Other placers included Kaleb O’Reilly, Kelby O’Reilly, and Bailee O’Reilly in 3rd place, as well as Casey Deneen and Ryan Schoenfelder in 6th place.