Oak Creek wrestlers defend invitational title

Oak Creek’s wrestling team made itself at home at Brookfield Central again.

The Knights, who won the Lancer Invitational the past two seasons, reached the final in six weight classes Saturday and brought home four titles on the way to the championship of the 14-team event. Oak Creek finished with 384 points, 25 better than second-place Sparta.

Nolan Paar won one of those titles. After a first-round bye, he scored two pins and a technical fall before pinning Sparta’s Matt Fahning at 4 minutes 19 seconds to win the 170-pound title. Mitch Landgraf also had a dominant day, winning his first two matches at 120 by pin and later defeating Fort Atkinson’s Nolan Krause, 3-2, in the final.

Oak Creek’s other champions were Matt Berlin, who defeated Beaver Dam standout Devin De Los Angeles, 5-4, in the 126-pound final, and John Wright, who took the 195pound class with a 9-6 win over Sparta’s Austin Zwiefel.

Badger Invitational: Jared Krattiger stormed through the 182-pound bracket with nothing less than a major decision to lead Waterford to the title. The Wolverines, who won six weight classes, had 298.5 points, 181⁄2 better than secondplace Sun Prairie.

Craig Belcher Invite: In one of the marquee matches, Pewaukee’s Blaze Beltran defeated Milwaukee King’s Liam Arnold, 2-1, in the final round of the 285-pound round robin.

Beltran helped the Pirates win the title at Milwaukee Hamilton ahead of Valders, 434-402.

Van Duser Duals: Menomonee Falls went 5-0 at the ninth annual meet at South Milwaukee. Falls’ closest dual was a 54-30 victory over Kenosha Bradford.

DeForest Invite: Elkhorn, the area’s top-ranked team, got victories from Grant Tuesdale (113), Benji Peak (132) and Danny Stilling (138) on the way to winning the team title. BOYS BASKETBALL

Arrowhead 77, Homestead 72: Trevell Cunningham finished with 24 points in the victory.

Kimberly 52, Kettle Moraine 39: Nicklaus Dahman had 12 points for the Lasers, who fell to one of the state’s top teams.