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Saturday’s Pulaski Invitational brings together some of northeastern Wisconsin’s top high school wrestling talent in one final test before conference tournaments and the state tournament series commence.

Six state ranked teams and 53 ranked wrestlers are scheduled to take part in Saturday’s event, which is the 50th annual installment.

The ranked teams include: D1 No. 5 Kaukauna, D1 No. 9 Pulaski, D2 No. 2 Freedom, D2 No. 4 Luxemburg-Casco, D2 No. 5 Denmark, and D3 No. 3 Coleman.

Kaukauna won last year’s event with Luxemburg-Casco and Freedom rounding out the top-3.

As many as 15 of last year’s finalists could be back this year, including seven 2018 champions: Lucas Joniaux (Luxemburg-Casco, 106), Eric Barnett (Hortonville, 113), Caleb Gross (Coleman, 120), Bryce Bosman (Luxemburg-Casco, 126), Daniel Stilling (Elkhorn, 132), Jake Baldwin (Coleman), 138), and Bryson Alsteen (Kaukauna, 182).

Barnett, Gross, Bosman, Baldwin and Alsteen are all ranked No. 1 in their respective weight classes according to the latest Wisconsin Wrestling Online Rankings.

Barnett is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation at 120 pounds by InterMat.

Fourteen of the 16 teams competing have at least one state-ranked wrestler. Eight of them have four or more. A list of the ranked competitors, by team, can be found below:

Note: All rankings are based on the latest Wisconsin Wrestling Online rankings and reflect the wrestler’s ranking in their given division.

Antigo (2): No. 12 Benjamin Stimac, sr., 132; No. 5 Collinn Eldridge, sr., 182

Bay Port (2): No. 12 Drake Anderson, soph. 182; No. 2 Max Meeuwsen, jr., 285

Coleman (11): No. 10 Chance Gruber, fr., 106; No. 1 Koltin Grzybowski, sr., 113; No. 4 Kasey Casper, sr., 120; No. 1 Caleb Gross, sr., 132; No. 4 Karson Casper, fr., 138; No. 1 Jake Baldwin, sr., 145; No. 3 Bryce Karban, sr., 152; No. 4 Tyler Blanchard, soph., 160; No. 4 Shamus McClain, jr., 170; No. 4 John Bieber, jr., 195; No. 2 Brock Martinson, sr., 285

Denmark (4): No. 11 Alec Bergelin, fr., 106; No. 4 Ethan Schwarz, soph., 138; No. 4 Gabe Wertel. Jr., 195; No. 6 TJ Weidman, sr., 220

Elkhorn (3): No. 3 Payton Jacobson, soph., 113; No. 2 Daniel Stilling, sr., 145; No. 11 Colman Karl, jr., 152

Freedom (5): No. 7 Carsten McHugh, soph., 120; No. 4 Colby McHugh, jr., 126; No. 10 Koy Murphy, sr., 132; No. 1 Sam Peters, sr., 160; No. 12 Grant Williamson, sr., 220

Hortonville (2): No. 1 Eric Barnett, sr., 126; No. 7 Colin Schuler, sr., 170

Kaukauna (4): No. 4 Jaden Verhagen, jr., 113; No. 6 Brandon Micksch sr., 132; No. 12 Harrison Brooks, sr., 160; No. 1 Bryson Alsteen, sr., 182

Luxemburg-Casco (6): No. 9 Hunter Joniaux, fr., 106; No. 2 Lucas Joniaux, jr., 120; No. 1 Bryce Bosman, sr., 132; No. 2 Nathan Ronsman, sr., 152; No. 6 Colton Worachek, sr., 160; No. 1 Reece Worachek, jr., 170

New London (2): No. 10 Damian Polanco, soph., 106; No. 4 Travis Kuhnke, sr., 285

Oconto Falls (4): No. 4 Jager Eisch, soph., 113; No. 11 Collin Schindel, sr., 120; No. 3 Clayton Whiting, fr., 152; No. 12 Aiden Stary, soph., 170

Pulaski (5): No. 2 Owen Heinz, sr., 113; No. 6 Cole Gille, sr., 126; No. 8 Lucas Gracyalny, sr., 182; No. 11 Derek Gibbons, sr., 220; No. 3 Liam Fahey, sr., 285

Seymour (2): No. 3 Wyatt Kaczrowski, soph., 113; No. 8 Brady Eick, jr., 182

West De Pere (1): No. 6 Evan Frisque, sr., 170