PORT HURON — Months of preparation have led to this point.
The 2026 MHSAA wrestling individual state finals begin Friday, March 6, at Ford Field in Detroit.
Here are the athletes who qualified from the Blue Water Area, followed by their first-round matchups.
DIVISION 1
Austin Helwig, Port Huron Northern, 120 pounds: Helwig will face Saline’s Brice LaFleur.
Wyatt Snyder, Port Huron Northern, 157 pounds: Snyder will meet Grandville’s Cody Thompson.
DIVISION 2
Jack Reyes, Algonac, 113 pounds: Reyes will face Adrian’s Micah Blaker.
Benicio Martinez, Croswell-Lexington, 120 pounds: Martinez will meet Portland’s Branlun Simon.
Cristian Haslem, St. Clair, 126 pounds: Haslem will face Allendale’s Dante Ramos.
Christian Brown, Algonac, 126 pounds: Brown will meet New Boston Huron’s Daniel Gemmel.
Braylon Davis, Croswell-Lexington, 126 pounds: Davis will face Lowell’s Carson Blum.
Aiden Davidson, Port Huron, 132 pounds: Davidson will meet Otsego’s Zeke Andrina.
Vincent Finn, Algonac, 132 pounds: Finn will face Mason’s Darius Ambs.
Jayce Stockwell, St. Clair, 150 pounds: Stockwell will meet Hamilton’s Bryce Morrison.
Antonio Gonzalez, Croswell-Lexington, 150 pounds: Gonzalez will meet Plainwell’s Thomas Almaguer.
Nate Clemons, Algonac, 150 pounds: Clemons will face Charlotte’s Tyler Densmore.
Julian Walker, Algonac, 165 pounds: Walker will meet Jackson Northwest’s Jack Edwards.
Dustin Junga, Croswell-Lexington, 175 pounds: Junga will face St. Joseph’s Mitch Culver.
Andrew Brown, Algonac, 175 pounds: Brown will meet Eaton Rapids’ Gavin Sebastian.
Trevor Jarvi, Algonac, 215 pounds: Jarvi will face St. Clair’s Ethen Forro.
Ethen Forro, St. Clair, 215 pounds: Forro will meet Algonac’s Trevor Jarvi.
DIVISION 3
Pierce Moran, Yale, 106 pounds: Moran will face Hopkins’ Carson Struble.
Max Kanniainen, Armada, 106 pounds: Kanniainen will meet Kent City’s Dylan Russo.
William Lawson, Yale, 113 pounds: Lawson will face Blissfield’s Jude Rosas.
Luke Kanniainen, Armada, 120 pounds: Kanniainen will meet Ovid-Elsie’s William Baese.
Kason Soucy, Yale, 120 pounds: Soucy will face Erie-Mason’s Danny Vaneeckhoutte.
Matthaus Schade, Richmond, 126 pounds: Schade will meet Hart’s Kole Thomas.
Mackey McClelland, Yale, 126 pounds: McCelland will face Cheboygan’s Evan Fradette.
Daniel Rojas, Imlay City, 132 pounds: Rojas will meet Ogemaw Heights’ Apollo Goulette.
Logan Rhodes, Yale, 132 pounds: Rhodes will face Sanford Meridian’s Brodie Pierce.
Collin Lum, Richmond, 138 pounds: Lum will meet Delton Kellogg’s Evan Stampfler.
Chase Sopha, Yale, 138 pounds: Sopha will face Brooklyn Columbia Central’s Elijah Losey.
Austin Rhodes, Yale, 144 pounds: Rhodes will meet Grand Rapids West Catholic’s Andrew Laperna.
Kersten McClelland, Yale, 144 pounds: McClelland will face Belding’s Ryan Woods.
Evan Kanniainen, Armada, 150 pounds: Kanniainen will meet Montague’s Fletcher Thommen.
Levi Frazer, Yale, 150 pounds: Frazer will face Dowagiac’s Cameron White.
Brady Dahn, Imlay City, 157 pounds: Dahn will meet Whitehall’s Liam Leeke.
Trace Lietz, Armada, 165 pounds: Lietz will face Orchard View’s Darius Flowers.
Logan Chunn, Armada, 175 pounds: Chunn will meet Orchard View’s Ca’Mari Reese.
Charles Bennett, Armada, 285 pounds: Bennett will face Delton Kellogg’s Mitchell Swift.
DIVISION 4
Gabriel Peters, Capac, 106 pounds: Peters will meet Hesperia’s Carter Fuentes.
Aedyn Pasco, Brown City, 120 pounds: Pasco will face Whittemore-Prescott’s Jayden Goupil.
Victor Venetis, Sandusky, 132 pounds: Venetis will meet Springport’s Raymond Courter.
Jayce Halbert, Brown City, 150 pounds: Halbert will face Manchester’s Blake Sloan.
Ryan McKenney, Sandusky, 157 pounds: McKenney will meet Perry’s Aiden Turner.
Kaleb Pietrzak, Capac, 285 pounds: Pietrzak will face Mayville’s Solomon Fisher.
GIRLS DIVISION
Bree Adame, Sandusky, 100 pounds: Adame will meet St. Clair Shores Lakeview’s Lillee Denson.
Pauline Chapman, Richmond, 110 pounds: Chapman will face Lowell’s Lana Sheehan.
Gianna Hoskins, Yale, 110 pounds: Hoskins will meet Grayling’s Chloe Malone.
Adriana Murray, Yale, 125 pounds: Murray will face Livonia Stevenson’s Kerrington Fields-McCurdy.
Allie Beaune, Marysville, 125 pounds: Beaune will meet Monroe Jefferson’s Morgan Simota.
Lydia Stevens, Yale, 130 pounds: Stevens will face Holt’s Janelle Gundrum.
Jasmine Walker, Algonac, 140 pounds: Walker will meet Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills’ Karen Bishop.
Ava Klink, Capac, 155 pounds: Klink will face Ferndale’s Niyar Rines.
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This article originally appeared on Port Huron Times Herald: These 50 Blue Water Area wrestlers qualified for MHSAA state finals
Reporting by Brenden Welper, Port Huron Times Herald / Port Huron Times Herald
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