{"id":21471,"date":"2020-02-17T14:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63238"},"modified":"2020-02-17T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:33:54","slug":"west-grand-wrestler-rene-dominguez-punches-ticket-to-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/west-grand-wrestler-rene-dominguez-punches-ticket-to-state-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"West Grand wrestler Rene Dominguez punches ticket to state tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Grand junior Rene Dominguez wrestles Jared Richel of Coal Ridge in the 138 pound championship match during a tournament in Kremmling. Dominguez pinned Richel in 1:15.<\/strong>
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West Grand\u2019s Rene Dominguez has qualified for the Class 2A state wrestling tournament by finishing in fourth place at last weekend\u2019s regional tournament in Montrose.<\/p>\n

Wrestling in the 138 pound weight class, Dominguez went 4-2 in his matches on Friday and Saturday, as the two-sport athlete<\/a> posted the Mustangs\u2019 top finish and made state.<\/p>\n

Other top performances for the Mustangs came from Ben Biekert and Omar Dominguez, who were both sixth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a good season,\u201d coach Brian Strathman said of his team, adding that there\u2019s a lot to look forward to next year.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s snowstorm kept the Mustangs from traveling to a tournament in Rawlins, Wyoming, and the time off one week before regionals probably didn\u2019t help West Grand going into the state qualifying contest.<\/p>\n

However, the Mustangs are still young. The wrestling squad that had as few as four wrestlers only a few years ago was up to 16 boys on the roster this year, and there\u2019s only one departing senior.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have everybody coming back but Cameron (Wood), so we\u2019re looking good to the future,\u201d Strathman said.<\/p>\n

The coach credited Wood for strong leadership throughout the season and helping get the program where it is today. At regionals, Wood was 2-2 with both of his victories coming via pins.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a really good year,\u201d Strathman said of the team\u2019s only senior. \u201cHe\u2019s been a good leader for the last four years, and he\u2019s done a lot to bring the program to where it is\u2026 The program is going in the right direction. We just need to take that next step.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state tournament begins Thursday at the Pepsi Center in Denver.<\/p>\n

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West Grand junior Rene Dominguez wrestles Jared Richel of Coal Ridge in the 138 pound championship match during a tournament in Kremmling. Dominguez pinned Richel in 1:15.Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com West Grand\u2019s Rene Dominguez has qualified for the Class 2A state wrestling tournament by finishing in fourth place at last weekend\u2019s regional tournament in Montrose. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 10:56:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}