Taylor lands sixth-place medal at IKWF state meet

Tiger Town Tangler T.J. Dumyahn, right, tries to break free from the grasp of Taylor Schuck of the Central Wrestling Club in Friday's prelims of the IKWF state meet in Rockford. (BCR Photo/ Charlie Ellerbrock)

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ROCKFORD -- Ty Taylor added another state medal to his family's collection by placing sixth in Saturday's Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation state finals at the Rockford Metro Centre. Taylor wrestled in the 108-pound class of senior division, which was loaded with eight returning state medalists, and featured place matches decided by two-points or less. Taylor wrestled four of the returning medalists to gain a sixth-place finish. On Friday, Taylor battled three-time state champ Elias Larson to a 1-0 defeat. He bounced back Saturday to defeat Ryan Lund of the Wrestling Factory 4-3 and then whipped Codee Watson of the Belvidere Bandits 15-7. A IKWF walk-over rule allowed Larson, who had lost his semifinal by one point, to take a second victory over Taylor without the two wrestling again. Taylor moved into the fifth-place match, where he dropped a 4-2 decision on a late reversal by Matt Bochenek of the Celtics Wrestling Club. Also qualifying for Tiger Town, but not placing were sisters Annie and T.J. Dumyahn, and Daniel Rucinski. The Dumyahns were the first set of girls from the same team to qualify for state in the same year. Annie Dumyhan fell 8-2 to Chattman Olson of the Rockford Wrestling Club, who went on to place sixth in the 101-pound class for seniors. In juniors, T.J. Dumyahn (101 pounds) lost to Taylor Schuck of Central Wrestling Club 9-1 and Rucinski (108 pounds) fell 2-1 to Ron Galason of Panther Wrestling Club.