{"id":34137,"date":"2026-02-21T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=34137"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:51:27","slug":"z-team-live-blog-ihsaa-state-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/z-team-live-blog-ihsaa-state-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-Team Live Blog: IHSAA State Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DAY TWO COVERAGE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three wrestlers survived the opening round from our coverage area and they represented their respective schools, conferences and Z-Land well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan Ogg handed Center Grove a rare loss on the day with a 9-5 win over Marcus Malone in the quarterfinals at 150. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malone scored the opening takedown, but it was all Ogg after that, as he won his 45th match of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the semis, Ogg was pinned by Penn State-bound and #1-ranked Clinton Shepherd of Crown Point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ogg had the opening takedown against #3 Gunner Butt and led in the dying seconds, but a takedown by Butt at the death gave the New Pal wrestler a 6-4 win in the third-place medal. Dylan’s season end with a fourth-place spot on the podium later Saturday night and a 45-4 record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brason Schortgen found little traction in his morning match against Mater Dei’s Camden Baumann, falling into a big hole and eventually succumbing by fall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schortgen bounced back, however, and dominated Cameron Sommers in the consolation semis, 7-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schortgen then finished his season in the fifth-place match against Oliver Hallett of Indian Creek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brason’s takedown with 14 seconds left in the second period was the difference in the 4-2 bout. The junior finished the tournament in fifth place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xavior Palacios took advantage of an early scramble to score the opening takedown, then got a reversal for another lead in the second period, but Colin McMahon dominated the last three minutes of the bout and went on to a 14-6 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The loss dropped Bellmont’s senior 190 to the consolation round, where he met junior Cori Tonte of Franklin Community. Tonte had two takedowns early in the match and a late three pointer by Palacios was not enough to prevent him from dropping to the seventh-place match for the second straight season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palacios was never going to allow his season to end with another eighth-place and it was fitting that he ended his career with a fall, pinning Lucas Anderson of Chesterton at the end of the second period with a seventh-place finish and his 157th career victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAY ONE COVERAGE<\/p>\n\n\n\n