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Wheaton, Ill. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse wrestling team is in third-place after the first day at the Wheaton College (Ill.) Pete Willson Invitational Friday night. The Eagles have 78.5 team points.
 
UW-Eau Claire leads with 97.0 points while UW-Whitewater is second with 94.0. Cornell College (Iowa) is in fourth-place with 69.0. A total of 30 teams scored points. 
 
UWL advanced three wrestlers to Saturday's semifinals
 
Quintin Wolbert, ranked 14th in the NWCA at 125-pounds, went 3-0 on Friday, opening with a fall (2:16) over Bryce Arnold of Messiah College (Ohio) in the first round followed by a technical fall (16-1, 4:55) over UW-Platteville's Chris Karbash in the second round. He won by decision (5-3) over Fred Luchs of Rhode Island College in the quarterfinals. Wolbert will face UW-Whitewater's Jalen Dunson in Saturday's semifinals.
 
The Eagles' Wyatt Magolski also went 3-0, earned a win by fall (4:40) in his first match at 133-pounds over Sam Deyro of Augustana College (Ill.). He advanced to the quarterfinals with a second round victory by decision (6-4) over Calvin Singewald of UW-Eau Claire. In Friday's quarterfinals, Magolski won by fall (4:38) over Wheaton's (Ill.) Anthony Zamora. Magolski takes on Ethan Spacht of North Central College (Ill.) in Saturday's semifinals.
 
At 141-pounds, Talan Schutte earned a pair of victories by technical fall in the first opening rounds. He defeated Cale Coopess of Wheaton (Ill.) in the first round (18-0, 3:47) and Zack Ries of UW-Platteville in the second round (19-1, 3:29). Schutte advanced to the semifinals while improving to 3-0 on the day with a major decision (15-7) over the University of Chicago's (Ill.) Sean Conway. He will face Mark Samuel of Roanoke College (Va.) in the semifinals.
 
Josh Cherba went 3-1 at 149-pounds, winning by major decision (16-6) over Lucio Morgan of UW-Whitewater in the first round. He then earned a technical fall (17-1, 1:30) over Aiden Tornberg of Alma College (Mich.) in the second round. Cherba lost by decision (2-0) to Cael Vanderhorst of Ohio Northern University in the quarterfinals, but came back with a major decision (14-5) over Tyler Starr of North Central (Ill.) in the consolation fourth round.
 
The Eagles' Eddie Simes opened the tournament at 174-pounds with a fall (1:38) over Concordia College Moorhead's (Minn.) Zach Pribyl in the first round before a technical fall (17-1, 5:35) over Elmhurst University's (Ill.) Caleb Smith in the second round. Simes, ranked ninth, lost by decision (13-12) to Austin Brass of Messiah (Ohio) in the quarterfinals. In the consolation fourth round, Simes earned a technical fall (20-4, 6:30) over Dahson Dejong of Cornell (Iowa) to go 3-1.
 
Sedeeq AlObaidi went 4-1 at 184-pounds on Friday. He won by decision (9-3) over Gavin Graham of MSOE (Wis.) in the first round before a loss by major decision (12-20 to Gavin Kohel of UW-Whitewater in the second round. AlObaidi earned three wins in the consolation round, with a technical fall victory (16-0, 1:59) over Brody Duke of Concordia Moorhead (Minn.) in the second run. He advanced in the consolation bracket with a decision (10-3) against Millikin University's (Ill.) Benicio Martinez in the third round and won by major decision (11-2) over Anthony Fernandez of Rhode Island College in the fourth round.
 
After a first round bye at 197-pounds, Kasey Gish won by fall (:38) over UW-Stevens Point's Logan Neitzel in the second round. He lost by decision (3-0) to Gavin Layman of Ohio Northern in the quarterfinals and was eliminated after a loss by fall (:43) to Ian Pepple of UW-Eau Claire.
 
Gabe Carter finished 4-1 at 285-pounds in Friday's action to advance in the consolation bracket. He won by fall (:43) over Brody Miskimon of Alma (Mich.) in the first round before losing by decision (11-8) to Josh Woodrey of Augustana (Ill.) in the second round. Carter earned a win by decision (10-3) over Aidan Trujillo of North Central College (Ill.) in the consolation second round and by decision (9-8) against Michael Alfonso of Rhode Island in the third round. He advanced with a major decision (13-0) over Philip Saenz of the University of the Ozarks in the fourth round.  
 
Second and final day action starts Saturday, February 1 at 11 a.m.