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Welton results show Goddard’s dominance, depth of quality wrestlers

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Pictured, clockwise from left: Goddard High won the team title at the Rocky Welton; St. James Academy's Cade Lautt won the 220 pound title; Goddard's Cayleb Atkins won the 160 pound class. (Goddard photos by Jammie Atkins; Lautt photo by Everett Royer, KSportsImages.com)

GARDEN CITY – It came as no surprise that the Goddard Lions prevailed as the team champion on Saturday, Feb. 1, in the 62nd annual Rocky Welton Invitational wrestling tournament.

The Lions came in as the odds-on favorite, having won the prestigious Welton team title in both 2018 and 2019, being the overall Kansas top-ranked team in 2020, and coming off an impressive dual meet triumph in Oklahoma where they beat nationally-ranked teams Allen, Texas, and Mustang, Okla.

First KFBCA Hall of Fame class inducted at annual clinic

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From left-to-right: Tom Young, Chuck Smith, Dick Purdy, KFBCA president Justin Burke, Roger Barta, Marvin Diener and Gary Cornelsen. Not pictured: Pete Kriwiel, son of the late Eddie Kriwiel who passed away in 2008. (Photo by Kansas Pregame publisher John Baetz)

After Kansas State University head coach Chris Klieman kicked off the Kansas Football Coaches Association's Annual Clinic on Friday night at the Hyatt Regency in Wichita with an hour long address detailing his philosophy for developing a college football program, current KFBCA president Justin Burke welcomed the first class of former Kansas high school football coaches into the new KFBCA Hall of Fame.

Sixty-Second Annual Rocky Welton Wrestling Invitational is this weekend

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Fresh of a win at the Ram Duals in Owasso, Oklahoma, last weekend 5A's top-ranked Goddard Lions will try to defend their Rocky Welton Invitational title this weekend. (Photo by Jammie Atkins)

GARDEN CITY – It’s on rare occasions that you will see a late-season wrestling invitational with such a large field comprised of highly-ranked teams and individual competitors from such a variety of locales.

But that’s what wrestling fans, coaches and the wrestlers themselves will see first-hand on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, at the 62nd Annual Rocky Welton Invitational here in Garden City.

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