Lights crown two champs at Cascade Conference wrestling tourney

With six of the NAIA’s Top 20 teams in the field, and four in the Top 10, plus the format of allocations to nationals per weight class, the Montana State University-Northern Lights knew exactly how tough the 2019 Cascade Conference Tournament was going to be.

And in the end, tough didn’t even begin to describe the two-day Cascade tourney, which played out Friday and Saturday inside the McLaughlin Center in Great Falls.

Northern, ranked No. 9 in the latest NAIA Coaches Poll, crowned two champions and placed nine of its 12 wrestlers Saturday, which, by most measures, was a really fruitful tourne...