Lights crown three champs, place seven at Spokane Open

The Montana State University-Northern Lights are off to a great start this wrestling season. And it continued last Sunday in Spokane, Washington.

Northern wound up second at the Spokane Open, a traditionally tough tournament the Lights, of head coach Tyson Thivierge, have been competing in for years.

Among the individual successes for the Lights, they placed seven grapplers overall, landed four in the finals and crowned three champions.

Isaac Bartel cruised to a title at 197 pounds, while NaKoda Siegel won at 174 pounds. But the best performance was by MSU-N 165-pounder Chase Short, who...