Lance Olberding started his senior wrestling season with a win over a former state champion, while his brother, Ely, won his bracket at the Bennington Invitational.
In all, the Fort Calhoun Pioneers finished eighth with 52 team points Saturday afternoon. Ely Olberding was first at 138 pounds, Lance Olberding was second at 132 and Gage Nixon took fourth at 120.
Ely was 3-0 in contested matches with three pins. The senior beat Rory Angerman of Boys Town in 3:11, took out Missouri Valley's Rush Knudsen in 56 seconds and won the final with Columbus' Mason Petersen in 4:13.
Lance, meanwhile, beat Columbus state champion Adrian Bice by 4-2 decision before Bennington's Connor Ritonya won their 132-pound final, 5-0.
Nixon added two Fort Calhoun wins during a 2-2 effort Saturday. He earned a third-period pin and beat Boys Town's Salvador Gomez 7-2.
The Pioneers' Levi Lasher and Wesley Short earned wins in Bennington as well. Short's 160-pound consolation round pin came in 2:19, while Lasher's at 126 took just 28 seconds.
FCHS next competes 6 p.m. today at a Weeping Water triangular. Coach Drew Welchert's team hosts a junior varsity tournament 3:30 p.m. Friday and a varsity tourney 9 a.m. Saturday.
