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The Waverly-Shell Rock senior competed during the day and topped it off with a trip to Iowa City to watch top-ranked Iowa last night in CarverHawkeye Arena.
"A pretty full day of wrestling," Ballweg said.
"I guess I wouldn't want it any other way." Ballweg won the 140pound title, powering the top-ranked Go-Hawks to the team title at the J-Hawk Invitational at Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
WSR claimed its fourth straight championship at the J-Hawk and the fifth in the last six years.
West Delaware, the only other team to win in that stretch, finished second.
Ballweg pinned his way to the final with a first-period fall over West Delaware's Matt Wenger and a 3:35 pin of Marshalltown's Michael Burgos.
Ballweg blanked Benton Community's Class 2A third-ranked Justin Lopata, 8-0, in the final.
"I just try to beat everyone as bad as you can," Ballweg said. "So you have to make sure you're prepared every match to go out to do that." Go-Hawks Coach Rick Caldwell said Ballweg is among the most dominant wrestlers in the state.
He's done the same stuff since he started," Caldwell said. "He's very forceful, tough to score on, he's fundamentally sound, doesn't make mistakes, and if you do that in high school wrestling you're going to win a lot of matches." Top-seeded Tanner Werner (112) and Jordan Rinken (130) won titles for the Go-Hawks. Werner edged Johnson's Stephen Shaffer, 1-0, and Rinken scored a 15-0 technical fall over Johnston's Alex Richards.
West Delaware had nine in the semifinals, and P.C. McEnany (125), 171-pounder Sam Lahr and Adam Reth at 189 reached the finals.
Benton Community's runners-up were Justin Lopata (140), Chase Skoneczka (152) and 160pounder Jeff Toney, who scored pins in the quarterfinals and semifinals.
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