Seven area graduates earn NCAA Division III All-America honors in wrestling, track

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Marshfield graduates Caden Pearce, second from left, and Addison Hill, third from left, were part of the UW-La Crosse 1,600-meter relay team that finished sixth at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of UW-La Crosse track and field)
Marshfield graduate Nolan Hertel, second from left, placed fifth at 157 pounds for UW-La Crosse at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo courtesy of UW-La Crosse wrestling)
Marshfield High School graduate Bentley Schwanebeck-Ostermann, second from right, placed sixth at 197 pounds for Augsburg University at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championship in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo courtesy of Augsburg wrestling)
Spencer High School graduates Mason Barth and Hannah Zastrow combined for three All-American honors at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships at Winston-Salem, N.C., for the UW-Stout track team. (Photo courtesy of UW-Stout track and field)

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Five Marshfield High School graduates and two more from Spencer High School earn All-American status in wrestling, and track and field as the NCAA Division III championships in each sport were held last weekend.

Nolan Hertel and Bentley Schwanebeck-Ostermann, both 2019 graduate of Marshfield High School, each earned All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Hertel, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, finished fifth at 157 pounds. He won his first consolation match Saturday 1-0 over Darian Estevez of University of Chicago, lost to Tyler Shilson of Augsburg 3-1, and won the fifth-place match by injury default to finish the season 26-5.

Schwanebeck-Ostermann, a junior at Augsburg (Minn.) University, took sixth place at 197 pounds. He advanced to the medal round with a forfeit win in the consolation quarterfinals, and lost his next to matches by identical 6-4 scores to finish the year 20-8. Augsburg placed third in the team standings. Warburg (Iowa) won the team title.

At the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships at Winston-Salem, N.C., three Marshfield graduates and two Spencer alums earned All-America honors.

Gracie Holland

Caden Pearce, a 2019 Marshfield graduate, and Addison Hill, a 2020 grad from Marshfield, were part of UW-La Crosse’s men’s 1,600-meter relay team that finished sixth in 3:19.97.

Gracie Holland, a 2020 Marshfield graduate, took fifth place in the women’s pole vault with a vault of 12 feet, 5½ inches, for UW-Whitewater.

Hannah Zastrow and Mason Barth, both 2019 graduates of Spencer, earned honors for UW-Stout.

Zastrow lost a photo finish to Julia Babinec of North Central (Ill.) by just 0.003 of a second to take second in the women’s 60-meter hurdles, and also placed fifth in the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 5¾ inches.

Barth took seventh in the men’s Heptathlon for Stout. He entered the final day of competition Saturday in 13th place, but earned fifth-place finishes in the 60 meters and pole vault to move up to seventh in the standings.