Vikings' Hayden Muller No. 3 seed at state


Siuslaw senior Hayden Muller

Siuslaw senior Hayden Muller is the No. 3 seed at 135 pounds and freshman Macali Lade is unseeded at 110 for the OSAA Girls Wrestling Championships on Thursday at Culver High School.

Seedings were announced Friday for the Oregon School Activities Association all-classifications event.

Muller (14-3) has a first-round bye into the quarterfinals, where she will face the winner of a first-round match between seniors Jezebel Ortiz (14-8) of St. Helens and Esmeralda Tapia-Bravo (11-3) of Willamina/Falls City.

Forest Grove senior Makaila Takahashi (27-0) is the No. 1 seed at 135 and La Pine junior Kira Kerr (28-2) No. 2.

Lade (11-7) has a first-round match with Grant Union freshman Zoe Beam (13-6), the No. 3 qualifier from Special District 3.

Bend senior Analise Smith (16-0) is seeded No. 1 and West Albany junior Ariana Martinez (28-1) No. 2 at 110.

Three wrestlers from each of the four regional championships qualified, for a total of 12 athletes in each of 14 weight classes.

Muller was a regional champion, while Lade was runner-up in the Special District 2 championships at Cottage Grove.

Complete state brackets are online at www.trackwrestling.com.