Photo by Chris Drummond Minneota’s Zach Fier performs a move against his opponent in the quarterfinals of section 5A wrestling playoffs on Thursday evening.

MINNEOTA– The Minneota Vikings wrestling team defeated for the second time this season the Paynesville Bulldogs 32-27 in the first round of the Section 5A playoffs.

The Vikings will now head to Benson and face the winner of the No.1 seed Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunberg High School or No. 8 seed Minnewaska Area High School on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

Minneota (MINN) 32.0 Paynesville Area (PAAR) 27.0

106: Roman Roberg (PAAR) over Kaden Lasnetski (MINN) (Dec 9-4) 113: Adam Devlaeminck (MINN) over Devon Schmidt (PAAR) (TF 18-3 4:00) 120: Mason McNab (PAAR) over Quinton Anderson (MINN) (TF 15-0 4:00) 126: Mason Javers (MINN) over Preston Welling (PAAR) (Dec 9-3) 132: Peyton Gillund (MINN) over Brayden Kierstead-Hahn (PAAR) (Fall 2:26) 138: Mason Hansen (PAAR) over Ezequiel Monzon (MINN) (Fall 4:34) 145: Brock Fier (MINN) over Mitchell Blonigen (PAAR) (MD 10-0) 152: Destin Fier (MINN) over Jose Anaya (PAAR) (Dec 14-9) 160: Zack Fier (MINN) over Grant Wendlandt (PAAR) (TF 17-2 5:54) 170: Alex Depestel (MINN) over Aaron Mages (PAAR) (Dec 5-1) 182: Peyton Hemmesch (PAAR) over Noah Gorecki (MINN) (Fall 1:34) 195: Seth Vearrier (PAAR) over Kyler Lozinski (MINN) (MD 18-6) 220: Eli Gruenes (MINN) over Kevin Raya-Botello (PAAR) (Dec 3-1) 285: Spencer Eisenbraun (PAAR) over Hudson Scholten (MINN) (Dec 5-3)