Hartman, Mitchell placeCHAMPAIGN — MazonVerona-Kinsman’s MarlinHartman and Minooka’s Mark Mitchell were the onlv Grundyv wCounty wrestlers to place in the IHSA State Wrestling Tour nament held Friday and SaturdaywHartman (138 pounds) grabbed third place in the Class A state meet, winning a 10-6 decision over Mitchell, who finished fourth in the meet The third place finish for Hartman broke the MVK school record which was a fourth place ranking last year by Tom Brockman at 132 pounds “I was very pleased I was very happy that Marlin didsuch a fine job by the single fact we set out to beat the school record and we accomplished that, said MVK coach Jerry Angeloff Savanna won the team meetfor the second year in a row with 31'2 points Normal-University High was secondMARLIN HARTMANA state wrestlingwith 444, Kaneland was third with 264 points and Yorkville was fourth with 254 pointsYorkville’s Dave Kapplefinished first at 119 pounds and teammates Scott Corwin (98) and Tom Brown (157) took third place finishes Bob Burke of Wilmington took a fourth at 145 poundsMinooka’s Reed Perry went downstate at 155 pounds, but lost twice Perry fell to Tim Hutson lt;normal in a pin at 3:11 and then lost Saturday in a wrestleback to Joe FosdickfSavannah) 5-1Hartman's third place win over Mitchell was something of a revenge for the MVK wrestler, who had lost to Mitchell 9-3 for district honors in Yorkville and 12-6 in the sectionalHar an lost his first match Friday to Darvm Miller (Normal) 12-2 and thenreturned to beat Steve Libby f Viola) 10-8 which set the stageMARK MITCHELLfor his third match in three weeks with Mitchell Mitchell disposed of Mike Hooks (Polo) 4-0 and then lost to Brian Rhoden (Georgetown) 7-1 In a wrestleback the Minooka sophomore defeated Bob Culbertson (Vandalia) 4-1.Hartman scored a takedown for a 2-0 lead over Mitchell inthe first period and then hiked it to 5-0 after the second, before preserving the win “Our plan of operation was that we weren't going to match Marlin’s strength against Mitchell’s,” noted Angeloff “We just wanted to out-manuever him We couldn’t afford mistakes That's what lost it before.“We just worked on the fundamentals during the week of practice We must have donesomething like 800 takedowns.” Individual champions in the Class A included Dave Melhaus (Savanna-98); Butch Wmgert (Fulton-105); Ron Biddle (112); Kapple (119 , Steve Henrickson (Kaneland-126); Paul Engaldo (.Savanna-132); Brian Rhoden ( Georgetown-138*; Burley Linhart (Harvard-145), Ronnie Robinson(Savanna-145); Tim Hutson (Normal-155); Brian Lantz (Stillman Valley-167); Randy Reynolds (Georgetown-185) and Mike Jorgeson (Kaneland-heavy weight WE HAVEMOVEDfP415 LibertyJOHNSON