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Wrestling: Waggoner surprises sectional; Thuente advances to state, too

Lake Forest’s Truman Thuente is recognized after winning a match at 195 pounds en route to third place Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Antioch Sectional. (Erin Yarnall/22nd Century Media)

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David Jaffe, Freelance Reporter
9:17 am CST February 10, 2019

For wrestlers, the path to the state finals is well defined by the IHSA: The top three regional placers in each weight class move onto the sectional, and ditto from sectional to state. 

But Lake Forest saw that path disrupted twice in the week preceding the sectional meet, and Chase Waggoner reveled in that disruption.

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