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Bethel Wrestlers won the Alaska Region II State Wrestling Championship again this year, a significant accomplishment, but even more amazing is the way that they did it. With only a few wrestlers in the final championship matches, those in the consolation matches had to lead the team to victory. Johanna Eurich was on the floor watching the matches unfold.

For the second year in a row, the Bethel Wrestlers brought home the gold. Senior Thomas Dyment capped off his last year in a big way, becoming Bethel Regional High School’s first ever four-time State Champion when he beat Maxim Kusnetsov from Voznesenka High School.

At the regional wrestling conference this past weekend, seniors from across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta competed in their home region for the last time. Some may never wrestle again; others are in Anchorage competing in the State Wrestling Championship that begins on Thursday. BRHS correspondent Hunter Carter was on the floor at the regional conference in the Bethel Regional High School gym, finding out what the seniors’ final home competition meant to them and what leadership they offered their team along the way.

Bethel Regional High School dominated the 2017 Great Alaska Conference Wrestling Championship this weekend. Across Friday and Saturday, 19 teams from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and Unalaska competed for a chance to wrestle at State. Bethel Regional High School correspondent Hunter Carter was there and joined KYUK after the conference.

Powerlifter Natalie Hanson has broken a world record. Friday morning, the former Bethel resident squatted 603 pounds in the women’s 185 pound weight class at the World Open Powerlifting Championship in the Czech Republic. The record is more than three times Hanson’s body weight.