KEARNEY - The Kearney High boys sent coaches Tom McCann and Dennis Miller out in style.

In their last home meet, and their first home district meet in a long, long time, the Bearcats qualified all 13 wrestlers for the state tournament, putting nine in the finals and winning five weight classes. Kearney did not enter a 195-pounder.

"There was a little magic in the house," McCann said. "I told them today, 'If you guys wrestle well . we can take all 13.' I really thought we had a shot as long as they won the matches I thought they could win."

The Bearcats did what the coach expected, losing only one early-round match he thought they would win. The only setback was the 220-pound semifinal where Columbus' Keenan Hall upset Kearney's Grady Donohoe, 7-2. Donohoe had beaten all twice earlier in the season and bounced back from Saturday's loss to finish third and join the rest of the team at the state tournament that begins Thursday in Omaha.

Isaac Stansbury (106 pounds), Hunter Bamford (113), Seth Nehls (120), Austin Marshall (126) and Jamieson Oertle (152) go with the seeding gift awarded to district champions - first-round opponents who placed fourth in their districts.

Alex Regenos (132), Jacob Oertle (138), Kalen Mazankowski (145) and Trey Schlender (160) advanced to the district finals and placed second.

Stansbury and Bamford got Kearney off to a good start in their championship matches. Stansbury pinned his opponent in 54 seconds and Bamford stayed unbeaten with a pin in 4:56.

What followed were "some wild ones," according to McCann.

Nehls won when Omaha Central's Keygan Foster took an injury default in the middle of the match.

Marshall won 5-4 with an escape and a takedown win the final 16 seconds.

Jamieson Oertle won a confusing, back-and-forth match with Omaha Central's Kolbie Foster. The match, delayed several times by the blood rule, was restarted after a long conference between coaches, referees and score table personnel. The scoreboard read 10-9 and few knew who had 10 until the referee raised Oertle's hand at the conclusion.

Oertle's win broke a string of three straight championships by Omaha Central.

"We lost a few in there to some tough people from Central. They've got some good people," McCann said.

Central finished second to Kearney in the team race. The Bearcats scored 218.5 points to the Eagles' 160.5. Columbus finished third with 135 points.

In the upper weights, Kearney s Harley Cox-Powell (170), Aaron Bisbee (285) and Donohoe took third place while John DeVorss placed fourth.

DeVorss, a freshman, has been wrestling at 195 pounds this year, but dropped down into the 182-pound bracket when Tyler Gillen didn't come back from a concussion suffered two weeks ago.

"He's been taking a thumping (at 195), but today he came through, worked hard and qualified for state," McCann said.