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Portage’s Lowell Arnold starts off bid for state wrestling title in emphatic fashion | Wrestling
MADISON — Lowell Arnold was ranked second in the state at 152 pounds in Division 2 entering sectionals last Saturday, and the Portage senior didn’t exactly do anything at that tournament to warrant dropping. He lost in sudden-victory overtime, 6-4, to top-ranked Zane Licht of Lodi in the finals. Still, the WIAA’s new seeding procedure, a computer model, didn’t reward him with a bye in Thursday’s prelims at the individual state tournament at the Kohl Center. He thinks he deserved one. “Yeah, you could say that,” he said. “But I realize I was injured earlier in the season.” Indeed, missing the first half of the year hurt his résumé. But he’s…