Mount Vernon wrestling coach Rex Febus said Saturday that wrestling isn’t measured one match at a time, but by how a team progresses over time.

The Bulldogs, as well as several other local teams, showed at the Paul Reiman Tournament that they’re progressing well.

Mount Vernon claimed two championships on its way to a third-place finish and Burlington-Edison had two if its own on its way to a fourth-place finish at the eight-team tournament.

Blaine won the team championship with 258.5 points, followed by Kamiak (232), Mount Vernon (182) and Burlington-Edison (154).

Mount Vernon’s Danial Osburn won the heavyweight division with a pin of South Whidbey’s Trapper Rawls, and Osburn’s teammate, Brad Rabenstein, won the 215-pound weight class with a dramatic victory over Blaine’s Shane Hicks.

Rabenstein held off the aggressive Hicks for a 6-3 victory, which he capped by pointing with both hands to the cheering fans in the upper stands of the Bulldogs’ gym.

Rabenstein said he normally isn’t demonstrative, but couldn’t help himself after he upended such a difficult opponent as Hicks, last year’s fourth-place finisher at the class 2A state tournament.

“He’s beat me so many times it’s not even funny. That’s why I was so happy after,” said Rabenstein, who earned a 9-3 decision over Kamiak’s Tyler Nigg and a pin against La Conner’s Max Barber on his way to the championship.

He was named the most outstanding wrestler of the meet, an award voted on by coaches.

Mount Vernon’s Travis Gomez finished second at 152, losing an 8-7 decision to South Whidbey’s Aaron Mannie. Fellow Bulldog Joey Curry was also second after getting pinned by Kamiak’s Anthony Jacobsen. George Hausauer finished third (125), as did Rafael Avila (140) and Connor Johnson (160).

“In wrestling, it’s all developmental. We can’t judge ourselves by where we are now, but where we want to be. But it feels like we’re on track,” Febus said.