GOLDEN, Colo.  Western Colorado will be sending Devin Gomez to represent Mountaineer wrestling at the 2026 NCAA Division II Men's Wrestling Championship, after Gomez earned a second-place finish Saturday at the DII Super Region VI Championships at Lockridge Arena on the campus of Colorado School of Mines.

Gomez earned a bye in the first round of the 125-pound bracket, then went right to work on his second opponent, rolling to a 17-5 major decision that included five takedowns of San Francisco State's Hayden Ancheta.

In the semifinal round, Gomez was even more dominant, never trailing while rolling to an 18-3 technical fall over host Mines' Jason Goodin.

The win advanced him into the championship match, one that pitted the second-seeded Gomez against the bracket's top seed, Isaiah Gamez of Adams State.

Neither of the combatants would score in the opening period, with Gamez winning the toss of choice to start the second. He deferred and Gomez went to the bottom.

The Mountaineer never escaped however, and 74 seconds into the period Gamez finally turned Gomez to his back and finished the championship bout off with a pin.

Nonetheless, Gomez' second place advances him to the national championships in Sioux Falls, S.D., on March 13-14.

The Mountaineers had opportunities in three other brackets, on the consolation side in the runup to a possible 3rd/4th-place match.

At 157, Vincent Cabral had won his first bout of the day with an 11-1 major but dropped a quarterfinal decision to shift sides of the bracket. He won his first match there with a 10-7 sudden victory, and then his second in an 8-2 decision, but his defeat in the next bout, a 5-1 decision, allowed Cabral to advance only into the 5th/6th match.

He earned 5th place at the tournament with a 7-3 decision over Mines' Brandon Cody.

Hunter Richardson followed the same path as Cabral, winning his first match in a third period fall, but flipping to the consolation bracket after a narrow 7-4 decision. A first period pin and then a 7-0 decision pushed him through the bracket, but a 9-2 decision left him, like Cabral, in the 56h/6th match.

Richardson again mirrored Cabral's day, winning his match by a 4-1 decision on a third period takedown with 29 seconds left to earn a 5th-place finish.

Sage Harrison had more of a battle on his hands after dropping a 7-2 decision in his opening match in the 197 bracket. But Harrison rolled through three bouts in the consolation bracket, starting with a second period pin, followed by a 17-2 tech fall and then a 14-2 major.

His march to a possible 3rd/4th match ended in the next round, though, as despite three escapes, a first-period takedown and a third period escape by Mines' Mason Diel ended up as the deciding points in Harrison's 4-3 loss.

He would finish in sixth place after dropping a 7-0 decision in the 5th/6th match.

The 24th-ranked Mountaineers finished in seventh place in the Regional team standings, scoring 52.5 points from the results of Gomez, Cabral, Richardson and Harrison.