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Dykhoff and Reince roll at I-94 before rainfall cuts Friday night’s dirt trackin’ short

By Ron Krog

FERGUS FALLS, MN (May 8) - A nice field of 125 cars kicked off the 2026 season at I-94 emr Speedway Friday night, May 8, with six strong classes of cars taking part in the opening night program.

Fans were treated to an entertaining night of racing before weather moved in late in the evening, forcing the postponement of several features.

Winners in WISSOTA Dirt Track Series action included Nate Reinke and Kyle Dykhoff.

In the WISSOTA Street Stocks, Cole Greseth and Dykhoff put on a great battle in the feature, swapping positions several times throughout the race. In the end, Dykhoff hung on to grab the hard-fought victory over Greseth. Jeff Ekdahl, Weston Ramsrud and Braedyn Fleck completed the top five.

The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds were represented strongly, with 30 race cars into the pits. In the feature Jake Smith jumped out to the early lead and looked very strong, while Corey Storck and Taylor Bitzan battled behind him. Meanwhile, Nate Reinke charged forward from his seventh starting position and he worked his way through the field. He battled hard with Smith late in the race, swapping the top spot. He eventually grabbed the feature win in an impressive run. Smith was second ahead of Memphis Klassen, Taylor Bitzan and 11th-starter Tommy Nichols in the top five.

The Gen X Late Models had a field of 23 cars on hand and Parker Gilbertson scored the feature victory.

The WISSOTA Modifieds had 17 cars in action. Dusty Bitzan and Tyler Peterson picked up heat race victories, but weather rolled in before the feature could be completed. Only two laps of the feature were run before rain ended the evening. The remainder of that feature will be made up at a later date.

Weather moving in late forced officials to shut the evening down early. Racing resumes next weekend with the Structural Buildings WISSOTA Late Model Series headlining the program.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

Feature - Postponed due to weather

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[2]; 2. 15*-Ryan Mikkelson[4]; 3. 2-Dave Mass[1]; 4. 44*-Cole Schill[8]; 5. 22-Jack Koranda[7]; 6. 2RK-Rusty Kollman[5]; 7. 18-Josh Rieck[3]; 8. (DNF) 51-Josh Thoennes[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[1]; 2. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 3. 19X-James Trantina III[2]; 4. 21X-Travis Saurer[7]; 5. 4J-Lee Grosz[6]; 6. 73X-Onyx Johnson[8]; 7. 00-Mitch Johnson[4]; 8. 6-Nick Corbett[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[1]; 2. 47-Danny Vang[5]; 3. 78K-Dexton Koch[3]; 4. 73-Zach Johnson[6]; 5. 50-Ben Wolden[4]; 6. 53-Chris Mensen[2]; 7. 18X-Shawn Meyer[7]

WISSOTA Modifieds:

Feature - Postponed due to weather

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10X-Dustin Bitzan[3]; 2. 6T-Joseph Thomas[2]; 3. 21X-Travis Saurer[5]; 4. 7A-Shane Sabraski[7]; 5. 2X-Brady Gerdes[6]; 6. 7-Bryce Borgen[8]; 7. 96-Erv Grossman[1]; 8. (DNF) US-Jonathan Olmscheid[4]; 9. (DNF) 43-John Oeltjen[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[1]; 2. 24-Brandon Dolman[3]; 3. 51T-Talan Thoennes[2]; 4. 51-Josh Thoennes[4]; 5. 33X-Justin Froemming[8]; 6. 26G-Ryan Gierke[5]; 7. 6X-Bryce Sward[6]; 8. 51A-Avery Anderson[7]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 71-Nate Reinke[7]; 2. 21-Jake Smith[1]; 3. 47K-Memphis Klassen[6]; 4. 24TB-Taylor Bitzan[3]; 5. 28-Tommy Nichols[11]; 6. 10M-Noah McFarlane[15]; 7. 42-Ron Saurer[5]; 8. 13-Scott Oeltjen[19]; 9. 28K-Nick Preston[20]; 10. 521-Mason Thoennes[23]; 11. 5X-Dylan McManigle[9]; 12. (DNF) 8-Jon Carlson[12]; 13. (DNF) 18X-Brendon Scott[21]; 14. (DNF) 30-Cole Neset[10]; 15. (DNF) 95-Chase Wachlin[17]; 16. (DNF) 57-Corey Storck[4]; 17. (DNF) 1-Dusty Peterson[29]; 18. (DNF) 16X-Brenden Luschinski[13]; 19. (DNF) 17-Nick Shumansky[16]; 20. (DNF) M47-Maddox Klassen[25]; 21. (DNF) 15-Eric Gadach[2]; 22. (DNF) 15D-Andrew DeNoble[24]; 23. (DNF) 52-Maddie Swenson[26]; 24. (DNF) 10B-Tyler Bitzan[14]; 25. (DNF) 28T-Tony Arneson[28]; 26. (DNF) 75JR-Jacob Karch[18]; 27. (DNF) H20-Nic Hiles[30]; 28. (DNF) 12X-Jamie Norman[27]; 29. (DNS) 9T-Andrew Caswell; 30. (DNS) 42B-Tanner Bitzan

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 42B-Tanner Bitzan[1]; 2. 47K-Memphis Klassen[5]; 3. 5X-Dylan McManigle[3]; 4. 16X-Brenden Luschinski[7]; 5. 95-Chase Wachlin[8]; 6. 18X-Brendon Scott[6]; 7. (DNS) 28T-Tony Arneson; 8. (DNS) 1-Dusty Peterson

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Nate Reinke[1]; 2. 42-Ron Saurer[3]; 3. 30-Cole Neset[5]; 4. 10B-Tyler Bitzan[6]; 5. 75JR-Jacob Karch[4]; 6. 9T-Andrew Caswell[7]; 7. (DNF) 52-Maddie Swenson[2]; 8. (DNS) H20-Nic Hiles

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Jake Smith[7]; 2. 15-Eric Gadach[3]; 3. 28-Tommy Nichols[4]; 4. 10M-Noah McFarlane[1]; 5. 13-Scott Oeltjen[6]; 6. 521-Mason Thoennes[2]; 7. (DNF) 12X-Jamie Norman[5]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 24TB-Taylor Bitzan[3]; 2. 57-Corey Storck[5]; 3. 8-Jon Carlson[7]; 4. 17-Nick Shumansky[1]; 5. 28K-Nick Preston[2]; 6. 15D-Andrew DeNoble[6]; 7. M47-Maddox Klassen[4]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 11K-Kyle Dykhoff[2]; 2. 19-Cole Greseth[1]; 3. 11JR-Jeff Ekdahl[5]; 4. 67-Weston Ramsrud[3]; 5. 76-Braedyn Fleck[9]; 6. 80-Tony Miller[7]; 7. 6X-Mark Blom[6]; 8. 57-Jason Fechtner[4]; 9. 16-Greg Platzer[8]; 10. 5F-Mike Flickinger[11]; 11. 12S-Joshua Schroeder[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11JR-Jeff Ekdahl[1]; 2. 67-Weston Ramsrud[5]; 3. 80-Tony Miller[3]; 4. 6X-Mark Blom[2]; 5. 76-Braedyn Fleck[4]; 6. 5F-Mike Flickinger[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11K-Kyle Dykhoff[3]; 2. 19-Cole Greseth[5]; 3. 16-Greg Platzer[2]; 4. 57-Jason Fechtner[4]; 5. 12S-Joshua Schroeder[1]

WISSOTA Hornets:

Feature - Postponed due to weather

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 08-Jeff Rohner[6]; 2. 03-Christian Kast[5]; 3. 988A-Ayden Muchow[1]; 4. 21-Colton Lodermeier[7]; 5. 42E-Eli Green[3]; 6. 11E-Emma Nelson[2]; 7. 32-Bailey Johnson[4]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 35-Chase Pourrier[2]; 2. 27-Brady Fosso[6]; 3. 3K-Jason Kast[4]; 4. 27C-Kody Crabtree[5]; 5. 22-Aaron Miller[1]; 6. 205-Curtis Oleksuk[3]; 7. (DNF) 35P-Tylar Pourrier[7]

Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 30X-Chase Golliet[6]; 2. 8X-Adam Throener[5]; 3. 411-Cameryn Taylor[4]; 4. 1000-Deacon Larby[7]; 5. (DNF) 15K-Hannah Koch[2]; 6. (DNF) 78-Zander Zuehlsdorff[1]; 7. (DQ) 988L-Lincoln Miller[3]

Gen X Late Models:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 23JR-Parker Gilbertson[6]; 2. 50-Ben Wolden[4]; 3. 15-Trevor Walsh[8]; 4. 151-Laela Eisenschenk[1]; 5. 10X-Blake Swenson[13]; 6. 27-Jarrett Huus[9]; 7. 811-Bodie Croninger[3]; 8. 01-Alex Tschakert[14]; 9. 11*-Larry Samuelson[10]; 10. 33-Jeff Nelson[5]; 11. 49-Andrew Tysdal[19]; 12. US-Jonathan Olmscheid[12]; 13. XJR-Hope Swenson[11]; 14. 73-Ryan Nelson[17]; 15. 3H-Jerry Hauge[16]; 16. 31-Ryan Lubbers[15]; 17. 71-John Plaster[20]; 18. (DNF) 1M-Jon McCain[18]; 19. (DNF) 75-Cade Skytland[21]; 20. (DNF) 8T-Tony Croninger[7]; 21. (DNF) 18-Mike Anderson[2]; 22. (DNS) 2Q-Derek Quinn; 23. (DNS) 0-Shawn Beto

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15-Trevor Walsh[5]; 2. 33-Jeff Nelson[1]; 3. 23JR-Parker Gilbertson[3]; 4. 11*-Larry Samuelson[6]; 5. 10X-Blake Swenson[4]; 6. 31-Ryan Lubbers[2]; 7. 73-Ryan Nelson[8]; 8. 49-Andrew Tysdal[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 50-Ben Wolden[1]; 2. 18-Mike Anderson[6]; 3. 27-Jarrett Huus[7]; 4. XJR-Hope Swenson[2]; 5. 01-Alex Tschakert[5]; 6. 3H-Jerry Hauge[3]; 7. 1M-Jon McCain[4]; 8. 71-John Plaster[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 811-Bodie Croninger[2]; 2. 8T-Tony Croninger[3]; 3. 151-Laela Eisenschenk[4]; 4. US-Jonathan Olmscheid[6]; 5. (DNF) 75-Cade Skytland[5]; 6. (DNF) 2Q-Derek Quinn[1]; 7. (DNF) 0-Shawn Beto[7]