Kingsford's Trevor Povolo defeated Gladstone's Brody Sanville 7-3 to win the 152-pound title Saturday at the Ray Mariucci Invitational. (Burt Angeli/The Daily News)

KINGSFORD — Kingsford’s Trevor Povolo made history Saturday in the 18th annual Ray Mariucci Invitational high school wrestling tournament.

Povolo became the first Flivver in Ray Mariucci Invitational history to win the outstanding wrestler award, as voted by tournament coaches.

“Trevor deserves it,” said Flivvers coach Darren Groleau “He’s been wrestling against strong kids and he’s been taking it to them.”

Povolo (21-2) defeated Gladstone’s Brody Sanville 7-3 for the 152-pound championship. The junior advanced to the finals by pinning Bailey Loukinen of Marquette in the first period.

“This is the second weekend in a row that Trevor has wrestled a UP finalist,” said Groleau, referring to Povolo’s win over Newberry’s Cam Symonds in the Escanaba Invitational. “Trevor has knocked off all the top kids in his weight class heading into UPs and 152 is stacked this year.”

Marquette ended Gladstone’s five-year title reign, posting 210.5 points to 203 for the Braves. Westwood finished third, 139.5, and Kingsford placed fourth, 103. The Redmen last won the Ray Mariucci Invitational in 2001.

Iron Mountain took fifth place with 64 points.

Groleau said Povolo wants to become Kingsford’s first four-time UP champion.

“That’s where he has this hunger to win and not let anybody in the UP beat him,” Groleau said. “The Mariucci is the last tournament before UPs and he wanted to make a statement and he did.

“Trevor is the hardest working kid on the team. He’s just a great kid overall.”

Kingsford had another first from Jakob Horton (135), who outlasted Nick Miles of Munising 8-6 in overtime for the title.

Horton, wrestling at 135 for the first time, pinned Marquette’s Richard Weycker in the semifinals.

“Nick Miles is tough,” said Groleau, noting this was the second meeting with the Munising wrestler. “Jakob surprised him in the first match they wrestled but Miles was ready this time and it was a close match.

“Jakob is wrestling with some confidence now as a freshman. It was a great match for him. He’s finally down to the weight he wants to be at and he’s wrestling awesome.”

Flivvers’ August Early (119) was pinned by Marquette’s Collin Fure in the first period.

“August had another good day,” Groleau said. “August is right there. He just needs to work on a few things and he’ll be right there for a UP championship.”

Ethan Wilcox (125) reached his first varsity finals, losing by a pin to Gladstone’s Nick Dawson.

“Ethan wrestled very tough against someone that has pinned every time in the first period,” Groleau said. “He’s been working on a lot of stuff in the wrestling room and it’s been paying off with two weekends in a row placing.”

Back-to-back pins boosted Eddie Cardew (285) to third place.

“He’ll be in the hunt for a UP championship,” Groleau said.

Jon Carrion led Iron Mountain by winning the 145-pound title. The freshman pinned Liam Groves of Marquette in the first period of the semifinals and captured the title by pinning Josh Filizetti of Gwinn in the second period.

The Mountaineers also had fourths from Caleb Burklund (171) and Jordan Tramontine (285), and a fifth from Trevor Malburg (119).

“Overall, I would have liked to seen a few more of our wrestlers make it to the finals,” said Iron Mountain head coach Cory McLaren. “Carrion stayed hot and is peaking at the right time.

“This is Malburg’s second week in a row coming home with a medal. It was nice to see Tramontine on the medal stand for the first time.”

McLaren said Burklund is still adjusting from moving down a weight class from 189 to 171.

“He will be ready to wrestle this Saturday at the UPs,” McLaren said.

Tristen Mascarette of the Florence-Niagara co-op won the 112-pound title. He pinned Christian Carello of Ishpeming in the semifinals and Nathan Brewer of Westwood in the finals.

Dakota Wicke, also from Northwoods Storm, placed fourth.

The Ray Mariucci Invitational started out as the Kingsford Invitational in 1964. The name changed to the Ray Mariucci Invitational in 2001.

Kingsford travels to Escanaba on Wednesday. Iron Mountain wrestles in a quad Thursday at Westwood. The Flivvers and Mountaineers are both in Marquette on Saturday for the UP Finals.