The ongoing saga that has become the Section 1A boys' golf tournament has finally come to a conclusion -- Southland/Grand Meadow sophomore Bryan Peck will play in the state tournament.

After winning a five-man playoff last Tuesday at Mount Frontenac, Peck earned a place at the Class A state tournament.

Peck averted a possible disqualification by pointing out the scoreboard's incorrect posting of his round, which was 79 instead of 78. The correction forced a six-way tie for the fifth and a sudden-death playoff.

Chatfield's Cole DiLaura, who shot a 79, had already left, and the remaining five golfers took to the course. Peck won the playoff and the right to play tomorrow at the state meet.

But DiLaura and his coach filed an appeal with the Minnesota State High School League, which deemed another sudden-death playoff with all six golfers who tied at 79 on hand. This time, Rushford-Peterson's Matt Reinhardt won after three holes, leaving DiLaura and Peck behind.

Southland/Grand Meadow coach Wayne Robertson got busy on the phones and filed his own petition, which in turn granded Peck a place at the Class A state golf meet.

Peck and freshman teammate Brady Lorenzen begin state tournament play Wednesday in Onamia. Both begin play on the front nine on the Black Brook course.

Peck will have plenty to talk about in his 9:35 a.m. tee time as Reinhardt of Rushford-Peterson is in the same foursome.

Lorenzen tees off at 10:05 a.m.

Southland/Grand Meadow last qualified a golfer for state two seasons ago when then-junior Jeff Thalberg advanced as the Section 1A champion.