12:34 a.m.: Just found out Kentlake swim coach Seth Dawson and Decatur coach Rob Hill were killed in this week's plane crash near North Bend. Erik Fulmer, Kentlake's only state-qualifying swimmer, competed at state and made two A finals. My heart goes out to the family and friends of Dawson and Hill.

12:28 a.m.: Well ... not exactly how I planned to update this blog. The WIAA site appeared to be having technical troubles most of the night. So here are the results of the 4A and 2A prelims. (Results from the 2A backstroke still aren't posted.)

Class 4A

200-yard medley relay: 1, Stadium A (Logan Rysemus, Mateus Siquiera, Taylor Wright, Stefan Kubeja) 1:37.64; 5, Richland A (Ashton Pollick, Ryan Francis, Andrew Blanchard, Nick Connors) 1:41.38; 13, Walla Walla A (Patrick Giedeman, Jonathon Klem, Russell Skorina, Austin Garrett) 1:43.74. 200 freestyle: 1, Brendan Weiner (Central Kitsap) 1:43.07; 3, Connors (Rich) 1:43.57; 7, Brenden Eslick (Moses Lake) 1:46.22; 10, Giedeman (WW) 1:47.48; 21, Corey Bradshaw (Rich) 1:52.99. 200 individual medley: 1, Rysemus (Sta) 1:54.00; 9, Klem (WW) 2:02.79; 10, Pollick (Rich) 2:03.19; 18, Zach Johnston (ML) 2:07.65. 50 free: 1, Brian Ruggles (Issaquah) 21.58; 12, Garrett (WW) 22.52; 22, Taylor Armstrong (Rich) 23.82. 1-meter diving: 1, Max Levy (Skyline) 291.00; 22, Jacob Price (ML) 97.50; 24, Mitch Piper (Rich) 89.10. 100 butterfly: 1, Asahel Jenkins (Cascade) 52.33; 5, Blanchard (Rich) 53.01; 11, Eslick (ML) 54.20. 100 free: 1, Ruggles (Iss) 47.67; 12, Garrett (WW) 49.81; 18, Kaelan Connacher (ML) 51.23. 500 free: 1, Weiner (CK) 4:40.17; 2, Connors (Rich) 4:41.83; 4, Giedeman (WW) 4:46.23; 17, Johnston (ML) 5:04.00; Bradshaw (Rich) DFS. 200 free relay: 1, Issaquah A (Ruggles, William Matsuda, Gabe Florsheim, David Nam) 1:29.67; 9, Moses Lake A (Eslick, Ben Breaky, Johnston, Connacher) 1:33.51; 16, Richland A (Blanchard, Armstrong, Bradshaw, Harrison Ostler) 1:34.58. 100 back: 1, Edward Kim (Eastlake) 51.33 (All-America consideration); 11, Pollick (Rich) 55.58; 18, Connacher (ML) 57.71. 100 breast: 1, Zach Alleva (East) 58.29; 15, Klem (WW) 1:03.37. 400 free relay: 1, Kamiak A (John Stupey, Tyler Cheung, Kyle Kusuda, Trent Roberts) 3:16.69; 5, Richland A (Blanchard, Pollick, Bradshaw, Connors) 3:19.57; 14, Walla Walla A (Klem, Josh Bumgarner, Giedeman, Garrett) 3:25.80; 15, Moses Lake A (Eslick, Reid Jackson, Johnston, Connacher) 3:25.98.

Class 2A

200 medley relay: 1, Sehome A (Cole Avery, Patrick Gregory, Andy Small, Allen Cui) 1:40.75; 7, Prosser A (Tim Bowen, Nolan Saam, Will Burgett, James Wildman) 1:47.23. 200 free: 1, Steve Sholdra (Renton) 1:41.39. 200 IM: 1, Avery (Seh) 2:00.09. 50 free: 1, Braden Mitchell (Mark Morris) 21.89 (meet record); 15, Burgett (Pro) 23.32. 1-meter diving: 1, Austin Fahrenholtz (Port Angeles) 297.05. 100 fly: 1, Alec Barnard (Archbishop Murphy) 52.97. 100 free: 1, Mitchell (MM) 48.05 (meet record). 500 free: 1, Sholdra (Ren) 4:28.18 (automatic All-America). 200 free relay: 1, Sehome A (Gregory, Isaiah Grambo, Cui, Casey Klipsch) 1:30.49; 8, Prosser A (Wildman, Bowen, Saam, Burgett) 1:34.69. 100 back: Results not available. 100 breast: 1, Connor Powers-Hubbard (Sumner) 1:00.28; 5, Will Burgett (Pro) 1:02.85; 7, Saam (Pro) 1:03.31. 400 free relay: 1, Sehome A (Avery, Curran Wilbour, Small, Casey Klipsch) 3:19.26.

1:38 p.m.: The first set of preliminaries at the WIAA Boys State Swimming and Diving Championships has been completed in Federal Way. At the 3A level, Hanford will be represented in several A and B finals Saturday.

Will Wertz will notch a top-eight finish in both his individual events. He is seeded fourth in the 200-yard freestyle final and is tied for the seventh seed in the 100 free with Noah Deiparine of Mercer Island. Deiparine's team is the six-time defending champion.

Hanford put one relay, the 200 free team of Wertz, Andrew Peacock, Cameron Sullivan and Cody Quinton, in Saturday's A final. The Falcons were sixth in the preliminaries.

Also, the 200 medley relay of Wertz, Peacock, Jake Douglas and Quinton will swim in the B final after finishing prelims in 10th.

BJ Deatherage is in sixth after the first day of diving, and Douglas will swim again Saturday after placing 12th in the 100 butterfly.

The 4A prelims start in less than a hour, followed by the 2As at 6:30 p.m.

In case you are wondering when you look at the top finisher in the 500 free, that is not Andrew McCarthy of "Pretty in Pink" fame. But wouldn't it be something if a Jon Cryer were competing in that event, too?

Results so far (top preliminary finisher plus area swimmers):

Class 3A

200-yard medley relay: 1, Mercer Island A (Andrew Weiss, Noah Deiparine, Quinn Markwith, Brandt Waesche) 1:37.88; 10, Hanford A (Will Wertz, Andrew Peacock, Jake Douglas, Cody Quinton) 1:41.40. 200 freestyle: 1, Thane Maudslien (Kennedy Catholic) 1:42.60; 4, Wertz (Han) 1:45.34. 200 individual medley: 1, Logan Briggs (Liberty) 1:53.86; 24, Keith Meline (Han) 2:10.62. 50 free: 1, Zach Wagner (Lakeside) 21.36. 1-meter diving: 1, Eddie Young (Shorewood) 300.80; 6, BJ Deatherage (Han) 226.55. 100 butterfly: 1, Maudslien (KC) 51.41; 12, Douglas (Han) 54.69; 19, Jeevan Philip (Han) 55.84. 100 free: 1, Wagner (Lake) 46.52; T7, Wertz (Han) and Deiparine (MI), 48.19. 500 free: 1, Andrew McCarthy (Bainbridge) 4:37.08. 200 free relay: 1, Mercer Island A (Kendrick Trowbridge, Waesche, Karl MacLane, Markwith) 1:29.23; 6, Hanford A (Wertz, Peacock, Cameron Sullivan, Quinton) 1:30.72. 100 backstroke: 1, Weiss (MI) 52.44. 100 breaststroke: 1, Raymond Ha (Lib) 57.95 (All-American); 18, Peacock (Han) 1:03.59; 24, Collins (Han) 1:07.15. 400 free relay: 1, Mercer Island A (Daniel Simons, Waesche, Marco Signorelli, Weiss) 3:12.65; 19, Hanford A (Sullivan, Meline, Philip, Douglas) 3:32.54.