Elijah Sanders is leaving Richmond High School a champion. A two-time state boys wrestling champion, to be specific. Sanders, who’ll graduate in May, won the 165-pound title at the Class 2 state tournament, held Feb. 21-22 at Mizzou Arena in Columbia. In 2023, he won the Class 1 state title at 157, making him Richmond’s first back-to-back state champion since Brandon Simpson. During 2003-05, Simpson won three straight Class 1 titles – the first at 152, the next two at 160, Missouri State High School Activities Association records state. “It kind of hit me later – … the thought of it being the last one and all that – but … I realized (after my championship match) what I’d done and I was really excited, happy about it,” he recalled Monday at the multipurpose building on the high school campus. Sanders swept his four matches to win the title and finish the season 45-0. He capped his run with a 6-4 decision over Ste. Genevieve’s Evan Winters. Sanders was pleased with his performance…