The men involved with an altercation at Harmony Park near Geneva Lake early Sunday morning — in which one man was reportedly stabbed — debated whether they should even call authorities after the incident took place, said the park’s owner Jay Sullivan.

They were part of a five-year class reunion from Owatonna, and they knew each other, Sullivan said.

He alleged that the men were drunk and that the injury wasn’t serious enough to call right away. But he decided to call just to be on the safe side.

The altercation resulted in the arrest of 23-year-old Casey Alan Gefre of Rochester, who now faces one count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of third-degree assault related to the incident.

The victim, who was reportedly stabbed in the upper left leg with a standard steak knife and taken to the Albert Lea Medical Center, has not been identified.

According to court documents, a fight was taking place before the alleged stabbing.

Sullivan said in his 16 years of operating the park he has never had something like this happen.

“What surprises me, I will have 4,000 or 5,000 people here for an event and nothing happens, and then here we have 50 people at a class reunion, and we have the worst incident we’ve ever had,” he said.

He described the incident, however, as more of a “poke” than a stabbing.

He said he booked the parks months ago for the reunion and because he knew the people who would attend would be relatively young, the contract stated that no underage people could attend.

He said he’s been trying to book smaller events such as class reunions to help make ends meet and to keep on good terms with neighbors.

The night of the incident there were other campers at the park as well, who slept through it all.

“It wasn’t that big of a ruckus,” Sullivan said.

“Certainly this wasn’t a normal Harmony Park activity or event. I see it kind of ironic that I’m really attempting to have smaller events to make monthly ends meet. Adding another large festival is taxing on the neighborhood, so I’m trying to do a lot of these small things.”