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    Posted: Mar 10 2025 at 8:50am
Ill start with a few- admittedly I am most familiar with Bucks County wrestlers - please help give kudos to kids from your area. 

Patrick Kelly /CB West - GREAT to see CB West have a few this year for sure - kudos to their staff and feeder program. Could there be a nicer kid then PK?

John Segata CR South - 1 Varsity win last year to wins at PA States the following season. Great young man and only a sophomore

CB East getting a state champ!! Chase is only a freshman...

Girls wrestling has gotten so popular they are going to have to split d1 and d12 at some point in the near future. And possibly hold PA states in a bigger venue!!

Luke Knox taking 3rd for Perk Valley as a sophomore! (A few of us are old enough to have coached against his dad when he wrestled at Abington lol)

Please add more! Lots of great stories from this season


Edited by Tony Rudy - Mar 10 2025 at 8:51am
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Congratulations to Julia Horger of Conwell Egan on her state title.

Grace Nesbitt of Neshaminy placing 6th at States in a really tough bracket.

Faith Christian - a new record of qualifying ten wrestlers for States and medaling all ten.

Bacon Barbell Club and Archbishop Wood - big shoutout for all of the great work they are doing in training so many wrestlers regardless of what team they wrestle for. Kudos to you!!!
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Jayden Lee made the most of his draw and pulled off a 6th place finish. He was on top in a tied match with ~30 seconds left in the blood round and released his opponent/went and got the winning takedown.

Sement avoided becoming the first ever 4x 3rd placer with his State title and did it with just about the toughest draw I've seen in recent memory.

Jon Smith & AJ Corp both get state medals after ending their freshman year with injuries.

Michael Spielman nabbed a second state medal (8th) after finishing 5th at regionals & sounds like he was wrestling with a devastating knee injury.

Decker Bechtold hardly wrestled until the 2nd half of the year & took 6th. I had heard there was a chance he wasn't going to touch the mat this year. Between his and his brothers injures, + two state medals, that family needs some R&R time!

Quakertown had state champions in both boys and girls. Sun Valley pushes two through to the finals, one for each team as well.

The following teams had at least one medal each between boys & girls division. Most, if not all, of these teams share one coaching staff between two programs which is a tremendous commitment:
Quakertown
OJR
Sun Valley
Central Bucks (East & West ???)
Strath Haven

This is probably the best performance for District One I've seen in recent memory!
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I thought this was interesting:

127  - 12 of the 20 qualifiers were returning state qualifiers and 7 of the 20 were returning medalists.  That means that every opening round match or pigtail likely had at least a returning state qualifier in it and most had a returning medalist.   So 127 might have been the toughest weight to medal in, in 2025.

Runner up tough weights were 145 with 9 of 20 returning qualifiers and 6 returning medalists and 172 with 8/20 returning qualifiers but 6 of those were returning medalists.  Some other weights had more returning qualifiers but 145 and 172 both had 6 returning medalists

Of course 107 did not have many returning qualifiers/medalists in the weight but 7 out of the 8 2024 107 medalists also medaled in 2025.  The one that didn't, graduated last year.  
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Maxwell Roy tore his ACL in April and had surgry in May.   Didn’t play football all year. He decided to wrestle despite having a scholarship for football at Ohio State and finished 2nd.   Wrestling ment that much to him.   
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