The PIAA Wrestling Championships is Pennsylvania’s most-popular high school championship event, and WJPA Radio has brought home the excitement for over 70 years. Class 2A starts Thursday morning, including 14 wrestlers from Washington & Greene Counties. A dozen more from the two-county area are in the Class 3A brackets that open up Thursday afternoon. This eight-session tournament runs through the finals on Saturday with all the action live on WJPA-AM (1450) and online. Mark Uriah will call the action for the 40th consecutive year. He’ll be joined by Greg Warnock and Greg Smith in the booth. PIAA Wrestling Homepage
The Class 2A field is led by WPIAL team champion Burgettstown’s four qualifiers: Parker Sentipal, Gaven Suica, Joey Sentipal and Joey Baronick. Bentworth’s Chris Vargo, Owen Ivcic and Vitali Daniels are joined by Beth-Center neighbors Tyler Berish and Jake Layhue. Chartiers-Houston, which did not wrestle a dual meet schedule, qualified Jorden Williams and Jessie Orbin. Braedon Welsh (Ft. Cherry), Lucas Barr (McGuffey) and Chase Frameli (Jeff-Morgan) round out the local entrants.
Class 3A includes a “fantastic five” from Waynesburg: Mac Church, Rocco Welsh, Brody Evans, Eli Makel and Nate Jones. WPIAL team champion Canon-McMillan has three qualifiers including Tanner Mizenko, Andrew Binni and Matthew Furman. Trinity’s Blake Reihner and Ty Banko will be joined by Chris Cibrone (Peters Township) and Jake Conroy (Ringgold).
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Thursday, March 9
8:50 am 2A Preliminaries, 1st Consolations
3:50 pm 3A Preliminaries, 1st Consolations
Friday, March 10
8:50 am 2A Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
2:05 pm 3A Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
7:20 pm 2A Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
Saturday, March 11
8:50 am 3A Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
1:50 pm 2A Championship & Consolation Finals (1st-8th place)
6:50 pm 3A Championship & Consolation Finals (1st-8th place)