Wildcats Dominate Day One at King of The Mountain Tournament

By Joe Walker

MILL HALL- The first day of the 32-team King of the Mountain wrestling tournament is in the books and after day one the defending champions Central Mountain Wildcats are sitting atop of the field, with the Warriors of Montoursville close behind in second place. 

The Wildcats advanced nine wrestlers into Saturday’s quarterfinals and totaled 78 points, while the Warriors of Montoursville are second with 68.5 points and four in the quarterfinals. Boyertown is in third place with 66 points, while Mifflin County is fourth with 64 points and six in the quarterfinals. Bald Eagle Area rounds out the top five with 63 points and five quarterfinalists. 

Advancing for the Wildcats were Gavin Heverly (107), Aiden Kunes (127), Luke Simcox (139), Dalton Perry (145), Griffin Walizer (152), Jacob Weaver (172), Bryce Brungard (189), Rocco Serafini (215) and Giovanni Tarantella (285). The Wildcats still have Patrick Tarantella (133) still advancing in the consolation rounds. 

Montoursville advanced Aristotel Bobotas (107), David Kennedy (127), Gage Wentzel (152) and Cole Younkin (215) into the quarterfinals. Bald Eagle Area’s advancers were Tanner Guenot (107), Caden Judice (121), Lucas Fye (127), Caleb Close (189) and Eric Clark (285). 

The Mifflin County Huskies were second the Central Mountain with quarterfinalist, as their six advancers were Andrew Alexander (107), Blake Aumiller (127), Parker Kearns (152), Deakon Schaeffer (160), Avery Aurand (172( and Truitts Davis (285). Locally the Bellefonte Red Raiders had three wrestlers advance, as Wyatt Long (107), Ezra Swisher (139) and Noah Weaver (145) moved into the quarterfinals. 

The State College Little Lions moved three wrestlers into the quarterfinals, as top seeds Asher Cunningham (160) and Nicholas Pavlechko (285) advanced, along with James Whitbred (139). The Little Lions are with standout Pierson Manville (145) who took a break this weekend, after wrestling all summer and then winning the powerful Walsh Ironman tournament in Ohio last weekend. Manville is currently the number one ranked wrestler by Floarena in the country and headed to Arizona State next year. 

Wrestling gets underway Saturday morning with the championship quarterfinals and will run to 4:15 pm when the championship finals are set to get started. 

In partnership with the Central Mountain Wrestling Boosters therecord-online.com is offering live streams of all 4 mats Saturday. Access to the streams requires a one time donation of $30 to the booster club. Click here to access the stream.

Central Mountain Results: 

FIRST ROUND: 

107 – Gavin Heverly – BYE; Aden Schiefer (Central York) pinned Cael Dorman, 1:28; 114 – Luke Garmen pinned Brodt Tobias (Boyertown), 1:49; 121 – Brody Coleman (Boyertown) pinned Caden Stoner, 5:08; 121 – Jackson Lininger (Northern York) won tech fall (16-1) 4:53 over Jaggar Pardoe; 127 – Aiden Kunes pinned Chase Moyer (Mifflin County), 1:07; 133 – Patrick Tarantella dec. Logan Slovick (West Allegheny), 4-0; 139 – Luke Simcox – BYE; 145 – Dalton Perry pinned Carter Stouch (Boyertown), :08; Carnell Noone dec. Colin Baldersari (West Chester Rustin), 6-2; 152 – Luke Annanea pinned Nieco Fratelli (Northern York), 1:07; Griffin Walizer pinned Christian Feight (Chestnut Ridge), 3:07; 160 – Hunter Donley pinned Owen Prycl (Cumberland Valley), 1:15; 172 – Jacob Weaver pinned Dustin Hoover (Ephrata), 4:18; Shawn Taylor (West Allegheny) pinned Jacob Nyman, 1:14; 189 – Easton Belfiore (Brookville) pinned Wyatt Kramer, :53; Bryce Brungard pinned Jeremiha Hunter (Central York) 1:43; 215 – Rocco Serafini – BYE;

Gage Gardner (Bald Eagle Area) pinned Nicholas Lose, 2:59; 285 – Giovanni Tarantella pinned Jentezen Walls (Chestnut Ridge) :57. 

SECOND ROUND: 

107 – Gavin Heverly dec. Ben Hoover (Chambersburg), 7-2; 114 – Dalton Wenner (Cranberry) pinned Luke Garmen, 3:05; 127 – Aiden Kunes dec. Jared Popson (Brookville), 10-5; 133 – Max Wirnsberger (Warrior Run) dec. Patrick Tarantella, 6-1; 139 – Luke Simcox pinned James Pizzi (West Chester Rustin), 3:09; 145 – Dalton Perry pinned Colby Seiler (Mifflin County), :25; 

Elias Long (Central York) pinned Carnell Noone, 1:37; 152 – Cameron Millheim (Warrior Run) pinned Luke Annanea, 4:31; Griffin Walizer pinned Burke Fleming (Brookville), 1:46; 160 – Dalton Schadel (Line Mountain) dec. Hunter Donley, 4-1; 172 – Jacob Weaver pinned Cole Neiswender (Boyertown), 1:51; 189 – Bryce Brungard maj dec Isaiah Betz (Warrior Run), 12-3; 

215 – Rocco Serafini maj dec Tyler Byerly (Cumberland Valley), 13-0; 285 – Giovanni Tarantella dec. Andrew Edye (Hempfield), 3-1. 

CONSI FIRST ROUND: 

107 – Colby Kaufman (Chestnut Ridge) pinned Cael Dorman, 4:23; 121 – Caden Stoner pinned Jack Heller ( Williamsport), 2:36; Jaggar Pardoe pinned Evan Pancoast (Greater Latrobe), 1:00; 172 – Jacob Nyman pinned Grant Miller (Central York), 1:57; 189 – Wyatt Kramer pinned Reagen Dillon (State College) 4:34; 215 – Jalan Hall (Warrior Run) dec. Nicholas Lose, 10-3. 

CONSI SECOND ROUND: 

114 – Luke Garmen dec. Blake Fumia (Red Lion), 5-2; 121 – Caden Stoner dec. Jordan Hankey (Brookville), 8-3; Blake Knable (Mifflin County) pinned Jaggar Pardoe, 3:00; 133 – Patrick Tarantella pinned Brody Woodbrdige (West Chester Rustin), 3:40; 145 – Noah Tiumach (Ephrata) dec. Carnell Noone, 6-2; 152 – Luke Annanea dec. Christop Toth (Parkland), 11-6; 160 – Hudson Spires (General McLane) maj dec. Hunter Donley, 9-0; 172 – Noah Valentine (Chambersburg) dec. Jacob Nyman, 6-1; 189 – Jacob Stoner (Chambersburg) pinned Wyatt Kramer, 3:47; 

CONSI THIRD ROUND: 

114 – Harris Keares (Central York) maj dec Luke Garmen, 17-4; 121 – Jackson Lininger (Northern York) tech fall (15-0) 2:34 over Caden Stoner; 133 – Patrick Tarantella won by default over Elias Sallit (Parkland), 1:00; 152 – Jayden Imler (Chestnut Ridge) maj dec. Luke Annanea, 9-0.

	Team	Points
1	Central Mountain, PA	78
2	Montoursville, PA	68.5
3	Boyertown, PA	66
4	Mifflin County, PA	64
5	Bald Eagle Area, PA	63
6	Warrior Run, PA	59.5
7	Bethel Park, PA	58
7	Chambersburg, PA	58
9	Chestnut Ridge, PA	51
9	Owen J Roberts, PA	51
11	West Allegheny, PA	50.5
12	Central York, PA	50
13	General McLane, PA	47
14	Cumberland Valley, PA	46
14	Parkland, PA	46
16	Greater Latrobe, PA	45.5
17	Hempfield, PA	44
18	Brookville, PA	41.5
18	Line Mountain, PA	41.5
18	Northern York, PA	41.5
21	State College, PA	39
22	Canon McMillan, PA	37.5
23	Cranberry, PA	33.5
24	Pottsville Area, PA	32
25	Ephrata, PA	31
26	Shaler Area, PA	30
27	West Chester Rustin, PA	29
28	Bellefonte, PA	26.5
29	Altoona, PA	24
30	Red Lion, PA	20.5