Everything is about to get decided for the area’s trio of high school wrestling teams.
Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA and Fayetteville-Manlius are both heading to Auburn next Saturday for the Section III Class AA championships, while East Syracuse Minoa takes part in the sectional Class A meet at Watertown.
J-D/CBA and ESM would go head-to-head Wednesday night. They had first met Dec. 7 in the Red Rams Duals and it had gone 63-18 in the host’s favor.
Here, the Rams won again, though by a more modest 49-18 margin that included a sweep of each of the five bouts contested in the lightest weight classes.
William BeSeth, at 120 pounds, pinned Matt Choi in 74 seconds, with Jackson Thomas (106 pounds) getting a 92-second pin over Davis Palmer.
It took 1:42 for Garrett Williams, at 132 pounds, to finish off Noah Harbinger, with Ethan Wells (126 pounds) outscoring Ayden Johnston 13-8 and Matthew Dougherty (99 pounds) claiming a forfeit.
Elsewhere for J-D/CBA, Tyriq Block, at 195 pounds, pinned Andrew Crone in 3:15 and Muaweyah El-Hindi (215 pounds) took just 21 seconds to pin Max Wunderlich.
At 170 pounds, Enver Bultaov held off Ali Abdulla 8-1, while Shoh Alibekov kept his 152-pound opponent, Nick Modlewski, off the board in a 9-0 shutout.
ESM got all of its points from three pins. Conor Todd, at 285 pounds, finished off Nikoli Sims in 83 seconds, with Aslan Abdulla (160 pounds) getting a pin of Leonardo Tallarico in 2:42 and Alex Leo (138 pounds) taking 73 seconds to finish off Anyas Goeman.
J-D/CBA began its lead-up by taking on West Genesee last Monday night and taking apart the Wildcats 63-17, a result more impressive given the fact that WG had gone 5-0 in the Red Devil Duals at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill just two days earlier.
Every bout from 99 to 145 was won by the Rams, ranging from Goeman pinning Jackson Taetsch in 38 seconds to some hard-fought decisions.
BeSeth edged Dylan Pitonza 4-3, with Williams holding off Gavin O’Neill 3-1 and Dougherty topping Jack Wade 7-3. Thomas got a 94-second pin over 113-pound opponent Anthony Orendorf as Alibekov took 3:39 to pin Cole Saxon.
El-Hindi, Block and Chris Hemingway (285 pounds) all earned pins, with Hemingway finishing off Derek Dishaw in 44 seconds, El-Hindi pinning Peter Dwinell in 62 seconds and Block taking 81 seconds to pin Preston Elia.
When F-M had its own match againt West Genesee on Wednesday night, it had a far different outcome, the Hornets falling to the Wildcats 51-27.
Alex Dauksza, at 160, won 6-4 over Colin McAvan, while Sawyer Dereszynski (182) pinned Elia in 46 seconds and Liam Malgieri (285) got a 58-second fall over Dishaw. Kyle Sykes, at 120, dropped a close 8-5 decision to Dylan Pitonza as Dan Kenney (170) claimed a forfeit.
