One month of the District 10 high school wrestling season is sort of full.
December offered its typical surprises and previewed what followers ought to count on because the postseason nears. Below are 5 storylines to observe because the calendar flips to 2026.
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Who’s No. 1?
Few anticipated General McLane to beat Cathedral Prep on opening night. That end result may earn the Lancers a prime seed on the D-10 Class 2A group championships.
Prep ran away with D-10 final 12 months earlier than inserting fourth on the PIAA team meet. Might it and McLane swap spots within the D-10 hierarchy this winter?
It’s not over but. Prep wrestled McLane with out standout senior Max Spaulding at heavyweight, and weight descent plans counsel each lineups will look completely different come January.
Still, McLane’s win over a program which no D-10 group had overwhelmed since 2024 earns the Lancers respect. Their Jan. 7 conflict with Fort LeBoeuf will current one other pre-postseason group problem, as will a Jan. 14 journey to North East, which eradicated the Lancers in final season’s D-10 quarterfinals.
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Reynolds is again
Reynolds not often misses the PIAA group championships. Don’t count on a repeat of final season’s miss if this Raiders lineup stays wholesome.
Five former Northwest regional qualifiers anchor the group: Waylon Waite (121 kilos), Logan Stewart (127), Greyden Gustas (152), Emery Johnson (189) and Colton Tupper (215). Pair them with standout freshmen Nico Lomonte (107) and Tino Sciullo (133), and Reynolds may very well be the favourite to win D-10 Class 2A.
The Raiders completed second at Coventry, Ohio’s Comet Bash earlier than successful Solon, Ohio’s Comet Classic. Their January schedule contains assessments at Brookville’s Ultimate Duals and West Branch’s Ultimate Warrior event, plus twin meet clashes with Greenville and Grove City which can show key in D-10 group seeding.
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As it at the moment stands, I’d seed McLane and Reynolds atop the D-10 bracket.
Deepest weight?
The 127-pound weight class developed a well-deserved repute final season.
This was the deepest weight in D-10. Deepest within the state, too.
That left Reynolds’ Logan Stewart, the Class 2A Northwest regional champion and a respectable PIAA title menace, in 7th place. It left each Hickory’s Brady Slicker and Cathedral Prep’s Kamdyn Borrero – two of D-10’s greatest pound-for-pound wrestlers – off the rostrum.
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Two years in the past, that weight was 133, that includes three PIAA medalists and 4 state qualifiers from D-10.
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Which weight will emerge this 12 months’s 127?
My eyes are drawn to 2 locations: Back to 127 kilos, and to 215.
Weight descent plans nonetheless cloud what postseason brackets would possibly appear like. Stewart and Hickory’s Elijah Scriven (PIAA 4th place at 121 kilos), although, look like PIAA contenders at 127.
Grove City’s Ian Stearns, a PIAA medalist at 114 final 12 months, may be part of them. That trio, plus PIAA qualifiers in Cathedral Prep’s Davion Edmond and North East’s Rocky Kowle, would create a troublesome path to Hershey.
The identical may very well be mentioned about 133 kilos, which options Slicker, a former PIAA qualifier in North East’s Bryson Galloway, and standout sophomores Milan Harrison (Saegertown) and Mason McDonald (General McLane).
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More certainty exists at 215. Watch for a number of PIAA medal contenders from D-10, together with Colton Tupper of Reynolds, Logan Latimore of North East and Gary Kiselka of Franklin.
More: Which District 10 girls wrestling teams have stood out in December?
Eisenhower surges in Region 3
Corry dominated its strategy to the three most up-to-date Region 3 titles. While nonetheless the convention favourite, Corry may quickly have firm with a surging Eisenhower group.
Eisenhower began 3-0 in area duals, together with a 36-34 win at Titusville on Dec. 17. The Knights, with new co-operative program companion Youngsville, will go to Corry on Jan. 14.
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Eisenhower includes a younger group led by Northwest regional medalist Rever Caudill, a junior. Nine freshmen populate the Knights’ 22-man roster.
Girls scene nonetheless rising
Describing the high school ladies’ wrestling scene as “growing,” even in 12 months three of sanctioned PIAA competitors, stays true. D-10 now options greater than a dozen ladies’ packages.
Warren proved its value Dec. 21 by successful the Hubbard Classic in Ohio, a 50-team event which noticed the Dragons rating 171 group factors. Add them to a listing of D-10 group contenders which additionally options General McLane and Sharpsville, each of whom Warren defeated at Hubbard.
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D-10 ladies received 4 PIAA medals final season. Expect that quantity to extend come March.
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This article initially appeared on Erie Times-News: District 10 high school wrestling December storylines, standouts