STORY—Chagrin Valley Conference fared well after the first day of competition at the 2024 OHSAA State Wrestling Championships.
Of the 25 CVC wrestlers who qualified for the state tournament, 18 are one win away from earning All-Ohio honors.
Ten CVC wrestlers won their first-round bouts and will wrestle in Saturday morning’s quarterfinals.
That group includes Lutheran West’s D.J. Otero (106), Jefferson’s Jonathon Bissell (138), and Hawken’s Will Greenberg (285) in Division II, and Beachwood’s Caleb Greenwood (150), Crestwood’s J.P. Wrobel (126), Trinity’s Derion Williams (106), Xavier Pearson (120), and Brandon Bruce-Bey (175), Perry’s Riley Rowan (126), and Conneaut’s Scotty Edwards (285) in Division III.
Greenwood trailed 7-2 before rallying to tie the match 8-8 at the end of the third period. He scrambled for points in overtime to win the match.
Trinity, who also advanced 190-pounder Cameron Carter in the consolation bracket, closed out the first day of action in 13th place with eight points.
Edgewood’s Kyle Vencill (157) and Madison’s Noah Blough (165) dropped their first-round bouts but bounced back in the first round on consolation wrestling in Division II.
Berkshire’s Colin Hering (113) and Perry’s Chris Bezzeg (138) followed the same path in Division III.
Hering traveled to Columbus as a state alternate and discovered shortly before the tournament started that he’d replace a No. 1 seed in the bracket.
Lutheran West’s Leslie Sullivan (140) and Paris Willis (170) and Orange’s Natalie Martincic (130) each lost their first-round bout but survived with a consolation win in the girls’ division.
Berkshire’s Alex Munn, Madison’s Izaiah Siler, Perry’s Chance Schlauch, Domenick LaMacchia, and Antonius Bertone, and Trinity’s Reginald Baines went 0-2 on Friday and were eliminated.
Will Greenberg of @HawkenAthletics settled for being a state alternate his freshman and sophomore years. He wrested like a state veteran today. pic.twitter.com/0M3Ihq48Y6
— News-Herald preps (@NHPreps) March 8, 2024
Colin Hering of @BHSBadgerDen found out at 11 this morning he was getting into the state tournament as an alternate. He’s still alive after one day of action. pic.twitter.com/SiPu1T6Pk5
— News-Herald preps (@NHPreps) March 8, 2024
