2022 PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional Wrestling Championships info

By: Paul Schofield
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | 8:01 AM

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PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional

Where: Peters Township High School

When: Friday and Saturday

Times: Friday: Preliminary round, 4:30 p.m.; Quarterfinals, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday: Consolation Round 1, 9 a.m.; Semifinals, 12:30 p.m.; Parade of Champions and finals, 5 p.m.

Tickets: PIAA

General admission tickets will be sold online via Hometown Ticketing. Cash ticket sales will not be permitted at the gate. All rounds are $8 for adults and students, plus handling fees from the provider. Series tickets may be purchased for all rounds for the cost of $24 plus handling fees.

On the air: Trib HSSN

Pairings and live results: Flo Arena

At stake: Top 6 finishers in each of the 13 weight classes earn a berth in the PIAA Class 2A championships March 10-12 at the Giant Center in Hershey. Wrestlers from the WPIAL (District 7) and Districts 5 (Bedford, Somerset and Fulton counties) and 6 (Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Indiana, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties) compete.

Weight class breakdown

106: District champs: WPIAL: Parker Sentipal (Burgettstown, so., 35-3); 5. Easton Mull (Chestnut Ridge, fr., 33-6); 6. Jacob Sombronski (United, so., 22-4). No. 1 seed: Sentipal.

113: District champs: WPIAL: Colin Bartley (Laurel, jr., 25-7); 5. Brock Holderbaum (Chestnut Ridge, jr., 22-7); 6. Landon Bainey (West Branch, so., 33-1). No. 1 seed: Bainey.

120: District champs: WPIAL: Chris Vargo (Bentworth, so., 23-2); 5: Ross Dull (Chestnut Ridge, sr., 27-4); 6. Coen Bainey (Bald Eagle Area, jr., 30-3). No. 1 seed: Bainey.

126: District champs: WPIAL: Dylan Bruce (Elizabeth Forward, sr., 23-3); 5. Trevor Husick, Tussey Mountain, sr., 29-3); 6. Trent Hoover (Penn Cambria, so., 28-6). No. 1 seed: Husick.

132: District champs: WPIAL: Joey Sentipal (Burgettstown, jr., 35-4); 5. Calan Bollman (Chestnut Ridge, jr., 33-6); 6. Marcus Gable (Philipsburgh-Osceola, so., 30-6). No. 1 seed: Sentipal.

138: District champs: WPIAL: Ambrose Boni (Central Valley, sr., 31-2); 5: Mason Weyant (Chestnut Ridge, so. (11-10); 6. Easton Toth (Forest Hills, sr., 31-5). No. 1 seed: Toth.

145: District champs: WPIAL: Shawn Szymanski (Burrell, sr., 29-6); 5. Trevor Weyandt (Chestnut Ridge, sr., 28-3); 6. Ty Watson (Penns Valley, so., 34-0). No. 1 seed: Watson.

152: District champs: WPIAL: Justin Richey (Quaker Valley, sr., 33-2); 5. Jack Moyer (Chestnut Ridge, sr., 31-6); 6: Jackson Arrington (Forest Hills, sr., 31-2). No. 1 seed: Arrington.

160: District champs: WPIAL: Grant MacKay (Laurel, jr., 33-1); 5. Ethan Hemminger (Somerset, sr., 24-7); 6. Zeke Dubler (Glendale, jr., 32-2). No. 1 seed: MacKay.

172: District champs: WPIAL: Rune Lawrence (Frazier, so., (29-3); 5. Daniel Moore (Chestnut Ridge, sr., 27-7); 6. Suds Dubler (Glendale, sr., 33-3). No. 1 seed: Lawrence.

189: District champs: WPIAL: Patrick Cutchember (Quaker Valley, sr., 37-4); 5. Grant Mathias (Berlin-Brothersvalley, jr., 30-7); 6. Noah Foltz (Bald Eagle Area, sr., 27-7). No. 1 seed: Cutchember.

215: District champs: WPIAL: Dayton Pitzer (Mt. Pleasant, sr., 37-0); 5. Zane Hagans (Somerset, fr., 21-9); 6. Kirk Beariar (Forest Hills, sr., 26-5). No. 1 seed: Pitzer.

285: District champs: WPIAL: Joey Baronick (Burgettstown, so., 27-12); 5. Matt Watkins (Tussey Mountain, sr., 29-3); 6. Gunner Singleton (Huntingdon, jr., 32-7). No. 1 seed: Watkins.

Returning 2021 champions: Cooper Hornack (Burrell, 106); Chris Vargo (Bentworth, 113); Jackson Arrington (Forest Hills, 132); Grant MacKay (Laurel, 152); Rune Lawrence (Frazier, 172); Dayton Pitzer (Mt. Pleasant, 215).

Returning 2021 PIAA placewinners: Arrington (champion), MacKay (champion), Lawrence (champion), Pitzer (champion), Hornack (second), Vargo (third), Coen Bainey (fourth, 113), Landon Bainey (sixth, 106), Kyle McCollum (Beth-Center, eighth, 132), Ross Dull (Chestnut Ridge, seventh, 126), Luke Moore (Chestnut Ridge, seventh, 152) and Trevor Weyandt (Chestnut Ridge, fifth, 160).

Paul Schofield is a TribLive reporter covering high school and college sports and local golf. He joined the Trib in 1995 after spending 15 years at the Daily Courier in Connellsville, where he served as sports editor for 14 years. He can be reached at pschofield@triblive.com.