Wrestling: Highlights and first and third-place results for Districts 17, 18 and 19

The state’s 32 districts took place Saturday with the top three finishers in each district advancing to next Friday and Saturday’s regions. The top four finishers in each weight class earn berths to the state Individual Championships at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on March 2 to 4.

Here are the best local finishers that make up Region 5 in Districts, 17, 18 and 19. No MyCentralJersey area wrestlers qualified from District 20.

Results from the first- and third-place matches from each of the three districts follow the writeups.

More:Wrestling: Complete list of qualifiers for every region in New Jersey

District 17

Hillsborough and Hunterdon Central each crowned three champions with nine and 10 qualifiers, respectively, to lead the Skyland Conference at District 17.

Host Hunterdon Central had gold medalists in Anthony Rossi (113), Will Cella (138) and Rhett Washleski (144) and runners-up in Ryan Sherlock (106), Henry Wilkinson (150) and Thomas Brunetti (175). The Red Devils’ third-place finishers were Evan Thompson (132), Jacob Saus (157) and Patrick Kaczmarek (190).

Hillsborough’s winners were Peter Quandt (175), Joey Witcoski (190) and Christian Quandt (285).

Hillsborough’s other finalists were Zach Iannucci (120), Chris Spinelli (138), Jack Miller (165) and Matt Jones (215). The Raiders’ lower weights qualified for Region 5 with third-place finishes in Logan McDermid (106), Tommy Kester (113) and Corey Iannucci (126).

District 18

North Brunswick crowned two champions, while East Brunswick and South Brunswick each had six region qualifiers to lead the Greater Middlesex Conference entries.

North Brunswick’s Omar Elhomossy (138) and Willie Wilson (165) claimed titles with teammate Jomar Mena (165) taking third.

East Brunswick’s Aedan Samson-Huggins (126) claimed a gold medal. The Bears other qualifiers were runners-up Dominick Lezark (106), Jake Gujski (113) and George Crostewitz (144) and third-place finishers Yisreal Thomas (175) and Ben Erlich (215).

South Brunswick had runners-ups in Michael Kurilla (150), Shahnawaz Asif (157) and Adam Derbala (285). The Vikings’ third-place finishers were Garv Sen (120), Brandon Castro (132) and Mustafa Oudeh (144).

New Brunswick’s Yasir Johnson (215) topped the podium and South River’s Joseph Lepore (132) placed second.

District 19

St. Joseph-Metuchen advanced 12 wrestlers to Region 5 and repeated as team champions with 266 points, ahead of second-place Old Bridge’s 199.5. The Falcons champions included Zach Beadling (120), Morgan Schwarz (126), Giovanni Alejandro (138), Tyler Whitford (144), Evan Mendez (150), Jake Zargo (165), Brian Christie (190) and Jake Tulli (285).

Schwarz, a freshman No. 3 seed at 126, got by Old Bridge’s Jesse Koczon 2-0 in the semifinals and then edged top-seeded Julian Dawson in a 19-14 decision. The two met in the GMCT semifinals with Dawson prevailing 13-9 in another high-scoring match.

At 150, Mendez won a high-level meeting with a 3-1 win over Metuchen state qualifier Francesco Rossiter. At heavyweight, Tulli got by Piscataway’s Malachi Wyatt 3-0 in a rematch of the GMCT final won by Tulli by a rideout in the ultimate tie-breaker.

Old Bridge’s Tyler Sagi (157) and Logan Roman (113) continued their dominance with big wins in the final.

Piscataway’s Brian Butler also won at 132 with a major decision.

Results

District 17

First Place

106

Matthew Gould (Saint John Vianney) 22-5 won by major decision over Ryan Sherlock (Hunterdon Central Reg) 20-7 (MD 9-1)

113

Anthony Rossi (Hunterdon Central Reg) 31-3 won by major decision over Cole Rose (Princeton) 30-6 (MD 12-4)

120

1st Place Match - Anthony Knox (Saint John Vianney) 31-0 won by tech fall over Zach Iannucci (Hillsborough) 23-12 (TF-1.5 3:00 (25-10))

126

Jake Zaltsman (Saint John Vianney) 25-9 won by fall over Johan Aguilar (Franklin) 26-8 (Fall 0:50)

132

Patrick O`Keefe (Saint John Vianney) 17-3 won in overtime over Blase Mele (Princeton) 31-3 (OT 5-3)

138

William Cella (Hunterdon Central Reg) 22-3 won by decision over Chris Spinelli (Hillsborough) 27-9 (Dec 6-0)

144

Rhett Washleski (Hunterdon Central Reg) 27-3 won by major decision over John Saraiva (Saint John Vianney) 18-13 (MD 9-1)

150

Cole Stangle (Saint John Vianney) 21-6 won by decision over Henry Wilkinson (Hunterdon Central Reg) 19-3 (Dec 3-0)

157

Kevin McBride (Saint John Vianney) 23-12 won by decision over Lucas Velando (Manville Hs) 27-8 (Dec 9-3)

165

Jasiah Queen (Saint John Vianney) 33-3 won by tech fall over Jack Miller (Hillsborough) 34-4 (TF-1.5 0:00 (28-13))

175

Peter Quandt (Hillsborough) 24-13 won by fall over Thomas Brunetti (Hunterdon Central Reg) 26-5 (Fall 4:24)

190

Joey Witcoski (Hillsborough) 35-2 won by major decision over Geoffrey Mathis (Manville Hs) 27-4 (MD 13-5)

215

Michael Foley (Saint John Vianney) 24-7 won by decision over Matt Jones (Hillsborough) 26-5 (Dec 5-0)

285

Christian Quandt (Hillsborough) 33-4 won by decision over Connor Walsh (Sayreville War Memorial) 17-3 (Dec 3-2)

Third Place

106

Logan McDermid (Hillsborough) 33-6 won by fall over Victor Perez-Alvarado (Franklin) 18-12 (Fall 2:28)

113

Tommy Kester (Hillsborough) 24-8 won by decision over Cj McCrea (Sayreville War Memorial) 21-5 (Dec 9-3)

120

Jayden Moore (Franklin) 22-8 won by tech fall over Logan Skulski (Sayreville War Memorial) 16-11 (TF-1.5 5:00 (19-4))

126

Corey Iannucci (Hillsborough) 25-12 won by decision over Ahmed Hussain (Hunterdon Central Reg) 14-17 (Dec 5-4)

132

Evan Thompson (Hunterdon Central Reg) 14-5 won by fall over Brandon Rivera (Manville Hs) 26-8 (Fall 1:07)

138

Martin Brophy (Princeton) 24-6 won by decision over Justin Musmanno (West Windsor-Plainsboro North) 30-7 (Dec 9-4)

144

Kieran Sattiraju (West Windsor-Plainsboro North) 32-4 won by decision over Brett Lockburner (Hillsborough) 16-18 (Dec 7-0)

150

Christian Paul (Princeton) 23-11 won by fall over Matt Miller (Hillsborough) 24-16 (Fall 3:41)

157

Jacob Saus (Hunterdon Central Reg) 17-11 won by major decision over Giuseppe Cicciari (Hillsborough) 16-20 (MD 9-0)

165

Malik Reid (Franklin) 25-8 won by fall over Chase Hamerschlag (Princeton) 22-9 (Fall 3:13)

175

Thomas Cleary (Saint John Vianney) 22-10 won by fall over Elhadji Diara (Montgomery) 23-9 (Fall 1:09)

190

Patrick Kaczmarek (Hunterdon Central Reg) 12-15 won by decision over Elijah Roberts (Franklin) 14-12 (Dec 13-11)

Lucas Allen (Montgomery) 28-3 won by fall over Sean Sylvester (Sayreville War Memorial) 18-14 (Fall 1:48)

285

Evan Hartel (Franklin) 19-13 won by fall over Tyler Suk (Hunterdon Central Reg) 3-5 (Fall 1:59)

District 18

First Place

106

Dean Meissner (Hopewell Valley Hs) 26-9 won by decision over Dominick Lezark (East Brunswick H.S.) 30-8 (Dec 3-1)

113

Andrew Mucciolo (Manalapan) 35-4 won by fall over Jake Gujski (East Brunswick H.S.) 29-6 (Fall 2:40)

120

Anthony Vitola (Manalapan) 30-4 won by decision over Luke Caldwell (Hopewell Valley Hs) 22-14 (Dec 11-4)

126

Aedan Samson-Huggins (East Brunswick H.S.) 29-7 won by fall over Christian Spezio (Manalapan) 14-11 (Fall 3:09)

132

Vincent DePierro (Manalapan) 25-4 won by fall over Joseph Lepore (South River) 16-4 (Fall 1:22)

138

Omar Elhomossy (North Brunswick Township) 20-5 won by decision over Michael Meissner (Hopewell Valley Hs) 24-10 (Dec 4-3)

144

Vincent Kain (Manalapan) 23-4 won by tech fall over George Crostewitz (East Brunswick H.S.) 26-12 (TF-1.5 2:20 (16-0))

150

Alexander Todisco (Holmdel) 22-8 won by decision over Michael Kurilla (South Brunswick Hs) 28-9 (Dec 7-1)

157

Tim McKeown (Hopewell Valley Hs) 24-10 won by fall over Shahnawaz Asif (South Brunswick Hs) 14-10 (Fall 0:54)

165

William Wilson (North Brunswick Township) 31-0 won by fall over Landon Schafer (Hopewell Valley Hs) 24-11 (Fall 1:53)

175

Alexander Reyes (Holmdel) 29-2 won by fall over Sergey Zavalnik (Manalapan) 22-13 (Fall 0:56)

190

Kenny Wines (Manalapan) 27-9 won by decision over John Steele (Holmdel) 21-5 (Dec 6-3)

215

Yasir Johnson (New Brunswick) 23-5 won by decision over Constantine Kilaras (Manalapan) 23-11 (Dec 6-4)

285

Artem Reinikov-Jouk (Manalapan) 29-4 won by decision over Adam Derbala (South Brunswick Hs) 26-11 (Dec 5-2)

Third Place

106

Thomas Nielson (South River) 15-8 won by fall over Rowen Blackmore (Holmdel) 17-13 (Fall 2:47)

113

Dylan Hersh (Hopewell Valley Hs) 24-12 won by tech fall over Hans Cipriano (New Brunswick) 11-6 (TF-1.5 0:00 (15-0))

120

Garv Sen (South Brunswick Hs) 21-13 won by fall over Dorian Pena (New Brunswick) 20-15 (Fall 1:07)

126

Rex Peters (Hopewell Valley Hs) 18-19 won by fall over William Greiner (Holmdel) 16-14 (Fall 0:40)

132

Brandon Castro (South Brunswick Hs) 22-15 won by major decision over Isaac Miller (Hopewell Valley Hs) 10-12 (MD 17-9)

138

Anthony Mucciolo (Manalapan) 20-12 won by decision over Airan Fernandez (Holmdel) 12-17 (Dec 6-2)

144

Mustafa Oudeh (South Brunswick Hs) 27-10 won by decision over Adam Beigman (Hopewell Valley Hs) 14-12 (Dec 2-1)

150

Jomar Mena (North Brunswick Township) 20-12 won by decision over Konrad Haugeto (Hopewell Valley Hs) 22-14 (Dec 11-10)

157

Daniel Orsen (Manalapan) 19-13 won by fall over James Milligan (East Brunswick H.S.) 11-15 (Fall 1:04)

165

Matt Varga (Spotswood) 18-6 won by fall over Jack Cleary (Holmdel) 20-9 (Fall 1:30)

175

Yisreal Thomas (East Brunswick H.S.) 16-20 won by medical forfeit over Chase Overman (Hopewell Valley Hs) 27-9 (M. For.)

190

Nate March (Hopewell Valley Hs) 12-7 won by fall over Russell Novak (East Brunswick H.S.) 27-11 (Fall 1:25)

215

Benjamin Erlich (East Brunswick H.S.) 17-12 won by fall over Marc Dietz (Holmdel) 16-13 (Fall 0:25)

285

Jon Trainor (Hopewell Valley Hs) 15-13 won in tie breaker - 2 over Ryan Godinho (South River) 10-8 (TB-2 8-7)

District 19

First Place

106

Eamon Fry (Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) 21-6 won by decision over Julian Arango (St. Joseph Metuchen) 19-14 (Dec 6-0)

113

Logan Roman (Old Bridge) 37-1 won by major decision over John Whitacre (St. Joseph Metuchen) 22-13 (MD 13-1)

120

Zachary Beadling (St. Joseph Metuchen) 25-7 won by fall over Jeremy Negron (Edison) 23-8 (Fall 0:32)

126

Morgan Schwarz (St. Joseph Metuchen) 28-7 won by decision over Julian Dawson (Edison) 35-2 (Dec 19-14)

132

Brian Butler (Piscataway) 31-4 won by major decision over Brandon Koczon (Old Bridge) 28-10 (MD 10-1)

138

Giovanni Alejandro (St. Joseph Metuchen) 33-2 won by tech fall over Cole Pangborn (Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) 21-7 (TF-1.5 5:53 (21-6))

144

Tyler Whitford (St. Joseph Metuchen) 29-6 won by major decision over Jake Tenebruso (Old Bridge) 24-12 (MD 14-0)

150

Evan Mendez (St. Joseph Metuchen) 21-8 won by decision over Francesco Rossiter (Metuchen) 31-4 (Dec 3-1)

157

Tyler Sagi (Old Bridge) 35-1 won by tech fall over Vincent Genna (St. Joseph Metuchen) 22-7 (TF-1.5 3:33 (26-11))

165

Jake Zargo (St. Joseph Metuchen) 15-4 won by decision over Daniel Hennessey (Old Bridge) 31-3 (Dec 11-5)

175

Avery Mack (Old Bridge) 27-4 won by disqualification over Andrew Bouchard (St. Joseph Metuchen) 20-9 (DQ)

190

Brian Christie (St. Joseph Metuchen) 30-5 won by fall over Conor Delaney (Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) 18-6 (Fall 1:36)

215

Hudson Skove (Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) 25-1 won by fall over Richard Boateng Baah (Piscataway) 26-5 (Fall 1:48)

285

Jake Tulli (St. Joseph Metuchen) 28-6 won by decision over Malachi Wyatt (Piscataway) 27-5 (Dec 3-0)

Third Place

106

Sean Bayer (Marlboro) 17-10 won by decision over Joseph Nalewajko (Old Bridge) 14-16 (Dec 5-3)

113

Andrew Roy (Woodbridge) 18-17 won by fall over Eli Sanchez (Edison) 20-13 (Fall 2:15)

120

Nate DeCoite (Metuchen) 21-10 won by decision over Angelo Campos (Woodbridge) 15-16 (Dec 7-6)

126

Jesse Koczon (Old Bridge) 33-5 won by fall over Ma`Zyi Jacobs (Piscataway) 14-14 (Fall 0:45)

132

Mason Atkins (St. Joseph Metuchen) 15-10 won by fall over Mitchell Oystacher (Marlboro) 18-11 (Fall 5:44)

138

Sean Love (Piscataway) 13-8 won by decision over Fernando Avellan (Edison) 26-8 (Dec 17-15)

144

Evan Ridgway (Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) 20-7 won by major decision over Alexander Jang (Marlboro) 18-20 (MD 15-3)

150

RJ Stradling (Middlesex/Dunellen) 26-4 won by decision over Austin Miller (Old Bridge) 21-16 (Dec 12-7)

157

Garrett Pech (Piscataway) 16-14 won by decision over Josh Pizzaia (Edison) 24-6 (Dec 4-3)

165

Tyler Boelhower (Woodbridge) 23-3 won by fall over Tyler Bertrand (Piscataway) 15-18 (Fall 1:15)

175

James Boelhower (Woodbridge) 23-10 won by major decision over Jude Adekanye (Piscataway) 17-14 (MD 9-0)

190

Ossie Hilliard (Piscataway) 14-3 won by fall over Zachary Florio (Old Bridge) 13-16 (Fall 1:18)

215

Robert Orzol (Old Bridge) 29-7 won by decision over Trevor Perlow (Marlboro) 26-12 (Dec 3-1)

285

Nicholas Caruso (Old Bridge) 26-11 won by fall over Matthew Smith (Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) 11-12 (Fall 2:41)

This article originally appeared on MyCentralJersey.com: Wrestling: Highlights and medal results for Districts 17, 18 and 19