Let's not forget wrestling

The Road to Hershey, the official start of wrestling's post-season begins Saturday with sectional tournaments throughout Central Pennsylvania.

The Class AA sectional tournament, which in previous years was held at Donegal, has been moved into the Mid-Penn Conference area. The one-day featuring teams from Section 3 in the Lancaster-Lebanon League and Mid-Penn Conference, will be held at Milton Hershey’s Spartan Center, starting at 9 a.m.

The top four finishers at each weight class will advance to next week’s District Three championships at the old Hersheypark Arena, next weekend.
From there, the Class AA wrestlers will compete in the regional tournament at Wilson, before moving to the state tournament the second weekend of March in Hershey.

Teams competing in the one-day tournament are Columbia, Donegal, Pequea Valley, Northern Lebanon, ELCO, Lancaster Catholic, Annville-Cleona, Milton Hershey and Palmyra.

Here are the returning district qualifiers that will compete in this weekend’s sectional tournament.

DONEGAL: Ross Bollinger, Josh Price, Ryan Wilson, Nick Herbert, Neal Sweigart, Derek Pietsch and Çody Tillman.

COLUMBIA: Joe Ronca, Garrett Mowrer and Dan Gerfin.

LANCASTER CATHOLIC: Jordan Ballentine, Chase Haberstroh and Mike Blaszczyk.

PALMYRA: Frank Landis and Dustin Saksek.

ELCO: Colin Edris, Tommy Simmons, Jason Weaver and Jake Walmer.

MILTON HERSHEY: Boyd Hardison.

NORTHERN LEBANON: Rob Dzwonchyk and Nick Dzwonchyk.

PEQUEA VALLEY: Nathan Good, Brock Suter, Adam Weaver, Alex Haberstroh, Jon Zeng and Isaac Zeng.