Here are all seeded wrestlers from Section 1, fresh off the pen of Eric Romanino. The state hasn’t released full brackets yet. All we get for now is the seeds.

Division I

96 KRAMER   8

103  REALBUTO 5

112 RODRIGUES 2

119  FLAMIO 2

119 STAUBER  5

130   GRIPPI  4

135  THAKUR   5

145  SPENO    4

145  TOMPKINS  6

152 RAMOS   4

160   BRUNDAGE   5

171  NIEVERT  4

285  [...]

The first of our three contest winners, 10591, sent me his guest blog post, which I posted below. It should be noted that he almost didn’t win. His original picks only had 11 winners, but he went back and resubmitted a new ballot that had 12. So now 10591 has a chance to get something [...]

The state DI and DII tournaments are seeded just like any other. Those seeds are being determined today. Section 1 coordinator Eric Romanino is in Albany this morning to participate in the process, which is done entirely by a formula. I will get those seeds out when I get them, hopefully early this afternoon.

Check [...]

Nineteen people entered our Call the Champions contest. Out of a possible 15 points, the highest score was 12. The lowest was 8. Not bad. Nobody screwed the pooch.

This is the part where I announce the winner with a flourish. Problem is there isn’t a winner. Three people scored a 12, and none of [...]

People were still voting on the old poll today, even though it was about who would win sectionals. Talk about Monday-morning quarterbacking.

Joe Grippi won that one, which asked who was the biggest lock to win sections. Impressive since he was a write-in candidate. Of course all four names that I threw up (as well as [...]

State wild cards weren’t supposed to be known until tomorrow. How surprised was I to find them sitting in my email inbox a minute ago.

Section 1 has been awarded six big-school wild cards and two small-school wild cards. That 6-2 ratio is roughly equal to the ratio of big- to small-school programs (37 to 12) [...]

Matt had plenty of extra thoughts on the small-schools championships. This is what he had to say:

“Out of the 15 small-school champions, only three of them were non-No. 1 seeds. The two No. 2 seeds that won title were Ardsley’s Drew Longo in the 96 and Nanuet’s Greg Caneparo. Nanuet’s Stephen Ramundo was the only [...]

There were a ton of good angles at the sectional champions. Hopefully, between the three articles in today’s paper, we covered most of them.

Matt Ng took on the small schools tournament. He focused on Penn Gottfried’s fourth title, family titles for the Longo brothers, Ray Wang’s quest to place at states, and Kleckner Charles toughing [...]

Reader “Pleasantville fan” asked for the link to the looping broadcast of the sectional finals. You can watch it on our website here.

Seven-hundred-and-thirty-five down, 30 to go. The season is over for 96% of the wrestlers in Section 1 (or thereabouts, I’m estimating the numbers a little bit). For the 4% left, now begins the impossible dream of a state championship. It really has been impossible in recent years for Section 1 winners, but I’ll get into [...]

Will Carter was MOW.

Team key and scores: 1. Ardsley (A) 216; 2. Edgemont (Ed) 213.5; 3. Pleasantville (Pv) 174.5; 4. Westlake (Ws) 172.5; 5. Nanuet (N) 160; 6. Putnam Valley (PV) 85; 7. Woodlands (Wd) 127.5; 8. Pawling (Pw) 85; 9. Dobbs Ferry (DF) 68; 10. Croton-Harmon (CH) 40; 11. Irvington (I) 30; 12. North [...]

Hauser was MOW.

Back later with some thoughts.

Team key and scores: 1. Fox Lane (FL) 172.5; 2. 2. John Jay (JJ) 164; 3. Carmel© 120; 4. North Rockland (NRk); 5. Arlington (Arl) 108.5; 6. Suffern (Sf) 96; 7. Ossining (O) 94.5; 8. Mahopac (M) 82; 9. Beacon (Be) 66.5; 10. Somers (S) 58.5; 11. Brewster (Bw) [...]

96- Aslanian

103-Calvano

112- Gottfried

119-Osleeb

125-Caneparo

130-Murayama

135-Manley

140- Talesnik

145-Longo

152-Carter

96 – Asher Kramer

103 – Brian Realbuto

112 – Steven Rodrigues

119 – Justis Flamio

125 – Mike Rose

130 – Joe Grippi

135 – Kevin Davidson

140 – Joe Hauser

145 – Luke Speno

Heres the results:
Small school
Third place
96 – Scott Longworth (A) dec. Max Abramsky (Ed), 8-5; 103 – Jimmy Kyreakedes (DF) pin. Elder Calim (Wd), :44; 112 – Michael Taino (Pv) pin. Chris Madera (Pv), 3:24; 119 – Jesse Rahimzadeh (N) dec. Teddy Kyreakedes (DF), 4-2; 125 – Michael kane (Pv) dec. Andrew Mancusi (Ws), 2-0; 130 [...]

The large-school finals are set here at Pace. They’re expected to begin a little after 3 p.m. I will try to check in at some point to update the winners, but internet access is spotty.

Here are the semifinal results.

96 – Asher Kramer (Sf) dec. Tom Grippi (FL) 6-2; Sam Speno (FL) dec. Mike Parise (Bw) [...]

Today’s championship at Pace will be broadcast live on our Web site via Mogulus.

View it through this link.

I’m not sure exactly what time the Mogulus videographers are getting there, though I doubt it’ll be for the semifinals. The championship will certainly be broadcast, starting at 3 p.m.

If you miss it, don’t worry. Remember that Mogulus [...]

Here’s Matt Ng’s thoughts on the small schools. Make sure you read his note at the end about the food. He was raving about it over the phone too. If Pace doesn’t have a good spread tomorrow I’m seriously afraid he’ll walk out.

A few things regretfully were left out of my story. Part of it [...]

Matt Ng was at Put Valley for small-school sectionals. Here are the full results. He’ll have some commentary later, which I’ll post.

Team key and scores: Edgemont (Ed) 119; Ardsley (A) 94; Westlake (Ws) 88; Pleasantville (Pl) 82; Nanuet (N) 76; Woodlands (Wd) 69; Putnam Valley (PV) 67.5; Pawling (Pw); Dobbs Ferry (DF) 38; Croton-Harmon (CH) [...]

For a second I thought there’d be internet at Clarkstown South because a wireless network popped up on my computer. Unfortunately it was password protected and no one knew the password. So this is my first chance to update you beyond the few notes I passed to local sports editor Joe Lombardi.

The top two seeds [...]

There were a few amendments to the large school bracket. I made the changes to my earlier post on all the first round matchups. You may want to double check the matchups if you have a horse in the race.

These are the first round matches. Note the asterisk by some of them and the corresponding note at the bottom.

Team key – Ardsley (A); Croton-Harmon (CH); Dobbs Ferry (DF); Edgemont (Ed); Hastings (Hs); Irvington (I); Nanuet (N); Pawling (Pw); Pleasantville (Pv); Putnam Valley (PV); Woodlands (Wd).

96 – 1. Trey Aslanian (Ed) bye; Matt Major (Pw)-Max [...]

If there’s an upset at sectionals, some people will turn to their friends and go, “I knew Steve Rodrigues would lose in the first round!” Those people are liars. But there are some of you that really can pick an upset or two. And I want to give you a chance to prove it.

The Takedowns [...]