Glenn Kaiser recaps the SOL highlights from Saturday’s three District One Sectionals. Photos from the District One East Sectional provided courtesy of Kim Supko. Check back for a gallery of photos. All SOS photo galleries for WRESTLING can be viewed by clicking HERE.
2022 DISTRICT ONE SECTIONAL RESULTS
EAST: Quakertown Captures Team Title with Five Champs
SOUTH: Plymouth-Whitemarsh, with Three Champs, Finish as Runners-up
NORTH: Souderton Advances Five To Southeast Region
By Glenn Kaiser
EAST
Quakertown stole the show in their own gymnasium with an astonishing five champions to edge Council Rock South for the team title with 219 points to the Golden Hawks 205.5 points. CR South crowned three individual champions, but the Panthers run of titles in the championships was the difference. Q-town advanced nine wrestlers to the Southeast Region and eight CRS grapplers will
make the long haul to the mushroom capital at Oxford High School Friday and Saturday, March 4 & 5.
The Panthers run began at 120-pounds with Mason Ziegler’s head-to-head pin-fall win over the Golden Hawks Ajay Platt, who wrestled extremely well to get to the finals taking out Upper Moreland’s #2 seed Collin Evanson 8-3 in quarterfinal action. Todd McGann cradled up Abington’s Matt McCaughey at 126 to win the title there with a fall in 3:42, securing bonus points again for Quakertown. At 132, freshman phenom Collin Gaj added even more bonus points for the Panthers with his fall over Neshaminy’s Calvin Lederer. Quakertown throttled it up again at 172-pounds with another pin as Calvin Lachman decked North Penn’s Dylan Verway in the first period at 1:03. Big man for the Panthers, Frederick Retter, kept his stellar season going with a D1 East title at heavyweight with his 11-2 major decision over CB East’s Joe Collins 11-2, adding additional team points with the bonus win.
CR South countered with three titles in a row with Matt Colajezzi capping it off at 160-pounds with a tech fall over Pennridge’s talented freshman Talan Hogan 15-love in 5:38 to garner the Outstanding Wrestler award. The Sadriddinov brothers impressed with their crowns at arguably two of the toughest 
weight classes in the entire region as Shermuhammad and Bekhruz won respectively at 145 and 152-pounds. Shermuhammad needed every second to hold off Abington’s Shane Kibler 3-2 in the ultimate tie breaker at 145-pounds for his title. Bek was solid on his feet, downing an outstanding William Morrow (NP) and winning 4-2 for his crown. Morrow took out returning state qualifier Mason Stein (CBE) 7-5 in his semi, and Bek beat Neshaminy’s Dan Hansbury 12-6 in the other semi at 152. Stein picked up his 100th win at Quakertown as he looks to return to Hershey this season.
Central Bucks East finished third overall in the team race with 137.5 points with one champ in Quinn Collins. Brother Joe was a finalist at 285, but lost to Retter for the silver medal. Council Rock North posted two champs on the podium with freshman Eren Sement taking out his neighbor Luke Reitter (CRS) by tech fall 22-6 at 106. The 106-pound weight class will be exciting at Oxford with CB West’s Teague McCormack and Pennridge’s Colby Martinelli joining a slew of talented lightweights that include Haverford’s Cole McFarland, Ridley’s Curtis Nelson, Downingtown West’s Chase Sigle, along with
Spring-Ford’s Gus Smith. The Indians Tony Burke was king at 113 with his 3-2 decision over Pennridge’s Cole Coffin. They could very will meet again next weekend in the finals. Coffin will have to get by S-F stud Cole Smith to make it happen.
Central Bucks West big man kept his journey going with 215-pound title, beating CR South’s Lucas Doyle yet again, this time by major decision 12-4 in the finals. Pennsbury’s Mason Grodzki was the champ at 138-pounds with his 7-2 win over the Golden Hawks Gavin Cole, which put a damper on CR South’s team title hopes. The 126-pound bracket was turned upside down by CR South’s Ben Brillhart’s upset 1-0 win over Pennridge’s Sam Kuhns in the quarterfinals. But Kuhns avenged the loss with a 2-0 decision over Brillhart for the bronze.
SOUTH
Prospect Park, PA-Five SOL teams traveled to Interboro High School Saturday morning, and returned in the early evening with 18 Southeast Regional qualifiers. Plymouth-Whitemarsh, surprisingly finished as the team runner-up to a loaded Strath Haven team, compiling 145.5 points with three individual champions. Strath Haven ran away with the team title with 202.5 points. Overall, the SOL was well represented here, as Upper Dublin finished fifth overall with 139 points and four qualifiers. Hatboro-Horsham matched UD with four SE Region qualifiers, as Cheltenham and Wissahickon had two apiece.
P-W’s Jake Williams upset host Interboro’s Victor Quintilliana in the 120-pound final in sudden victory with a takedown after the most entertaining match of the afternoon unfolded. Williams and Quintilliana scrambled for six minutes to a 3-3 tie before Williams secured the TD in overtime, winning 5-3. Ashton Witteneberg made it back-to-back champs for the Colonials with his 8-6 win over local rival Colin Higgins from Upper Dublin in the 126-pound title tilt. At 138, PW’s Jared McGee walked away with a title after winning be injury default over Ridley’s Abraham Misere. The Colonials three D1-East champs will be joined by Jinuk Han (3rd @ 113 over Wissahickon’s Grayson Ruffner by major dec. 12-4), Ty Borkowski (4th @ 145), who lost to H-H’s Joe Martini III 2-0 in the consi-finals & 189-pounder Matt Sadel who finished third, downing H-H’s Hunter Long for the second time on the day with a quick fall in 35-seconds.
Upper Dublin amassed points up and down their lineup on the day, as Zach Gallagher was the Flying Cardinals first qualifier at 106 after losing by fall to H-H’s Ryan Allgeier in the consi-final. UD’s Dan Gorman followed Higgins up at 132 advancing in the fourth spot, and Gus Platt capped his terrific day with a fall in the consi-finals at 152-pounds.
Super sophomore from Hatboro-Horsham, Chris Staub, advanced to the finals at 132-pounds after downing a very solid Sam Kimmel from Upper Darby 10-3 in the semifinals. However, Staub ran into Interboro’s eighth place finisher at states a year ago, Nate Shippey, and lost 8-2.
Wissahickon’s Nathanael Chez went 4-1 on the day, capturing bronze at 172-pounds. Chez pinned Lower Merion’s Yannick Segal in the consi-final, after wrestling back from his semifinal loss to the tourney’s Outstanding Wrestler Dom D’Agostino from Interboro. Cheltenham’s 215-pounder, who was seeded #1, dropped a tight 3-2 decision at the hands of Strath Haven’s Anthony Crawford to finish with silver and a spot at Oxford next weekend. Fellow big man for the Panthers, David Cappel, won the bronze medal bout at 285 over Ridley’s Sevon Morris 7-4.
NORTH
Souderton, the lone SOL team to travel to Perk Valley, fared well, advancing five wrestlers to regionals. They finished in sixth place in the team scoring with 123.5 points (Spring-Ford won the team title with 210.5 points) with two runners-up. Erik Dominquez was second at 138-pounds, losing 10-6 to PV’s Kelly Kakos in the finals, Kakos was named the OW for his effort. Ben Beckett was edged by Conestoga’s Hayden McLellan 7-6 at 160 and had to settle for silver as well. Both A.J. Stayton and Tyler Geiger were back-to-back consi-champs placing third at 126 and 132 respectively. Charlie Arobone advanced to regionals at 113-pounds after finishing fourth with his loss to Upper Perk’s Brandan Rozanski.
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