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Suffield Wrestlers Ready for Class M State Tournament
The Wildcats have multiple opportunities to bring medals home from the tournament.
After finishing 3rd overall in the , the Suffield High School wrestling team has been preparing for the Class M state tournament.
Suffield is led into the tournament by Juniors Ryan Hunihan and Dan D'Ostuni, wrestling at 130 pounds and 135 pounds respectively. Both placed second in last week's NCCC event. Another leader for Suffield is the highest-seeded Wildcat in the tournament, senior co-captain John Kopec.
"They have had a good week of practice,"coach Chris Potter said. "Many of the wrestlers have the experience to move up from their seeding and all are capable of placing in the top six with some extra effort, particularly Kevin [Bentz], Dan D'Ostuni, Ryan [Hunihan], Joey [Gleason] and John [Kopec]."
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The Class M tournament takes place at Windham High School in Willimantic. This will be Suffield's first appearance in the Class M tournament. The Wildcats moved up a division after being in Class S for many years.
The first round and the round of 16 bouts take place on Friday. The tournament concludes the next day, with the championship round on Saturday night. The top four placewinners from the divisional, or Class, meets (there are four Classes: S, M, L and LL) earn spots in the state open. That tournament, the final event of the season, will be held in New Haven next weekend. Divisional championship seeds are as follows:
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Class M is made up of 31 schools with enrollment between 399 and 543 male students. Schools in Class M include Berlin, Cheney Tech, Enfield and New London.
Suffield Wildcats (name, weight class, tournament seed) in the Class M tournament:
- Dillion Lisk at 112 pounds, seeded 15th.
- Kevin Bentz at 125 pounds, seeded 12th.
- Ryan Hunihan at 130 pounds, seeded 8th.
- Dan D'Ostuni at 135 pounds, seeded 13th.
- Joe Gleason at 140 pounds, seeded 12th.
- Tristen Cauley at 160 pounds, seeded 11th.
- Zachary Whittle at 171 pounds, seeded 22nd.
- Dan Adams at 189 pounds, seeded 17th.
- John Kopec at 215 pounds, seeded 7th.
Good luck to the team and individual wrestlers in their quest to bring Class M medals back to Suffield!
