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Welcome to PA's 2009-2010 Wrestling Season


                         

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The 2010 Dapper Dan Preview

    Pennslyvania will look to defend it's crown as Dapper Dan champions in 2010.  The highly anticipated senior class of 2010 will feature a line up filled with PA superstars.  In this year's event PA may very well be favored against the USA All-Star Team.  Those looking to lead PA include Andrew and Dylan Alton, Marshall Peppelman, Josh Kindig, Evan Craig, and Dirk Cowburn.  The 2010 class is filled with wrestlers who are acomplished both on the state and national level.  My predicted PA line up is...


Weight      Name                High School            College Commitment      State Championships


112:          David White         Athens

119:          Mike Rhone         Benton                               Lock Haven

125:          Mitchell Port       Bellefonte                         Edinboro

130:          A.J. Schopp          Tyrone                               Edinboro

135:          Josh Dziewa        Council Rock South        Iowa

140:          Josh Kindig         Blue Mountain                 Oklahoma State                        1

145:          Andrew Alton      Central Mountain            Penn State                                 1

152:          Dylan Alton         Central Mountain            Penn State                                 2

160:          Marshall Peppelman   Central Dauphin    Cornell                                       2

171:          Dirk Cowburn      Couderspot                      Penn State                                 2

189:          Jamie Callender   Council Rock North     North Carolina

215:          Spencer Myers     Selinsgrove                     Maryland 

285:          Evan Craig             Abington Heights                                                               1

State Champ Injured-Out For Season

    Unfortunately, Sam Sherlock will not be defending his state title this year.  The senior from West Mifflin won the State Championship last year at 125 lbs defeating fellow WPIAL wrestler Nathan Pennesi of Grater Latrobe, 6-3 in the finals.  Sherlock injured his knee during the finals of the Beast of the East tournament this past December.  Sam was wrestling St. Mark’s Nick Schenk for the title when in overtime, he tore his ACL.  Sherlock went on to lose 3-2 after he had a controversial takedown waived off by the referee during the first minute of overtime. 

 
    Sherlock was ranked number one in the state at 130 lbs. this year before the injury.  Both Sam and his coaches were hoping the injury would not keep him out of the post-season, however, surgery will prevent that.  

    "The only good thing is that Sam has already won WPIAL and PIAA titles and has a scholarship lined up," said Tony Salopek (West Mifflin’s head wrestling coach), referring to the fact that Sherlock has accepted a scholarship to Penn State University. "We already talked to Penn State coach Cael Sanderson and he told Sam to have the surgery as soon as possible” (Post-Gazette.com by Ken Wunderley).   

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