SEELEY ON WRESTLING: Heartbreak, triumph a guarantee at PIAA Championships

File photo by Nate Heckenberger Upper Perkiomen’s Wolfgang McStravick, here controlling Robert Rizzolino of Easton in a 3-2 victory in the 132-pound consolation match last year in Hershey, will make his third trip to states this week.

By Don Seeley
sports@pottsmerc.com

HERSHEY – A history book on Pioneer Athletic Conference wrestling at the PIAA Championships would be a good read, perhaps the quintessential novel with chapters detailing the heartbreak and obvious disappointment of defeat, others explicating the excitement and elation of victory.

Then again, it would be much like the book written about nearly every league in Pennsylvania.

And, unfortunately, very much like the story or stories surely to be written about the PAC-10’s nine qualifiers competing on this week’s stage here at the Giant Center.

The current cast of characters in the PAC-10’s 27th annual series features Boyertown’s Eddie Kriczky and Jordan Wood; Methacton’s Tracey Green; Owen J. Roberts’ Derek Gulotta, Colby Frank and Gordon Bolig; Perkiomen Valley’s Nick Giangiulio; Spring-Ford’s Tyler McGuigan; and Upper Perkiomen’s Wolfgang McStravick.

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