{"id":973,"date":"2021-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/2021\/03\/06\/diaa_2021_wrestling_state_champions_crowned\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:53:28","slug":"diaa_2021_wrestling_state_champions_crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/2021\/03\/06\/diaa_2021_wrestling_state_champions_crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"DIAA 2021 Wrestling State Champions Crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDover, DE<\/strong>\u00a0(March 6, 2021) \u2013 The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) concluded the 2021 Individual Wrestling Championship on Wednesday at Cape Henlopen High School. Below are the Final Placements and Results from the medal rounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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The Division I Champion was Cape Henlopen and the runner up was Salesianum.\u00a0This was Cape Henlopen\u2019s first Division I Wrestling title.\u00a0The Division II Champion was Caravel Academy and the runner up was Delaware Military Academy.\u00a0Caravel had 5 State Champions and 3 finalists.\u00a0Due to COVID-19, a Dual Team Championship was not held this season, so team titles were decided by points scored by each individual wrestler.\u00a0The usual two day tournament was spaced over three days this year with the preliminary rounds being held last weekend, and the semifinals and finals were held on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Champions:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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106 – Eddie Radecki, Caravel<\/div>\n
113 – Gabe Giampietro, Smyrna\u00a0<\/div>\n
120 – Luke Poore, Caravel\u00a0<\/div>\n
126 – Jack Thode, Milford<\/div>\n
132 – Trenton Grant, SR, Milford<\/div>\n
138 – Ethan Gray, Caravel<\/div>\n
145 – Luke Bender, Cape Henlopen<\/div>\n
152 – Alex Poore, Caravel\u00a0<\/div>\n
160 – Joseph Natarcola, Smyrna\u00a0<\/div>\n
170 – Justin Griffith, Sanford<\/div>\n
182 – Josh Negron, Sussex Central<\/div>\n
195 – Danny Stradley, Caravel\u00a0<\/div>\n
220 – Nasir Dreuitt, William Penn<\/div>\n
285 – Kevin Hudson, Caesar Rodney<\/div>\n
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In the history of the tournament, there have been only 35 3x state champions. This year four more wrestlers put themselves into this elite category.<\/div>\n
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Smyrna\u2019s Joey Natarcola and Gabe Giampietro, Alex Poore (Caravel), and Kevin Hudson (Caesar Rodney) all became the 3x State Champions.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Natarcola was also named the meet\u2019s Most Outstanding Wrestler.<\/div>\n
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Luke Poore, Ethan Gray, and Danny Stradley all of Caravel and Jack Thode (Milford) all became 2x State Champions.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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First time State Champions:\u00a0Eddie Radecki (Caravel), Nasir Dreuitt (William Penn), Trent Grant (Milford), Luke Bender (Cape Henlopen), Justin Griffith (Sanford), and Josh Negron (Sussex Central).\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Purchase Official DIAA Championship Apparel:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Marketing Special Promotions is the official provider of DIAA Championship apparel.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Visit\u00a0www.grr-tees.com<\/a>\u00a0to purchase 2021 DIAA Wrestling championship apparel.<\/div>\n
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For more information regarding DIAA Championships, visit\u00a0DIAA<\/a>\u00a0or follow DIAA on Twitter (@DIAA_Delaware<\/a>), Instagram (diaa_de<\/a>) or our Facebook Page (@DelawareInterscholasticAthleticAssociation<\/a>).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"checksum":["d4a2ac9e3c206c8a393c9fb63a4f8852c04dc175"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}