Three teams earn seeds in WPIAL Team Tournament
Three local wrestling teams earned seeds for the WPIAL Team Tournament.
In Class AAA, Canon-McMillan received a No. 4 seed and will be in the same part of the bracket as No. 1 Kiski.
In Class AA, Burgettstown earned a No. 2 seed and is on the same side of the bracket as No. 3 Quaker Valley.
Beth-Center has the No. 4 seed and could eventually run into top-seeded Burrell.
Action gets under way Monday with three local Class AAA teams in the preliminary round at Canon-McMillan. South Fayette wrestles Indiana at 6 p.m., Peters Township takes on Franklin Regional at 7:15 p.m. and Trinity squares off against West Mifflin, also at 7:15 p.m.
The first round and quarterfinals will be Wednesday and the semifinals (2 p.m.) and finals (4 p.m.), as well as the third-place bout (6 p.m.) will be held Feb. 2 at Norwin High School.
Canon-McMillan, fresh from its 41st section title and 18th in a row, wrestles the winner of the Peters Township- and Franklin Regional.
Waynesburg, the Section 4 runner-up to C-M, takes on Mt. Lebanon Wednesday at the Hempfield pod.
In Class AA, Burgettstown hosts the pod and gets Hopewell in a 6 p.m., Wednesday dual meet. Washington also is in the pod and will take on Freedom. The winners meet at 7:15 p.m.
Beth-Center also hosts a pod and wrestles Southmoreland in the first round (6 p.m.).
McGuffey is in the Burrell pod and has to beat Keystone Oaks in order to wrestle the 14-time WPIAL champion Bucs.
The semifinals (noon) and finals (2 p.m.), as well as the third-place bout (2 p.m.) will be held Feb. 2 at Chartiers-Houston High School.
The top three teams in both classifications advance to the PIAA Team Tournament.