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    Matchups set for Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic: USA vs. PA, Indiana vs. WPIAL

    With the Pennsylvania State Wrestling Championships concluding this past Saturday, organizers for the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic (formerly the Dapper Dan) established the lineups for the Pennsylvania and WPIAL (Pittsburgh area) all-star teams. Lineups for Team USA and Team Indiana were already released.

    The event will be held on Saturday, March 26th at the Fitzgerald Field House on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The undercard bout involving senior all-stars from Indiana and the WPIAL will take place at 4:00 p.m. The format for that event involves two periods, each 2:30 in length. The main event involving senior all-stars from across the United States and Pennsylvania takes place at 6:00 p.m. with the standard match format in place. There is a one-time weigh-in at scratch-plus-seven.

    Below are the matches for each event, rankings are from the March 9th update.

    Team USA vs. Team Pennsylvania
    113: No. 4 Danny Vega (Ironwood Ridge, Ariz.) vs. No. 9 Gage Curry (North Hills)
    120: No. 5 (at 126) Jack Mueller (Trinity Christian Academy, Texas) vs. No. 8 (at 126) Tyshawn White (Central Dauphin)
    126: No. 3 Kyle Norstrem (Brandon, Fla.) vs. No. 4 Luke Karam (Bethlehem Catholic)
    132: No. 1 Chad Red (New Palestine, Ind.) vs. No. 2 (at 138) Luke Pletcher (Greater Latrobe)
    138: No. 5 Mitch McKee (St. Michael-Albertville, Minn.) vs. No. 3 George Phillippi (Derry Area)
    145: No. 7 (at 138) Hunter Marko (Amery, Wis.) vs. No. 10 Mike Carr (South Fayette)
    152: No. 3 Griffin Parriott (New Prague, Minn.) vs. No. 2 Hayden Hidlay (Mifflin County)
    160: No. 3 (at 170) Thomas Bullard (Archer, Ga.) vs. No. 4 Jake Wentzel (South Park)
    170: No. 1 Mark Hall (Apple Valley, Minn.) vs. No. 10 Austin Bell (Belle Vernon)
    182: No. 3 Keegan Moore (Jackson County Central, Minn.) vs. No. 17 Greg Bulsak (South Park)
    195: No. 3 Samuel Colbray (Hermiston, Ore.) vs. No. 14 John Jakobsen (Stroudsburg)
    220: No. 2 Matt Stencel (Oregon Clay, Ohio) vs. No. 9 Jacob Robb (Armstrong)
    285: No. 2 Shawn Streck (Merrillville, Ind.) vs. No. 11 Jake Beistel (Southmoreland)

    Team Indiana vs. Team WPIAL
    113: Geoffrey Davis (Fort Wayne Wayne) vs. Aaron Burkett (Chestnut Ridge)
    **2x state 4th vs. 3x state placer (6th/2nd/3rd); Burkett at 106 this year
    120: Drew Hildebrandt (Penn) vs. Ethan McCoy (Greater Latrobe)
    **4x state placer, 2x finalist (8th/6th/2nd/1st) vs. 3x medalist (NP 2nd/INJ/3rd/7th); McCoy at 126 this year
    126: Gaige Torres (Portage) vs. Chris Eddins (Greensburg Salem)
    **3x state placer, 2x finalist (7th/DNQ/2nd/2nd) vs. state 6th
    132: Owen Doster (New Haven) vs. Mike Heinl (Shaler)
    **state 5th vs. 2015 state qualifier
    138: Evan Eldred (Westfield) vs. Shaun Wilson (Waynesburg)
    **2x state placer (6th/3rd) vs. state 5th
    145: Jordan Vaughn (Franklin Central) vs. Damon Greenwald (Burrell)
    **2x state placer, 2015 finalist (2nd/4th) vs. 2x state placer, state champ (7th/1st); Greenwald at 152 this year
    152: Steven Lawrence (Portage) vs. Derek Verkleeren (Belle Vernon)
    **3x state placer, 2x finalist (7th/2nd/2nd) vs. state 4th
    160: Cayden Whitaker (Martinsville) vs. Mitch Hartman (Belle Vernon)
    **2x state placer (7th/3rd) vs. state qualifier
    170: No. 6 Drew Hughes (Lowell) vs. Anthony Welsh (Beth-Center)
    **4x state placer, 3x finalist (2nd/5th/1st/1st) vs. 2x state placer (5th/3rd)
    182: No. 4 Blake Rypel (Indianapolis Cathedral) vs. Milton Kobaly (Belle Vernon)
    **4x state placer, 3x finalist (7th/2nd/1st/1st) vs. state runner-up
    195: Jake Kleimola (Lake Central) vs. No. 10 Drew Phipps (Norwin)
    **state champion vs. 3x state placer, state finalist (4th/3rd/2nd)
    220: Sam Hipple (Carmel) vs. Mike McAleavey (Peters Township)
    **2x state placer (4th/6th) vs. state runner-up
    285: Sean Galligar (Columbus East) vs. Hayden Rice (Norwin)
    **state 3rd vs. state qualifier

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