Last Saturday, the Northampton wrestlers took part in a first-time event on the postseason calendar, the PIAA AAA East Super Regional. PIAA added the tournament layer in a COVID-related effort to reduce the number of people in Hershey for the state finals.

The K-Kids crowned two champions and four of their six wrestlers moved on to the state finals where they will automatically become state medalists. They were the only school besides Becahi to have multiple champions.

Carson Wagner made history by becoming the first super regional champion by winning 106-pound class. After an uneventful 10-1 major in the quarterfinals, Wagner faced a familiar foe in Stroudsburg’s Josh Jasionowicz in the semis. It was 8-6 going into the third period when Wagner scored a 3-point near fall to clinch the bout. In the final, he had a rematch of his regional final opponent, Luke Sirianni of Abington Heights. The pair only managed an escape each during regulation. Wagner won the title with a takedown 27 seconds into sudden victory.

Jagger Condomitti wasn’t seriously challenged in his three bouts on his march to the top of the podium. However, all three opponents did go the distance. Condomitti had won all his previous matches by fall or tech fall. The scores were 9-3, 6-3, and 9-3. None of the opponents was able notch the first offensive point against Jagger this season.

Condomitti’s frustration was evident, despite his taking home the title.

“I think they weren’t willing to actually wrestle me,” he said. “I felt they were trying to keep it close and snipe me on a few situations. It was just another test, preparation for next week.”

Dagen Condomitti suffered his first loss of the year in the semifinals, a 3-1 decision to eventual weight-class winner Sam McGonagle of West Chester Henderson. Dagen was denied a potential takedown in the first period and McGonagle got away with pulling on Dagen’s singlet. He came back and won his blood round match with Whitehall’s Xavier Arner 1-0 to clinch a trip to Hershey and also won the third-place bout 1-0. He felt the late weigh-in led to a sluggish performance because he wasn’t able to eat until midafternoon.

Patrick Snoke also took third on his way to clinching a state medal. He is still the only wrestler to go the distance with Becahi’s Tyler Kasak this season. Snoke pinned his opponents in both the blood round and in the third-place match. He displayed compassion and sportsmanship in consoling his blood round competitor, Beck Hutchison of Hazelton. The two had locked horns three times over the two previous weekends, but when Hutchison’s tears flowed, Snoke was there to pick him up.

“I told him that he’s a stud,” Snoke said. “Just to get this far in any wrestling competition, you have to be a stud, I don’t care what anyone says. There comes a point of mutual respect in this sport when you get this far.”

Junior CJ Fritz took home 5th place. He suffered a second period fall in the quarterfinal round. Fritz won by 18-3 tech fall in the first consolation round but fell short of Hershey after getting pinned in the blood round. He rebounded with a 16-0 tech fall over Freedom’s Connor Bevan for 5th. All of Fritz’s losses for the season were to state medalists.

Austin Noe completed his freshman season with a 6th place finish. He dropped his opening round to Mason Ziegler of Quakertown. He won his first consolation bout with an 8-0 major decision. Cael McIntyre of Becahi won the blood round bout 5-2 by clinging to the five points he scored in the first period. Of Noe’s 6 losses on the season, five were to state medalists.