Bethlehem Catholic has already won the East Penn Conference title, the District 11 3A title and the PIAA 3A championship this winter as a team, but now the Hawks have their sights on the individual postseason.

The Hawks will certainly be in contention with Nazareth to come away with the team title this weekend, as the District 11 3A tournament gets underway at Liberty’s Memorial Gymnasium, but the main goal is to advance as many wrestlers as possible to next week’s Northeast Regional tournament.

Becahi advanced 10 wrestlers to regionals last year and crowned five district champs, which are numbers that head coach Jeff Karam hopes his team can replicate this weekend.

“I’m hoping we can get 10 guys through to regionals,” said Karam. “We want to win the team title and advance as many guys as possible.”

Leading the Hawks this weekend will be defending district and PIAA champion Tyler Kasak (138, junior), who comes into the weekend undefeated at 33-0 and is the overwhelming favorite to win his weight class and make a repeat run through the postseason like he did a year ago.

Other returning medalists for the Hawks include: Dante Frinzi (120, champion); Andrew Harmon (145, champion) and Landon Muth (160, runner-up).

Freshman sensation Nate Desmond (106) enters his first postseason at 29-2 and is favored to come away with a gold medal this weekend as well.

With the aforementioned wrestlers forming the base of what the Hawks could see in the finals, it’ll be up to the rest of the lineup to gather as many points as possible to try and top Nazareth for the team title.

After coming home with the eighth PIAA team title in school history a few weeks ago, Becahi should be primed to refocus their energy on collecting more hardware over the next three weeks.

“It’s definitely a huge benefit participating in the team post season,” Karam said. “The guys got an opportunity to wrestle seven more matches and compete at the Giant Center. I always believe it is a big benefit to compete in that arena prior to making it at individuals.”

This is the projected Becahi lineup for this weekend.

106 - Nate Desmond

113 - Cole Campbell

120 - Cael McIntyre

126 - Dante Frinzi

132 - Kollin Rath

138 - Tyler Kasak

145 - Andrew Harmon

152 - Jake Dailey

160 - Landon Muth

172 - Luke Thomas

189 - James Deluise

215 - Nico Spezza

285 - Elijah Thompson