The PIAA wrestling tournament takes place this Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey and runs through Saturday evening in a new format this year.

For the first time, the girls wrestling tournament will run simultaneously along 3A and 2A with all three championships taking place simultaneously Saturday afternoon.

Thursday’s schedule starts with 2A preliminaries beginning at 9am with first round consolations slated for 12:45pm. The girls tournament then kicks off at 2pm with their first round followed by 3A coming onto the mats at 4pm for the preliminaries and first round consolations at 7:45pm.

Friday’s schedule begins at 8am with the 2A quarterfinals, followed by the second and third round consolations. The girls then come on at 11:45am with their quarters and first and second round consys. The 3A tournament rounds out the afternoon with quarters at 2:15pm with second round consolations, followed by third round consys at 4:45pm.

Friday’s marathon day for the tournament continues deep into the night, as semifinals across all three classes take place at 7pm. Consolations rounds for each class then end the night at 9pm.

Saturday’s slate is another full day session of each class competing at the same time, as the 9:30am consolation rounds features 3A, 2A and the girls tournament. The consolation medal rounds then start in the morning for the first time, as the third, fifth and seventh place medal matches for all classes are set for 11:30am.

Championship finals for all three classes will start at 4pm on three mats.