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Top wrestlers set for CCS tournament
By DICK SPARRER
It's a competition that offers an all-expense paid weekend getaway as the grand prize.
But that getaway will be to Stockton of all places. Fans, though, will be amazed just how hard competitors will work to win that two-day trip.
They can win it by placing high enough at the Central Coast Section wrestling championships this weekend. And the trip? Well, it's to the State Tournament set for March 2-3 at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
The top four placers in each weight class advance to the state meet, and it's an honor just to make trip. But, then, it's quite an accomplishment to place that high at the section level.
Wrestlers will be trying to do just that when the compete at the CCS finals Feb. 23-24 at Independence High School in East San Jose. Only the top placers from league tournaments held over the past two weeks advance to the CCS event.
There will be 17 Cupertino area wrestlers in the section tournament, with Santa Clara Valley Athletic League champion Paul Montanez of Monta Vista topping the list.
Montanez won the 142-pound league title at the SCVAL tournament on Feb. 10. The Matador will be joined at CCS by teammate Hiro Miura (154 pounds).
Cupertino wrestlers who have qualified for the section tourney include Rory Conley (105), Mitch Conley (114), Mohammad Gorjestani (137), Michael Joiner (173), Jaime Mejia-Beher (191) and Ben Reynolds (217).
Representing Lynbrook at CCS will be Michael Marr (105), Brian Baik (114), Chris Tsang (127), Grant Henderson (132), Jeff Lee (137), Ryan Oliver (173) and Ryan Beylikjian (217).
Homestead's Chris Chen (147) and Neal Cornell (154) have also qualified for CCS.
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