- danieladams02
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min read
Chaminade
Kellenberg
St. Anthony's
Monsignor Farrell
Iona Prep
St. Joe's Collegiate
St. John's the Baptist
Xavier
Canisius
Holy Trinity
Chaminade takes the top spot in our rankings. The Mineola team won the CHSAA Team title with a total of 259.5 points beating runner up Kellenberg with 233.5 points. The third place team St. Anthony's lost their Team Title Win streak after narrowly closing out against Chaminade in recent years. But Chaminade came to claim what they desired these last couple of years walking away with the team title. They were lead by Michael Sanfilippo and Rocco Demartino. Both of which were returning finalists. Starting with Sanfilippo he came out on top beating Matt Ash of St. Mary's. Sanfilippo appeared in the finals twice before, in 2018 and 2019. Both opponents he had lost to (Terry Adams and James Ryan both from Monsignor Farrell) went on to win New York State Titles 2 weeks later. But Sanfilippo made them earn every point as he always refused to give up. Demartino was a returning finalist from last year. After losing in the finals the previous year Rocco made all of the right corrections to ensure he walked out with the Catholic State Title beating Zach Ash of St. Mary's. Both Sanfilippo and Demartino are seniors and have proven they are the guys to beat at their respective weights and they show no signs of slowing down their momentum looking to repeat as champs. Shane Meenaghan is another one to look out for. Meenaghan was a Catholic State Champ from last year winning it as a freshman. The future looks bright for this wrestler and we can certainly see him help bring home a team title as well as some more individual titles.
Never count out Monsignor Farrell as they have a group of returning Catholic State placers and New York State Placer Mike Adams. Adams like mentioned before was a New York State placer last year (5th) but he also managed to place at the Prestigious Eastern States Classic. Adams' only losses of the season heading into the tournament was from Eastern States. Adams showed his dominance this year by winning all of matches at the CHSAA State tournament by pin in the first period. Farrell has some firepower coming into the next couple of seasons with Dominick Garcia as a heavy favorite for 182lbs and a couple of other wrestlers who surprised competition at the Catholic State Tournament like freshman Max Boroweic, Farrell can be in top contention of Team Titles. They have a couple of other rising wrestlers like Michael Caserta at 106lbs, Ty Andresen at 170lbs and even Mike Mulkerrins at 220lbs. Mulkerrins who spent most of the season at 195lbs, was bumped up to 220lbs at the Catholic State Dual Tournament and started pinning some ranked guys, which led to his decision to stay at 220lbs. With guys like this Farrell is one team that's hard to count out of a Sectional Title picture.
However, we can't overlook St. Anthony's. St. Anthony's has a group of guys that can help send them back into the team title picture. Leading this group is Mick Brown at 113lbs. Brown was a 2x CHSAA State runner up. Both years he appeared in the finals he put on good matches never being counted out of the match. Both of his opponents he had lost to in the finals went on to place in the state 2 weeks later, which only shows the caliber of wrestling Brown can compete with, even being ranked in the state after his win over state ranked Robbie Horan of Iona Prep. More guys to look out for are the Napadano brothers. Nicholas at 99lbs and Ryan at 106lbs showed they can be considered in the individual title picture. Nicholas avenged a loss against Luke Ventresca in the semis of the Catholic State tournament. Ryan although he had lost to Shane Meenaghan in the semifinals of the Catholic State tournament had actually beaten Meenaghan a few weeks prior at their League tournament. We can see Ryan avenge his loss to Meenaghan if they are at the same weight again, and if they are you can expect to see another great match between the two.
Kellenberg shocked a lot of people when they walked away as CHSAA State Dual Champs. Their victory over Farrell sealed the deal for first place at the very last bout. Kellenberg has a young team and a lot of placers from the Catholic State Tournament and even had a champ and New York State Medalist in James Watterson. Kellenberg is looking to go back to back in CHSAA Dual Titles and if the team competed the same way they did this year we can see a repeat happen. With 113lb 3rd place finisher Anthony Ladeviao as well as 4th at 106lb John Reynolds and 4th at 120lb Ryan Paladino. Kellenberg can challenge the other teams mentioned above and can come out on top like they did at the CHSAA State Dual Tournament. With a group of medalists returning we can see some interesting matchups throughout the duals and even the Catholic State tournament and we can maybe even see Kellenberg topple the returning Sectional Team Champs.
