BETHLEHEM — Eighteen Schuylkill League wrestlers, including four from Mahanoy Area, advanced to the semifinals Friday on Day 1 of the District 11 Class AA Wrestling Championships at Bethlehem Freedom High School.

Jah Bushati (152), Rory Dixon (160), William Stoyer (172) and Kyler Quick (189) moved to the final four for the Golden Bears.

North Schuylkill, Tri-Valley, Williams Valley and Pine Grove advanced three wrestlers apiece to the semifinals.

Easton Edwards (121), Cadyn McGraw (215) and Sander Stokes (285) won for the Spartans.

Owen Wolfgang (107), Jaxson Bruso (133) and Noah Hanlon (145) moved on for the Bulldogs.

Magnus Monger (107), Xzavion Tennis (133) and Camron Green (285) advanced for the Vikings.

Aaron Osatchuck (139), Austin Martin (160) and Zach Kurtz (189) stayed unbeaten for the Cardinals. Kurtz topped Northwestern Lehigh’s Vinnie Fugazzotto 9-6 in sudden victory in the quarterfinals.

Aiden Schlier (127) and Jacob Hehn (189) advanced for Tamaqua.

Monger, Wolfgang, Schlier, Bruso, Tennis, Bushati, Martin, Hehn and McGraw won quarterfinal bouts by fall.

The tournament resumes today, with both Class AA and 3A following the same schedule: Second-round consolations at 9 a.m., championship semifinals and third-round consolations at 10:15 a.m., fourth-round consolations at 11:45 a.m., consolation finals for third and fifth places at 3 p.m., Parade of Champions at 4:30 p.m. and championship finals at 4:45 p.m. (random draw of weights for the finals).

Bethlehem Liberty will host the entire Class 3A event. Day 2 of the Class AA tournament will run through the fourth-round consolations at Bethlehem Freedom, with the small schools joining the big schools at Liberty for the consolation finals and championship finals.

The top five placewinners in Class 3A and the top four placewinners (plus some fifths) in Class AA advance to regionals on Feb. 28 and March 1. Bethlehem Liberty will host the Class 3A Northeast Regional; Bethlehem Freedom will host the Class AA Southeast Regional. The PIAA Wrestling Championships are set for March 6-8 at the Giant Center in Hershey.

District 12 Class AA declined its third qualifier for the Southeast Regional. So the District 11 fifth-place wrestler and the District 3 seventh-place finisher will be compared at each weight class, and whoever has more points will get the spot in regionals.

Class 3A

BETHLEHEM — Blue Mountain’s Owen Woll pinned Freedom’s Ivan Bonilla in 5:16 to advance to the semifinals at the District 11 Class 3A Wrestling Championships at Bethlehem Liberty High School.

At 189, Pottsville’s Terrell McFarland won by default over Bethlehem Catholic’s James Deluise one second into their quarterfinal match.

District 11 Wrestling Championships

Friday’s local results

CLASS AA 

At Freedom HS, Bethlehem

Championship Quarterfinals