Owen Campbell checked a box on his senior-year goals list when he won his 100th match at the North Hills Duals in December.
Another goal the Plum senior targeted was the 130-win mark, which would put him in even more select company on the Plum all-time wins list.
He earned his 130th victory last Saturday at the PIAA Class 3A West Regional at Canon-McMillan on his way to a fourth-place finish. That victory, a major decision in the consolation semifinals, secure his first trip to states.
Now, his mission, starting at 4 p.m. Thursday at Hershey’s Giant Center, will be to compete well and go after a state medal in his final high school tournament.
“It is a blessing to have this opportunity to compete at states,” said Campbell, who will join Kiski Area’s Mario Hutcherson (189) and Cooper Roscosky (215) in representing the Alle-Kiski Valley in the Class 3A meet.
“It definitely was one of the goals I wanted to accomplish at the beginning of the year. I feel really good about myself coming into this meet. It is going to be such a great environment.”
Campbell, 36-9 this year with 17 pins, seven tech falls and four major decisions, will wrestle Central Bucks East senior Colton Jones in a pigtail match, with the winner getting Lehigh commit Gabriel Ballard, a junior from Northampton, in the first round.
“I know everyone at states will make for a tough match,” Campbell said. “I just have to bring my ‘A’ game.”
Campbell didn’t place at regionals last year, but he went into this year’s tournament with momentum after a runner-up finish at WPIALs. He wrestled for third place at 152 but came up short against Bellefonte’s Ezra Swisher, 1-0. A second-period escape accounted for the match’s only point.
“I rode him out for like a minute before he got away from me,” Campbell said. “I was down to start the third, and he rode me out the whole period. I wanted to be down so I could get at least an escape. I feel I am pretty good in overtime, especially in the postseason. (Swisher) is a tough kid.”
Wrestling continues at 2:15 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Roscosky knows all about what it’s like to wrestle on Saturday at states. He was in the feature match for the title at 215 last year.
While he took silver in 2025, gold is what he is after this weekend. He won the 150th match of his career en route to a third-place regional finish at 215. That followed a second runner-up finish at WPIALs and his third consecutive section crown.
Roscosky, a Buffalo commit, takes a 39-6 record into his first match Thursday against Cedar Cliff junior Will White (25-11).
Hutcherson hopes the road at his second PIAA tournament is paved in gold. He is the No. 1 overall seed (44-1) at 189.
He has not lost in 2026. His lone setback on the season came in the 189 finals at Powerade.
Hutcherson fashioned three tech falls, outscoring his opponents 52-6 in 8:52 of combined time, to reach the 189 regionals finals before recording a 9-6 win over Latrobe junior Hunter Snyder. They are on opposite sides of the bracket this weekend, so a fifth meeting between the two this season would be for the state title.
Class 2A boys
Burrell senior Cam Baker missed all of last year’s individual championship postseason because of a hand injury suffered in the PIAA team tournament.
There has been no late-season misfortune keeping Baker off the mat this year, and he is flourishing. He will take a 41-4 record into this weekend’s PIAA championships after a two-week stretch that saw him win his second WPIAL title and earn a runner-up finish Saturday at the Southwest Regional in Altoona.
Baker scored his 100th win when he pinned Martinsburg Central’s Joel Morris in the regional quarterfinals. He now is 151-28 for his career.
Baker leads a five-wrestler Bucs contingent to states. It is the third time in five seasons (2025, 2022) that Burrell has five wrestlers heading to Hershey.
Senior Julian Bertucci takes a 44-6 record into the 145-bracket. He placed fourth at regionals to clinch his second straight trip to the PIAA tournament.
Bertucci went 4-2 at regionals and also won his 150th match during the tournament.
Sophomore Liam Jones (152) heads to states after recording consecutive fifth-place finishes at WPIALs and regionals. He now is 31-13 with 13 pins, three tech falls, and two major decisions in his first season with the Bucs.
Junior Ben Catullo (172), seven wins away from 100 for his varsity career, is hoping to medal this weekend in his second trip to states. He didn’t place last year.
Catullo, 35-14 overall, took seventh at regionals after a runner-up finish at WPIALs.
Freshman Carl Thomas, sixth at 107 at regionals, will make his PIAA debut. He is 31-19 overall.
Highlands senior Jaevon Chambers is one win away from 150 for his varsity career (149-32), and he hopes he can get that milestone victory and more when he begins his tournament as the No. 3 seed from the Southwest Region.
Chambers lost 7-2 to regional runner-up Carter Ickes from Chestnut Ridge in the semifinals before winning twice in the consolation bracket. He clinched third with a 6-0 win over William Edwards from West Branch.
Girls
The PIAA girls championships start at 2 p.m. Thursday, and three from the Alle-Kiski Valley will be in action.
Plum senior Saphia Davis, a Pitt Johnstown commit, puts her 28-7 season record on the line in the 130-pound bracket after back-to-back runner-up finishes at WPIALs and regionals to Moon junior Haley Smarsh.
“I feel really good,” said Davis who will go after her third PIAA medal in as many appearances.
“This is super surreal because it feels like just yesterday I was a freshman experiencing everything for the first time. It’s crazy to think this is my last high school tournament. I am really ready to go. Surprisingly, there’s not a lot of girls in my bracket who I’ve wrestled before except Haley. If I see her again, it would be in the finals.”
Davis’ soon-to-be collegiate teammate, Kiski Area’s Ava Golding, now a three-time regional champion to go along with her three WPIAL titles, is seeking PIAA gold for the first time. She took sixth last year and third in 2024.
She won three matches at regionals, and her 142-pound semifinal triumph was the 100th of her career.
Of Golding’s 31 wins this season, 23 have come by pin.
Cavaliers junior Alyssa Tresco didn’t place in her PIAA debut last year. She’s hoping to change that in the 170-pound bracket. The WPIAL champion and regional runner-up takes a 27-2 record to Hershey.
Her only blemishes this year have come to Erie Northwestern’s Cyndey Rea, including last Saturday’s regional final at Mt. Lebanon.
Plum senior Alaina Claassen finished second at 190 at the regional championships, falling to Erie Northwestern’s Charli Rea, 12-0, in the title match. She had already clinched her third trip to the PIAA championships.
But the Washington & Jefferson commit was dealt a flagrant misconduct penalty in the championship match for saying something in the direction of the referee and was disqualified from the state tournament.
Plum coach Dave Miller said he and others at the time took issue with the decision and the severity of the punishment. Miller said Tuesday that the PIAA will not reverse its ruling. Claassen finishes her season 31-3, and her semifinal win at regionals was the 100th of her varsity career.