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At the beginning of the year, Salem junior Beau Dillon was in the dumps.

PROVIDENCE — On a wild first day of the New England wrestling tournament, in which Timberlane and Salem both advanced three to Saturday's quarterfinals, Pelham's Conor Maslanek pulled off the upset of the tourney.

DANVERS — It was a good first day for local wrestlers at the All-State wrestling meet, with a pair of semifinal showdowns set for this morning.

Of particular interest will be the138-pound matchup between Central Catholic's Tyler Glynn (50-2) and Haverhill's Jake Nicolosi (47-4). They met back in December at the WIlmington Tournament with Glynn prevailing.

METHUEN — Sam Prescott was all smiles Saturday afternoon and it was no wonder.

Three athletes each from Brooks and Phillips wrestling advanced to Nationals by virtue of placing in the top-8 during Saturday's New England championship. They were Corey Gaffney (6th, 106), Kelvin Griffin (2nd, 113) and Anthony Burnett (5th, 285) of Brooks, and Vinny Marino (4th, 132), Eamon Garrity-Rokous (3rd, 152) and Pablo Sanchez (8th, 182) of Phillips.  

METHUEN — It was a long time coming but capturing the Division 1 state title at 145 pounds Saturday was worth the wait for Methuen senior Matt Cabezas Saturday afternoon.

Kelvin Griffin placed first at 120 pounds to pace Brooks to third place in the Graves Kelsey Class B tournament. Brooks had three wrestlers finish third and four others take fourths.

Phillips Academy finished third in the Class A Prep tournament and had 11 wrestlers with top six places.  Fast-improving Arnav Bhakta of Andover was runner-up at 106, and Lawrence's Ramphis Medina and Windham's Vinny Marino each placed third.

Much improved AJ Suliveras was 3-0 at 160 pounds as Windham swept a quad-meet to improve to 18-10 to end the dual-meet season with an 18-10 record.

Pentucket freshman Tyler Knox continued to dominate Saturday in the Division 3 North sectional, rolling to the 106-pound title with pins in 43, 41 and 36 seconds to raise his record to 38-0 on the year.