Carney, Chelton Place at PA Jr. Wrestling Championships

| March 28, 2017

PA Jr. State Wrestling
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (EYT) – Malik Carney and Carson Wible of Franklin and Carl Chelton of Oil City all place in the 11- and 12-years old division at the Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling Championships over the weekend.

(Photo: Franklin’s Malik Carney (third from left) and Oil City’s Carl Chelton (far right) both earned all-state honors at the PA Junior Wrestling Championships over the weekend)

Carney and Chelton place third and eighth respectively at 105 pounds, while Wibel was sixth at 145 pounds.

Held at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Carney went 5-1 with Chelton going 3-3 to earn all-state honors at 105 pounds.

Carney started off with wins over Rogan Harter of Annville-Cleona (6-0) and Cael Nicolella of Washington (3-0) before falling to Bradford’s Brett Thompson, 4-3, in the quarterfinals.

But the Franklin wrestler rebounded in the wrestlebacks knocking off Nick Woodruff of Wyalusing (4-0), Scott Litz of General McLane (6-4) and Vincent Hebel of Nazareth (2-0) to take third.

Carl Chelton Oil City

Carl Chelton, Oil City

Chelton also started off with a pair of victories knocking off Unionville’s Jackson Roberts 5-1 and the topping Woodruff, 5-3.

In the quarterfinals, Litz pinned Chelton in 1:18, but the Oil City wrestler returned the favor by pinning Nicolella in 2:42.

Chelton finished the day by falling to Hebel, 2-0, and losing to Dominic Frontino of Shippensburg, 6-5, to finish eighth.

Wible took the long route to finish sixth at 145 pounds after losing in the opening round, 6-3, to Logan Hoffman of Belle Vernon.

He responded in the wrestlebacks beating Ethan Eicher of Central, 4-0, Jacob Scheib of Tri Valley, 6-0, Ethyn Allen of Corry by fall (59 seconds) and getting payback on Hoffman with a 7-4 victory before falling to Alan Alexander of Pottsville, 5-4, and Dustin Flinn of Brockway, fall – 2:36, to take sixth.


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