Congratulations to Sherburne-Earlville for winning the Division II Team Championship, and to senior Landon Andrade and seventh-grader Drew Telesky for winning their weight-class titles Saturday during the Section 3 Wrestling Tournament at Onondaga Community College!

As individual D-II sectional champs, Landon and Drew automatically qualified for the New York State Public High School Athletic Association D-II Championships, which run February 28-March 1 at Albany’s MVP Arena.

Landon earned D-II’s top seed at 285 pounds and downed third-seeded sophomore Jack Brown of Homer in the championship match, 8-3, for his second straight Section 3 D-II title. He followed a first-round bye with a 1-minute, 1-second pin of ninth-seeded senior Nicholas Todeschini from APW/Pulaski/Sandy Creek in the quarterfinals, then pinned fifth-seeded freshman Jerod Olrich of Southern Hills in 3:39 in the semifinals.

Landon improved to 36-2 this season and is 126-19 at the varsity level (four seasons). He has qualified for the state tournament three consecutive seasons, placing fourth at 285 as a junior last winter.

Drew won the 101-pound D-II sectional final with a 2-1 upset of top-seeded Ben Dziuban, a Mount Markham sophomore. Seeded third, Drew opened his championship run with a 28-second pin of 14th-seeded eighth-grader Jacob Meyer of Southern Hills. He followed with a 6-4 decision over 11th-seeded eighth-grader Andrew Lafrance of Vernon-Verona-Sherrill in the quarterfinals, then earned a 13-6 decision over second-seeded senior Nahjeed Abel of General Brown in the semis.

Drew is 40-4 and qualified for the state tournament in his first varsity season for S-E, which scored 121 team points for the D-II title. Marcellus took second in D-II (115.5 points), followed by Little Falls (105.5). The Section 3 Division II Tournament marked the sixth team title for S-E this season as the Timberwolves also placed first at the Penfield-Hunter Holiday Tournament, Cato-Meridian Blue Devil Duals, Cazenovia Invitational, Section 3 Division II Dual Meet Championship, and Center States League Tournament.

Other individual sectional place-winners for the Timberwolves were:

108: 5, Jackson Moore, senior

131: 6, Noah Ackermann, junior

138: 6, Trenton Anderson, eighth grade

145: 6, Cameron Mason, senior

170: 4, Nick Miller, senior

Congratulations to Sherburne-Earlville junior Gabbi Naylor and senior Pasley French for earning podium finishes at the Section 3 Girls Wrestling Championships on Sunday, February 16, at Onondaga Community College!

Gabbi entered Section 3’s first state qualifiers as the seventh seed at 126 pounds and went 4-2 en route to a fifth-place finish. Her victories included three pins – in her opener against the No. 10 seed, in wrestlebacks against the No. 6 seed, and in the fifth-place match against the No. 5 seed. Gabbi also won by technical fall in wrestlebacks against the No. 9 seed.

Gabbi’s losses came against second-seeded junior Riley Butler of West Genesee in the quarterfinals and against fourth-seeded senior Haylee Robinson of Baldwinsville in wrestlebacks. Butler went on to win the championship at 126 pounds, and Robinson placed third.

The Penfield-Hunter Girls Holiday Tournament champion at 120 pounds back in December, Gabbi finished her junior season with a 9-5 record. She is 13-14 in two varsity seasons for S-E.

Pasley placed sixth at 94 pounds, going 0-3 at sectionals to close her senior season at 10-8. She went 24-33 in three varsity seasons for the Timberwolves.

Both S-E girls competed in the inaugural New York State Public High School Athletic Association Girls Wrestling Invitational in 2023, and Pasley wrestled in the second girls state invitational in 2024.

The girls state-tournament format is no longer an invitational as wrestlers competed for berths in sectional championships across the state for the first time in 2025. The NYSPHSAA will hold its first Girls Wrestling State Championships on February 27 at Albany’s MVP Arena, which also will host the Boys Wrestling State Championships from February 28-March 1.