1974 WRESTLING

Class A-AA State Champions

Head Coach:  Bob Triano

Assistants:  Jim "Red" Herold, Mike Zezech

1973-74 QUICK FACTS

  • DeSales finished the Class A-AA State Tournament with 61 team points, in front of the 2nd place team - Oregon Cardinal Stritch - who won the Catholic Invitational earlier in the year, where the Stallions finished 8th

  • Andy DiSabato, team captain, finished the season 33-0

  • Six of the seven qualifiers placed in the Class A-AA State Tournament

  • DeSales won the 1974 Class A-AA District Championship and qualified the most wrestlers of any Central District team for the state tournament

  • The Stallions set a Sectional Meet record with 165.5 team points, after capturing seven individual weight classes and sending ten to the District Tournament

  • DeSales won their 11th straight Central Catholic League Wrestling Meet

  • The Stallions took 2nd in the Top 8 Mat Meet at DeSales, which was made up of the top teams in the Central District from the 1972-73 season

  • DeSales also placed 2nd in the Brecksville Tournament behind Toledo St. Francis DeSales, who had won 121 consecutive dual matches

  • DeSales finished 7-1 in dual meets, including wins over Grove City (finished 7th in the state in Class AAA; defending Mid 8 champions), Reading (finished 5th in the state in 1973 and returned 4 state qualifiers) and Northland (finished 10th in the state in Class AAA)

  • DeSales welcomed 8 new men into the lineup and returned just 5 lettermen from 1972-73 squad


1974 TEAM POSTSEASON RESULTS


1974 INDIVIDUAL POSTSEASON RESULTS


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