The Wyoming Area wrestling team is starting over with Steve Mytych Sr. returning to the head coaching position he held 2013-16 and a small lineup until the team gets some reinforcements from the football program.
When the wrestling season opened hours before Wyoming Area played in its first state football championship game, the Warriors were shorthanded.
The roster should get larger and team should get stronger once more athletes become available.
For starters, it will be a young team, with the potential for strength in the lower weights.
Freshman Jaden Pepe won a district junior high championship and was unbeaten on that level last season. He moves up along with Garrett Pochescci, another freshman, who was fourth in junior high districts while going 27-5.
Both are at 106 pounds, meaning one could bump to 113.
The Warriors do have some varsity experience as well.
Connor Wrobleski went 32-12 with 16 pins as a freshman last season while winning a District 2 Class 2A title at 132 pounds. He is likely to be at 160 this season.
Junior 132-pounder Kyle Emsley is coming off a 21-13 season in which he was fourth in districts.
Vincent Bowers, Vincenzo Giambra and Adam Sigman each won at least eight times while Rocco Pizano and Enzo Scotto-Diluzio were .500 wrestlers in less bouts.
Bowers, a sophomore, and Scotto-Diluzio, a senior, are expected to be at 182 and 195 pounds in some combination.
Giambra (160), Sigman (138), Pizano (132) and Autumn Dyches (120), a new addition to the lineup, are all sophomores.
Wyoming Area went 1-3 in Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 and 5-19 overall last season. The Warriors were ninth out of 12 teams in the District 2 Class 2A meet.
They opened the season Saturday in the Gary Woodruff Duals at Wyalusing Valley.
