ALBANY—The NYSPHSAA Wrestling Championships were held over the weekend at MVP Arena in Albany, where Norwich’s Maverick Beckwith and Sherburne-Earlville’s Drew Telesky returned home as State champions to proudly represent Chenango County!

Beckwith, who is now a three-time state champion, won the 150 pound weight class as he went 4-0, including two wins by tech fall, a 4-0 decision win, and a 11-0 major decision win.

While Beckwith led Norwich for the third year in a row , another local contender, Sherburne-Earlville, saw its first State champion in 10 years, since Jack Buell in 2016. Congratulations to eighth-grader Drew Telesky on winning the 103 pound weight class. Telesky becomes just the fourth S-E state-champion in school-history.

Telesky finished this season with a 34-3 record after winning the first match of states in a 17-1 tech fall.

He then had to face teammate Freddy Smith in the quarterfinals, where Telesky came out on top in a 4-1 decision. Smith took fifth in the 103 weight class.

Telesky then earned a 3:35 pin to the number-one seed before a close 8-7 decision in the finals.

The SECSD Facebook page exclaimed the moment that Telesky became a champion:

“Drew avenged a first-round loss to Duryea in the 2025 state tournament with a furious third-period comeback in Saturday's D-II finale at 103 pounds. Taken down in the first period and giving up two reversal points in the next, Drew had little to show outside of a bloodied mouth before scoring his first point on an escape with 13 seconds to go in the second period. In a 5-1 hole with two minutes remaining in his second varsity wrestling season, Drew turned everything around in 60 seconds with a seven-point sequence. Three takedown points and four more for an ensuing near fall gave Drew an 8-5 lead, just enough to overcome a late Duryea escape and a penalty point for stalling as time expired. An official then made it official, raising Drew's right arm and parading the 14-year-old around the mat while a throng of S-E fans cheered.”

Unatego-UV had two place finishers out of four wrestlers the Spartans brought to states.

Both Gavin Nordberg and Yanni Drapaniotis both finished third in their respective weight classes. Nordberg, a junior, won the first two matches after a bye with a 12-2 major decision and a 1:52 pin before falling in a 7-0 decision.

Nordberg then won his final two matches in a 10-5 decision and in a 2:31 pin to take third place.

Drapaniotis competed in the 190 weight class, where he won back-t0-back matches by pin, including a 1:18 pin in the first round. However, he fell in his next match in a close 6-5 decision before fighting back with a 1:44 pin. He took third in an overtime matchup with a 6-3 decision to finish out his High School wrestling career.

Sava Gonopolskiy went 1-3 in the 103 weight class, where the Freshman’s lone win came by a 17-0 tech fall in the consolation round.

Nolan Boyles competed in the 215 weight class, where the senior went 1-2 in his final tournament, with his only win in a 2:49 pin in the first round.

Oxford-Greene brought three wrestlers to states, where Donte Wrench did not place as he went 0-2 at 285 pounds with two losses by pin, including the first round match, where he was up 5-4 but fell in a 2:38 pin.

Kade Mustin competed in the 132 weight class. Mustin fell in a 4-3 decision in the first match before coming back with a 19-3 tech fall win and then a 1:41 pin. However, Mustin fell in the fourth round of the consolations in a 4-1 decision to end his season.

Troy Braman wrapped up his final wrestling season with a 3-2 record in the 157 weight class, where he won by a 15-0 tech fall before falling by a 3:48 pin. He came back and won in a 9-2 decision and a 10-2 decision before his season ended in a 4:14 pin.

Congratulations to all wrestlers on a great 2025-26 season and best of luck to all the seniors.