Four good matches.
That’s what it will take to win a state championship this weekend at Pepsi Center.
Pomona looks primed to make another run at the 5A team title with 13 qualifiers, tied for a state high with 2A’s Rocky Ford. The Panthers’ Daniel Cardenas, one of the most explosive wrestlers in the state and only a sophomore, returns with the hopes of reaching the halfway mark to becoming a four-timer in his own right.
Others to watch include Monarch, led by Vince Cornella, and Rocky Mountain, led by Alec Hargreaves.
Here are all 14 brackets for the 5A classification:
5A State Wrestling Brackets 20205A Tournament schedule
Thursday, February 20
- Weigh-in: 12:30 p.m.
Preliminaries: 6-8:45 p.m (5 mats)
Friday, February 21
- Weigh-in: 8 a.m.
- Championship quarterfinals: 12:45-3:30 p.m. (5 mats)
- First round consolation: Immediately following previous round
- Semifinals: 6:45 p.m. (2 mats)
- Second round consolation: 7:15 p.m. (1 mat each class). (As mats become available, expand to 10 mats)
- **4A/5A wrestlers competing in the second round consolation will begin at the same time as the championship semifinals — 4A on Mat 1; 5A on Mat 10.
Saturday, February 22
- Weigh-in: 8 a.m.
- Third round consolation: 10 a.m. (10 mats)
- Semifinal consolation: Immediately following (as mats become available)
- Fifth place: Immediately following (as mats become available)
- Third place: Immediately following (as mats become available
- • • Clear house • •
- Doors open: 5:30 p.m.
- Parade of Champions: 6:30 p.m.
