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Petrides’ Gio Molinare, left, locks up with his opponent from Grand Street Campus during a meeting between the two schools on Dec. 9, 2025.Michael O’Brien<\/p>\nSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Four Staten Island PSAL wrestling squads are gearing up for the citywide playoffs which start Saturday in two different divisions.<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Tottenville will be joined by Susan Wagner (No. 5 seed) and New Dorp (No. 10) in the 2A (bigger schools) playoffs which comprises 15 teams, while Petrides (8-0) will compete in the 18-team, 1A setup (smaller schools) as the No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n
The Pirates (8-0), who are led by Tristan Levin at 126 pounds and David Khodzhaev at 144, have received a bye into Saturday\u2019s 11:45 a.m. semis at Tottenville and could face the Falcons (7-1) if they beat their first-round opponent Bronx Science (No. 12 seed) and then an undetermined opponent in the quarters. SW is led by Susan Joshua Zacharia (118 pounds). <\/p>\n
The Centrals (4-4), meanwhile, are in the other half of the 2A bracket and will face No. 7 Franklin D. Roosevelt at 9:30 a.m. at Madison HS in Brooklyn. New Dorp is paced by 215-pounder Malik Ayesh. <\/p>\n
One half of the 1A playoffs will be contested at Petrides on Saturday, while the other half will take place at Riverdale\/Kingsbridge Academy in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
Petrides’ Gio Molinare, left, locks up with his opponent from Grand Street Campus during a meeting between the two schools on Dec. 9, 2025.Michael O’Brien<\/p>\n
The Panthers (8-0), who are led by the Molinare brothers (Giovanni and Rocky) and Bradley Munoz among others, have earned a berth into the second round and will need to win three matches to advance to Tuesday\u2019s championship at 7 p.m. at Grover Cleveland HS in Queens.<\/p>\n
On the same night, the 2A championship dual will take place at 5 p.m., also at Grover. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Four Staten Island PSAL wrestling squads are gearing up for the citywide playoffs which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-117809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}