ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 Geneva senior\u00a0Gianni Velazquez is a state champion.<\/p>\n
At MVP Arena, the boys wrestling star captured the 215-pound New York State Public High School Athletic Association Division II Championship on Saturday after the No. 2 Velazquez pinned No. 5 Cody Alessi from Section II’s\u00a0Ichabod Crane during their state championship match.<\/p>\n
Velazquez pinned Alessi at 1:21 into their state championship bout.<\/p>\n
After receiving a first round bye during the state tournament, Velazquez went 4-0 during the two-day state tournament this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 Geneva senior\u00a0Gianni Velazquez is a state champion. At MVP Arena, the boys wrestling star captured the 215-pound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[227072,4,450,227069,227067,227068,451,227063,227065,3,227066,227074,130937,227070,227064,1625,452,453,4366,227071,227073],"class_list":["post-496707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-american-professional-wrestling-promotions","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-division-ii-state-champion","tag-geneva-panthers","tag-gianni-velazquez","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-boys-wrestling","tag-new-york-state-public-high-school-athletic-association-boys-wrestling","tag-news","tag-nysphsaa-boys-wrestling","tag-pay-per-view-professional-wrestling-events","tag-professional-wrestling","tag-professional-wrestling-shows","tag-section-v-boys-wrestling","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-pay-per-view-events","tag-wwe-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}