The Cleveland blue Raiders are closing in on the high school traditional wrestling state championship trophy, which would go right alongside the dual meet championship trophy they won a couple of weeks ago.
41 wrestlers from Chattanooga-area schools were in Friday night's championship bracket semifinals... 6 of those wore Blue Raider uniforms.
Soddy-Daisy also had a half-dozen semifinalists... while in division 2, Baylor had 10, McCallie 9 semifinalists.
Cleveland will send Chris DeBien, Austin Oliver, Hayden Hamilton and Ethan West to Saturday's championship finals. Oliver will go up against Notre Dame's Packy Mullin in the 126 pound finals.
Soddy-Daisy's Jacob Stevens and Blaike Henry will wrestle for championships.
Walker Valley has two finalists, Caleb Langford and Billy Raulston.
Toribio Navarro and Robbie Clark will try to win titles for Bradley Central, Larry Dickerson, Junior is a Central Purple Pounder finalist.
In the team standings, Cleveland is first by 76-and-a-half points over Beech. Soddy-Daisy is 3rd, Walker Valley 6th, Bradley Central 8th.
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