Local wrestlers in college

As promised, here is a list of local wrestlers in college.

A few words of caution, though: My coverage area for The Tribune-Democrat does not include all of Districts 5 and 6. I've pondered trying to expand the blog to cover all, but it might not be possible, given my time constraints. For now, I've concentrated on the schools from my coverage area. If anyone wants to put together more names from District 5 (Everett, Hyndman, Northern Bedford and Tussey Mountain) or those from the eastern portion of District 6, I'd love to have them.

For now, only Division I wrestlers are listed. I'm working on a list of DII wrestlers, but really the only ones I know are at UPJ and you can see Mountain Cats roster here. If you know of any others at DII or DIII schools, please let me know.

If I've missed anyone, please don't take this as a slight. Let me know about it and I'll add them to the list.

Division I schools

 Name                           School              Wt       Year     11-12               Hometown

Bedford

Devin Cook                  Clarion             149      R-SO   8-13                 Bedford

Central Cambria

*Tony Risaliti                Army                149      FR       N/A                 Ebensburg

Forest Hills

R.J. Brydon                  Lock Haven     141      FR       N/A                 South Fork

North Star

Nick Roberts                Ohio State        125      FR       N/A                 Hooversville

Penn Cambria

Paul Myers                   S. Ill.-Ed.         133      SO       10-5                 Cresson

Shade

James Otten                 Edinboro          157      FR       N/A                 Windber

Westmont Hilltop

Tanner Hough               Duke                141      SO       23-13#             Johnstown

Josh Polacek                Maryland          141      R-FR   1-3                   Johnstown

T.J. Keklak                  Kent State        157      R-JR    4-10                 Johnstown

United/Kiski School

Evan Henderson           N. Carolina      141      SO       28-13#             New Florence

Robert Henderson        N. Carolina      149      R-FR   1-1                   New Florence

#-NCAA Qualifier

Ligonier Valley's Josh Patrick headed to the Big Ten

It's been tough to find time to blog so far this wrestling season, but here's a story I did on Ligonier Valley's Josh Patrick signing with Rutgers for The Tribune-Democrat.
From what I know of him, Patrick seems like a great kid, and it's exciting to know that Rutgers will be moving to the Big Ten, which means he'll have the opportunity to face the nation's best competition.
Another local graduate, Westmont Hilltop's Josh Polacek, will also be moving to the Big Ten. Polacek is a redshirt freshman at Maryland, which announced Monday that it will join the Big Ten in July 2014.
North Star graduate Nick Roberts is a freshman at Ohio State and Forest Hills senior Cody Law has committed to Penn State.
So, if all goes as planned, we'll have four wrestlers from the Johnstown area in the nation's toughest conference in four years. That's pretty impressive.
On a side note, I have been trying to track down all of the local D1 wrestlers from our area and hope to have that posted within the next couple of days.
After that, I'll start looking ahead to the high school season.