SJG3 SECTIONAL QUARTERFINALS
#2 Delsea 77 - Pinelands 4  (BOX SCORE)


2/14: PINELANDS QUAD
Pinelands 56 - Oakcrest 22  (BOX SCORE)
Ocean City 57 - Pinelands 21  (BOX SCORE)
TR North 41 - Pinelands 33  (BOX SCORE)


2/11: NON-DIVISION
Marlboro 38 - Pinelands 31 (BOX SCORE)
Marlboro: Artur Avanesyan tech in final bout wins it for the Mustangs
Pinelands: Francis, McLeod, Platti, & Pharo win by pin


2/7: NEW EGYPT QUAD
Red Bank 40 - Pinelands 36 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands 46 - New Egypt 27 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands 58 - Overbrook 18 (BOX SCORE)


2/4: G-DIVISION
Pinelands 48 - Pt Beach 32 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands: Wins G-Division Title; Back-to-back Division Titles for Wildcats, 11th divisional title overall
Beach: Boyle & Engelhardt pin; Neal techs


1/31: TR EAST QUAD
#11 TR East 55 - Pinelands 18 (BOX SCORE)
TR South 56 - Pinelands 17 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands 51 - Lakewood 30 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands: Pharo & Rawa go 3-0 on the day


1/28: G-DIVISION
Pinelands 49 - Manchester 22 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands: Platti (20-3); Kirk (17-3); Pharo (18-4); Rawa (13-5); Francis (14-8); Ahmed (13-9)
Manchester: Teves Meza & Espinal pin; Hetzel majors


1/24: SHORE CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Pinelands - 28th Place
6th: Dan Platti (106)

With his 6th-place finish, Dan Platti became the Wildcats' second SCT medalist.


1/17: PINELANDS QUAD
Pinelands 51 - Barnegat 28 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands 52 - Monmouth 23 (BOX SCORE)
Manalapan 47 - Pinelands 29 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands: Platti, Kirk, Goggins, & Francis go 3-0


1/14: NON-DIVISION
Manasquan 61 - Pinelands 17 (BOX SCORE)
Manasquan: S Tracey (15-4); Sanders (14-4); T Tracey (13-4); Kerstetter (12-3)
Pinelands: 132 - #8 Pharo avenges Buc Classic Finals loss with pin over #7 Havard


1/10: BUC CLASSIC
Pinelands - 3rd Place
1st: Michael Kirk (120)
2nd: Dan Platti (106) / Wyatt Pharo (132)
4th: Hans Francis (165)
5th: Leo Reilly (113) / Adam Ahmed (138) / Brody Rawa (144)


1/7: G-DIVISION
Pinelands 46 - Freehold Twp 33 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands: Ahmed, Rawa, Taylor, Reilly, Platti, & Kirk win by fall
Free Twp: Bracho, Brooks, Turowski, Flores, & DiGregorio pin


1/3: PIRATE DUALS
Pinelands 52 - Voorhees 29 (BOX SCORE)
Cinnaminson 45 - Pinelands 34 (BOX SCORE)
Cumberland 41 - Pinelands 36 (BOX SCORE)


12/20: FREEHOLD BORO QUAD
Matawan 48 - Pinelands 31 (BOX SCORE)
Pinelands 35 - Keansburg 30 (BOX SCORE)
Freehold Boro 48 - Pinelands 27 (BOX SCORE)


12/17: NON-DIVISION
Central 48 - Pinelands 23 (BOX SCORE)
Central: Darling pins; Kiernan techs; Dunne majors
Pinelands: Kirk wins by fall; Platti techs


12/13: GOLDEN EAGLE CLASSIC
Pinelands - 6th Place
1st: Dan Platti (106) / Michael Kirk (126) / Wyatt Pharo (132)


 

2026 Pinelands Wrestling
Head Coach: Joe Adelizzi (9th Season in 2026 / 54-118)
Assistants: Steve Jones / Kathy Tierney
Volunteers: Owen Kretschmer / Josiah Hart
Section: SJG3 / Division: G-Division / District: 30 / Region: 8

Pinelands returns a good portion of their lower and middleweights from last year's team which brought home the first divisional title for the team in 22 seasons.

A strong core returns down low led by senior Wyatt Pharo. Pharo, the lone senior in the projected starting lineup, is a 2-time District Champ who came back nicely in 2025 from an injury that forced him to miss his sophomore season. He is joined down low by junior Daniel Platti, who won 21 matches last year, and placed 4th at Districts as a freshman, and sophomore Michael Kirk, who recorded 21 victories last year and took 4th at the Districts. They provide nice experience down low to a group of underclassmen looking to make an impact in the lineup, including sophomores Evan Boyd, Connor Quigley, Hunter Larsen, and Aaron Brown, and freshmen Leo Reilly and Dalton O'Connell

Five juniors with at least 17 matches last season are back in the middle. All will be looking to step up as they enter their upperclassmen years, and provide head coach Joe Adelizzi with a some nice depth in the middle to give the team some lineup flexibility. Keep an eye on Brody Rawa from this group. Rawa went from 10 wins as freshman to 21 as a sophomore and is candidate to have a real breakout season.

Four of the five starters from 165-up from last year's team were lost to graduation, so the Wildcats will have plenty of new faces breaking into the lineup in the upperweights. Sophomore Hans Francis, who had a nice freshman season with 15 wins, will be the lone returning starter projected to be in the uppwerweights, although with the depth they have in the middle, there's a good chance we see some bumping out of the middeweights to stretch out the lineup.

After winning the H-Division last season, the Wildcats step up a level to the G-Division as they look to repeat as divisional champions for the first time since they went back-to-back in B-South under legendary coach Bill Savage in 1993 & 1994.

Possible Lineup in 2026

2 - District Team Titles
Last: D24 in 1993

11 - Division Titles
Last: G-Division (2026)

13 - State Medalists
Last: Christopher Nielsen in 2017

15 - Region Champions
Last: Christopher Nielsen in 2017

47 - District Champions
Last: Wyatt Pharo - 2025

2 - SCT Medalists
Last: Dan Platti (2026)

Season Wins Record - 40
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