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Miguel Gallegos of San Fernando and Trever Devestern of Littlerock were accidentally left off the second team All-Area team in the paper on Thursday.

Both of them medaled at the Frosh/Soph Tournament two weeks ago, with Gallegos winning it.

The News regrets the error.

More photos of various All-Area wrestlers - in no particular order and from various events this year

Anthony Espinosa (on top) of Alemany

Carlos Lazo (on top) of Alemany against Tyler Loyer of Kaiser in the CIF Finals.

Adam Ali of El Camino Real (in light blue)

Gary Espinosa of Alemany (in maroon)

Benito Mendez of San Fernando (in black singlet and red shoes)

Lazo of Alemany again (with the bloody nose) during the Semis of CIF

Jonathan Urango of Camarillo (in blue) at Masters

Eddie Ruiz of Royal (in white) and Behdod Katebian (in green) of Thousand Oaks at Masters.

Craig Seidenglanz of Chaminade (far left) and Katebian of Thousand Oaks (middle) getting their medals at Masters.

Saul Garcia of Moorpark (in green jacket) getting his medal at Masters

Sergio Cortez of Royal (in white) in the Finals match at Masters

In today's All-Area team section, it was stated that Matt Rulon of Royal finished 6th at CIF. He actually finished in 2nd place at CIF and was 6th at CIT.

The Daily News regrets the error.

Here is a photo of Rulon after winning a match - photo supplied by Mark Rulon

Here are a few photos of some of the various members of the all-area wrestlers - in no particular order. More to come throughout the day and next couple days.

Behdod Katebian of Thousand Oaks vs. Eddie Ruiz of Royal

John Combs of Agoura at the Masters Meet

Craig Seidenglanz of Chaminade vs. Gary Espinosa of Alemany

San Fernando wrestlers Sultan Muhammad, Miguel Gallegos, Jacob Gorman, Anthony Uribe, Benito Mendez and Rashaad Reynolds.

Craig Seidenglanz of Chaminade winning a medal at CIF Regionals in Whittier

Gary Espinosa of Alemany (on top)

Anthony Espinosa of Alemany (in white) wrestling with Nikolai Crouch of Santa Fe at CIF Regionals in Whittier

The entire Quartz Hill team

Sergio Perez (left) and Johnny Fernandez of Birmingham

Matt Rulon, Sergio Cortez, Blake Ginsburg and Mike Dumelle of Royal

Sarah Saenz of San Fernando - Female Wrestler of the Year

Saul Garcia of Moorpark - Marmonte League Champion

COMBS/CORTEZ II - Marmonte League Final

Al Shuman, Adam Ali and Cameron Medina of El Camino Real

These didn't make the online version of the article, so here are the Honorable Mentions, in no particular order

HONORABLE MENTION

Jon Melendez, Quartz Hill
Jacob Ricker, Quartz Hill
Ben Harvey, Quartz Hill
Alex Harvey, Quartz Hill
Spencer Friedman, Harvard-Westlake
Bruce Holmes, El Camino Real
Al Shuman, El Camino Real
Cameron Medina, El Camino Real
Jack Medina, El Camino Real
Bobby Medina, Chaminade
Adam Moreno, Chaminade
Michael Rojas, Sylmar - competed at state
Armando Ontiveros, Sylmar
Blake Ginsburg, Royal - He dominated in the Marmonte League and at CIF,
but ran into stiff competition at Masters.
Oscar Aviles, Granada Hills
Joe Liu, Granada Hills
Randy Horowitz, Calabasas
Behdod Katebian, Thousand Oaks - reached state competition at 119.
Tough weight class.
Brandon Jansen, Thousand Oaks
Bronson Lobato, Thousand Oaks
Eddie Ruiz, Royal - reached state competition as a junior
Anthony Uribe, San Fernando
Jacob Gorman, San Fernando
Lorenzo Chapman, San Fernando
Rabbannee Williams, Alemany
Akeem Gonzales, Alemany
Carlos Lazo, Alemany
Christian Carter, Alemany
Steven Flores, Alemany
Sergio Figueroa, Alemany
Manny Martinez, Chatsworth
Jason Villavensencio, Westlake
Peter Cisneros, Knight
Tyler Burton, Highland
Donovan Baker, Palmdale
Trevor Devestern, Littlerock
Jimmy Ariaza, Littlerock
Thomas Mejia, Littlerock
Jeremy Sanders, Canyon
Matt Tao, Rio Mesa
Zach Downard, Newbury Park
Garrett Morris, Crespi
Alex Guzzi, Crespi
Scott Haskell, Crespi
John Moore, Simi Valley
Erik Hasan, Simi Valley
Chris Organ, Simi Valley
Kyle Hasan, Simi Valley
Tim McAnany, Simi Valley
Tyler McAnany, Simi Valley
Kyle Armour, Simi Valley
Collin Bedwell, Moorpark
Joey Skinner, Agoura
Maxwell Yim, Agoura

The All-Area Wrestling team is coming out in tomorrow's paper. The First and Second Teams, Wrestlers of the Year and Coach and Team of the Year will be in the paper and Honorable Mentions will be online as well as some other factoids about the wrestling season.

I'll post photos of some of the participants over the next couple of days, but here is a teaser of who the (Male) Wrestler of the Year will be.

Alemany's Diego Rabanal took 5th place in the 145 pound class at the Freshman Nationals in Virginia today.

Here he is at BIV at Chaminade High earlier this season.

Miguel Gallegos won the Frosh/Soph State Championships at 130 pounds on Sunday for San Fernando, as the team won it all for the fourth year in a row. The Championship was held in Fresno City College.

Gallegos finished this sophomore season with a 43-8 record. He finished First at the BIV Tournament, First at Sam DeJohn, First at the Cal High Duals, second at the Camarillo Duals, third at the Newbury Park Tournament, seventh at the Tournament of Champions TOC. then in the postseason he finished First at Regionals and second at City C.I.F

Here is a photo of him in the Finals Match at the Best in The Valley (BIV) Tournament at Chaminade High. He won it when he beat Kyle Taketa of West Torrance.

I'm planning on making a graphic arts piece (or pieces) with as many area wrestlers as possible. If anyone has good photos (of either headshot types or 'in action' ones...even full team ones) of LA City Champions, League Champions (or Runners-up), CIF, Masters and State Qualfying wrestlers, please send them along with the photographers name and I'll make something with them all.
I can even use school logos (as a .jpg file), photos of wrestlers jackets with their name on it...anything like that.

Send any you can to john.wareham@dailynews.com. I'm especially lacking in Golden League wrestlers, if anyone has any of those guys (particularly Luis Favela of Littlerock)

thanks

Jonathan Urango of Camarillo ends up with the only state medal among the 23 local wrestlers who went to state. He finished fifth at state today after losing his first two matches of the day and winning his final two. He lost his first to the #1 ranked Stephen West of Buchanan and with that, Urango missed his opportunity to avenge his Masters loss to Patrick Martinez of Temecula Valley, who then beat the previously unbeaten West in the Finals - in 3 OT.

Saul Garcia of Moorpark and Matt Hickman of Camarillo both competed in Day Two of the state tournament, but lost their opening matches of the day and were eliminated early.

The one of the first state champions crowned today was Alex Cisneros of Selma. The significance of his win was that he is a freshman, went 47-0 in the regular season and is the brother of Joe Cisneros, who also won the state championship - also as a freshman.