Top-ranked 157-pound sophomore Brooklyn Pickett characterized this season as one of "ups and downs" as he has continued to challenge himself by rising in weight to face the best competition possible. Pickett is a two-time Maryland Independent Schools State champion and a one-time Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association runner-up who has alternated between 144 and 157 pounds over the past two years. "The goal isn't the accolades. The goal is to get better at wrestling an

Archbishop Spalding’s Eli Gabrielson jumped back into the private school realm this season after spending his sophomore campaign in a South Carroll singlet and collecting a 2A/1A State Championship. Gabrielson was a state runner-up as a St. Mary’s Ryken freshman and parlayed that into a fourth-place finish at National Preps. In Maryland, the junior dominated the competition with his only true test coming from Loyola-Blakefield’s No. 2 Jayden Jackson, a defending state champ a

Evan Gavin’s St. Mary’s Ryken team was a mystery to most Marylanders. Some of their names were known, but unless you were directly tied to the program, you probably didn’t know much about what and or how they were doing through the first half of the season as outside of dual meets, Ryken didn’t really hit the local fray until mid-January’s War on the Shore. Locals, specifically No. 3 Stephan Mason of the Bullis School, crossed paths with The Knights at the Beast of the East.