Clay County finished with six regional champions; Middleburg Porter Loveland and Daniel Raines, Clay's Landon Martin, Oakleaf 's Sebastian Bonachea, and St John's Country Day School's Bryce Fiore and Howard Hill and a handful of state qualifiers (top four finishers) as area wrestles battled in their respective regional championships on Saturday.

In the region  1-2A wrestling championships, Middleburg won with 161.5 points with Clay at 143.5 and Pace High School at 136.5 in a day of wrestling that saw the lead change at least a dozen times throughout the day. 

Middleburg last won a region wrestling title in 2016.

Middleburg also had state qualifiers from Jonathan Harp at 106, 3rd place; Keensde Roseme 4th at 190, Nathan Harvey second at 126, Chris McKeel third at 144 and Micah Thomas second at 150.

Play also advanced Liam Soto at 106 4 th, Jayshawn McCloud, third at 285, Calvyn St Clair second at 157, Drew Holmquist third at 165.

Orange Park had Elijah Grant finish third at 132 to advance to the state meet.

In the region 1-3A championships, Oakleaf senior Sebastian Bonachea was the lone region champion in that meet staged at DeLand High School. Oakleaf also had Connor Barnes finish second at 126 and Kevin Freeland third at 144 to advance to the state meet.

Oakleaf finished 7th overall with a 92.5 points with Hagerty High the team champion with 216.5.

At Bay High School in the Florida panhandle St John's Country Day School finished 6th overall in 72.5 points with just seven wrestlers with Fiore staying undefeated at 106 and top ranked statewide.

Florida High was the team champion with 153 points with Wakulla second at 145 and North Bay Haven 3rd at 1: 28.5.

St John's Classical Academy had one region qualifier, Zachary Davis at 120, who finished at 1-2 with a prelim loss to eventual champion Koa DeLoach of North Bay Haven.