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Londonderry wrestling squeaked past Bedford by the closest of margins, winning 43-42 by tiebreaker. The Lancers won five of their seven victories by pin, including Michael Watts in 16 seconds at 170 pounds, but had no margin for error after losing six weight classes to forfeits.

Timberlane tuned up for Wednesday's showdown at Concord by crushing Hollis-Brookline, Windham and Nashua South in a quad-meet to improve to 20-1. Brandon Berube had three pins at 152 and brother Justin Berube was also 3-0. Dylan Tremblay and Steven Blaisdell were both 3-0 wrestling at two weight classes.

Steven Blaisdell continued his recent surge with three pins at 182 as Timberlane routed Bishop Guertin, Bedford and Merrimack to improve to 12-0 while extending its in-state winning streak to 136 straight. Ryan Cole had a pin at both 220 and heavyweight and both Nick Roeger (106) and Barret Kappler (113) were 3-0 with two pins.

Salem pulled out probably the closest win you can possibly have in wrestling, beating Bedford 40-39 via the eighth tiebreaking criteria. Salem got pins from Matt Adams, Dylan McKeon and Beau Dillon, but when the final score was tied at 39-39, they had to go through eight tiebreakers before the meet was ultimately decided by Salem having more first points scored.

Trailing 37-22, Pinkerton won the last three weight classes to edge Bedford 40-37. Cameron Miller and Sterling McLaughlin both recorded pins at 1:26 for the win.