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NASHUA — “Are you ready to wrestle?”

PETERBORO, N.H. — Just a few months ago, Victor Pizzotti had no intention of trying wrestling for the first time. Now, the Windham High senior is a state champion.

It took Pizzotti just 47 seconds to scored a pin at heavyweight. That closed out a run that saw Windham win the final three weight classes after already taking three of the first four of the finals to roll to a dominant victory as a team at the New Hampshire Division 2 State Meet at ConVal High School.

Windham coach Tom Darrin won the 500th meet of his career as Windham swept a season-ending quad-meet to end the regular season at 20-11. The Jaguars were unbeaten in the first three weight classes as Payton Sills, Riley Millette and Nicholas Sawyer were all 3-0.

Salem won three meets to mover over .500 with a 6-5 mark. Mike Devito was 3-0 at 195 and Matt Adams, Ryan Burke and Jake Rosentrader were all 2-0.

For one day, Whittier was definitely no longer second best Saturday.

The Wildcats, who have come close before, captured the title at the Dan Gionet Memorial Tournament in Pelham, crowning three champions and easily outpacing runner-up Bedford-Minuteman.