For the second straight season Caden Correll and Cooper Caraway returned from the 3A IHSA State Wrestling Tournament in Champaign bearing hardware and All-State honors.   

Correll earned a fifth place finish for the second consecutive season at the State Farm Center on Feb. 17.

Caraway joined the 106-pounder on the podium, celebrating his own fifth place finish at 215 pounds. 

Correll finished his junior campaign with a 39-7 record. Community’s takedown and single-season win record holder went 3-2 in the tournament, falling to Gurnee freshman Caleb Noble in an 8-5 decision. 

Noble, who boasts a career 97-3 record, went on to top the podium in the 106-pound division.

Correll would fall 7-0 to Sandburg’s Hayes before earning a 21-7 major decision over Barrington’s Kaleb Pratt, and his fifth-place medal.

For Caraway, the State competition offered a chance at redemption; last season, Caraway took home a sixth place medal after a broken bone in his hand ended his tournament early.

The senior boasted a 3-2 finish of his own, falling to eventual State champ Loyola Academy’s Kai Calcutt 13-6 decision. 

After a loss to Libertyville’s Owen Mcgrory (6-3 decision), Caraway defeated Naperville Central’s Nicolas Besteiro via 3-1 decision for fifth-place honors.

Cole Gentsch, at 120 pounds, finished his season at State with a 42-7 record. After winning his first match by 4-1 decision, the junior’s second trip to State ended short of the medal ceremony. Maine South’s Teddy Flores, the eventual State champion, handed Gentsch a 3-0 decision loss with a 2-0 decision loss in the blood round ending Gentsch’s 2024 campaign.