Here is the 2024-2025 Suburban Life All-Area boys wrestling team.
IC Catholic Prep senior and Penn commit Deven Casey, who won his second consecutive individual state championship and helped lead the Knights to the program's first dual team state title, is the Suburban Life Boys Wrestler of the Year. Here is his Q&A with Joshua Welge.
IC Catholic Prep, after a dramatic semifinal win over rival Montini, knocked off two-time defending champion Washington 46-17 in the Class 2A final for the first state dual team championship in program history.
Images from the 2025 IHSA Boys Wrestling Dual Team State Championships in Bloomington on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
IC Catholic continued its impressive postseason run Tuesday night by beating Niles Notre Dame, 49-27, at the Class 2A Wheeling Dual Team Sectional and qualifying to the IHSA dual team state tournament.
Brody Kelly erased the bittersweet experience of last year's narrow defeat with an emphatic win in the Class 2A 175-pound final, leading IC Catholic Prep's three state champs while Montini won two titles and Lemont's Judah Heeg sprung a stunning upset in the 190-pound final.
The boys individual wrestling season comes to a close with titles bouts Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, at State Farm Center in Champaign.
Montini and IC Catholic Prep each had four wrestlers win Class 2A semifinal matches Friday at the IHSA state wrestling tournament and will wrestle for state championships Saturday night. Lemont's Judah Heeg also advanced to the championship match.
Jaxon Lane has already checked off one item of unfinished business in his athletic calendar this school year. Two more to go. The Montini senior, who lost in the blood round at state last year, is one of 10 Broncos' qualifiers at this weekend's state meet in Champaign.