A few practices and a bus ride are all that stands between the Lehigh Valley area’s 71 boys and 27 girls and the PIAA Wrestling Championships, which are Thursday through Saturday at Hershey’s Giant Center.

Blue Mountain’s Owen Woll and Bradley Renninger and Mahanoy Area’s Rory Dixon and Kyler Quick all find themselves in the PIAA State Wrestling Championship beginning Thursday at the

Preliminary and first round action starts Thursday at 9 a.m. with the championship finals slated for Saturday at 4 p.m.

The PIAA Championships kick off Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey. Class 2A, 3A and the girls will compete each day, in hopes of finishing as a top-eight state medalist. The boys brackets have 20 wrestlers in them, while 16 girls fill out those brackets.

The high school girls wrestling season concludes this week with the PIAA Girls Wrestling Championships at Giant Center in Hershey, beginning Thursday and running through Saturday.

Five Somerset County wrestlers will continue their seasons at the PIAA Class 2A wrestling championships, beginning Thursday, at the Giant Center in Hershey. Somerset's Rowan Holmes headlines the county wrestlers.