Since the MIAA All-State Wrestling Tournament returned in 2022 following a hiatus due to COVID-19, eight Recorder area wrestlers have qualified for the meet but just one has placed.

Will that change this weekend?

Four locals will be traveling to Methuen High School to compete in the 2025 All State tourney, which begins on Friday and wraps up on Saturday.

Mahar’s Abduli Gilmore is the only local who has placed at All-States, doing so in 2023 where he took seventh in his weight class. Gilmore — who won the MIAA Div. 3 state title that year at 113 pounds — entered last week’s Div. 3 championship at Foxborough High School as the No. 6 seed at 106 but won his first three matches of the tournament to reach the finals. He ultimately settled for second at 106.

The senior will be looking to continue the momentum built at the state meet on Friday. The preliminary bracket has Gilmore scheduled to face off against Chelmsford senior Mustafa Lubowa, who took fifth at D1 states.

Gilmore wasn’t the only local to take second at Div. 3 states last weekend.

Franklin Tech’s Dillon Laffond went into the state tourney as the No. 5 seed at 285, but like Gilmore won his first three matches — including an upset over top-seeded Nathan Hartunian of Wayland — to reach the finals, where he ultimately took second place.

Laffond, a junior, is scheduled in the preliminary bracket to take on Arlington junior Brady Bekkenhuis, who placed fourth at D1 states.

Laffond will be joined by two teammates in Methuen. Carsten Couture, who won the MIAA Div. 3 West sectional at 120, reached the semifinals at Div. 3 states last weekend and ended up settling for fifth to punch a ticket to All-States.

Couture, a junior, is scheduled to take on Shawsheen junior Dante Giusti, the D1 state winner, in his opening match according go the preliminary bracket.

Eagles sophomore Landon Purington took first at the Div. 3 West sectional before placing sixth at 132 at Div. 3 states last weekend to earn a spot at All-States. According to the preliminary bracket, Purington will take on Salem junior Connor Buckley, the sixth place finisher at D2 states, in his opening match Friday.

The tournament is scheduled to get underway at 3:45 p.m. Friday before resuming at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.

MIAA Girls All-States

The MIAA Girls All-State meet will also take place on Friday and Saturday at Methuen High School, with six Recorder area athletes qualifying to compete.

Frontier’s Jocelyn Antes was the winner at 120 at the MIAA Div. 3 championship last week and according to the preliminary bracket, that earned her a bye where she will face off against the winner of Newton South’s Xingqi Zheng and Stoughton’s Angelina Berry in her first match on Friday. Antes placed third at All-States last winter.

Fellow Redhawk Ainsley Southergill placed fourth at 126 at Div. 3 states and is scheduled to take on Newton North’s Madeline Ngo to get her tournament started Friday.

Mahar’s Delana Fausett was also a winner at the Div. 3 championship last week, earning first place at 152, and is scheduled to face off against Billerica’s Sofia Vraka to open her tournament on Friday.

Also for the Sens, Makayla Butler earned third at 185 at Div. 3 states and is scheduled to take on Braintree’s Sophia Hersey on Friday in her opening match.

A pair of Franklin Tech girls qualified for All-States. Mia Marigliano took third at the tournament last year and after placing third at Div. 3 states last weekend, will be competing on Friday. The senior is slated to face Braintree’s Veronica Costa in her opening match of the tournament.

Fellow Eagle Jacqueline Churchill came in second at 235 at Div. 3 states and earned a bye at All-States. She’s scheduled to take on the winner of Whittier Tech’s Emma McDonough and Durfee’s Haley Primo in her opening match on Friday. Churchill took sixth at All-States last year.

The girls tournament is also scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.