WINDSOR – What has been said to be the longest running wrestling tournament in New York State, the 61st annual Windsor Christmas Tournament was a successful outing for a few Chenango County schools.

The tournament field was comprised of a maximum of 15 wrestlers per school and hosted 28 teams from NY and PA.

Norwich entered with tournament not having won a team title since 1992.

But their hopes of bringing it home in 2017, 25 years later, became very large when they left Thursday night. Heading home, the Purple Tornado had an 11 point lead over the second place team, Mount Sinai.

The Bears of BGAH weren’t far behind as they left Thursday night in fourth place with 55 points.

When the teams entered the gym Friday morning, 13 county wrestlers were slated for semifinals matches.

Norwich’s Dante Geislinger kicked off the day in the 99 pound weight class. Pinning all of his opponents to get to his semifinal match, Geislinger faced Brendan Goodrich of Mount Sinai. The match ended in with another Geislinger pin at 3:55, securing him the first spot in the finals for the county wrestlers.

The next weight class wrestling their semifinal bouts were the 106 pounders. That included Cooper Rice of Oxford. Rice defeated Norwich’s Andrew Brown by a major decision to get into the the semifinals and continued his path into the finals by defeating another tough opponent, Zach Levey of Horseheads.