1) Greg Lehr with his son Jake and daughter Natalie. Lehr was inducted into the Class of 2025 Friends of Section IV Wrestling Hall of Fame for his time as a wrestling coach, official, and contributor from Chenango Valley. Lehr is now the Oxford Academy Middle School Principal. (Photo by Morgan Golliver), 2) Norwich’s own Tristan Rifanburg with former coach Terry Hagenbuch. Rifanburg was inducted into the Class of 2025 Friends of Section IV Wrestling Hall of Fame. (Photo by Morgan Golliver) , 3) Jake Roe with Bill McNeil. Roe was inducted into the Class of 2025 Friends of Section IV Wrestling Hall of Fame as a wrestler from Whitney Point. Roe is now the Norwich High School Principal. (Photo by Morgan Golliver), 4) Norwich’s Maverick Beckwith wins the Section IV, Division II Wrestler of the Year award. (Photo by Morgan Golliver)

ENDWELL – The Class of 2025 Friends of Section IV Wrestling Hall of Fame took place Wednesday evening at Endwell Greens Golf Course banquet hall. Friends of Section IV Wrestling is a group of people who are passionate about the sport of wrestling and proud to be apart of Section IV as well as raise money and promote the sport and section.

The Friends of Section IV Wrestling Hall of Fame inducts athletes, coaches, officials, and/or contributors that are nominated by people in their community and selected by the Friends of Section IV Wrestling committee.

The Class of 2025 inducted Kyle Kelly, wrestler from Chenango Forks, Rick Gumble, coach, official, and contributor from Chenango Forks, as well as locals to the Chenango County area: Greg Lehr, coach, official, and contributor from Chenango Valley, Jake Roe, wrestler from Whitney Point, and Tristan Rifanburg, wrestler for your hometown Norwich. The committee also recognized all the Section IV state qualifiers and place winners, coaches of the year, wrestlers of the year, which Norwich’s Maverick Beckwith won Division II wrestler of the year as he won his second state tournament.

“Maverick was only scored on this year by just two opponents,” Norwich head coach Garett Sylstra said at the banquet. “He is a natural leader who is self-worthy and self-determined and he is someone that we can build the program around.”