Burnaby Mountain won both the junior and senior men’s club aggregate at the Canadian wrestling championships in Edmonton.
St. Thomas More’s Darthe Capellan led a wave of seven junior gold-medal winners, earning the outstanding wrestler award with his win over Sam Jagas of Brock in the 55-kilogram final on March 21.
Other Burnaby Mountain club weight class winners included Oscar Bulaqui, Marc Magano, Jaskarn Ranu, Josh Kim, heavyweight Ben Tynan and Burnaby Central grad Parm Dhesi at 97 kg.
Dhesi also placed sixth in the senior division of the nationals behind clubmate Arjun Gill, was one of two individual champions for Burnaby Mountain. The other was Olympian Haislan Garcia at 65 kg.
In related wrestling news, Parm’s younger brother, Amar, got to Day 3 at the NCAA Division I wrestling nationals in Okalahoma City last week.
Amar, a true freshman heavyweight on scholarship to Oregon State University, was eliminated from the men’s 285-pound division in the consolation round by fall by No. 8 seed J.T. Felix of Boise State.
The loss came following Dhesi’s 13-4 majority decision over No. 15-ranked Adam Fager of Utah Valley.
Dhesi opened his first national championship with a 14-6 major decision over Bucknell’s Joe Stolfi.
In the second round, Dhesi was pinned by top seed and eventual national runner-up Anthony Nelson of Minnesota and relegated to the consolation bracket.
Dhesi finished the tournament ranked 16th overall in the nation.
