Junction City High School will be sending six wrestlers to the Class 6A State Championship at Hartman Arena in Park City.

The Blue Jays competed Saturday in the Class 6A Regional hosted by Wichita North High School. At 160 pounds Aryus Jones came away with a regional championship for the Blue Jays. After suffering a serious leg injury during football season Jones was kept out of the first part of the season, but since returning Jones has gone a perfect 14-0 on his way to the state tournament.

“Aryus is still getting to be himself, he’s still not totally there,” said Bob Laster, Blue Jay Head Coach. “I’m hoping with another week, that when he gets to state he’ll feel a little bit better. Today he was moving a little bit slow, just due to the post injury that he recovered from.”

Junction City’s other regional champ was Jefferey Walters at 220 pounds.

“It was a great surprise, I knew Jeff had it in him, basically we were just waiting to see when we could pull it out of him.”

Walters was the Blue Jays’ heavy weight wrestler last year, and cut weight this year to wrestle at 220 pounds.

Other state qualifiers include Kade Danielson at 106 pounds with a 4th place finish, Max Bazan at 113 pounds with a 3rd place finish, John Clark at 145 pounds with a 2nd place finish, and Kamari Smith at 152 pounds with a 2nd place finish.