Three high school wrestlers from the Pittsburgh area brought home gold medals from the PIAA championships over the weekend and are Pennsylvania state champions. 

Thomas Jefferson's Maddox Shaw, Belle Vernon Area's Elijah Brown, and Canon-McMillan's Marlee Solomon came out on top on Saturday at the Giant Center in Hershey and came home to Western Pennsylvania with the hardware to show for it. 

Maddox Shaw wins second PIAA title, TJ's first ever two-time champion

Thomas Jefferson High School has its first-ever two-time state champion after Maddox Shaw, an Ohio State recruit, defeated Connellsville's Evan Petrovich by a score of 4-2 to win gold on Saturday in the 152 lb. weight class.

Shaw vs. Petrovich was a rematch of the WPIAL championship bout from last month, where Shaw was victorious and became a 3-time WPIAL title winner.

Shaw's route to the championship match came without much trouble as he pinned North Penn's Jonny O'Brien, pinned Central Bucks West's Chris Dennis, and defeated Perkiomen Valley's Luke Knox with an 8-0 major decision. 

Brian Finnerty won TJ's first ever PIAA title in 2022, when Shaw was a freshman. 

The school now has a two-time PIAA champion after Shaw won at 139 lbs. a year ago. Shaw finished his season with a 38-2 record and a career high school record of 166-14. 

Elijah Brown victorious at 215 lbs. for Belle Vernon's first-ever PIAA title 

The Belle Vernon Area Leopards have their first-ever PIAA wrestling champion.

Elijah Brown, a junior and Pitt recruit, won gold on Saturday in a rematch of the WPIAL championship match, beating Kiski Area's Cooper Roscosky with a 4-3 victory in the 215 lb. class. 

Brown pinned Unionville's Brady Kelly, defeated St. Joseph's Prep's John Boggs with a 15-0 technical fall, and beat Ringgold's Jake Conroy with a 6-3 victory en route to the title match. 

Brown finished his stellar season with a 48-1 record and boasts a career record of 127-19 with one more year left to compete. 

Marlee Solomon dominates to win Canon McMillan's second straight girls' gold medal

Canon-McMillan has a girls' wrestling gold medalist and Pennsylvania state champion for the second straight year.

Marlee Solomon had a dominant display on Saturday, defeating Conneaut's Daylee Watson by a 14-0 major decision to win gold in the 112 lb. weight class.

Solomon finished the year with a 39-3 record and only gave up one point in all four rounds of the PIAA wrestling championships en route to her state title win.

Solomon, a sophomore, pinned York Suburban's Alysiana Ierley, beat Wilson's Area's Nevaeh Colon by a score of 8-1, and defeated Brashear's Tamara Humphries by an 11-0 major decision on her way to the championship match. 

Canon-McMillan has its second straight PIAA title after Valarie Solorio won gold in the 100-lb. weight class last year.