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Northeast Georgia will be the epicenter for the Georgia High School Association State Duals finals beginning on Friday.

North Hall’s mission coming into the Area 8-4A tournament on Saturday was simple: get back to the State Duals for the first time since 2022.

With a new state tournament format in place, most northeast Georgia area and state wrestling teams will hold their Area Duals on Saturday.

GAINESVILLE — North Hall Athletic Director Sam Borg announced Thursday that assistant coach Wesley Adams has been named new head wrestling coach for the Trojans. A North Hall graduate, Adams wrestled collegiately for the Division I Mercer Bears. For two of his four seasons at Mercer, he was team captain. In 2015, he served there as a graduate assist to the program.  In 2020, Adams was hired at North Hall to teach math and to assist the both the middle and high school wrestling programs. He takes over for David Nichols, who stepped down last month after five years at the helm of the program...

More than a dozen northeast Georgia area wrestling teams spanning all seven classifications are still alive for State Duals titles as the playoffs head to the Preliminaries, an added round for the 2021 season. The Preliminary rounds will be held at the eight No. 1 seeds in every classification. The team to come out of each of the eight quadrants will move on to next week’s State Duals meets. The State Duals, for the first time, will be held at eight different sites. (Click here to see the sites for the State Duals.) Several area programs are back once again to defend titles or build on soli...