TOWANDA — For the Towanda Black Knights it was up to a wrestler who usually doesn’t have a place in the regular lineup if they wanted to beat Western Wayne and be the top seed in their pool at the Dandy Mini Marts Duals on Saturday.

Joe Koss was facing Dakota Swoyer, a regional qualifier from Western Wayne, in a 195-pound match with Towanda leading 32-24 with two weights left and Western Wayne sending out two of their top kids.

Koss caught Swoyer and pinned him, clinching the victory for Towanda as Western Wayne got a quick fall at 220 to make the final score 38-30.

“I’m real happy with Joe Koss,” Towanda coach Bill Sexton said. “Joe is a backup for us at 82 and 95 and he came through with an absolutely huge win for us in the Western Wayne match. He pinned a kid who was a regional qualifier last year. It was a great match for Joe.

“We go into those last two bouts, we are up by eight points and I rolled the dice. Maybe we can go out there, maybe we can survive, maybe we can catch something and Joe did an excellent job going out and getting the fall. As far as our day, that’s the highlight of the day in terms of the match. He pulled us out of the fire. It was a great, great win for him and it turned out to be a good win for us.”

Towanda finished third in the tournament, going 3-2, with losses to state-ranked Southern Columbia and Montoursville.

Towanda senior Dayton Wickwire was named the outstanding wrestler of the tournament.

“I am very pleased with Dayton,” Sexton said. “There were a lot of very good wrestlers this year. A number of state place winners here, a lot of very competitive weight classes, a couple of state finalists and a lot of guys that have been to states. You can’t vote for your own kids so the voting is done by the opposition coaches and to have them recognize the kind of day Dayton had and really the kind of year that Dayton is having is great. It’s been a while to win both our outstanding wrestlers at both of our tournaments is quite an accomplishment for the young man. He’s wrestling very well.”

Towanda beat Liberty 49-22, West Scranton 51-21 and then had the 38-30 win over Western Wayne to go 3-0 in pool play.

In their final two matches the Black Knights fell to Southern Columbia 48-25 and Montoursville 49-26.

Montoursville went 5-0 to win the tournament, Southern was second at 4-1, followed by Towanda and Western Wayne was fourth at 2-3.

West Scranton was fifth at 2-3, followed by Port Allegany at 2-3, Honesdale at 2-3 and North Penn-Liberty at 0-5.

After Liberty’s loss to Towanda they fell to Western Wayne 42-28, West Scranton 45-30, Port Allegany 42-28 and Honesdale 45-33.

Against Liberty the Black Knights got a win from Kalob Benjamin to start things as he pinned Levi Adams in 23 seconds.

At 220 Mitchell Peters of Towanda got a forfeit and at 285 Liberty’s Justin Kriner pinned Ryan Grimes in 1:38.

Towanda’s Cooper Mosier won by forfeit at 106 and at 113 Preston Rogers of Towanda won over Grant Gee due to injury default.

At 120 the Black Knights’ Steven Chenot pinned Tanner York in 5:05 and Cameron Andrews of Liberty won a 13-5 major decision over Noah Shafer of Towanda at 126.

Liberty’s Riley Walker pinned Logan Johnson in 2:15 at 132 and D.J. Knolles of Towanda won 7-1 over Carl Dinger at 138.

Sean Giles of Liberty pinned Keegan Kisner of Towanda in 4:36 at 145 and at 152 Towanda’s Steven Yates won 7-0 overJudson Wise.

Breycin Fulmer of Towanda won 5-0 over Sean Kshir at 160 and Wickwire won a 10-2 major decision over Charlie Andrews at 170, while Clay Mosier of Towanda pinned Mason Gee in 1:40 at 182.

Against West Scranton the Black Knights got a pin from Peters over Anthony Giordano at 220 and Grimes pinned Matt Babcock at 285 in 5:38.

Cooper Mosier won by forfeit at 106 and Jared Slack of West Scranton won 3-1 over Rogers at 113.

At 120 Nathan Trotta of West Scranton won 6-2 over Chenot and Yahnzy Ortiz of West Scranton pinned Nate Secules in 1:48 at 126.

Shafer won 7-3 over Noah Molina at 132 and Knolles pinned Tyler Connor in 2:19 at 138.

Bartley Novak of West Scranton won by forfeit at 145 and Yates pinned West Scranton’s Christian Spathelf in 56 seconds at 152.

Fulmer pinned Bobby Walls in 2:27 at 160 and Wickwire pinned Jeremy Seymour in 3:13 at 170. Clay Mosier pinned Tyreek Lozano in 4:33 at 182 and Jack Harrity of West Scranton won 9-4 over Benjamin.

Peters won 3-0 over Bayly Williams to start the match against Western Wayne at 285 and at 106 George Mrsich of Western Wayne won 4-3 over Cooper Mosier.

Rogers won by technical fall 20-5 in 4:37 over Mitchell Herzog at 113 and Ryan Dunn of Western Wayne won by fall in 3:52 over Chenot at 120.

Evan Hoherchak of Western Wayne pinned Shafer in 29 seconds at 126 and James Maloy of Western Wayne pinned Logan Johnson in 2:58 at 132.

Marod Dobrzyn of Western Wayne won 10-6 over Knolles at 138 and Kisner won 6-2 over Branden McIntosh of Western Wayne at 145.

Yates won 5-3 over Harrison Clookey at 152 and Fulmer won by fall in 43 seconds over Derek Swoyer at 160.

Wickwire pinned Tyler Attcavage in 5:02 at 170 and Clay Mosier pinned Joe Tomasetti of Western Wayne in 1:22 at 182.

Koss got the pin over Dakota Swoyer in 55 seconds at 195 and Cole Fuller of Western Wayne pinned Michael Johnson in 33 seconds at 220.

Against Southern Columbia the Black Knights Cooper Mosier was pinned by Jared Lane in 34 seconds at 106 and Shane Casey of Southern got a forfeit at 113.

Rogers won 7-4 over Ethan Knoebel of Southern at 120 and Jake Renn of Southern pinned Noah Shafer in 5:32 at 126.

Michael Miner of Southern pinned Logan Johnson at 132 in 1:43 and Todd Lane of Southern pinned Knolles in 1:57.

Kisner won by major decision 12-2 over Noah Bloom at 145 and at 152 Yates won 4-3 over John Gembic of Southern.