South Dade’s Bartelt, North Miami’s Bethel, Coral Park’s Delgado are Dade Wrestlers of the Year
All they do is win.
Once again, South Dade’s Sawyer Bartelt, North Miami’s Mya Bethel and Coral Park’s Sofia Delgado were perfect on the wrestling mats this season.
It’s why the trio is repeating as the Miami Herald’s Miami-Dade Wrestlers of the Year.
BARTELT 139-0
For Bartelt, this season puts a cap on one of the most illustrious high school wrestling careers South Florida has ever seen.
Bartelt went a perfect 139-0 over his four seasons at South Dade.
Even more, Bartelt was handed a takedown in just one of those 139 bouts — and that didn’t come until the final match of his high school career when Dr. Krop’s Nathan Adras did so
early in the first period of the Class 3A 215-pound championship for an early 2-0.
Bartelt’s response? He
pinned Adras at the 2:40 mark for the state title.
Bartelt will continue his wrestling career at Iowa State.
BETHEL FOUR-PEAT?
While Bartelt completed a perfect run through his high school career, Bethel is now one year away from
being able to accomplish the feat herself.
The North Miami junior is a perfect 81-0 over the past three years since the
FHSAA began sanctioning girls’ wrestling.
Bethel went 16-0 as a freshman in 2022, 27-0 as a sophomore in 2023 and 38-0 this year to win the 155-pound title each season.
She is the only girls’ wrestler in Miami-Dade to win a state title all three years, and there’s no reason to think she won’t complete the sweep.
BACK-TO-BACK FOR SOFIA DELGADO
As for Delgado, she finishes her high school career with back-to-back perfect seasons and a pair of state titles.
After going 8-1 as a sophomore and finishing as the state runner-up in the 140-pound class, Delgado went on to go a perfect 25-0 as a junior and 37-0 this year to stake her claim as one of two wrestlers in the county (along with Bethel) to win multiple state titles.