Here's some bad news for the rest of the state's wrestling teams: back-to-back-to-back dual-team champion Cary, despite losing two 200-win wrestlers from last year's team, finished second at this summer's Appalachian State Summer Wrestling Camp, only falling to three-time Georgia state champs Jefferson High, 22-10.

National champion Eloheim Palma of Cary leads area wrestlers who accept scholarships.

Along with being named on Wrestling USA's Dream Team in it's latest issue, Eloheim Palma may have cemented his claim to the most ever accolades of any NC wrestler by being named the heavyweight for ASICS 1st Team All-American Team.
 
The short list of Eloheim's recent awards and accomplishments, according to coach Jerry Winterton, includes:
 
Winner of the Dapper Dan
Winner of Senior Nationals, has defeated or finished ahead of 4 top ranked heavy's including asics #2, #4,#6, #8.
Named Nation's Junior Schalles award winner by WIN Magazine
Named to Asics All-American team 1st Team
Named to Wrestling USA Magazine's "Dream Team" (1st Team) 

Also, Palma won his third straight individual state title this year and was a part of seven championship runs at Cary in his four years, winning the dual-team championship three times and the team tournament title four consecutive years. 

Palma finished his career 225-9, with 159 by pin. He went 61-0 this year.

Make that another postseason award for Cary wrestling.

Exactly a week after coach Jerry Winterton was named National Coach of the Year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, the Wrestler Insider Newsmagazine honored senior national champion Eloheim Palma with the Junior Schalles Award.

Winterton wins national coach of the year honors

Palma gets notice

Eloheim Palma of Cary, a national high school heavyweight wrestling champion, has signed with N.C. State.

Palma wins senior nationals in Virginia Beach

Eloheim Palma, the top-ranked high school heavyweight wrestler in the country, won in the Dapper Dan Classic in Pittsburgh, Pa., this weekend by defeating third-ranked Sean Owens of Clearfield, Pa., the Pennsylvania state champion, 5-3.

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 The last of the area state wrestling champions...

4-A

285 pounds: Eloheim Palma of Cary 

Cary and Orange also won the team points titles in 4-A and 1-A/2-A, respectively. Look for coverage on the state tourneys in tomorrow's print edition of the News & Observer.