The Bethlehem Holiday Wrestling Classic kicks off on December 28 and 29 at Liberty’s Memorial Gymnasium.

This year’s tournament will have 27 teams competing including Blue Mountain, Central Dauphin, Council Rock South, Delaware Valley, Freedom, Hazleton, Lehighton, Lasalle College, Liberty, Nazareth, North Penn, Northampton, Northern Lebanon, Northern Lehigh, Northwestern, Pen Argyl, Phillipsburg, Pleasant Valley, Pottsville, Quakertown, St. Mark’s (DE), Saucon Valley, Stroudsburg, Tri-Valley, Warwick, Wilson West Lawn and Wyoming Valley West.

Wrestling begins at 9:30 a.m. on Monday and goes all day until quarterfinals begin at 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s schedule starts with semifinals getting underway at 10 a.m. Consolation finals will start at 3:30 p.m. with finals beginning at 5 p.m.

Wyoming Seminary took home the team title last year en route to crowning four champions.

Liberty heavyweight Andrew Gunning was the lone Hurricane to come away with a title last year at 220 and is expected to win his second straight championship.

Luke Werner (120) and KJ Fenstermacher (126) both took second last year and Freedom’s Andrew Evans (138) found himself in the finals as well, ending up settling for second.