For the first time, two Aurora area girls wrestlers earned state championships and that pair — Regis Jesuit sophomore Remington Zimmerer and Vista PEAK Prep junior Amelia Bacon — headline the 2025 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Girls Wrestling Team.
Vista PEAK Prep competed for the first time under the guidance of Ashley Jaramillo, who competed for the program before the sport became officially sanctioned. It was a very successful debut for Jaramillo, who had four All-Aurora performers (among seven total qualifiers) who helped the Bison place an area-best seventh.
Leading the way was Bacon, who took the final step to program history as she surpassed herself last season as well as Leilani Caamal (a state runner-up in 2022) when she won the title.
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Bacon completed a remarkable season (in which she was a near-perfect 36-1) with a championship to match her twin brother, Ian, in the 120-pound bracket of the 5A boys state tournament (see story, here). She pinned her first three opponents (including Eaglecrest’s Jordan Heibult in a head-to-head local matchup) in the first period of each match to set up a final bout with Castle View’s Zaret Silva Lopez, who she had beaten twice during the regular season and also in the Region 3 championship match.
Silva Lopez — who defeated Pomona’s Alora Martinez, who dealt Bacon her only loss — challenged Bacon, who held on for a 5-4 victory.
For the season, Bacon won every tournament she competed in (Warrior Invitational, Eaglecrest Invitational, Northern Colorado Christmas Tournament, Buffalo Invitational, Warhorse Invitational, City League Championship plus the 5A Region 3 and state tournaments) save the Douglas County Tiara Challenge, where Martinez topped her 5-1 in the championship match.
The Bison’s All-Aurora first group included two other placers in junior Parice Jones and sophomore Khloe Yizar, who finished fourth at 190 and 235 pounds, respectively.
Jones competed at 235 in the first half of the season, then shifted down to 190 when the season resumed after winter break. She won the Buffalo Invitational, City League Championship and Region 3 tournaments to reach state, where she won her first two state matches by fall to reach the semifinals.
Jones then rebounded from a loss to Broomfield’s Shayla Martinez (who finished her season undefeated and as the 190-pound state champion) and won in the consolation semifinals before she lost by fall to state veteran Elizabeth Sandy of Ponderosa in the third-place match to finish 23-9.
Yizar also won the Buffalo Invitational and City League Championship, while she placed third at the Region 3 tournament to earn a trip to the state tournament. She got pinned by Overland senior Ruth Worknhe in the opening round, but turned around with three straight pins on the consolation side of the bracket to find herself in a rematch with Worknhe in the consolation semifinals.
It was the sixth time during the season that the two locals went head-to-head and this one went to Yizar, who won by fall (to take the season series 4-2) and that put her in the third-place match. She lost a gritty 1-0 decision to Widefield’s Rilen-Rose Caseras to complete a 21-9 season.
Vista PEAK Prep junior Hailey Brown was the only Aurora area wrestler to make state at 105 pounds and she lost her two matches by fall and major decision to complete a 20-16 campaign. During the season, her top results were third-place finishes at the Arapahoe Warrior Invitational as well as the City League Championships.
Regis Jesuit’s lone All-Aurora performer was Zimmerer, who followed up an outstanding freshman campaign in which she placed fifth at the state tournament with a special sophomore season that finished with a state title (story, here).
Wrestling for a team coached by her father, Zach, Zimmerer finished the season without a loss in Colorado, as the three blemishes on her 38-3 record came as part of an eighth-place finish at the 25th annual Napa Valley Classic in California.
Zimmerer won the Arapahoe Warrior Invitational, the Bennett Invitational, Douglas County’s Tiara Challenge, the Chatfield Warhorse Invitational and Region 3 tournaments coming into state, where she earned wins in the first two rounds by fall and defeated Brighton’s Kiahna Spellman 7-3 in a gritty semifinal. That moved her into a championship matchup against nationally-ranked Amaya Hinojosa of Widefield, who she had not wrestled previously.
Zimmerer proved the aggressor in the match, got a lead and held on for a 6-4 defeat to become her program’s first all-time state winner.
The area’s largest team — Eaglecrest, which also has wrestlers from other Cherry Creek Schools — is again well represented on the All-Aurora first team with seven from coach Horacio Vialpando’s team, which placed 12th in the 5A standings. Three Raptors earned their way onto the medal podium in seniors Bailee Mestas (130 pounds) and Natalie Replogle (145) plus freshman Maxime Lantz at 140 pounds.
Mestas won her bracket at the Centennial League Championship tournament and finished as the runner-up at the Region 2 tournament, which earned her a trip to state for the first time. She made some noise in her debut, as she earned wins in four of her six matches and claimed fourth place at 130 pounds to conclude a 42-15 season.
Lantz’s debut season turned out very well, as she placed at the majority of the tournaments in which she was entered (many of them at 145 pounds before she dropped down in the last month of the regular season) and also won her bracket at the Centennial League Championships.
A runner-up finish at the Region 2 tournament earned Lantz a state berth that she used to record four pins in her first five matches, losing only in the quarterfinals. A one-point loss in the third-place match to Mesa Ridge’s Nevaeh Nomura ended a 34-16 season.
Replogle alternated between the 145 and 155 pound classes throughout the season, but settled in at 145 for the last month of the season. She finished as the runner-up at the Centennial League Championship tournament and won the third-place match at the Region 2 tournament to earn a return trip to state. Replogle earned her best result as a senior with a sixth-place finish that included three wins in six matches and a 35-16 final record.
Eaglecrest’s other All-Aurora performers who did not place were juniors Sofie Ghasabyan (100) and Sydney Babi (110) along with senior Alaysia Ornelas (135) and freshman Tatum Debalak (115).
Babi (42-11) won the Tiara Challenge and the Centennial League Championship tournaments ahead of the Region 2 tournament, where she lost in the final to Loveland freshman star Saydee Lussenhop, who went on to win the state title. Babi’s first two matches at state both went to overtime and she won the first, then lost the second to move into the consolation bracket, where she won again before a loss in the match that determined a spot in the placing rounds.
Ghasabyan (30-18 for the season), Debelak (27-18) and Ornelas (24-19) all finished 0-2 with losses on both sides of the bracket.
Ghasabyan, the Centennial League Championship winner who made it to state with a third-place finish at Region 2, lost both of her state matches by a combined total of five points. Debelak and Ornelas also won their brackets at the league tournament and both qualified for state via third-place regional finishes.
Two other Aurora area programs are represented on the All-Aurora first team as Smoky Hill sophomore Hailey Torrez earned the 155-pound slot and Overland sophomore Jackelyn Torreblanca Oseguera made the lineup at 170. Both made their state debuts and both earned a victory in the first round of the consolation bracket, as Torrez (who 8-8 on the season) and Oseguera (12-12) won by fall.
Torrez wrestled the second half of the season and finished as the runner-up in her bracket at the Centennial League Championships and made state with a fourth-place finish at the Region 3 tournament. Oseguera wrestled the first tournament of the season at 190, then dropped to 170, where she made state with a third-place finish at Region 2.
Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at sports@sentinelcolorado.com. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports
