Talk about a 1-2 punch.

Plenty of high school athletic teams have them, but few have been the stuff of legends.

Around here, we had Courtnay Rattigan and Karissa Kusick with the Karns City girls basketball team. Rattigan was a center, Kusick a guard, they played four years together, both scored well over 1,000 points and led the Gremlins to the 2000 state championship.

Butler girls soccer had Meghan Schnur and Annie Lowry. Both were big-time scorers and led the Golden Tornado to the PIAA championship game. Both had ultra-successful collegiate careers as well.

Mars basketball had John Castello and Robby Carmody, both scoring well over 1,000 points (Carmody had 2,000) and succeeding in postseason play as teammates for a couple of years.

More recently, Butler’s Ethan Morton and Devin Carney both averaged more than 20 points per game in leading the Tornado to a WPIAL boys basketball crown last year. Morton scored over 2,000 career points and Carney has a great shot at joining him.

Of course, they were only teammates for two years.

There have been others, of course, but the best 1-2 punch of Butler County sports in recent times might very well be wrapping up their prep careers over these next two weekends.

Seneca Valley senior wrestlers Alejandro Herrera-Rondon and Dylan Chappell.

Herrera-Rondon attended a private school and did not join the Raider wrestling program until his freshman year. Chappell came through SV’s youth wrestling program.

When the two first became teammates, they were competing for the same 106-pound starting spot on SV’s varsity as freshmen.

By the admittance of both, that competition got rather heated at times.

And look at them now.

Herrera-Rondon has a career-record of 168-14. Chappell is 158-25. That’s a combined record of 326-39, folks.

That’s crazy.

Both have soared past Louis Newell’s previous Raider wrestling career wins record. Both have won three WPIAL championships in their respective weight classes.

Both are seeded No. 1 — Herrera-Rondon at 152 pounds, Chappell at 132 — in Saturday’s West Regional in Altoona. Both are likely headed to Hershey for the state tourney. Herrera-Rondon has already won twice there while Chappell is a two-time state runner-up.

The accomplishments of this duo on the wrestling is mind-boggling.

They’ve been mat partners in SV’s wrestling practice room for the past four years. Clearly, they’ve pushed each other and made each other better.

And they’re best friends as seniors after being bitter rivals fighting for varsity mat time as freshmen.

How fitting it would be for these two guys to be standing atop the podium as state champions together in Hershey next weekend.

Storybook ending?

Let’s hope so.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle