Butler senior 182-pound wrestler Christian Sequete, right, is the No. 2 seed in his weight class for this weekend's WPIAL Championships. Sequete is 29-3 on the season.

FOX CHAPEL — The stars are aligned for Christian Sequete.

Get to the WPIAL championship round, get to 100 career wins. Butler's senior 182-pound wrestler wants them both — badly.

“I want to join that 100-win list,” Sequete said after winning the Section 3-AAA title Saturday. “We haven't had too many.”

The Golden Tornado have had eight 100-win wrestlers in the program's history. They've had seven wrestlers advance to the PIAA Tournament. They've had one WPIAL champion.

Sequete has an opportunity to add his name to all of those rather exclusive clubs.

“I can see him getting to the (WPIAL) finals down there,” Butler coach Scott Stoner said. “Christian has all of the tools. He's very capable.

“He has to stay aggressive when he gets the upper hand and not let his opponent get back in matches.”

Sequete (29-3) is seeded No. 2 at 182 in the WPIAL Tournament, a two-day event that gets under way Friday at Canon-McMillan High School. The No. 1 seed is Tim Wallace (31-2) of Albert Gallatin.

Wallace, a defending state champion, has defeated Sequete twice this season. The Butler wrestler's other loss is a decision to Bethel Park's Jason Montgomery (29-3), a state placer from last season who won his section title at 170 pounds last weekend.

“Christian shaved the gap (on the scoreboard) against Wallace the second time he faced him,” Stoner said. “It would be an interesting match if they face each other again.”

Sequete may have to get through a rematch with Hampton's Justin Hart first. Hart (32-2), a freshman, dropped a 6-3 decision to Sequete in the section finals and is seeded No. 3 in the WPIAL tourney. They would meet in the semifinals if both stay in the championship bracket.

Sequete had a 5-0 lead on Hart before their heads collided in the latter half of the match. Sequete needed injury and recovery time and held on for the win.

Sequete is a four-year WPIAL qualifier, though his junior season got a late start due to a torn meniscus. He was 18-4 last year.

“I feel like I can go down there and win this time,” he said of the WPIAL tourney. “I'm healthy and I've been working toward this.

“I've been wrestling more aggressively this year. I'm a better wrestler when I do that.”

After last season, Sequete participated in the FloNationals at Indiana (Pa.) University and placed eighth in his weight class, earning All-America status. He was unseeded in that tournament.

He hasn't stopped since.

“I'm hoping he takes us both east (to Hershey and the state tourney),” Stoner said. “I think Christian is prepared mentally for what lies ahead.

“I know he's hungry.”

Sequete is one of two Butler County wrestlers with a No. 2 seed in the WPIAL tourney. Seneca Valley's Louis Newell (35-3) is No. 2 at 120 pounds, behind only Canon-McMillan's Logan Macri (31-2).

Seneca Valley's Drew Vlasnik (30-11) at 138 and Mars' Alex Hornfeck (30-2) at 145 are both seeded fourth in the tournament.