BETHLEHEM - Pleasant Valley's Trevor Dorn went 2-2 at the Bethlehem Holiday Wrestling Classic a year ago and went home without a medal.

Fast forward to this holiday season, and Dorn earned himself a present just before the New Year following a runner-up finish in the 170-pound bracket Thursday evening.Dorn achieved his goal of reaching the finals of the prestigious local tournament at Liberty's Memorial Gymnasium, but came up short against the top-seed in the bracket, falling to Northampton senior Cade Moisey by a 9-1 major decision, as the K-Kids crowned three champions (Moisey, Julian Chlebove and KJ Fenstermacher) en route to the team title.The Bears only came home with one medalist in Dorn, as he was the only Bear to advance to the medal rounds, as well as the lone Times News area wrestler to reach Thursday's main stage.After losing two bouts at the tournament a year ago, yesterday's loss to Moisey was his first defeat of the season, showing how far the PV senior has come from a year ago."I mean you can't win them all," said Dorn. "I just have to keep pushing and get better. I made a couple mistakes in the match that probably made a big difference. I have to get better at riding legs and get a better stance and I have to keep wrestling on the edge of the mat. I gave up a take down by doing that, so these are all things I can take away from this and get better at."Dorn picked up falls in his first two bouts of the tournament before squeezing by the quarterfinals with a 4-3 decision over Luke Ratchford of LaSalle College, followed by a 4-2 win over Tommy O'Brien of Wilson West Lawn in the semifinals.However, his meeting with Moisey was where the buck stopped, as the veteran K-Kid built a 4-1 lead after the first period, scoring a decisive score just before the period ended to make the next two periods even more of an uphill climb.Moisey nearly pulled off a fall late in the third period, as Dorn fought that pending result for 30 seconds, surrendering the final three near-fall points to punctuate the major decision."He wrestled a tough tournament, and he wrestled tough against a great wrestler like Moisey," said Bears' head coach Justin Micklos of Dorn's performance. "We have film on this match now, and we can use that to help improve for the postseason. We expected Trevor to do this coming into the tournament. He's just so much better mentally, physically and with his technique this year."This should propel him throughout the rest of the regular season into the postseason. This tournament is harder than districts and regionals, so the sky is the limit at the end of the season for how well he can do."Northwestern brought home the most local medalists, as Baily Wehr (120) and Caleb Clymer (160) each took home hardware for the Tigers.Clymer bounced back from a 7-1 semifinal loss to Stoughton's Tyler Dow to grab third place with a 5-0 decision over Liberty's Anthony Emig. Wehr settled for eighth place following a 4-2 loss to Brandon Connor of Wilson West Lawn."It's a tough tournament, and we got a lot of good matches, and that's the goal for us coming here," said Northwestern head coach Jim Moll. "We still have a lot to work on and I thought we could have had more guys wrestle on day two. Our goal is to always try and improve, so these guys got what we were hoping for out of this and now we just got to get back to work."Northern Lehigh's Ryan Farber (160) was the lone Bulldog to medal, as he had a rough day two of the competition, losing in the semifinals to Pennridge's Josh Stillings 2-1 in double overtime. He then had to forfeit his next two consolation matches, leaving him with a sixth-place finish.Still, for Colonial League combatants or the likes of Dorn, this week's holiday tournament was a chance to gauge where they're at before heading into the second half of the season, and Dorn is confident about the direction he's heading."It's better to make mistakes here than at districts," he said. "I'm doing way better than I thought I'd be doing this year, and I just have to keep pushing forward and raise the bar even higher."