BETHEL – When you’re handicapping Saturday’s Class C track and field championship at Westbrook High School, you don’t need a legal-sized sheet of paper to list the favorites.

Lisbon. Orono. John Bapst. North Yarmouth Academy. Some teams simply bring two buses full of Class A-quality depth to these season-ending meets. There’s not much the little guys can do about it.

That loud chorus you just heard hollering “hold on” probably originated from Telstar.

The Rebels have never won a Maine Principals’ Association title in track, and the streak won’t end this weekend. With a banner day, however, it’s not out of the question that Telstar could add a double-digit number of individual state titles to its trophy case.

“We’re going to be able to take most of our team to states, which is a great thing,” said Laura Kaufman, who co-coaches the Rebels with Dave Leclerc and Dan Crooker.

Telstar has a defending state champion in Jen DeNormandie, who walked away with the gold medal in the 400 meters last June.

It has a state champion-in-waiting, Frankie DelDuca, who won a whopping four events and male athlete of the meet honors at the Mountain Valley Conference championships.

Distance runner Brianne Bailey and middle-distance mainstay Chris Schwarz are seeded in multiple disciplines, too.

“Depth definitely helps when you’re able to fill the spots,” DelDuca said. “We’ve got a good split between sprinters, distance runners and throwers.”

Of course, individual point potential is perhaps even more crucial at the conference and state level, which is why many eyes will be locked on DelDuca during Saturday’s sprints and jumps.

DelDuca edged Kyle Huston of Lisbon in the 100 and 200 meters at MVCs. Larry Foster of Winthrop was a proven threat in long jump, and Justin Shink tremendous in triple jump.

Telstar’s multi-faceted junior topped them all.

“I didn’t really think about that,” DelDuca said, dismissing the sweep as one of his goals this season. “I just tried to train as hard as I could. We have good coaches this year. I think they’ve really worked with us on enjoying the experience and not having it be all about winning, winning, winning.”

Triple jump is DelDuca’s favorite event.

In a familiar refrain sung by many athletes who are quadruple-entered at this time of year, DelDuca says the reason is novelty. This is only his second season attempting an event that can be an elusive art form.

“It’s the one I’ve done the least, so I’m still in that fun bubble and still learning about it,” DelDuca said. “It’s not like sprints at all, or even like the long jump. It’s a little more complicated.”

Perhaps another reason for DelDuca’s preference is that triple jump is his best chance to win states.

He’s seeded first, ahead of MVC rivals Cam Bubar and Robert Patchell of Lisbon and defending state champion Jon Potvin of Fort Kent.

According the stopwatch and tape measure, DelDuca also is expected to earn points in long jump (seeded fourth), the 200 (fifth) and 100 (sixth).

“I’ve looked at the seed times and the distances,” he said, “and there are a lot of strong competitors in the state this year.”

DelDuca is the type of athlete who will use that perception as a motivational tool.

“He’s a skier. He plays soccer. He’s one of those kids who is pretty much good at everything he does. There isn’t a challenge that he is afraid of,” Kaufman said. “He has placed in other meets in the 400 or 4×400. He’s always just been able to excel wherever we put him.”

His counterpart on the girls’ side, DeNormandie, enters the weekend slightly under the radar. She’s ranked fourth in the chase to defend her 400 title.

In fact, she’s seeded higher in the two shorter sprint races.

“Our sprinters in general have been very strong this year,” Kaufman said. “We placed three girls in the MVC 200 meters.”

DeNormandie placed third in all three state sprints as a sophomore and scored points in the 100 and 200 last spring, as well. Like DelDuca, she is seeded in four events, including the 4×400 relay.

Schwarz (400, 800, 4×400) and Bailey (1,600 and 3,200) give the Rebels a chance to put crooked numbers all over the scoring chart.

In other words, watch the usual suspects Saturday, but beware the underdog.