American University Wrestling Inks Five Recruits for 2023 on National Signing Day
WASHINGTON – Second-year head coach Jason Borrelli has announced the addition of five recruits for the 2023-24 season, with all five officially committing to American University wrestling on National Signing Day. Coen Bainey (Julian, Pa./Bald Eagle), Caleb Beaty (Clayton, N.C./Corinth Holders), Kaden Milheim (Muncy, Pa./Warrior Run), Gage Owen (Mt. Airy, Md./South Carroll) and Emmanuel Ulrich (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg) will all join the Eagles next year. … rest of story at American University wrestling-inks-five-recruits-for-2023-on-national-signing-day
TDR Editor’s Note ; Note that the TDR’s 2022 Lee Carroll Award Winner Caleb Beaty or Corinth-Holders High School has signed to study and wrestle at American University in Washington D.C. starting in the fall of 2023. Congratulations and best wishes to Caleb as he prepares for this new challenge.
App State’s Carter named SoCon Wrestler of the Week
Opened the 2022-23 campaign with a win over a top-15 ranked opponent
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – App State’s Sean Carter has been named the Southern Conference Wrestler of the Week for all competition from Nov. 1-8. The selection is made by the league office and is the first one of the 2022-23 season.
Carter, who is ranked No. 22 at 133 pounds, began his 2022-23 season with a win over a nationally ranked opponent on Friday, Nov. 4, at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The fourth-year junior made his season debut with a 3-1 decision in overtime over 11th-ranked North Carolina State wrestler Kai Orine. The North Babylon, New York, native helped the Mountaineers (0-1, 0-0 SoCon) to wins in four of 10 matches against the ninth-ranked Wolfpack, which won the dual 26-12.
The Mountaineers followed that by placing eight wrestlers, including one champion, in the Southeast Open on Saturday, Nov. 5. … rest of story at App-States-carter-named-socon-wrestler-of-the-week
UNC WRESTLING SIGNS FIVE TO 2022 SIGNING CLASS
CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina wrestling signed a class of five to National Letters of Intent during the fall signing period for the class of 2023.
Derek Guanajuato, Cullen Kane, Nolan O’Boyle, Sabino Portella and Marco Tocci all plan to join the Tar Heels in this year’s signing class.
Derek Guanajuato, a projected 133-pounder, will join the Heels from Valiant College Preparatory in Arizona, is ranked No. 117 overall as a recruit and No. 17 in his weight class. Guanajuato was also a 2022 Junior Fargo All American in the 126-pound weight class.
From Alpharetta, Ga., Cullen Kane is projected to compete in the 165-pound weight class after finishing third overall in the Georgia state tournaments in 2021.
Nolan O’Boyle, from Virginia Beach, Va., heads to Chapel Hill projected as a 165-pounder, after winning state championship titles in 2021 and 2022 in his home state.
A New Jersey native and upcoming graduate of Red Bank Catholic, Sabino Portella joins the Tar Heels and is expected to compete at 184 pounds. The No. 68 overall recruit, Portella is No. 6 in his weight class in high school at 170.
Rounding out this signing class is Marco Tocci, … rest of story at Goheels.com/news/2022/wrestling-signs-five-to-2022-signing-class
UPIKE Wrestling Completes Program’s First Ever Competition at Patriot Open
Corbin, Ky. – UPIKE wrestling completed it’s inaugural competition as a program Saturday afternoon, fielding three athletes at the Pepsi Patriot Open.
UPIKE’s Aiden Vega battled his way to a pair of wins in the Freshman/Sophomore 174 weight bracket. Vega opened the meet with a matchup against Indiana Tech’s Matheos Veiga who won 10-2 by major decision. Vega then moved on to the consolation bracket where the freshman won back to back by pin-fall. In the first round, Vega took just 1:13 to pin Brewton Parker’s Booker Colson. In the second round the challenger was Josh Mojica Smith of Montreat College, and Vega once again won by fall in just over a minute. The third round ended Vega’s run, where he was pinned after 1:40 by Dominico Migliori of Lourdes.
Also in the freshman/sophomore 174 bracket was Nate Greene who fell in the opening matchup to Mojica-Smith. Greene went 4:25 with Mojica Smith in the battle but was ultimately defeated by fall. Greene won his first as a Bear in the first round of consolation, falling Brewton-Parker’s Darrell Shields in 6:18. Greene’s final match ended in a tie-break loss to Vega of Indiana Tech. … rest of story at UPIKEbears.com/news/wrestling-completes-programs-first-ever-competition-at-patriot-open
Fairmont State Wrestling wins a Pair at the Pioneer Duals
Wrestling goes 2-2 at the Pioneer Duals starts the year 3-2
Glenville, W.Va. — Wrestling went 2-2 on the day against a tough field of competition at the Pioneer Duals. They started the day with two defeats to very tough opponents. First up was the host school Glenville State who was recently picked to finish second in the MEC. Winning matches were 141 Mikey Jones by fall, 157 Navid Ighani by forfeit and 285 Mason Atkinson by forfeit. The final score for the dual was 33-18. Next up was Super Region 1 foe Seton Hill. The lone winner in that dual was 285 Mason Atkinson by fall.
To finish up their pool play the Fighting Falcons squared up against MEC foe Notre Dame College. Notre Dame is a perennial D2 power that has won 5 National Championships since 2010. They were picked to finish 3rd in the MEC preseason poll. Starting up the dual was 125 Brandan Myers winning by forfeit and 133 Nate Pelesky followed with a big win, winning by fall to push Fairmont State’s lead to 12-0. 141 Mikey Jones collected a forfeit win to extend the lead to 18-0. A loss by fall at 149 made the score 18-6 Fairmont State. 157 Navid Ighani had a solid win by decision to make the score 21-6. Freshman 165 Jude Childers secured a big win by fall to extend the lead to 27-6. A tough loss at 174 made the score 27-9 but 184 Austin Gibson put an end to Notre Dame’s comeback bid with a big win by fall. After losses at 197 and 285 your Fighting Falcons won by a final score 33-18. … rest of the day at Fightingfalcons.com/news/2022/11/5/wrestling-wins-a-pair-at-the-pioneer-duals
TDR Editor’s Notes; While these colleges are located outside of the Carolinas they are new and we are always glad to see schools adding wrestling opportunities for their students. New college teams in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia are welcome and that news shall be emphasized. It is pathetic that Division I school with big name visibility are slow in following these examples. Only 1/4 of the D-I teams that will participate in football bowl games this year have a current wrestling program. Twice that number of schools USED to have a team. Somehow the cash cow bowl games and football revenues are not enough to fund other worthy programs. We wonder what percentage of the players on the school teams without wrestling benefited from wrestling while in high school. More on this later.
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TDR Editor’s Note ; Due to some computer difficulties and a readjustment to a new laptop we have been absent and silent from posting updates. Will strive to improve in the coming days.
Will more HBCUs follow Morgan State’s lead and bring back or start wrestling?
By Mike Finn
Photo: John Davis (left), a two-time NCAA Division II national champion from Morgan State, welcomed Kenny Monday as the new coach of the Bears wrestling program that will officially restart after a 25-year absence in 2023-24.
By Mike Finn
When the legendary wrestler Kenny Monday announced in August he was taking the head job at Morgan State, which was bringing back the sport after a 25-year hiatus, one of the happiest Bear alums was John Davis.
That’s because he finally got Monday to come to Morgan State.
That thought was first brought up when the two former talented high school wrestlers competed together at the 1980 Dapper Dan Classic in Pittsburgh, where the nation’s top high school wrestlers would take on the best preps from Pennsylvania.
This story appeared in the November issue of WIN Magazine. Click on the cover to subscribe to WIN.
Monday earned the right to compete in the event as a highly-touted wrestler from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa. Davis was a four-time Virginia state champion. They also both went on to wrestle collegiately. Monday became an NCAA champion and three-time All-American at Oklahoma State; Davis earned two NCAA Division II titles at Morgan State, located in Baltimore, one of the 100-plus “Historically Black Colleges/Universities” in this country.
But after that first meeting, they had hoped to become teammates.
“(Davis) was a weight class above me, so we were roommates and workout partners,” recalled Monday. … rest of story at WIN-magazine.com/2022/11/04/will-more-hbcus-follow-morgan-states-lead-and-bring-back-wrestling
American University Defeats Duke and Bloomsburg, Falls to Terps at Maryland Quad Meet
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Two wins in three duals was a strong start to the season for American University wrestling, particularly after a young team earned just one dual win all of last season. The Eagles got some impressive performances out of newcomers and veterans in beating both Duke (21-15) and Bloomsburg (29-10) before falling to host Maryland (10-29) in a four-team quad meet at the XFinity Center Pavilion.
Notable
- Freshman Raymond Lopez (125), sophomore Jack Maida (133) and graduate student Colin Shannon (184) all posted two wins apiece for American.
- The Eagles scored a total of three pins, with two of those coming from freshmen—Lopez and Caleb Campos (165). Lopez pinned Duke’s Logan Agin in 2:16, while Campos pinned Bloomsburg’s Trenton Harder in 3:54.
- In his first bout at heavyweight, junior Will Jarrell also had a pin against Bloomsburg. Jarrell scored four nearfall points in the second period against Shane Noonan before getting the win by fall in 4:16. … rest of story at AUeagles.com/news/2022/11/5/wrestling-defeats-duke-and-bloomsburg-falls-to-terps-at-maryland-quad-meet
Appalachian State vs NC State
Preview
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(#17) Jarrett Trombley NCSU vs (#18) Caleb Smith App. State
Kicking the dual at 125 we have two Top-25 Ranked wrestlers, at #17 Jarrett Trombley from NC State and at #18 Caleb Smith of Appalachian State. With Jakob Camacho out due to injury, Trombley leads the Wolfpack at 125 to begin the season. Returning NCAA Qualifier Caleb Smith is back at the weight for the 2022-2023 season for the Mountaineers. Smith is coming back after a hot hand at NCAA’s after scoring one of the largest upsets of the tournament by knocking off then #5 Patrick McKee of Minnesota. Smith kept the momentum going by Placing fifth and earning All-American Status at the U23 World Team Trials at 57kg. Trombley entered at the same weight also earning the All-American status taking 7th. Sadly, these two did not meet at the World Team Trials, but we get to kick off the season with an explosive matchup between the two.
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(#12) Kai Orine NCSU vs (#26) Sean Carter App. State
Following 125, we head to 133 with another ranked match-up. … rest of story at Intermatwrestle.com/articles/26237?utm_source=Wrestling+News&utm_campaign
No. 9 NC State opens 2022-23 season with win over App State
Hidlay, Trumble pick up pin falls as Pack dominates in opener
RALEIGH The No. 9 NC State wrestling team jumped on Appalachian State early and never looked back, defeating the Mountaineers 26-12 in the season opener.
Approximately, 2,2009 fans welcomed the four-time ACC champions back to Reynolds.
Those fans weren’t disappointed in the performance, which included two pins by the homet eam.
The night started in the 141 pound class, as No. 21 Ryan Jack took on Heath Gonyer.
Jack, the Wolfpack sophomore from Danbury, Conn. defeated Gonyer 9-2, helping NC State jump out to a 4-0 lead.
NC State freshman Jackson Arrington made his collegiate debut in the 149 class, battling Mountaineers’ senior Jon Jon Millner, the No. 6 wrestler in the class, according to InterMat.
Millner started the match with a two-point takedown just moments into the first period and went up 3-0 with a takedown. The score stayed locked in at 3-0 heading into the final period and Millner pulled away for a 6-0 win, Apps first of the night.
No. 7 Ed Scott flipped the momentum back in NC State’s favor, dominating App State’s Cody Bond in the 157 class. … rest of story at Gopack.com/news/2022/11/4/No-9-nc-state-opens-2022-23-season-with-win-over-app-state
On-sale date established for Moss Arts Center dual
Virginia Tech will host Cornell in college wrestling’s most unique venue on Jan. 6
BLACKSBURG – On-sale date for one of Virginia Tech wrestling’s most anticipated matches of the season – and one of NCAA Wrestling’s most unique experiences – has been set and will go on sale in November.
Tickets for the Hokies’ annual dual at the Moss Arts Center will go on sale to the public at noon on Thursday, November 10. Tech will face No. 13 Cornell on January 6 at 7 p.m. in what is expected to be a phenomenal dual with team and individual accolades from both programs aplenty.
Regular tickets will go on sale for $15 while boxes at the Moss Arts Center can be purchased for $180. Tickets, if available, will be sold for $20 at the door. Student admission is free. … rest of story at Hokiesports.com/news/2022/11/3/wrestling-on-sale-date-established-for-moss-arts-center-dual
TDR Editor’s Notes; – This venue looks incredible and well worth a visit. I am tempted to enroll as a student so I could attend for free yet …
Amine Named 2022 Ufer Award Recipient
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Michigan wrestling alumni Mike Amine (1986-89) has been named the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Ufer Award, presented annually by the Letterwinners M Club. Amine will be honored at the organization’s fall tailgate on Saturday, Nov. 12 inside the Hall of Honor at Crisler Center.
Since 1981, the Ufer Award has been presented annually to a Letterwinners M Club member in recognition of their outstanding service to the University of Michigan and the Letterwinners M Club. Amine is the fifth wrestling representative to earn the prestigious honor; he joins Cliff Keen (1985), Chip Warrick (2007), Mark Churella (2012) and Jim Keen (2014).
An NCAA finalist, three-time NCAA qualifier at 167 pounds and two-year team captain while Michigan, Amine transitioned to the financial services industry after college — and currently manages Wealth Strategies Financial Group — while continuing to coach, mentor and hire wrestlers within the community. … rest of story at Goblue.com/news/2022/11/3/wrestling-amine-named-2022-ufer-award-recipient
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