Gettysburg finished with 67.5 points thanks to the efforts of Goldstein, senior Matt Shank (Reedsville, Pa./Indian Valley), and freshman Bobby Christopher (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla./Cardinal Gibbons). Shank finished second at 149 pounds, while Christopher put together an impressive collegiate debut with a fourth-place showing in the heavyweight division.
After posting four victories on the opening day of the invite, including a pair of falls and a major decision, Goldstein began Sunday with a win over New York University's Takafumi Hashimoto via medical forfeit in the semifinals. He faced his toughest test of the tournament in the finals against Dan DiColo of The College of New Jersey, but the Bullet junior and defending Centennial Conference champion at 157 came up with a 7-5 decision to take the title.
Shank won all three of his opening matches handily on Saturday to set up a semifinal showdown with the eighth-ranked wrestler in NCAA Division III, New York's Stephen Hult. Ranked ninth in the nation, Shank got the better of his opponent with a 12-9 victory to advance to the finals against another nationally-ranked foe, New Jersey's Tyler Branham. The Bullet senior gave the sixth-ranked Branham all he could handle and forced overtime with a last-second takedown, but the Lion All-American rebounded for an 8-6 decision.
Christopher started his first career event with three victories on the opening day, but the Gettysburg first-year was halted in the semifinals by Oswego State University's Jake Taylor, who went on to win the event, with a fall at five minutes. Knocked down to the consolation bracket, Christopher picked up a 7-5 decision over New York's James Layman, before getting stopped in the third-place match by Sean DeDeyn by a narrow 3-2 margin.
Goldstein, Shank, and Christopher may have had the highest finishes for Gettysburg, but sophomore Pat Doherty (Garden City, N.Y./Chaminade) put in the most work, wrestling in seven matches at 157 over the two days. After winning his opening two matches before losing to DiColo in the main bracket, Doherty notched 6-5 and 7-3 decisions in his first two consolation matches. Following a medical forfeit victory, the Bullet sophomore had his weekend put to an end with a 7-3 loss to Joe Biango of New Jersey.
Freshman Ben Cutrell (Marion, Mass./Governors Academy) put together a productive opening weekend with victories in the main and consolation brackets of the heavyweight division. Cutrell picked up a 7-2 victory in his first bout on Saturday, and then added a pin at 2:45 over Conor Quinlan in his opening consolation match. First-year Ben Swanson (Wilmington, Del./James Hubert Blake) was the only other Bullet to earn a victory on the weekend, picking up a forfeit win in the consolation bracket of 174 pounds.
Gettysburg continues its season at the King's College Monarch Invitational on Saturday, Nov. 10. Opening matches are slated to begin at 10:30 a.m.
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