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Highlights Binghamton dominates two EIWA duals True-freshman, Lopes of Lehigh, defeats #28 Phipps - earns Wrestler of the Week honors Kresho of F&M earns 31st win of the season Sacred Heart’s Asuncion upsets red-hot Garcia of Binghamton Drexel remains undefeated in Independence Division with win over F&M Hofstra edges LIU winning final 2 bouts Duals (2/7) Binghamton 46 Morgan State 0 125 - Carson Wagner (Binghamton) tech Isaac Sheehan (Morgan State) 16-1 133 - Dillon Arrick (Binghamton) tech Jimmie Jones (Morgan State) 21-4 141 - Nathan Lucier (Binghamton) FFT 149 - Ivan Garcia (Binghamton) dec Yannis Charles (Morgan State) 11-5 157 - Fin Nadeau (Binghamton) tech Aaron Turner (Morgan State) 19-3 165 - Jordan Brown (Binghamton) tech Cooper Lockhart (Morgan State) 17-2 174 - Brevin Cassella (Binghamton) dec Darrien Roberts (Morgan State) 5-0 184 - Will Ebert (Binghamton) dec Cam Johnson (Morgan State) 6-1 197 - Cayden Bevis (Binghamton) tech Eric Washington (Morgan State) 16-0 285 - Cory Day (Binghamton) fall RJ Duncan (Morgan State) 4:59 Lehigh 29 Bucknell 13 125 - Sheldon Seymour (Lehigh) FFT 133 - Matty Lopes (Lehigh) dec Kurt Phipps (Bucknell) 3-1 141 - Dylan Chappell (Bucknell) fall Carter Bailey (Lehigh) 4:47 149 - Malyke Hines (Lehigh) tech Aiden Davis (Bucknell) 19-4 157 - Logan Rozynski (Lehigh) dec Cade Wirnsberger (Bucknell) 4-3 165 - Noah Mulvaney (Bucknell) maj Richie Grungo (Lehigh) 13-4 174 - Myles Takats (Bucknell) dec Rylan Rogers (Lehigh) 9-4 184 - Caden Rogers (Lehigh) dec Logan Deacetis (Bucknell) 6-2 197 - Michael Beard (Lehigh) tech Dillon Bechtold (Bucknell) 21-6 285 - Owen Trephen (Lehigh) maj Logan Shepherd (Bucknell) 21-8 Drexel 30 Franklin & Marshall 9 125 - Desmond Pleasant (Drexel) dec Jack Parker (F&M) 9-7 133 - Mason Leiphart (F&M) dec John Hildebrandt (Drexel) 5-3 141 - Bryce Kresho (F&M) fall Deon Pleasant (Drexel) 2:48 149 - Dom Findora (Drexel) dec Josh Hillard (F&M) 7-2 157 - Luke Nichter (Drexel) maj Luke Bender (F&M) 12-1 165 - Cody Walsh (Drexel) dec Josh Palmucci (F&M) 6-3 174 - Jasiah Queen (Drexel) tech Nicolas Alvarez (F&M) 25-10 184 - Giuseppe Hoose (Drexel) tech Leo Varga (F&M) 16-1 197 - Ibrahim Ameer (Drexel) maj RJ Moore (F&M) 11-0 285 - Shane Whitney (Drexel) dec Brody Kline (F&M) 5-1 (2/9) American 25 Brown 13 125 - Coen Bainey (American) tech Jared Brunner (Brown) 18-2 133 - Raymond Lopez (American) maj Hunter Adrian (Brown) 16-3 141 - Ian Oswalt (Brown) maj Elijah White (American) 8-0 149 - Gage Owen (American) dec Ethan Mojena (Brown) 6-3 157 - Jack Nies (American) maj Nicholas Romero (Brown) 15-2 165 - Kaden Milheim (American) dec Keegan Rothrock (Brown) 9-4 174 - Caleb Campos (American) dec Drew Clearie (Brown) 3-2 184 - Andrew Reall (Brown) tech Breon Phifer (American) 19-4 197 - Thomas Sandoval (Brown) maj Liam Volk-Klos (American) 14-5 285 - Emmanuel Ulrich (American) dec Alex Semenenko (Brown) 4-1 Binghamton 43 Sacred Heart 3 125 - Carson Wagner (Binghamton) FFT 133 - Dillon Arrick (Binghamton) fall Mike Manta (Sacred Heart) 4:32 141 - Nate Lucier (Binghamton) dec Andrew Fallon (Sacred Heart) 4-1 149 - Dakota Asuncion (Sacred Heart) dec Ivan Garcia (Binghamton) 9-4 157 - Fin Nadeau (Binghamton) fall Vincent Milazzo (Sacred Heart) 3:54 165 - Carter Baer (Binghamton) tech Calvin Pineda (Sacred Heart) 17-2 174 - Brevin Cassella (Binghamton) tech Aidan Zarrella (Sacred Heart) 17-0 184 - Will Ebert (Binghamton) dec Hunter Perez (Sacred Heart) 8-1 197 - Cayden Bevis (Binghamton) dec Chris DeLena (Sacred Heart) 4-2 285 - Cory Day (Binghamton) fall Marc Berisha (Sacred Heart) 1:33 (2/10) Hofstra 19 LIU 16 125 - Robert Sagaris (LIU) dec. Dylan Acevedo (Hofstra) 1-0 133 - Chase Liardi (Hofstra) maj Sawyer Ostroff (LIU) 15-1 141 - Justin Hoyle (Hofstra) dec Devin Matthews (LIU) 11-6 149 - Noah Tapia (Hofstra) dec Drew Witham (LIU) 5-2 157 - Brayden Roberts (LIU) maj Frank Volpe (Hofstra) 9-1 165 - Kyle Mosher (Hofstra) dec Anthony Ferrari (LIU) 8-6 174 - Matthew Waddell (Hofstra) dec Donavan Smith (LIU) 4-3 184 - Ross McFarland (Hofstra) dec Anthony D`Alesio (LIU) 6-2TB 197 - Corey Connolly (LIU) fall Nikolas Miller (Hofstra) 285 - Christopher Powell (LIU) dec Danny Church (Hofstra) 6-2

Every week in the Big Ten is more and more intense and last week did not disappoint once again. Iowa edges Nebraska It was a back-and-forth battle between Iowa and Nebraska until the Huskers took what seemed to be a significant lead by winning back-to-back matches for the first time at 174 and 184 where Silas Allred defeated Gabe Arnold in overtime. But then top-ranked Stephen Buchanan brought the Hawks back to within one point with a fall over Camden McDanel at 197, followed by a major decision by Ben Kueter to close things out and give Iowa the 19-16 win. Iowa’s biggest highlights of the dual came at 133, 149, and 165 where Drake Ayala, Kyle Parco, and Michael Caliendo won tight decisions. Each team ended up with five wins apiece, but it was the bonus point wins that sealed things for Iowa in the end. Iowa has another tough dual this weekend when they head to Minnesota as Nebraska hosts Indiana. Minnesota takes duals over Ohio State and Purdue From 125 to 149 it was all about Ohio State, but the rest (except for 174) belonged to Minnesota and a number of bonus point wins. Isaiah Salazar got things started with a decision before Gable Steveson had his first match of the year go the distance even though his 100% bonus rate stayed intact as he claimed a 13-4 major decision over Nick Feldman. The Gophers also got bonus point wins by Tommy Askey, Andrew Sparks, and Max McEnelly to get the 20-17 win. They followed it up with a dominant 35-6 win over Purdue where they won eight of the ten bouts. Badgers best Spartans for first B1G win The battle between the conference's winless teams happened Sunday afternoon in Madison, Wisconsin. The Badgers looked energized and determined as they took seven of the ten weights, including 3 bonus points wins, one via tech fall from Zan Fugitt at 133. It’s been a tough season for both teams as they each are young and have some work to do in the conference, but this was a solid win for Wisconsin as they look to finish off the season strong. Both Fugitt, and Nicolar Rivera (125) have been bright spots for the Badgers this season, and each has put together solid campaigns as we get closer to the end of the regular season. For the Spartans, Clayton Jones' pin at 149 was nice to see as they continue to shuffle guys in and out of the lineup. Whether it’s due to injury, or trying to see who is going to step up with their opportunities, the Spartans have had several guys get chances this season. Some high spots, including Jones, would be Max Vanadia who got a win in this dual. Additionally Remy Cotton, despite the loss in this dual, has looked good at times this season. Wisconsin finishes out its B1G slate this Friday at Northwestern, while MSU travels to Rutgers this Friday before hosting Michigan on Sunday. Great slate of Friday night duals My theme of Penn State being really good will continue this week. They’re so good at making good teams look anything but. In this week's installment, they held Michigan to zero takedowns as they shut them out. On paper, this was going to be lopsided, but still thought that the Wolverines could get a win at 197, and potentially at 141 as well. That proved to be wrong. Bartlett gets another close call, but a controlled win over Lemley at 141, and then we get to 197 where Josh Barr continues his strong season with a win over Cardenas in tiebreakers. He needed the reversal to get that done, which was so clutch considering at that point in the match he needed the reversal and rideout to get it done. Cardenas will have to find ways to get to his offense in the next battle with Barr, which based on the results to this point will likely be in the semifinals of the B1G tournament. We continued the excitement into Iowa versus Nebraska, which proved to be a bit more competitive. I love it when teams flip-flop on wins in big duals like this. Makes it exciting and that much more interesting, especially when you throw in some upsets here and there. Parco gets a win over Ridge Lovett at 149 to keep the back-and-forth thing going, followed by a close win from Antrell Taylor over Estrada with Teemer taking the dual off. Nebraska gets the next upset with Lenny Pinto over Patrick Kennedy at 174, along with Silas Allred taking the overtime win against Gabe Arnold. Nebraska had a solid and commanding lead at that point, until top-ranked Stephen Buchanan lit up Carver Hawkeye with a pin to bring the Hawkeyes within 1 headed into Heavyweight. Ben Kueter finished things off with a major decision to keep their solid season going, and remain undefeated at home. Purdue rolled into Madison ready to go, and got started quickly. Matt Ramos picked up a solid win over Rivera, followed by a close win from Fugitt of Wisconsin at 133. That is one of the two wins that Wisconsin got in this battle, with the second coming from Luke Mechler at 157. Other than that, it was all Boilermakers, who swept the back half of the matches. Purdue has had some injuries to deal with, as many teams do, but they’ve shown that they have some solid depth at some of these weights to keep them competitive in the always-tough B1G. Purdue continued their weekend with a loss to Minnesota, 35-6, who has been having a strong and consistent season themselves. Purdue hosts Maryland this Friday to try to pick up another B1G win. Hoping to get the rematch of Ethen Miller and Joey Blaze at 157 in this one. Miller, who remains undefeated, got the win in the finals of the Tiger Style Invite earlier this year.

Highlights this week in women’s collegiate wrestling NCAA #1 wins gold at Zagreb Open Kennedy Blades, Olympic Silver Medalist and #1 at 160 lbs for the Iowa Hawkeyes won gold on Friday at the 2025 Zagreb Open in Croatia. Blades completed her tournament with 4 wins, two by pin and two by technical fall. Also bringing home hardware for the U.S.A. was Adaugo Nwachukwu, 3x NAIA National Champion, most recently for William Penn in 2024. North Central alum and current assistant coach Yelena Makoyed brought home gold at 76 kg, as did former Missouri Valley wrestler Jacarra Winchester. Sky Grote, a member of the National team, claimed the top title at 72 kg as well. Arena Villaescusa and Michaela Beck both snagged the bronze medal, to round out a dominant weekend for the women’s team. Nigerian stars shake up NAIA rankings Heading into the final weeks before conferences, William Penn made the jump from #6 to #3, right behind #2 Grand View and #1 Life. Most of this jump can be explained with the impressive recent performances by Olympians Christianah Ogunsanya at 117 lbs and Esther Kolawole at 138 lbs, who are now both ranked at #1. An upset in Iowa Speaking of the switch up in rankings, #3 William Penn got an upset dual win over #2 Grand View in a conference showdown on Tuesday. The 25-19 win represents the first time William Penn has come out on top in this matchup, having lost the past 3 times they’ve met. However, these teams looked closer than ever with 5 of 10 matchups featuring two ranked wrestlers. 103 lbs proved to make a big difference in the final score and one of the closest matches between the two teams. For William Penn, #14 Lily Zapata, a freshman, took on #5 Judy Sandoval of Grand View. A big four-point move and a clear edge in aggressiveness helped Zapata get out to an early 7-1 lead. However, Sandoval showed the importance of staying calm in scenarios where you go down early and wrestled back with an onslaught of her own offense, coming all the way back and locking up a leg lace to take the 9-7 lead. From there, the two exchanged points to end the second period tied 11-11. Because this is freestyle and does not go to SV like folkstyle, the match is decided on criteria. Zapata’s two four-point moves ended up being the difference and giving a huge swing to the Statesmen in this pivotal upset win. At 110lbs, The Vikings take the lead with a forfeit against their #7 Tristan Nitta. Moving on to 117lbs, William Penn sends out one of their new #1s with Olympian Christianah Ogunsanya taking on #9 Mayangelie Colon for Grand View. While Colon got an impressive first takedown, Ogunsanya quickly took things back and continued her undefeated season with a pin at 1:38. The teams split 124 and 131 with #4 Joanna Vanderwood getting the 9-3 decision over Grand View’s #13 Catharine Campbell. However, #2 Maya Davis for the Vikings got things back on track getting a pin over #6 Devin Patton of WP. Patton actually had the early lead, but Davis brought out her deadly lat drop twice, once for a big four-point move and again in the second period to get the pin. This pulled the Vikings back into the lead 12-11. William Penn sent out another hammer at 138 lbs with #5 Kendall Bostelman getting the 12-1 tech fall over Adrienna Turner. However, the ability for Vikings to score even in their losses kept the team score more in range keeping the team score at 15-13 even with a big pin for the Statesmen. From there, a string of talented transfers locked up the dual for William Penn, highlighting how important these added talented wrestlers have been to this late-in-season renaissance of the team, propelling them toward the top of the team rankings. Starting at 138 lbs, the other Olympian from Nigeria #1 Esther Kolawole blanked #6 Krista Warren in a 10-0 tech fall. Following that, returning national champ at 155lbs, Caitlyn Davis won a gritty match against Emmalee Spurgeon 8-6. This match started with Spurgeon ahead early with a big feet-to-back four-point move, but again, Davis stayed calm and collected, rallying back to get the win in this nailbiter of a match. In the next match, All-American transfer #9 America Lopez won the 180 lb bout over Yarissa Gallo. Gallo strung a few takedowns together late to close the deficit a bit, but not enough to keep Lopez from locking it up for the Statesmen. Grand View did end the night on top in the 207 lb match with #1 Olivia Brown taking on Phoebe Burt, getting the 10-0 tech fall, but it just wasn’t enough for the dual win. This match may have seemed one-sided with William Penn winning 7 of 10, but not only were there so many close matches, but Grand View’s wins came from a pin, tech fall, and forfeit which all mean big team points. Add that to them earning team points in five matches they lost really made things interesting. If 103 lbs would have gone the other way and then one upset going for the Vikings, this would have been another story. In addition to this just being a great dual between two of the top-ranked NAIA programs in the country, this dual also made history as the first women’s wrestling dual broadcasted on PBS. I hope more and more women’s competitions get broadcasted in places where fans can easily access them, as so many are not broadcast at all, much less on Iowa PBS and via YouTube livestream so fans can watch live and cheer on these amazing athletes. Upcoming events for next week Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of all collegiate women’s competitions. Wednesday, February 12 McKendree vs Missouri Baptist Friday, February 14 Cumberlands vs Indiana Tech Saturday, February 15 Baker Open

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