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Six NYU Wrestlers Advance to Championship Bracket at Ithaca Invitational

Six NYU Wrestlers Advance to Championship Bracket at Ithaca Invitational
Posted: Nov 06, 2015

From NYU Wrestling

The New York University wrestling program kicked off its 2015-16 season on Friday evening, November 6, on the first day of competition at the Ithaca College Invitational in Ithaca, NY.

NYU will have six grapplers still competing in their respective championship brackets on Saturday. Additionally, another six are still alive in their respective consolation brackets. Overall, the squad is currently in seventh place with 17.0 points out of 12 teams. Springfield College currently leads with 39.0 points.

"Those six guys won the matches they needed to in order to advance to their respective championship-bracket matches," said NYU Senior Assistant Coach Corey Luce. "Overall, we thought more of our guys would be at this point tomorrow, so it seems we're not as prepared as we though we'd be. We're going to finish up business here tomorrow and then get to practice in order to be back to where our expectations see us and where we believe we should be."

HIGHLIGHTS:

- Wayne Yuan (125) had a first-round bye and then defeated Jake Yankloski of SUNY Oswego via a 15-0 technical fall and will wrestle in the quarterfinals tomorrow.

- Nathan Pike (133) began with an 18-2 technical fall over Chase Jeffreys of Norwich College, followed by another technical fall, this time 18-1 over Andrew Dickerson of the Stevens Institute of Technology. He will also compete in tomorrow's quarterfinals.

- Nick Matthews (149) picked up a 9-1 major decision over Aaric Rivera of Western New England Univeristy after a frist-round bye of his own. He will join his teammates in the quaters tomorrow.

- Raymond Jazikoff, back at his normal weight of 157 pounds after wrestling up at 174 for much of 2014-15, had a first-round bye and then earned a 14-7 major decision over Ben Swanson of Norwich to earn a berth in the quarterfinals.

- John Messinger, who has bumped up from 165 to 174 pounds, had a first-round bye and the pinned Aarin Feliz of Springfield at 6:01 to advance to the quarters.

- Kyzen Smith will compete in tomorrow's 184-pound semifinal round, having moved on via a first-round bye.

- Ian Burke (149), Brady Riley (149), Dylan Lojac (165), Adrian Herrera (174), Gaaret Marinelli (184), and Santino Pelusi (HWT) all dropped their opening championship bracket matches, but have since rebounded. All six will continue to compete for a shot a third place in their respective weight classes via the consolation bracket tomorrow.