Career: SoCon champion and automatic NCAA qualifier at 157 pounds in 2023 and 2024 ... Unbeaten record in SoCon duals in 2023 and 2024 ... Career record of 74-35 following 2024 NCAAs, where he won three times to reach the final 12 ... All-SoCon in 2023 and 2024.
2023-24: All-SoCon and SoCon champion ... Went 25-7, including 10-2 in duals (7-0 in SoCon duals) ... Opened NCAAs in Kansas City with 17-6 major decision against 14th-seeded Cody Chittum of Iowa State before losing by tech fall to Cornell’s Meyer Shapiro … Had a 4-1 decision against Cal Poly’s Legend Lamar and a 4-2 decision over No. 11 Brayton Lee of Indiana before losing a 9-4 decision to Nebraska’s Peyton Robb with an All-America berth at stake … Went 3-0 at SoCon Championship with 9-2 decision in 157 final ... Reached Keystone Classic final with a ranked win and won twice in Las Vegas in December ... Overcame early 6-0 deficit to tie match at 9-all by the end of the third period and win 12-9 on a Sudden Victory takedown against The Citadel ... Won by major decision against Campbell ... Won by tech fall against Davidson in rematch of 2023 SoCon final and preview of 2024 final, one of eight tech falls and 15 bonus-point wins prior to the NCAAs.
2022-23: SoCon champion and All-SoCon at 157 ... Finished season with a 30-13 record after going 11-1 in duals, 8-0 in SoCon duals and 3-0 at the SoCon Championship at 157 pounds ... Won 6-2 in the SoCon final against Davidson’s Tanner Peake ... Entered NCAAs with 14 straight victories ... In the last 10 matches before the NCAAs, won by a combined score of 136-39 (scores before a pin vs. Duke) with no takedowns allowed and eight bonus point victories ... Went 0-2 at the NCAAs with a 3-2 loss to All-American Will Lewman from Michigan ... Placed eighth at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational with three wins — including a ranked win against Northern Iowa’s Derek Holschlag — and placed seventh at the Southern Scuffle with four wins ... Only dual loss was a 9-4 decision against 2021 national champion Austin O’Connor of UNC — and had an 18-2 record in the next 20 matches after that loss in his first career dual start ... Had five major decisions and two tech falls in his eight SoCon dual wins ... Went 5-1 and placed third at the Keystone Classic ... Only loss was a 5-4 decision — decided by a riding time point — against 12th-ranked Anthony Artalona of Penn.
2021-22: Went 12-10 at 157 pounds … Placed fourth at the Appalachian Open, sixth at the Mountaineer Invitational and eighth at the Keystone Classic … Went 4-1 at the Southeast Open to place fifth and also competed at the Southern Scuffle … Won by tech fall in a dual extra against Presbyterian.
2020-21 (Didn't count against eligibility because of COVID): Went 7-5 at 157 pounds with two major decisions … After SoCon duals, won extra matches against Bellarmine, Davidson and Gardner-Webb … Won an 8-4 decision against Grant Speer, The Citadel’s starter, at the App State Individual Quad … Went 2-0 with a fall and major decision at the Edinboro Round Robin Invitational.
High School: Won a New York Division I state title at 152 pounds as a senior, claiming an 8-5 decision against highly ranked reigning state champ A.J. Kovacs … Produced Pine Bush High School’s first state champion in 30 years … Capped a 41-0 senior season as a two-time state placer who competed at 145 pounds as a junior and placed fourth in the state … Also the lone Section 9 champion at the Eastern States Classic as a senior, was named the Varsity 845 wrestler of the year … Was taken down only two times as a senior … Listed at No. 17 on Intermat’s final 152-pound national ranking … Posted a 42-6 record as a junior … Sectional finalist as a sophomore.
