No. 14 Wilkes (7-2) at NWCA National Duals
Friday-Saturday, January 9-10
Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
Fort Wayne, IN • Memorial Coliseum

Match Notes
 
Wilkes will wrestle University of Dubuque in the opening round of the duals. Complete bracket can be found at the link below.
 
NWCA National Duals Bracket
 
Colonels Notebook
• Wilkes moved to 7-2 overall with a decisive 29-16 win at Centenary.
 
• Three wrestlers earned top four finishes at the Wilkes Open including 125-pound champion Guesseppe Rea (Stroudsburg, PA/Stroudsburg).
 
• Wilkes finished in second place at the Messiah Petrofes Tournament with 154 total team points, just 7.5 points behind champion and No. 1 ranked UW Whitewater who finished with 161.5 points while the Colonels posted 17 more team points than third place and No. 2 Messiah College in the event.
 
• The Colonels went 2-1 at the NY/PA Challenge at King's posting wins over Nassau (22-16) and Hunter College (22-17).
 
• Wilkes finished 2-1 at the John Reese Duals posting wins over Johns Hopkins (38-6) and Gloucester (27-11).
 
• Wilkes posted a 51-0 victory over Penn College in its season opening dual match. Four Colonels earned extra point wins in the match.
 
• The Colonels finished fourth at the 2014 Monarch Invitational to open the season. Wilkes had ten wrestlers finish in the top-six including two individual champions at 133-pounds (Michael Fleck (Easton, PA/Wilson Area)) and 141-pounds (Pankil Chander (Cedarhurst, NY/Lawrence)).
 
• Eight other Colonels earned top-six finishes joining Fleck and Chander at the Monarch Invitational. Matthew Grossmann (Lancaster, PA/Manheim Township) finished second at 133, Corey Fleming (Long Valley, NJ/West Morris) sixth at 133, Thomas Stokes (Bensalem, PA/Bensalem) third at 133, Ryan Smith (Honesdale, PA/Honesdale) fifth at 141, Mason McIntyre (Bethlehem, PA/Easton) sixth at 165, Kyle Diesel (Westtown, NY/Minisink Valley) third at 174, James McNally (Scranton, PA/Scranton) fourth at 184, and David Oberrender third at 285.
 
• Nine wrestlers have ten wins or better and 25 wrestlers stand .500 or better through the first eight weeks of competition for Wilkes.
 
Participating Teams
Alma (Midwest)
Augsburg (West)
Augustana (Central)
Coe (Central)
Concordia-Moorhead (West)
Cornell (Central)
Dubuque (Central)
Heidelberg (Mideast)
Ithaca (Northeast)
Johnson & Wales (Northeast)
Loras (Central)
Luther (Central)
Mount Union (Mideast)
NYU (East)
Olivet (Midwest)
Rhode Island (Northeast)
Saint John's (West)
UW La Crosse (Midwest)
UW Whitewater (Midwest)
Wabash (Midwest)
Wartburg (Central)
W&J (East)
Wheaton (Midwest)
Wilkes (East)
 
Weighing In
(@ National Duals)
125 - G. Rea
125 - D. Zuzulock
133 - M. Fleck
133 - M. Grossmann
133 - M. Evans
141 - P. Chander
141 - C. Fleming
141 - K. Alston
149 - J. Evans
149 - J. Palys
149 - M. Fuller
149 - N. Racanelli
157 - S. Lombardi
157 - S. Turner
165 - M. Maloney
174 - K. Diesel
174 - J. Ilvento
184 - L. Veppert
197 - E. Bach
197 - J. Brook
197 - J. Nochimson
285 - N. Dawson
285 - D. Oberrender