No. 11 Wilkes Wrestling Travels to King’s Thursday for Dual Finale

No. 11 Wilkes Wrestling Travels to King's Thursday for Dual Finale

No. 11 Wilkes (14-5) vs. King's (5-15)
Thursday, February 19
Start Time: 7:00 p.m.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. • Scandlon Gymnasium

Match Notes

Colonels Notebook
• In a matchup of top-15 teams, Wilkes fell 18-12 against No. 9 Ithaca, its eighth match against a nationally ranked opponent.

• Wilkes upended No. 25 TCNJ 27-12 in its final home dual match of the season.

• The Colonels went a perfect 3-0 at its home quad match last Saturday with wins against Scranton (45-3), Trinity (50-6) and Alfred State (49-3).

• Wilkes finished third of five teams at the 2015 Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with ten Colonels claiming top four finishes.

• Of the ten Wilkes finishers, four finished runner up including Matthew Grossmann (Lancaster, PA/Manheim Township) (133), Sean Lombardi (Newton, NJ/Kittatiny) (157), Kyle Diesel (Westtown, NY/Minisink Valley) (174) and Dave Oberrender (Freeland, PA/Hazleton) (285).

• Four Colonels earned titles at the Will Abele Invitational as Matthew Grossmann (Lancaster, PA/Manheim Township) (133), Josh Evans (Palmerton, PA/Palmerton) (149), Stephen Turner (Plains, PA/Coughlin) (157) and Kyle Diesel (Westtown, NY/Minisink Valley) (174) all claimed crowns for Wilkes at the event.

• Wilkes moved to 10-4 overall after going 3-2 at the NWCA National Duals in Fort Wayne, IN. The Colonels posted wins over ranked opponents in Dubuque, Saint John's and Luther.

• 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)).

• Fourteen wrestlers have fifteen wins or better and 27 wrestlers stand .500 or better.

Weighing In
125 – G. Rea (28-2)
133 – M. Grossmann (27-6)
141 – Pankil Chander (Cedarhurst, NY/Lawrence) (23-14)
149 – J. Evans (10-4)
149 – M. Fuller (14-13)
157 – S. Lombardi (15-13)
165 – S. Turner (18-12)
165 – M. McIntyre (15-7)
174 – K. Diesel (18-7)
184 – L. Veppert (19-14)
197 – E. Bach (12-12)
285 – D. Oberrender (23-5)
285 – N. Dawson (17-6)

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