Army West Point Athletics
Saturday, March 3
Hempstead, NY
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EIWA Championships
Army Readies for EIWA Championships
March 02, 2018 | Wrestling
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point wrestling team begins its postseason run at the 114th Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships, hosted by Hofstra, on Friday and Saturday.
HOW TO FOLLOW – EIWA CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Tournament Central | Army Notes
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
Session 1 | 11 a.m. – Championship First Round
2:15 p.m. – First Round Wrestlebacks
Session 2 | 6 p.m. – Championship Quarterfinals
7:30 p.m. – Wrestleback Quarterfinals
SUNDAY, MARCH 4
Session 3 | 10 a.m. – Championship Semifinals
11:45 a.m. – Wrestleback Semifinals
Session 4 | 2:30 p.m. – EIWA Hall of Fame Ceremony
3 p.m. – 1st, 3rd, and 5th Place Matches
TICKET INFORMATION
Advance All-Session Ticket: (Purchase Now)
Adult: $80
Student/Children (18 and under): $40
At the Door All-Session Ticket:
Adult: $90
Student/Children: $45
Single-Session Tickets:
Session 1: Adult ($30)/Student or Child ($20) (Purchase Now)
Session 2: Adult ($30)/Student or Child (20) (Purchase Now)
Session 3: Adult ($35)/Student or Child ($25) (Purchase Now)
Session 4: Adult ($35)/Student or Child ($25) (Purchase Now)
ARMY (3-6, 2-3 EIWA)
• Last time out, the Black Knights erased a nine-point deficit to shock service-academy rival Navy, 18-15, in Annapolis, Md., to claim the star.
• The win boosted head coach Kevin Ward's record against the Mids to 3-1, tying him with Army Hall of Famer LeRoy Alitz for the most in program history.
• It was also the team's first win at Navy since 1961 and first time claiming back-to-back victories over their rival since taking three straight from 1960-62.
• Rookie Lane Peters and yearling Lucas Weiland both lead the team with an 18-13 record.
• All 10 Army wrestlers have double-digit wins on the season heading into the conference tournament with nine owning at least 15.
ARMY AT THE EIWA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Thirty-one Cadets have been crowned as an EIWA Champion, with the latest being Matt Kyler at 149 pounds in the 2010 tournament.
• Five Cadets will make their debut at the EIWA Championships: Lane Peters (133 lbs.), Will Lucie (149 lbs.), Lucas Weiland (157 lbs.), Noah Stewart (184 lbs.) and Bobby Heald (285 lbs.).
• Army has four current grapplers who have placed at the tournament: Andrew Mendel (3rd at 165 lbs. – 2017; 5th at 165 lbs. – 2016), Trey Chalifoux (5th at 125 lbs. – 2017), Rocco Caywood (6th at 197 lbs. – 2017) and Ben Harvey (7th at 174 lbs. – 2017).
• The Black Knights are pursuing their second team crown in program history, with the first coming in 1987. The '87 squad placed all 10 wrestlers with Todd Messitt, who acts as Army's current head officer representative, earning the 126-pound title.
• In 2017, Army sent seven wrestlers to podium finishes, the most since 2006.
PROBABLE ARMY LINEUP
125 lbs.: Trey Chalifoux
133 lbs.: Lane Peters
141 lbs.: Austin Harry
149 lbs.: Will Lucie
157 lbs.: Lucas Weiland
165 lbs.: #28 Andrew Mendel
174 lbs.: #25 Ben Harvey
184 lbs.: #32 Noah Stewart
197 lbs.: #29 Rocco Caywood
285 lbs.: Bobby Heald
THE FIELD
• Eighth-ranked Lehigh, No. 11 Cornell and No. 25 Drexel are the only three ranked teams in the tournament.
• The field is comprised of 60 ranked wrestlers, highlighted by top-ranked and returning NCAA champion Darian Cruz of Lehigh at 125 pounds.
• The Mountain Hawks have the most ranked wrestlers in the tournament with one at every weight class.
• Fifteen of the 16 teams at the tournament have at least one wrestler ranked in the NWCA Coaches' Panel with seven teams having at least four.
• The deepest weight classes are 184 and 165 pounds, which have nine and eight ranked wrestlers competing for seven automatic bids to the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, respectively.
• Four All-Americans from 2017 return to the EIWA Championships: Darian Cruz, Lehigh (1st, 125 lbs.); Scott Parker, Lehigh (8th, 133 lbs.); Matthew Kolodzik, Princeton (8th, 141 lbs.); and Brandon Womack, Cornell (8th, 165 lbs.).
SEEDINGS/UNSEEDED RANKED WRESTLERS BY WEIGHT CLASS
*Rankings from latest NWCA Coaches' Panel (Feb. 22)
125 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Darian Cruz (#8 Lehigh)
2-seed Trey Chalifoux (Army West Point)
3-seed Gage Curry (American)
4-seed Zack Fuentes (#25 Drexel)
5-seed Joe Nelson (Binghamton)
6-seed Noah Baughman (#11 Cornell)
6-seed Nolan Hellickson (Harvard)
8-seed Aslan Kilic (Navy)
9-seed Matteo DeVincenzo (Princeton)
10-seed Trey Keeley (Brown)
133 lbs.:
1-seed #5 Austin DeSanto (#25 Drexel)
2-seed #10 Scott Parker (#8 Lehigh)
3-seed #11 Josh Terao (American)
4-seed #31 Charles Tucker (#11 Cornell)
5-seed Lane Peters (Army West Point)
6-seed Gianna Ghione (Penn)
7-seed Cody Trybus (Navy)
8-seed Jacob Nicholson (Binghamton)
9-seed Hunter Kosco (Brown)
10-seed Chris Scorese (Columbia)
141 lbs.:
1-seed #3 Yianni Diakomihalis (#11 Cornell)
2-seed #11 Tyler Smith (Bucknell)
3-seed #20 Luke Karam (#8 Lehigh)
4-seed #18 Nicholas Gil (Navy)
5-seed #33 A.J. Jaffe (Harvard)
6-seed Joe Russ (Binghamton)
7-seed Kizhan Clarke (American)
8-seed Austin Harry (Army West Point)
9-seed Pat D'Arcy (Princeton)
10-seed Brett Kulp (Franklin & Marshall)
149 lbs.:
1-seed #11 Matthew Kolodzik (Princeton)
2-seed #30 Will Koll (#11 Cornell)
3-seed #19 Cortlandt Schuyler (#8 Lehigh)
4-seed Jared Prince (Navy)
5-seed #18 Michael Sprague (American)
6-seed Hunter Ladnier (Harvard)
7-seed #31 Trevor Elfvin (#25 Drexel)
8-seed Jacob Macalolooy (Columbia)
8-seed Joe Oliva (Penn)
10-seed #33 Frank Garcia (Binghamton)
157 lbs.:
1-seed #14 Mike D'Angelo (Princeton)
2-seed #15 Markus Scheidel (Columbia)
3-seed Justin Staudenmayer (Brown)
4-seed #32 Fred Stroker (#11 Cornell)
5-seed #21 Garett Hammond (#25 Drexel)
5-seed #23 Ian Brown (#8 Lehigh)
7-seed #29 Zack Davis (Navy)
8-seed Lucas Weiland (Army)
9-seed Eric Hong (American)
10-seed Joe Velliquette (Penn)
165 lbs.:
1-seed #17 Jon Jay Chavez (#11 Cornell)
2-seed #19 May Bethea (Penn)
3-seed #24 Jonathan Schleifer (Princeton)
4-seed #18 Gordon Wolf (#8 Lehigh)
5-seed #20 Drew Daniels (Navy)
6-seed #29 Vincent DePrez (Binghamton)
7-seed #28 Andrew Mendel (Army West Point)
8-seed #33 Ebed Jarrell (#25 Drexel)
9-seed D.J. Hollingshead (Bucknell)
10-seed Tyler Tarsi (Harvard)
174 lbs.:
1-seed #4 Jordan Kutler (#8 Lehigh)
2-seed #8 Jadaen Bernstein (Navy)
3-seed #25 Ben Harvey (Army West Point)
4-seed #18 Brandon Womack (#11 Cornell)
5-seed #33 Tyrel White (Columbia)
6-seed #22 Josef Johnson (Harvard)
7-seed Anthony Lombardo (Binghamton)
8-seed Sage Heller (Hofstra)
9-seed #31 Austin Rose (#25 Drexel)
10-seed Nick Stephani (Bucknell)
184 lbs.:
1-seed #3 Ryan Preisch (#8 Lehigh)
2-seed #12 Max Dean (#11 Cornell)
3-seed #14 Steven Schneider (Binghamton)
4-seed #26 Alexander DeCiantis (#25 Drexel)
5-seed #21 Christian LaFragola (Brown)
6-seed #17 Michael Coleman (Navy)
7-seed #25 Joe Heyob (Penn)
8-seed #30 Drew Phipps (Bucknell)
9-seed #32 Noah Stewart (Army West Point)
10-seed Kanon Dean (Harvard)
197 lbs.:
1-seed #2 Ben Darmstadt (#11 Cornell)
2-seed #13 Patrick Brucki (Princeton)
3-seed #10 Frank Mattiace (Penn)
4-seed #20 Chris Weiler (#8 Lehigh)
5-seed #8 Jeric Kasunic (American)
6-seed #19 Stephen Loiseau (#25 Drexel)
7-seed #29 Rocco Caywood (Army West Point)
8-seed Steban Cervantes (Navy)
9-seed Nezar Haddad (Hofstra)
10-seed Tucker Ziegler (Brown)
285 lbs.:
1-seed #9 Mike Hughes (Hofstra)
2-seed #12 Jordan Wood (#8 Lehigh)
3-seed #14 Garrett Ryan (Columbia)
4-seed #25 Jeramy Sweany (#11 Cornell)
5-seed #26 Brett Dempsey (American)
6-seed #31 Antonio Pelusi (Franklin & Marshall)
7-seed Christian Araneo (Princeton)
8-seed Ian Butterbrodt (Brown)
9-seed Andrew Piehl (Navy)
10-seed Bobby Heald (Army West Point)
AUTOMATIC NCAA QUALIFIERS BY WEIGHT CLASS
125 lbs. – 1
133 lbs. – 3
141 lbs. – 4
149 lbs. – 4
157 lbs. – 6
165 lbs. – 6
174 lbs. – 5
184 lbs. – 7
197 lbs. – 6
285 lbs. – 5
For more information on Army West Point wrestling, visit GoArmyWestPoint.com and follow @ArmyWP_Wres on Twitter.
Live Stats | Watch on FloWrestling
Tournament Central | Army Notes
TWITTER • ArmyWP_Wres
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
Session 1 | 11 a.m. – Championship First Round
2:15 p.m. – First Round Wrestlebacks
Session 2 | 6 p.m. – Championship Quarterfinals
7:30 p.m. – Wrestleback Quarterfinals
SUNDAY, MARCH 4
Session 3 | 10 a.m. – Championship Semifinals
11:45 a.m. – Wrestleback Semifinals
Session 4 | 2:30 p.m. – EIWA Hall of Fame Ceremony
3 p.m. – 1st, 3rd, and 5th Place Matches
TICKET INFORMATION
Advance All-Session Ticket: (Purchase Now)
Adult: $80
Student/Children (18 and under): $40
At the Door All-Session Ticket:
Adult: $90
Student/Children: $45
Single-Session Tickets:
Session 1: Adult ($30)/Student or Child ($20) (Purchase Now)
Session 2: Adult ($30)/Student or Child (20) (Purchase Now)
Session 3: Adult ($35)/Student or Child ($25) (Purchase Now)
Session 4: Adult ($35)/Student or Child ($25) (Purchase Now)
ARMY (3-6, 2-3 EIWA)
• Last time out, the Black Knights erased a nine-point deficit to shock service-academy rival Navy, 18-15, in Annapolis, Md., to claim the star.
• The win boosted head coach Kevin Ward's record against the Mids to 3-1, tying him with Army Hall of Famer LeRoy Alitz for the most in program history.
• It was also the team's first win at Navy since 1961 and first time claiming back-to-back victories over their rival since taking three straight from 1960-62.
• Rookie Lane Peters and yearling Lucas Weiland both lead the team with an 18-13 record.
• All 10 Army wrestlers have double-digit wins on the season heading into the conference tournament with nine owning at least 15.
ARMY AT THE EIWA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Thirty-one Cadets have been crowned as an EIWA Champion, with the latest being Matt Kyler at 149 pounds in the 2010 tournament.
• Five Cadets will make their debut at the EIWA Championships: Lane Peters (133 lbs.), Will Lucie (149 lbs.), Lucas Weiland (157 lbs.), Noah Stewart (184 lbs.) and Bobby Heald (285 lbs.).
• Army has four current grapplers who have placed at the tournament: Andrew Mendel (3rd at 165 lbs. – 2017; 5th at 165 lbs. – 2016), Trey Chalifoux (5th at 125 lbs. – 2017), Rocco Caywood (6th at 197 lbs. – 2017) and Ben Harvey (7th at 174 lbs. – 2017).
• The Black Knights are pursuing their second team crown in program history, with the first coming in 1987. The '87 squad placed all 10 wrestlers with Todd Messitt, who acts as Army's current head officer representative, earning the 126-pound title.
• In 2017, Army sent seven wrestlers to podium finishes, the most since 2006.
PROBABLE ARMY LINEUP
125 lbs.: Trey Chalifoux
133 lbs.: Lane Peters
141 lbs.: Austin Harry
149 lbs.: Will Lucie
157 lbs.: Lucas Weiland
165 lbs.: #28 Andrew Mendel
174 lbs.: #25 Ben Harvey
184 lbs.: #32 Noah Stewart
197 lbs.: #29 Rocco Caywood
285 lbs.: Bobby Heald
THE FIELD
• Eighth-ranked Lehigh, No. 11 Cornell and No. 25 Drexel are the only three ranked teams in the tournament.
• The field is comprised of 60 ranked wrestlers, highlighted by top-ranked and returning NCAA champion Darian Cruz of Lehigh at 125 pounds.
• The Mountain Hawks have the most ranked wrestlers in the tournament with one at every weight class.
• Fifteen of the 16 teams at the tournament have at least one wrestler ranked in the NWCA Coaches' Panel with seven teams having at least four.
• The deepest weight classes are 184 and 165 pounds, which have nine and eight ranked wrestlers competing for seven automatic bids to the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, respectively.
• Four All-Americans from 2017 return to the EIWA Championships: Darian Cruz, Lehigh (1st, 125 lbs.); Scott Parker, Lehigh (8th, 133 lbs.); Matthew Kolodzik, Princeton (8th, 141 lbs.); and Brandon Womack, Cornell (8th, 165 lbs.).
SEEDINGS/UNSEEDED RANKED WRESTLERS BY WEIGHT CLASS
*Rankings from latest NWCA Coaches' Panel (Feb. 22)
125 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Darian Cruz (#8 Lehigh)
2-seed Trey Chalifoux (Army West Point)
3-seed Gage Curry (American)
4-seed Zack Fuentes (#25 Drexel)
5-seed Joe Nelson (Binghamton)
6-seed Noah Baughman (#11 Cornell)
6-seed Nolan Hellickson (Harvard)
8-seed Aslan Kilic (Navy)
9-seed Matteo DeVincenzo (Princeton)
10-seed Trey Keeley (Brown)
133 lbs.:
1-seed #5 Austin DeSanto (#25 Drexel)
2-seed #10 Scott Parker (#8 Lehigh)
3-seed #11 Josh Terao (American)
4-seed #31 Charles Tucker (#11 Cornell)
5-seed Lane Peters (Army West Point)
6-seed Gianna Ghione (Penn)
7-seed Cody Trybus (Navy)
8-seed Jacob Nicholson (Binghamton)
9-seed Hunter Kosco (Brown)
10-seed Chris Scorese (Columbia)
141 lbs.:
1-seed #3 Yianni Diakomihalis (#11 Cornell)
2-seed #11 Tyler Smith (Bucknell)
3-seed #20 Luke Karam (#8 Lehigh)
4-seed #18 Nicholas Gil (Navy)
5-seed #33 A.J. Jaffe (Harvard)
6-seed Joe Russ (Binghamton)
7-seed Kizhan Clarke (American)
8-seed Austin Harry (Army West Point)
9-seed Pat D'Arcy (Princeton)
10-seed Brett Kulp (Franklin & Marshall)
149 lbs.:
1-seed #11 Matthew Kolodzik (Princeton)
2-seed #30 Will Koll (#11 Cornell)
3-seed #19 Cortlandt Schuyler (#8 Lehigh)
4-seed Jared Prince (Navy)
5-seed #18 Michael Sprague (American)
6-seed Hunter Ladnier (Harvard)
7-seed #31 Trevor Elfvin (#25 Drexel)
8-seed Jacob Macalolooy (Columbia)
8-seed Joe Oliva (Penn)
10-seed #33 Frank Garcia (Binghamton)
157 lbs.:
1-seed #14 Mike D'Angelo (Princeton)
2-seed #15 Markus Scheidel (Columbia)
3-seed Justin Staudenmayer (Brown)
4-seed #32 Fred Stroker (#11 Cornell)
5-seed #21 Garett Hammond (#25 Drexel)
5-seed #23 Ian Brown (#8 Lehigh)
7-seed #29 Zack Davis (Navy)
8-seed Lucas Weiland (Army)
9-seed Eric Hong (American)
10-seed Joe Velliquette (Penn)
165 lbs.:
1-seed #17 Jon Jay Chavez (#11 Cornell)
2-seed #19 May Bethea (Penn)
3-seed #24 Jonathan Schleifer (Princeton)
4-seed #18 Gordon Wolf (#8 Lehigh)
5-seed #20 Drew Daniels (Navy)
6-seed #29 Vincent DePrez (Binghamton)
7-seed #28 Andrew Mendel (Army West Point)
8-seed #33 Ebed Jarrell (#25 Drexel)
9-seed D.J. Hollingshead (Bucknell)
10-seed Tyler Tarsi (Harvard)
174 lbs.:
1-seed #4 Jordan Kutler (#8 Lehigh)
2-seed #8 Jadaen Bernstein (Navy)
3-seed #25 Ben Harvey (Army West Point)
4-seed #18 Brandon Womack (#11 Cornell)
5-seed #33 Tyrel White (Columbia)
6-seed #22 Josef Johnson (Harvard)
7-seed Anthony Lombardo (Binghamton)
8-seed Sage Heller (Hofstra)
9-seed #31 Austin Rose (#25 Drexel)
10-seed Nick Stephani (Bucknell)
184 lbs.:
1-seed #3 Ryan Preisch (#8 Lehigh)
2-seed #12 Max Dean (#11 Cornell)
3-seed #14 Steven Schneider (Binghamton)
4-seed #26 Alexander DeCiantis (#25 Drexel)
5-seed #21 Christian LaFragola (Brown)
6-seed #17 Michael Coleman (Navy)
7-seed #25 Joe Heyob (Penn)
8-seed #30 Drew Phipps (Bucknell)
9-seed #32 Noah Stewart (Army West Point)
10-seed Kanon Dean (Harvard)
197 lbs.:
1-seed #2 Ben Darmstadt (#11 Cornell)
2-seed #13 Patrick Brucki (Princeton)
3-seed #10 Frank Mattiace (Penn)
4-seed #20 Chris Weiler (#8 Lehigh)
5-seed #8 Jeric Kasunic (American)
6-seed #19 Stephen Loiseau (#25 Drexel)
7-seed #29 Rocco Caywood (Army West Point)
8-seed Steban Cervantes (Navy)
9-seed Nezar Haddad (Hofstra)
10-seed Tucker Ziegler (Brown)
285 lbs.:
1-seed #9 Mike Hughes (Hofstra)
2-seed #12 Jordan Wood (#8 Lehigh)
3-seed #14 Garrett Ryan (Columbia)
4-seed #25 Jeramy Sweany (#11 Cornell)
5-seed #26 Brett Dempsey (American)
6-seed #31 Antonio Pelusi (Franklin & Marshall)
7-seed Christian Araneo (Princeton)
8-seed Ian Butterbrodt (Brown)
9-seed Andrew Piehl (Navy)
10-seed Bobby Heald (Army West Point)
AUTOMATIC NCAA QUALIFIERS BY WEIGHT CLASS
125 lbs. – 1
133 lbs. – 3
141 lbs. – 4
149 lbs. – 4
157 lbs. – 6
165 lbs. – 6
174 lbs. – 5
184 lbs. – 7
197 lbs. – 6
285 lbs. – 5
For more information on Army West Point wrestling, visit GoArmyWestPoint.com and follow @ArmyWP_Wres on Twitter.
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