Wrestling team places 11th at Pete Willson Invitational

WHEATON, Ill. – The Olivet College wrestling team finished in 11th-place at the 2018 Wheaton (Ill.) College Pete Willson Invitational, held at the King Arena in Wheaton, Illinois.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Thirty-five NCAA Division III schools comprised the tournament field.
• Messiah (Pa.) College crowned three individual winners and had two runner-up finishers to win the tournament title with 137 points.
• The Comets had 50 points.
• At 174 pounds, sophomore Haydn Kinjorski finished in fourth-place. This morning, he dropped a 9-2 decision to top-seed Ben Swarr from Messiah in the semifinals. He bounced back to beat Justin Ransom from Baldwin Wallace, 8-6, before getting pinned by Clayton Davidson in the third-place match.
• At 165 pounds, junior Tyler Grimsley placed fifth. He lost his semifinal match, 8-0, to Jeff Hojjacki from Messiah before suffering a 13-8 loss to Kahlan Lee-Lermer from University of Chicago. He rebounded to pick-up a medical forfeit victory in the fifth-place match.
• At 285 pounds, freshman Jalen McFerrin-Pace placed eighth.

TOP 15 TEAMS

1. Messiah (Pa.) 137.0. 2. Mount Union (Ohio) 130.5, 3. Wis.-Whitewater 120.5, 4. Baldwin Wallace (Ohio) 118.0, 5. Wis.-La Crosse 108.0, 6. Elmhurst (Ill.) 73.5, 7. Wheaton (Ill.) 66.5, 8. Wis.-Stevens Point 66.0, 9. Millikin (Ill.) 54, 10. Ohio Northern 52.5, 11 OLIVET 50.0, 12. Elizabethtown (Pa.) 48.5, 12. John Carroll (Ohio) 48.5, 14. Chicago (Ill.) 48, 15. Manchester (Ind.) 39.

UP NEXT

• The Comets travel to wrestle Trine (Ind.) University next Thursday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m.