Wrestling team places sixth at NCAA DIII Central Regional

ADRIAN, Mich. – The Olivet College wrestling team placed sixth of 18 schools at the 2020 NCAA Division III Central Regional, hosted by Adrian College at the Merillat Sport & Fitness Center.

• Olivet had a program record nine wrestlers finish in the top eight of their respective weight class.
• The breakdown of finishes were two in fourth, three in fifth, one in sixth, two in seventh and one in eighth.
• Sophomore Reese Wallis at 133 pounds and senior Cole Hersch at 157 pounds placed fourth for the Comets' top finishers.
• Olivet totaled 92 points. Baldwin Wallace (Ohio) University captured the regional title with 154 points, followed by University of Mount Union (Ohio) with 146.0 points.

• 125: Cameron Mahlich – 7th-place – 3-2 record – won by forfeit over Jacob Dehart (Ohio Wesleyan), lost 5-0 to Andrew Perelka (John Carroll, Ohio), won 7-4 over Dajun Jones (Adrian), lost 9-3 to Rosendo Beltran (Defiance, Ohio), pinned Harrison Hadley (Heidelberg, Ohio) in 49 seconds.
• 133: Reese Wallis – 4th-place – 4-2 record – won by technical fall (17-0) over Dominic Pecoraro (Trine, Ind.), pinned by Seth Transue (Ohio) in 6:10, pinned Elijah Phillips (Manchester, Ind.) in 3:54, won 5-2 over Tariq Hornbuckle (Mount St. Joseph, Ohio), won 11-5 over Owen Doster (Wabash, Ind.), lost 3-2 to David Massey (Mount Union, Ohio).
• 141: Andrew Castaneda – 7th-place – 3-2 record – lost by technical fall (18-2) to Jarrod Brezovec (John Carroll, Ohio), pinned Adrian Salomone (Wilmington, Ohio) in 3:13, won 10-7 over Hayden Bates (Heidelberg, Ohio), pinned by JaVon Phillips (Manchester, Ind.) in 2:09, won 8-4 over Tanner McHugh (Baldwin Wallace, Ohio).
• 149: Drew Mandell – 8th-place – 2-3 record – pinned Jacob Williams (Otterbein, Ohio) in 1:13, lost 14-7 to Luke Hernandez (Mount Union, Ohio), pinned Andrew Hoover (Case Western, Ohio) in 2:17, lost 18-7 to Chase Sumner (Ohio Northern), lost 16-11 to Noah Nieman (Adrian).
• 157: Cole Hersch – 4th-place – 4-2 record – won by technical fall (17-0) over Nevan Freestone (Trine, Ind.), won 4-1 over Bryce Wittman (Ohio Wesleyan), won 6-2 over Schuyler Caprella (Ohio Northern), lost 6-4 in overtime to Ryan Whitten (Otterbein, Ohio), won 3-1 over Bryce Wittman (Ohio Wesleyan), lost 9-6 to Sam Gross (John Carroll, Ohio).
• 165: Haydn Kinjorski – 5th-place – 4-2 record – won 6-0 over Alejandro Castro (Defiance, Ohio), lost 4-1 to Luke Reicosky (John Carroll, Ohio), won 13-7 over Jayce Kuehnlein (Alma), won 4-2 over Jeremiah Ford (Manchester, Ind.), lost 2-1 in TB-1 to Ben Hooff (Baldwin Wallace, Ohio), won 3-2 over Jordan Hardrick (Ohio Northern)
• 174: Owen Guilford – 5th-place – 3-2 record – won 16-3 over Conner Homan (Mount Union, Ohio), won 7-1 over Connor Kwiat (Ohio Northern), lost 11-5 to Cornell Beachem (Mount St. Joseph, Ohio), lost 5-4 to Conner Homan (Mount Union, Ohio).
• 184: Kamyab Kamali – 0-2 record – lost by technical fall (17-1) to Daylan Schurg (Wabash, Ind.), lost 17-6 to Hunter McNutt (Defiance, Ohio).
• 197: Trevor Piggott – 6th-place – 2-1 record – won 4-2 over Donny Didion (Otterbein, Ohio), won 5-4 over Brian Kent (Case Western, Ohio), pinned by Zeckary Lehman (Baldwin Wallace, Ohio) in 3:40.
• 285: Dominick Wilson – 5th-place – 4-2 record – pinned Nathan Scott (Ohio) Wesleyan in 2:17, lost 3-1 to Isaiah Espinoza (Adrian), won 2-0 over Noah DeHainaut (Muskingum, Ohio), won 2-1 over Logan Painter (Ohio Northern), pinned by Grant Martin (Mount Union, Ohio) in 1:51, won 3-2 over Jarod Miller (Baldwin Wallace, Ohio).

1. Baldwin Wallace (Ohio), 154.0, 2. Mount Union (Ohio), 146.0; 3. Wabash (Ind.), 121.5; 4. Ohio Northern, 107.0; 5. John Carroll (Ohio), 100.5; 6. OLIVET, 92.0, 7. Mount St. Joseph (Ohio), 80.0; 8. Otterbein (Ohio), 73.0; 9. Adrian, 71.5; 10. Alma, 58.0; 11. Heidelberg (Ohio), 53.5; 12. Manchester (Ind.), 29.5; 13. Case Western (Ohio), 27.0; 14. Trine (Ind.), 22.0; 15. Defiance (Ohio), 16.0; 17. Muskingum (Ohio), 2.0; 18. Wilmington (Ohio), 0.0.

• The 2020 NCAA Division III Championships are March 13-14 at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.