Wrestling | 2/7/2015 7:14:00 PM

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BEREA, OH – The RIT wrestling team finished seventh out of 10 teams at the 2015 John Summa Invitational, hosted by Baldwin Wallace College on Saturday with 58.5 points. Host Baldwin Wallace won the meet with 159.5 points. Freshman Sam Weinger (Blooming Grovve, NY/Washingtonville) placed second at 285 lbs. for RIT.
 
Weinger was RIT's top finisher, placing second at 285 lbs. He picked up a 9-3 decision over Guy DiCicco of Defiance in his opening bout, and picked up a pinfall win over Hunter Six of Waynesburg at 2:29 in his second match. In the quarterfinals, Weinger moved on after Gunnar Parr of Ohio Northern was disqualified, and moved into the finals after Cole Tristram of SUNY Brockport could not go due to an injury. In the finals, Weinger fell to Greg Kumer of Waynesburg 9-5. Weinger improves to 22-16 on the season.

Nicholas Greenquist (Spring Lake, NJ/St. Rose) placed fourth at 165 lbs., going 3-2. He opened with a technical fall win over Kaegan Pearsall of Baldwin Wallace, 15-0. He followed that with a second technical fall win over Nick Guzma of Waynesburg, 18-1. In the semifinal bout, Greenquist fell to Sam Guidi of Waynesburg, 4-3 before defeating teammate Joe Cutugno (Ventnor, NJ/Atlantic City) in a consolation match, 5-3. In the third place match, Greenquist was defeated by Dave Shapiro of Baldwin Wallace, 2-1.

Cutugno went 3-2 at 165 lbs. He dropped his first bout, but rebounded with an 8-1 decision over Declan Haggerty of Washington and Jefferson. Cutugno moved on in the consolation round with a 4-1 decision over Brandan Collins of Thiel, and picked up a 10-1 major decision over Eric Tuck of Waynesburg. He fell to Greenquist in his final bout of the day.
 
Andrew Patterson (Trussville, AL/Hewitt-Trussville) went 2-2 on the day at 157 lbs. After dropping his opening bout, Patterson rebounded with pinfall win over Aric Cross of Baldwin Wallace at 4:39. He picked up a forfeit win in his next bout, before falling to Derek Hull of Waynesburg, with a fall at 1:31.

Jake Sepor (Stafford, NY/Pavilion) picked up a win at 133 lbs., defeating Pat McGinnis of Baldwin Wallace with a fall at 6:02. He was forced to retire in his next bout do to an injury at 4:02. Nick Fisk (Las Cruces, NM/Mayfield) picked up a pair of wins in the consolation round at 184 lbs.

Won Kim (Millbrae, CA/Mills) won at 149 lbs., defeating Christian Felstedt of Lycoming, 3-2 beofre losing to Joey Schmidt of Baldwin Wallace, 4-0. Evan Vershay (Canandaigua, NY/Canandaigua Academy) picked up an 8-1 decision over Blake Perry of Baldwin Wallace in his opening bout at 157 lbs. After to falling to Chris Nuss of Thiel, 9-1, he picked up a pinfall win at 7:38 over Holden Taylor of Lycoming in the consolation round.
 
RIT returns to action on Saturday, Feb. 14 when the Tigers face Oneonta State in a dual meet that gets underway at 1 p.m.