Wrestling | 11/28/2018 10:16:00 AM

ROCHESTER, NY – Worcester Polytechnic Institute won its second consecutive team title, emerging victorious with 139.5 points at the 53rd Annual RIT Wrestling Invitational held at Gordon Field House and Activities Center on Saturday, Dec. 2. RIT's Kaidon Winters (Athens, PA/Athens Area) (157 lbs.) was named the Tony Wallace Memorial Award winner as the Most Outstanding Wrestler. John Carroll was the runner-up, while host RIT finished third overall.

Winters won all four of his matches at 157 lbs. with two pins and defeated the No. 7 wrestler in the nation to earn the Tony Wallace Memorial Award as Most Outstanding Wrestler of the meet. The award honors Wallace, a member of the RIT Athletics Hall of Famer and three-time All-American wrestler. Wallace, a native of Loveland, Ohio, was an All-American wrestler at RIT from 1998-2002. He was just the third member in the history of RIT wrestling to earn three All-American honors, finishing his career with a 108-27 record. He died on Aug. 28, 2010, while on duty with the Hoonah (Alaska) Police Department. Wallace, a business administration major, was an assistant coach for the Tigers from 2003-05 and worked in the RIT Office of Public Safety from 2005-08.

WPI is ranked 12th in the most recent National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Division III national rankings, while John Carroll is 25th.

Team Results
1 - WPI - 139.5
2 - John Carroll - 132.0
3 - RIT - 131.5
4 - Oneonta - 98.0
5 - Wesleyan - 86.0
6 - Williams - 82.0
7 - Oswego - 79.0
8 - Norwich - 72.5
9 - Scranton - 68.0
10 - Case Western Reserve - 58.5
11 - New England College - 42.0
12 - Trinity - 42.0
13 - Pitt-Bradford - 40.0
14 - Thiel - 37.0
15 - Keystone - 23.5
16 - SUNY Ulster - 9.0

Top-3 Finishers by weight class

125 lbs.
1st Place - Diego Santiago of New England College
2nd Place - Zack Murillo of Wesleyan
3rd Place - David Yeh of Williams

133 lbs.
1st Place - Andrew Desousa of Oneonta
2nd Place - Chris Horton (Athens, PA/Athens Area) of RIT
3rd Place - Andrew Ellis of WPI

141 lbs.
1st Place - Joseph Rossetti of Williams
2nd Place - Jarrod Brezovec of John Carroll
3rd Place - Ahken Chu of Oneonta

149 lbs.
1st Place - Rocco Russo of Oswego
2nd Place - Zach Stedeford (Pittsburgh, PA/North Allegheny) of RIT
3rd Place - Eddie Hay of WPI

157 lbs.
1st Place - Kaidon Winters (Athens, PA/Athens Area) of RIT
2nd Place - Tyler Marsh of WPI
3rd Place - Grant Sorensen of Trinity

165 lbs.
1st Place - Roy Forys of Wesleyan
2nd Place - Seth Winkle of John Carroll
3rd Place - Isaac Mathews of Oswego

174 lbs.
1st Place - Tariq Grissom of Williams
2nd Place - Chase Lind of WPI 
3rd Place - Daniel Curran of Norwich

184 lbs.
1st Place - Dan Wensley of WPI
2nd Place - Joe Cutugno (Ventnor, NJ/Atlantic City) of RIT
3rd Place - Jeff Lombardi of Oswego

197 lbs.
1st Place - Daniel D`Agostini of Scranton
2nd Place - Gage Gladysz of Thiel
3rd Place - Mike Wagner of Norwich

285 lbs.
1st Place - James Bethel of Oneonta
2nd Place - Connor Calkins (Almond, NY/Alfred-Almond) of RIT 
3rd Place - Austin Shrewsbury of WPI

Nationally-Ranked Wrestlers (as of Nov. 14, 2018)
James Bethel - Oneonta State (2nd - 285 lbs.)
Jarrod Brezovec - John Carroll University (10th - 141 lbs.)
Tyler Marsh - WPI (7th - 157 lbs.)
Troy Seymour - Oswego State (9th - 174 lbs.)
Grant Sorensen - Trinity College (6th - 149 lbs.)
Dan Wensley - WPI (9th - 184 lbs.)
Kaidon Winters (Athens, PA/Athens Area) - RIT (9th - 157 lbs.)