The NCAA wrestling championships will start a week from tonight on March 21, concluding on Saturday, March 23 in Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena.
26 wrestlers either from New Jersey or went to high school there will be competing over the three days. Below are the 26, listed by their weight class. In case anyone does not know, there are ten weight classes in college wrestling, as opposed to fourteen in New Jersey high school. They will be listed by their seed, name, college, high school, and – when necessary – hometown.
125
#1 Sebastian Rivera (Northwestern/Christian Brothers Academy/Jackson, NJ)
#7 Pat Glory (Princeton/Delbarton/Randolph, NJ)
#24 Carmen Ferrante (Penn/Bergen Catholic/Newton, NJ)
133
#3 Nick Suriano (Rutgers/Bergen Catholic/Paramus, NJ)
#9 Chas Tucker (Cornell/Blair Academy/Worcester, Mass.)
#20 Brandon Paetzell (Lehigh/Phillipsburg)
#27 Anthony Cefolo (Rider/Hanover Park)
141
#2 Joey McKenna (Ohio State/Blair Academy/Towaco, NJ)
#33 Peter Lipari (Rutgers/Bergen Catholic/Byram, NJ)
149
#1 Anthony Ashnault (Rutgers/South Plainfield)
#14 Requir Van Der Merwe (Stanford/Blair Academy/Mountain Lakes, NJ)
#29 Matt Zovistoski (Appalachian State/St. Joe’s, Montvale/Paramus)
157
#16 John Van Brill (Rutgers/Clearview)
#27 Dan Reed (Columbia/Delbarton/Stirling, NJ)
165
#8 Mekhi Lewis (Virginia Tech/Bound Brook)
#18 Gordon Wolf (Lehigh/Lawrence)
174
#5 Jordan Kutler (Lehigh/Blair Academy/Sparta, NJ)
#6 David McFadden (Virginia Tech/DePaul/West Milford, NJ)
#20 Spencer Carey (Navy/DePaul/Ringwood, NJ)
#29 Joe Grello (Rutgers/Bergen Catholic/Newton, NJ)
#30 Dean Sherry (Rider/Brick)
184
#1 Myles Martin (Ohio State/McDonough of Maryland/Penns Grove, NJ)
#21 Nick Gravina (Rutgers/Northern Highlands)
#27 CJ LaFragols (Brown/St. Joe’s, Hammonton/Little Egg Harbor, NJ)
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#2 Anthony Cassar (Penn State/Montgomery)
#16 Chase Singletary (Ohio State/Blair Academy/Naples, Florida)