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Wrestling Opens Season Finishing Third at Ivy Classic

Max Odom also showed the promise of this freshman class as he took third place in the 149-lbs weight class. Despite losing, 5-4 to Penn's Jody Giuricich in the semis Odom bounced back strong with a 16-1 technical fall in the consolation semis and an 8-6 win over Cornell's Gabe Webster in the finals.

At 174 pounds Freshman Patrick O'Donnell proved that Mosley was not the only Crimson force to fear. After a 6-3 win in the consolation quarterfinals followed by a 5-4 defeat of Brown's Nick Almeida, O'Donnell earned a third place spot with his 8-6 win over Brown's Brad McDonald, who is ranked No. 6 in the EIWA.

Freshman Reggie Lee proved no exception to this display of rookie strength as he came in fourth in the 184-lb weight class. Though unable to overcome Cornell's Chris Gafner, Lee secured himself the fourth place position with his 3-1 defeat of Cornell's Randy Stout in the consolation-semis.

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At heavyweight, sophomore standout Dawid Rechul wrestled his way to fourth place with a 13-3 major decision win in the consolation semis. After beating Columbia's David Boyuk easily, 7-3 in the quarters, Rechul proved himself an equal contender in the semis to Penn's Bandele Adenyi-Bada, ranked No. 1 in EIWA, but was unable to come out with the win.

However in keeping the All-American in check, and battling to the end, Rechul showed that he can certainly contend with the nation's top wrestlers.

Overall it was a tournament which left the Crimson with much to be proud of and much to look forward to and it heads to East Stroudsburg next weekend.

"We were the best conditioned team there," said Weiss. "We showed that we match up well with the top two teams [Penn and Cornell]."

"It was a good way to start the season," said Picarsic. "We wrestled well but the tournament was more for us to see the potential that is there."

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