BEREA, Ohio – The No. 5 nationally-ranked Baldwin Wallace University wrestling team won its own BW Invitational inside the Lou Higgins Center Fieldhouse.
BW was the champion of eight teams with 493.5 points. The Yellow Jackets had seven individual champions and six runner up finishers.
Junior and No. 3 nationally-ranked 125-pounder Jacob Decatur (Akron/Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy) - Champion
- Won a 21-6 technical fall over Gio Luciano of Delaware Valley
- Pinned Fantauzzi of Baldwin Wallace in 5:57 in second round
- Won a 5-2 decision over Ryan Kelly of Delaware Valley in third round
Sophomore 149-pounder Michael Petrella (Reynoldsburg/Bishop Hartley) - Champion
- Bye in first round
- Won a 17-2 technical fall over Declan Smith of Delaware Valley in second round
- Pinned James Brenneman of Ohio Wesleyan in 2:20 in third round
- Pinned Cortez Bradley of Defiance in 2:53 in fourth round
- Won a 6-1 decision over McHugh of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Senior All-American 157-pounder Stanley Bleich (North Ridgeville/Elyria Catholic) - Champion
- Bye in first round
- Pinned Zachary Zuckerman of Delaware Valley in 4:45 in second round
- Won a 10-2 major decision over West of Baldwin Wallace in third round
- Won an 11-3 major decision over Wittreich of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Freshman 165-pounder Donovan Palmer (North Ridgeville/Lutheran West) - Champion
- Bye in first round
- Won a 6-1 decision over Derick Coleman of Lourdes in second round
- Won a 4-3 decision over Hopkins of Baldwin Wallace in third round
- Won a 2-1 decision over Leightner of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Junior All-OAC and No. 3 nationally ranked 184-pounder Lucas Salmon (Sandusky/Perkins) – Champion
- Bye in first round
- Pinned Isaac Ingram of Loudres in 51 seconds in second round
- Pinned Sanders of Baldwin Wallace in 2:43 in third round
- Won by a 7-5 decision over Bryce McCloskey of Thiel in fifth round
Junior All-American and No. 10 nationally-ranked 197 pounder Doug Byrne (Wickliffe) - Champion
- Bye in first round
- Pinned Alex Torres of Case Western Reserve in second round
- Pinned Jackson Crawn of Delaware Valley in 34 seconds in third round
Senior 285-pounder Jarrod Miller (Greenville, Pa./Reynolds) - Champion
- Pinned Derrick Davidson of Wilmington in 1:10 in first round
- Won a 4-1 decision over Noah Elkenbary of Lourdes in second round
- Won a 7-5 extra time decision over Daniel Eckley of Delaware Valley in third round
- Won a 3-2 decision over Jonah Schlegel of Defiance in fourth round
Sophomore 133-pounder Jaden Hinton (Glassboro, N.J.) – Second Place
- Won a 17-2 technical fall over Patrick Hebreard of Case Western Reserve in first round
- Won a 22-7 technical fall over Devyn Giovengo of Thiel in second round
- Lost a 13-3 major decision to Hunter Thompson of Thiel in third round
Junior 141-pounder Zak Anderson (Elyria/Midview) – Second Place
- Pinned Zach Smith of Ohio Wesleyan in 1:21 in first round
- Won a 15-2 major decision over Lucas Sabo of Delaware Valley in second round
- Won a 4-2 decision over Gabe Meyer of Lourdes in third round
- Lost a 9-3 decision to Russell Benson of Delaware Valley in fourth round
Senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference and Academic All-OAC 149-pounder Tanner McHugh (New Ringgold, Pa./Tamaqua)- Second Place
- Bye in first round
- Won a 7-3 decision over Greg Croce of Delaware Valley in second round
- Won an 11-9 decision over Chris Jedding of Loudres in third round
- Won a 7-4 decision over Mitchell Arch of Case Western Reserve in fourth round
- Lost a 7-1 decision to Petrella of Baldwin Wallace in fifth round
Freshman 157-pounder Tyler Wittreich (Painesville/Riverside) – Second Place
- Pinned Shamique Bryant of Defiance in 6:55 in first round
- Pinned Peyton Hear of Thiel in 6:31 in second round
- Pinned Caleb Blake of Ohio Wesleyan in 2:29 in third round
- Lost an 11-3 major decision to Bleich of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Senior All-American and No. 3 nationally-ranked 165-pounder Dalton Leightner (Ravenna/Rootstown) – Second Place
- Won a 15-0 technical fall over Frank Gill of Thiel in first round
- Pinned Cooper Kidd of Delaware Valley n 53 seconds in second round
- Won a 19-1 technical fall over Kupniewski of Baldwin Wallace in third round
- Lost a 2-1 decision to Palmer of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Senior 174-pounder Ryan Haas (Toledo/Maumee) – Second Place
- Pinned Justin Whitacre of Delaware Valley in 4:08 in first round
- Won an 8-5 decision over Tyler Bodovertz of Ohio Wesleyan in second round
- Pinned Brady Walsh of Ohio Wesleyan in 4:00 third round
- Lost by a 13-7 decision to Alex Hobbs of Wilmington in fifth round
Freshman 125-pounder Brett Blaess (Jackson, N.J.) – Third Place
- Bye in first round
- Lost a 9-2 decision to Ryan Kelley of Delaware Valley in second round
- Won a 15-3 major decision over Merlin Senat of Delaware Valley in third round
- Won a 6-0 decision over Novak of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Junior 141-pounder Connor DeBoe (Mentor) – Third Place
- Won an 18-2 technical fall over Mike Rubino of Delaware Valley in first round
- Pinned Miller of Baldwin Wallace in 1:26 in second round
- Lost a 5-2 decision to Russell Benson of Delaware Valley in third round
- Won a 10-0 major decision over sophomore Robby Palmieri (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine Richland) of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
- Won a 7-2 decision over Miller of Baldwin Wallace in fifth round
Junior Academic All-OAC 165-pounder Luke Hopkins (Cuyahoga Heights) – Third Place
- Won a 6-4 decision over Jack Chipps of Case Western Reserve in first round
- Won a 15-0 technical fall over Christian Tesnow of Ohio Wesleyan in second round
- Lost a 4-3 decision to Palmer of BW in third round
- Pinned Chipps of Case Western Reserve in fourth round
- Won a 10-4 decision over Kupniewski of Baldwin Wallace in fifth found
Junior Academic All-OAC 174-pounder Griffin Rathburn (New Albany/Bishop Hartley) – Third Place
- Won a 15-0 technical fall over Tommy Wilson of Thiel in first round
- Pinned Desmon Perry of Ohio Wesleyan in 4:23 in second round
- Lost a 6-5 decision to Alex Hobbs in the third round
- Pinned Desmon Perry of Ohio Wesleyan in 2:20 in fourth round
Sophomore 184-pounder Mitch Sanders (Newbury) – Third Place
- Pinned Jack Minner of Defiance in 3:24 in first round
- Won a 14-4 major decision over Jack Nase of Delaware Valley in second round
- Lost by pinfall to Salmon of Baldwin Wallace in 2:43 in third round
- Won by injury over Joey Perez of Defiance in fourth round
- Pinned Issac Ingram of Lourdes in 1:55 in fifth round
Sophomore 125-pounder Johnny Novak (Cleveland St. Ignatius) – Fourth Place
- Lost a 15-0 technical fall to Ryan Kelly of Delaware Valley in first round
- Bye in second round
- Won a 10-1 major decision over Novak of Baldwin Wallace in third round
- Lost a 6-0 decision to Blaess of Baldwin Wallace in fourth round
Sophomore 133-pounder David Panda (Columbia, Md./Atholton) – Fourth Place
- Won by injury over Seth Majewski of Defiance in first round
- Lot an 18-3 technical fall to Hunter Thompson of Thiel in second round
- Pinned Patrick Hebreard of Case Western Reserve in 46 seconds in third round
- Lost a 4-2 decision to Rashad Stratton of Delaware valley in fourth round
Freshman 141-pounder Max Miller (Cleveland/North Royalton) – Fourth Place
- Pinned Kliver Joseph of Defiance in 1:13 in first round
- Lost by pinfall to DeBoe of Baldwin Wallace in 1:26 in second round
- Won by forfeit over Bryce Vollman of Delaware Valley in third round
- Pinned Austin Park of Thiel in 3:21 in fourth round
- Pinned Gabe Meyer of Lourdes in 3:31 in fifth round
- Lost a 7-2 decision to DeBoe of Baldwin Wallace in sixth round
Freshman 157-pounder Tommy West (Avon Lake/St. Edward) – Fourth Place
- Won a 9-0 major decision over Garrett Anderson of Lourdes in first round
- Won a 5-2 decision over Alejandro Castro of Defiance in second round
- Lost a 10-2 major decision to Bleich of Baldwin Wallace in third round
- Won a 4-1 decision over Peyton Hearn of Thiel in fourth round
- Lost an 11-5 decision to Caleb Blake of Ohio Wesleyan in fifth round
Sophomore 165-pounter Hunter Kupniewski (North Royalton) – Fourth Place
- Pinned Tommy Brunty of Ohio Wesleyan in 1:00 in first round
- Won an 18-0 technical fall over Adrian Salomone of Wilmington in second round
- Lost a 19-1 technical fall to Leightner of Baldwin Wallace in third round
- Won a 3-1 decision over Derick Coleman of Lourdes in fourth round
- Lost a 10-4 decision to Hopkins of Baldwin Wallace in fifth found
BW is back in action on Tuesday, November 30 when it travels to Westerville for an OAC match against Otterbein University inside the Rike Center at 7 p.m.