Seymour, Brignola Signify Lehigh at NWCA All-Star Classic

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Seniors Sheldon Seymour and Max Brignola represented the Mountain Hawks Saturday evening on the NWCA All-Star Classic at Rutgers’ Jersey Mikes Arena. Both Lehigh wrestlers discovered themselves on the quick finish of choices within the annual exhibition occasion.

Seymour fell 4-0 to Virginia Tech’s Eddie Ventresca in a rematch from the 2025 NCAA fifth place match at 125. Brignola gave up a late takedown to fall 4-1 to Hunter Garvin of Stanford at 165.

At 125, Ventresca scored the one takedown of the match 1:46 into the opening interval and rode out. Seymour began the second on prime and erased the driving time earlier than conceding the escape. With no additional scoring within the second, Seymour selected impartial within the third however was unable to chop into the deficit.

Brignola and Garvin have been scoreless by way of the primary three minutes, with Garvin escaping early within the second to take a 1-0 lead. Brignola had two high quality possibilities at takedowns within the second interval however was unable to safe management. He escaped early within the third and the match appeared headed to additional time tied 1-1 however Garvin received on Brignola’s leg late within the closing 10 seconds of the interval for the profitable takedown.

Matches on the NWCA All-Star Classic are thought of exhibitions that don’t rely in the direction of a wrestler’s season file.

The Lehigh duo have been the primary Mountain Hawks to compete on the NWCA All-Star Classic since Connor McGonagle defeated Virginia Tech’s Sam Latona in November 2023.

The final time Lehigh had a number of wrestlers within the All-Star Classic was 2015, when Mason Beckman, Mitch Minotti and Nathaniel Brown all competed. Minotti received by fall in sudden victory at 157.

The Mountain Hawks will formally open the 2025-26 season with a big contingent of wrestlers at Sunday’s Princeton Open, with motion starting at 9 a.m.

The 2025-26 Lehigh males’s wrestling season is offered by the Historic Hotel Bethlehem.

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