Lehigh Set For Journeymen WrangleMania, Collegiate Classic This Weekend In Bethlehem

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – No. 8 Lehigh will compete near residence this weekend. The Mountain Hawks will open the twin season Saturday towards Duke and Virginia as a part of Journeymen WrangleMania at Liberty High School. Lehigh will then head to Freedom High School on Sunday for the Journeymen Collegiate Classic annual round-robin occasion. Twenty-two Mountain Hawks opened the 2025-26 season on the Nov. 2 Princeton Open, with sophomore Matty Lopes (133) and junior Rylan Rogers (184) successful particular person titles. Lopes was competing unattached.
 
On Saturday, Lehigh will face Duke at 1:30 p.m. and Virginia at 3:30 p.m. Both duals can be streamed on FloWrestling.org. Sunday’s Journeymen Collegiate Classic begins at 9 a.m. with streaming video additionally out there on FloWrestling.
 
Lehigh formally opened its 2025-26 marketing campaign with a contingent of twenty-two wrestlers on the Nov. 2 Princeton Open at Jadwin Gym. Sophomore Matty Lopes (133) and junior Rylan Rogers (184) gained particular person titles to steer the Mountain Hawks, with Lopes competing unattached on the occasion. Lopes and Rogers had been two of six top-six place winners for the Mountain Hawks on the season-opening match. Lopes opened his match with a technical and posted two selections to achieve the finals towards Army’s Ethan Berginc, who defeated Lopes twice final season. This time, Lopes used a primary interval takedown and third interval reversal to assert a 5-4 victory. Rogers started his day with two technical fall victories, then defeated Lehigh teammate Jack Wilt 6-1 within the semifinals. In the finals, Rogers confronted TJ McDonnell of Oregon State and gained a 2-0 resolution behind an second interval journey out and third interval escape. Sophomores Zeke Dubler (174) and Jared Schoppe (184) wrestled to 3rd place finishes, whereas senior Jack Wilt (184) and graduate pupil JT Davis each completed in fourth place.
 
Eight Lehigh wrestlers seem within the newest rankings from InterMat, FloWrestling and Amateur Wrestling News. Five Mountain Hawks seem in The Open Mat’s rankings, whereas 9 are rated within the high 33 by WrestleStat. Lehigh has 5 wrestlers ranked within the high 5 by each InterMat and FloWrestling, led by sophomores Ryan Crookham (133) and Luke Stanich (141), who’re ranked high three. Crookham, Sheldon Seymour, Max Brignola, JT Davis and Nathan Taylor are ranked throughout the board. InterMat, FloWrestling and WrestleStat rank from 1-33, whereas AWN and The Open Mat rank 1-20.
 
Graduate pupil Sheldon Seymour and senior Max Brignola each competed on the NWCA All-Star Classic, Nov. 1 at Rutgers’ Jersey Mike’s Arena. Seymour dropped a 4-0 resolution to Virginia Tech’s Eddie Ventresca at 125, whereas Brignola dropped a decent 4-1 bout to Hunter Garvin of Stanford at 165. Seymour and Brignola are the primary Mountain Hawks to compete on the annual exhibition since Connor McGonagle in 2023.
 
Lehigh has 20 wrestlers listed as possible starters for Journeymen WrangleMania, with 15 of the 20 having beforehand wrestled in a twin meet for the Mountain Hawks. Wrestlers who might make their first profession twin appearances for the Mountain Hawks embrace junior Remy Brancato-Roed (197), sophomore Jared Schoppe (184), deferred first-year Dom Federici (174) and true first-years Anthony Evanitsky (149) and Rowan Holmes (285).
 
Lehigh commonly sends a contingent to the Journeymen Collegiate Classic at close by Freedom High School. Last 12 months the Mountain Hawks had 17 wrestlers compete, with three wrestlers successful Hammer Awards for successful “A” brackets on the spherical robin occasion. Three different Lehigh wrestlers went undefeated to win at decrease flight brackets. Lehigh’s three hammer awards had been gained by sophomore Luke Stanich (141) and seniors Max Brignola (165) and Michael Beard (197). Stanich and Brignola had been each competing unattached on the occasion. Deferred first-years Griffin Gonzalez (157E) and Zeke Dubler (165F) and junior Jack Wilt (184D) all went undefeated to win their respective brackets.
 
Lehigh kicks off its 117th twin meet season towards Duke. The Mountain Hawks are 12-5 in twin meet openers underneath Pat Santoro. Lehigh has gained simply two of its final 5 twin openers, a 20-13 win over Oregon State at Stabler Arena in November 2022 and a 37-7 win over Morgan State final November.
 
Duke gained its twin opener 19-18 over Sacred Heart final weekend. The Pioneers jumped out to a 15-0 lead earlier than the Blue Devils stormed again to win 5 of the final six bouts. The twin got here all the way down to 125 the place Riley Rowan’s 2-0 resolution secured the win for the Blue Devils. Duke has two wrestlers ranked within the newest InterMat ballot. Heavyweight Connor Barket is ranked twenty third and Aidan Wallace is available in at No. 29 at 174. Glen Lanham is in his 14th season as Duke’s head coach.
 
Virginia will open its twin season at Journeymen WrangleMania after the Cavaliers kicked off their marketing campaign final weeked on the Navy Classic. Keyveon Roller went 4-0 to win the title at 125, main the Cavalier contingent. Colton Washleski was runner-up at 157 and Virginia additionally had a trio of fifth-place finishers. Virginia has 5 wrestlers within the newest InterMat rankings with Washleski and Nick Hamilton (174) main the best way at No. 19. Roller is ranked twenty second at 125. Gable Porter is thirty third at 141 and Ryan Catka is thirtieth at 285. Steve Garland is in his twentieth season as head coach at his alma mater.
 
Lehigh will subsequent head to Tulsa, Okla., for the National Duals Invitational, offered by Paycom, Nov. 15-16 at BOK Center. Sixteen groups will battle in a workforce twin match throughout two days for a handbag of greater than $1 million, together with a $200,000 grand prize for the successful workforce. The Mountain Hawks will open up towards No. 2 seed Nebraska Nov. 15 at 12 p.m. ET/11 a.m. CT. Lehigh’s second match can be towards both Arizona State or Michigan.
 
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