2024 Wildcat Invitational Recap

On Sunday 2/18, the Engineers competed at the Wildcat Invitational hosted by the University of New Hampshire. Although it was a small meet (two of the five registered teams did not end up attending), MIT put in a good showing of matches in quick succession.

The meet featured a lot of tough wrestling in neutral and on top for the Engineers, who championed the meet in team score. The wrestlers showed immense improvement from since even the beginning of the semester, and toughness (plus good conditioning) when they inevitably had to wrestle another match not long after their previous ones (and sometimes with pooled weights as well).

Meet results are posted on the NCWA website: https://ncwa.net/events/wildcat-invitational-mens-division/results

Team Results

MIT took first out of three teams.

Individual Results

Here’s how everyone did:

• Chris Espitia-Alvarez went 3-0.

  • He won by pin in 1:40 against Beckett Herman (UMass).

  • He won by pin in 2:10 against Matthew Mancini (UMass).

  • He won 6-5 against Victor Rodriguez (UMass).

• Will Peale went 1-1.

  • He won 14-8 against Matthew Mancini (UMass).

  • He lost by tech fall against Beckett Herman (UMass).

• Eric Gai went 0-3.

  • He lost 9-20 against Victor Rodriguez (UMass).

  • He lost by pin in 2:40 against Todd Chiasson (UMass).

  • He lost by pin in 2:05 against Maxwell Posner (UMass).

• Sam Calvert went 3-0.

  • He won by pin in 2:32 against Maxwell Posner (UMass).

  • He won by pin in 2:06 against Dominic Castaldi (UMass).

  • He won by pin in 1:03 against Jack McCann (UNH).