Mountain Hawks Ride Five Individual Champs to 40th EIWA Team Title

Saturday, March 7

Washington, D.C.

11:00 AM

Lehigh University

EIWA Championships

Photo by: Hannah Ally

Mountain Hawks Ride Five Individual Champs to 40th EIWA Team Title

3/7/2026 5:59:00 PM | Men's Wrestling

Brackets/Results

WASHINGTON – Behind five individual champions and eight top-four place winners Lehigh men's wrestling captured its second consecutive EIWA team title and 40th overall with a triumph Saturday at American's Bender Arena. The Mountain Hawks went 5-0 in finals bouts and racked up 163.5 points, outpacing second place Navy by 28 points.

Graduate student Sheldon Seymour (125), sophomores Luke Stanich (141) and Logan Rozynski (157) and senior Nathan Taylor (285) all won their second career EIWA titles, while senior Max Brignola won his first at 165.

Lehigh also captured three major awards, with Taylor winning the Sheridan Award for most falls in the fastest time in the championship bracket, and the Fletcher Trophy for career points scored at the EIWA Championships. Head coach Pat Santoro was named EIWA Coach of the Year for the seventh time.

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Seymour and Stanich helped create further distance from Navy with major decisions in their respective finals bouts. Seymour scored 15 points over the first two periods in a 17-6 major decision over Navy's Andrew Binni in the finals at 125. Stanich racked up four takedowns in a 14-3 major over Caedyn Ricciardi at 141.

Sheldon set the tone with this 5-pointer!

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Rozynski's second straight title came via a medical forfeit from Morgan State's Yannis Charles.

Brignola made a takedown at the end of the first period stand in a 4-2

Sheldon set the tone with this 5-pointer!

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decision over Bucknell's Noah Mulvaney.

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Taylor also made a late first period takedown stand in a 4-1 decision over Drexel's Nate Schon.

Junior Rylan Rogers became Lehigh's sixth NCAA qualifier with a third place finish at 184. Rogers did not allow a point Saturday, winning an 8-0 major decision over Bucknell's Tyler Bienus in the consolation semifinals, and then a 5-0 win over Army's Cooper Haase to secure the third automatic berth to the NCAA Championships.

Senior Carter Bailey (149) and graduate student JT Davis (197) picked up wins in the consolation semifinals but came up short in their bronze medal bouts.

Bailey won by technical fall over America's Gage Owen but then fell to Navy's Kaemen Smith, settling for fourth place. Davis posted an impressive 11-3 major decision over Army's Wolfgang Frable, but dropped a 6-5 heartbreaker to Navy's Zyan Hall in the third place bout.

Sophomore Richie Grungo posted a victory in his placement match, beating American's Hunter Hohman 10-3 to claim seventh place at 174.

The Mountain Hawks' five individual champions were their most since crowning five in 2018 at Hofstra.

Lehigh's qualifiers move on to the NCAA Championships, March 19-21 at Rocket Arena in Cleveland. At-large selections will be announced on Tuesday, March 10, with the seeds and brackets announced Wednesday, March 11 at 8 p.m. on NCAA.com.

The 2025-26 Lehigh wrestling season is presented by the Historic Hotel Bethlehem.

125 – No. 1 Sheldon Seymour – 1st place
Quarterfinal: tech fall No. 9 Teague Strobel (Hofstra) 17-2, 3:26
Semifinal: tech fall No. 4 James Garcia (F&M) 15-0, 4:14
Final: major dec. No. 3 Andrew Binni (Navy) 17-6

141 – No. 1 Luke Stanich – 1st place
Quarterfinal: major dec. No. 8 Jack Maida (American) 20-7
Semifinal: major dec. No. 4 Dylan Chappell (Bucknell) 14-4
Final: major dec. No. 2 Caedyn Ricciardi (Navy) 14-3

149 – No. 11 Carter Bailey – 4th place
First round: major dec. No. 6 Caleb Sweet (Binghamton) 12-2
Quarterfinal: major dec. No. 3 Deon Pleasant (Drexel) 12-1
Semifinal: L by dec. No. 2 Riley Bower (Bucknell) 6-0
Consolation semifinal: tech fall No. 5 Gage Owen (American) 17-2, 3:41
Third place match: L by major dec. No. 4 Kaemen Smith (Navy) 14-6

157 – No. 2 Logan Rozynski – 1st place
Quarterfinal: dec. No. 7 Cade Wirnsberger (Bucknell) 5-3
Semifinal: Fall No. 3 Joseph Antonio (Army) 1:58
Finals: W by medical forfeit No. 12 Yannis Charles (Morgan State)

165 – No. 1 Max Brignola – 1st place
Quarterfinal: dec. No. 8 Josh Palmucci (F&M) 9-2
Semifinal: tech fall No. 5 Cody Walsh (Drexel) 20-4, 6:05
Finals: dec. No. 3 Noah Mulvaney (Bucknell) 4-2

174 – No. 8 Richie Grungo – 7th place
First round: major dec. No. 9 Brandon Carr (F&M) 8-0
Quarterfinal: L by tech fall No. 1 Myles Takats (Bucknell) 17-2, 5:53
First round consolation: major dec. No. 10 Aidan Zarrella (SHU) 18-4
Consolation quarterfinal: L by fall No. 4 Jasiah Queen (Drexel) 6:42
Seventh place match: dec. No. 11 Hunter Hohman (American) 10-3

184 – No. 2 Rylan Rogers – 3rd place
Quarterfinal: major dec. No. 7 Ethan Wilson (Drexel) 14-3
Semifinal: L by dec. No. 3 Caleb Campos (American) 10-3
Consolation semifinal: major dec. No. 4 Tyler Bienus (Bucknell) 8-0
Third place match: dec. No. 12 Cooper Haase (Army) 5-0

197 – No. 5 JT Davis – 4th place
First round: major dec. No. 12 Liam Packer (American) 12-2
Quarterfinal: L by dec. No. 4 Zyan Hall (Navy) 2-1
First round consolation: tech fall No. 11 Eric Washington (Morgan State) 15-0, 6:50
Consolation quarterfinal: Fall No. 8 RJ Moore (F&M) 2:25
Consolation semifinal: major dec. No. 3 Wolfgang Frable (Army) 11-3
Third place match: L by dec. No. 4 Zyan Hall (Navy) 6-5

285 – No. 2 Nathan Taylor – 1st place
Quarterfinal: Fall No. 7 Logan Shephard (Bucknell) 0:47
Semifinal: dec. No. 3 Spencer Lanosga (Navy) 5-0
Final: dec. No. 4 Nate Schon (Drexel) 4-1

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