Cornell wins 2022 EIWA Championships
By John Aadland, EIWA Director of Sports Information
The 2022 EIWA Championship tournament at Cornell University has concluded. Host Cornell and the resurgent Quakers of Pennsylania battled throughout the tournament, with Cornell taking the title in the end. Princeton finished third with defending champion Lehigh in fourth. Columbia rounded out the top five. Lehigh 285-pounder Jordan Wood became the first wrestler in conference history to win a fifth title.
2022 EIWA Brackets
Final team standings are as follows:
- Cornell153.0
- Pennsylvania143.0
- Princeton120.5
- Lehigh111.0
- Columbia84.5
- Binghamton79.5
- Navy63.5
- Army West Point57.0
9 Harvard 49.0
10 Drexel 47.0
11 Bucknell 39.5
12 Hofstra 36.0
- Franklin & Marshall29.0
- Brown26.5
- American25.5
- Sacred Heart5.0
- Long Island U.3.0
Individual place-winners at each weight class are:
125 pounds (three automatic qualifiers)
1 Vitali Arujau Cornell
2 Patrick Glory Princeton
3 Ryan Miller Penn
4 Joe Manchio Columbia
5 Beau Bayless Harvard
6 Sheldon Seymour Lehigh
7 Brandon Seidman Bucknell
8 Reese Fry Brown
133 pounds (two automatic qualifiers)
1 Michael Colaiocco Penn
2 Josh Koderhandt Navy
3 Dom LaJoie Cornell
4 Jack Maida American
5 Richard Treanor Army West Point
6 Nick Kayal Princeton
7 Jaxon Maroney Drexel
8 Nicky Cabanillas Brown
141 pounds (four automatic qualifiers)
1 Matt Kazimir Columbia
2 CJ Composto Penn
3 Wil Gil F&M
4 Connor McGonagle Lehigh
5 Darren Miller Bucknell
6 Ryan Anderson Binghamton
7 Danny Coles Princeton
8 Justin Hoyle Hofstra
149 pounds (four automatic qualifiers)
1 Yianni Diakomihalis Cornell
2 Anthony Artalona Penn
3 Max Brignola Lehigh
4 Marshall Keller Princeton
5 Danny Fongaro Columbia
6 PJ Ogunsanya Army West Point
7 Lukus Stricker Harvard
8 Nick Lombard Binghamton
157 pounds (five automatic qualifiers)
1 Quincy Monday Princeton
2 Andrew Cerniglia Navy
3 Josh Humphreys Lehigh
4 Markus Hartman Army West Point
5 Doug Zapf Penn
6 Hunter Richard Cornell
7 Nick Delp Bucknell
8 Trevor Tarsi Harvard
165 pounds (seven automatic qualifiers)
1 Philip Conigliaro Harvard
2 Josh Ogunsanya Columbia
3 Zach Hartman Bucknell
4 Julian Ramirez Cornell
5 Brevin Cassella Binghamton
6 Lucas Revano Penn
7 Evan Barczak Drexel
8 Val Park Navy
174 pounds (four automatic qualifiers)
1 Mickey O’Malley Drexel
2 Nick Incontrera Penn
3 Ben Pasiuk Army West Point
4 Jacob Nolan Binghamton
5 Jake Logan Lehigh
6 Chris Foca Cornell
4 Nick Fine Columbia
7 Nate Dugan Princeton
184 pounds (three automatic qualifiers)
1 Jonathan Loew Cornell
2 Travis Stefanik Princeton
3 AJ Burkhart Lehigh
4 Charles Small Hofstra
5 Neil Antrassian Penn
6 Brian McLaughlin Drexel
7 Brian Bonino Columbia
8 Cory Day Binghamton
197 pounds (five automatic qualifiers)
1 Lou DePrez Binghamton
2 Luke Stout Princeton
3 Jacob Koser Navy
4 Cole Urbas Penn
5 Jacob Cardenas Cornell
6 JT Davis Lehigh
7 JT Brown Army West Point
8 Sam Wustefeld Columbia
285 pounds (four automatic qualifiers)
1 Jordan Wood Lehigh
2 Lewis Fernandes Cornell
3 Joe Doyle Binghamton
4 Ben Goldin Penn
5 Matt Cover Princeton
6 Zachary Knighton-Ward Hofstra
7 Cenzo Pelusi Franklin & Marshall
8 Danny Conley Columbia
Additional award winners:
Coaches’ Trophy for Outstanding Wrestler of the EIWA Championships
Vitali Arujau, Cornell University
John Fletcher Memorial Award for most cumulative team points at the EIWA Championships during his career
Jordan Wood, Lehigh University — 109.0 points
Billy Sheridan Memorial Award for most falls in least time in the championship bracket
Lewis Fernandes, Cornell University — two falls in 3:36.
EIWA Coach of the Year, voted by the head coaches
Roger Reina, University of Pennsylvania
2021 NCAA Qualifiers/Champs/AAs: 49/0/2
2021 Team Standings: 1. Lehigh – 158.5; 2. Navy – 129; 3. Army-West Point – 119.5; 4. Hofstra – 106.5; 5. Drexel – 89.5; 6. Bucknell – 84.5; 7. Binghamton – 75.5; 8. Sacred Heart – 39; 9. American – 30.5; 10. Long Island – 24.5. (The five Ivy League schools – Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn and Princeton – did not compete when winter sports were cancelled).
2021 Individual Champs/Runner-ups: 125 – Jaret Lane (Lehigh)/Logan Treaster (Navy); 133 – Malyke Hines (Lehigh)/Jacob Allen (Navy); 141 – Cody Trybus (Navy)/Lane Peters (Army); 149 – P.J. Ogunsanya (Army)/Jimmy Hoffman (Lehigh); 157 – Holden Heller (Hofstra)/Nick Palumbo (Sacred Heart); 165 – Zach Hartman (Bucknell)/Tanner Skidgel (Navy); 174 – Ben Pasiuk (Army)/Michael O’Malley (Drexel); 184 – Lou DePrez (Bing.)/David Key (Navy); 197 – John Jakobsen (Lehigh)/JT Brown (Army); Hwt – Jordan Wood (Lehigh)/Robert Heald (Army).
All-Time Team Championships (Started in 1905) – School-No. (Last): Lehigh – 38 (2021); Cornell – 25 (2017); Penn State – 16 (1973, left for Big Ten in 1990); Navy – 13 (1990); Syracuse – 8 (1994, dropped sport in 2001); Yale – 7 (1941, dropped sport in 1991); Penn – 4 (1999); Pitt – 4 (1960, moved to ACC in 2011); Princeton – 3 (1978); Army – 1 (1987); Harvard – 1 (2001)
2022 Top Storylines:
• Welcome back Ivy League schools – Last year the six Ivy League schools — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn and Princeton — of the EIWA did not compete when the Ivy League cancelled the season. Without many of its star-powered wrestlers, the EIWA featured just two All-Americans in EIWA champ Zach Hartman (Bucknell) at 165 and Lou DePrez (Binghamton), who moved up to 197 this winter.
• Cornell, with new coach Mike Grey, and Princeton appear to have the most All-American potential this March, especially from Cornell’s two-time NCAA champ Yianni Diakomihalis (149) and Vito Arujau (125), who both missed the last two years after each took an Olympic redshirt in 2019-20. Of these two, Arujau appears to have the tougher road, especially against Princeton AA Pat Glory. The two met in a Feb. 5 dual when the Tiger prevailed 11-9.
• Two brothers with an African background — Army senior P.J. Ogunsanya (149) and Columbia sophomore Josh Ogunsanya (165) — could each make an impact at the EIWAs as both have been ranked all year by WIN. P.J.’s only EIWA loss came to Diakomihalis in a Jan. 15 dual, while Josh defeated Pitt’s NCAA finalist Jake Wentzel in a 4-3 tiebreaker on Feb. 6.
