GETTYSBURG, Pa. (Feb. 15, 2025) – The USMMA wrestling team won the 2025 Centennial Conference Championship on Saturday, clinching the program's first conference title since 2011! The Mariners' late push with pins in both the 184-pound and 285-pound title bouts and a runner-up showing in the 197-pound championship bout clinched the team title with 82.5 points. Ursinus came in second place with 80.5 points and Muhlenberg rounded out the top-three with 68 points.
 
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Senior Reid Garrison (Broadway, Va.) secured the Centennial's Chris Clifford Award for the most career points at the conference championship meets. He's the first Mariner to win the award since Joshua Glantzman '20.
 
Garrison took home his third-straight individual championship at heavyweight with by earning a pair of pins over Gettysburg's Simon Taylor in 2:10 in the first round, and then Muhlenberg's Andrew Franklin in the title bout in 3:10.
 
Sophomore Tyler Withers (Gettysburg, Pa.) won his second individual title at 184 with three victories. They all came by way of falls over Johns Hopkins' Noah Graber in 1:46 in the first round, Gettysburg's Carson Pascoe in 2:16 in the semifinals and then over Ursinus' Nils Updale in 4:18 for the championships.
 
Junior Wesley Wydick (Utica, Ohio) came out on top of the 133-pound bracket for his first-career title after her went 2-0 with a pair of first-period pins over McDaniel's Romeo Tsai in 1:09 in the semis and Muhlenberg's Christian Horvath in 2:29 to win the title.
 
Three other Mariners also reached the podiums with top-three finishes. Sophomore Grant Mathias (Rockwood, Pa.) was the runner-up at 197, going 2-0 with two falls in the first two rounds before dropping a 6-3 decision in the championship round to McDaniel's Valentino Pryor. Senior Eddie Pinc (Medina, Ohio) placed third at 157 after dropping his first bout, but rallying to win the next two in the wrestlebacks, his first via a pin in 4:24 and then a 6-4 decision in the third-place match. Freshman Maxwell Corral (Oak Forest, Ill.) also went 2-1 to come in third place at 174 with a loss in his first bout, followed by a technical fall in 5:47 (18-2) in the consolation semis and then an exciting 4-1 sudden victory decision in the third-place bout.
 
Also picking up wrestleback victories for Merchant Marine were seniors Charlie Lausten (Ashburn, Va.) at 141 with a tech. fall in 5:14 (18-1) and Austin Manning (Virginia Beach, Va.) at 165 with a 4-2 decision.
 
Up next, the Mariners will compete at the 2025 NCAA Region III Championship Meet hosted by Messiah University in Grantham, Pa., Feb. 28-March 1.
 
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