Complete "A" Brackets | Complete "B" Brackets

ITHACA, N.Y.—The SUNY Oneonta wrestlers competed this weekend at the New York State Collegiate championships hosted by Cornell University.  The Red Dragons finished 12th overall with 28.5 points and bring home three All-State wrestlers, who finished in the top-8 in their respective weight classes.  Army was the overall team champion of the event that included teams from Div. I, II and III as well as junior colleges in New York State.

Earning All-State honors for Oneonta were sophomores Ben Mikac (Williamsville/Williamsville East) (133) and Stephen Provenzano (Islip/Islip) (184) and junior Joey Hauser (Yorktown Heights/Lakeland) (149).  Mikac finished 8th while Hauser and Provenzano were 7th in their respective weight classes.

The Red Dragons also had four place winners in the “B” tournament.  Sophomore Sean Hanson (Lorraine/South Jefferson) (133) and freshmen Alex Pugh (Morrisville/Peru) (125), Christian Dluginski (Garden City Park/New Hyde Park) (149) and Michael Almaviva (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) (285) all placed in the top four in their respective weight classes.  Almaviva finished in 3rd place while the other three wrestlers finished 4th.

Mikac was seeded fifth in his weight class and lost his first match, 1-0, which dropped him to the consolation side of the bracket.  In the consolation bracket he won his first match via a medical forfeit before falling to Tyler Rauenzahn of Army.  He lost in the 7/8 match to Marvin Amazan of Ithaca, 9-4.

Hauser was seeded sixth at 149 lbs. and pinned Brandon Heffernan in his opening match before being pinned in the quarterfinals.  After winning his next match 10-2 over Dan Gorman of NYU, he fell 5-3 to Ryan Dunphy of Cornell.  He finished 7th after receiving a medical forfeit in the 7/8 match.

Provenzano began his day by drawing the top seed at 184 lbs., Carl Korpi of Cortland.  He was pinned in 2:49, which dropped him to the consolation bracket.  In the consolation bracket, he pinned Tyler Brent of RIT before falling to Jake Pawlowski of NYU, 14-5.  In the 7/8 match, Provenzano defeated Alan Djokic of Hunter College, 6-1.

Oneonta will be home this coming Wednesday evening to face nationally ranked Ithaca College beginning at 7pm.