Wrestling Set for EIWA Championships

Friday, March 8

Lewisburg, Pa.

Columbia University

EIWA Championships

Photo by: Columbia University Athletics / Stockton Photo, Inc.

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The 2024 EIWA Championships start Friday and wrap up Saturday

LEWISBURG, Pa. – With the dual season complete, members of the Columbia wrestling team will look to punch tickets to the NCAA Division I Wrestling National Championships as they take part in the 120th Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships hosted by Bucknell. The championships are set to run from Friday, March 8 to Saturday, March 9.

Competition will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday from the Sojka Pavilion located within the Kenneth Langone Athletics and Recreation Center.

HOW TO WATCH/FOLLOW
EIWA Championships – Live Results | Watch (FloWrestling) | Social Media (@culionswr)

PRE-SEEDED LIONS
125 | 6 – Nick Babin
133 | 8 – Angelo Rini
141 | 5 – Kai Owen
149 | 12 – Richard Fedalen
157 | 12 – Jaden Le
165 | 9 – Kyle Mosher
174 | 3 – Lennox Wolak
184 | 5 – Aaron Ayzerov
197 | 7 – Jack Wehmeyer
285 | 13 – Vincent Mueller

SESSION SCHEDULE
- Session 1: Friday, March 8, 2024 @ 10:30 a.m. | Round of 32, Round of 16 & Consolation First Round
- Session 2: Friday, March 8, 2024 @ 4:30 p.m. | Quarterfinals, Consolation Second Round and Consolation Third Round
- Session 3: Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 10:30 a.m. | Semifinals, Consolation Quarterfinals, Consolation Semifinals & 7th Place matches
- Session 4: Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 4:45 p.m. | Finals, 3rd & 5th Place Matches
- Team & Special Awards: Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 7:15 p.m.

ABOUT THE EIWA
The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) was founded in 1905 and is the oldest and largest wrestling conference in the nation. The 17 member schools include: American, Army West Point, Binghamton, Brown, Bucknell, Columbia, Cornell, Drexel, Franklin and Marshall, Harvard, Hofstra, Lehigh, LIU, Naval, Penn, Princeton, and Sacred Heart.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ALLOCATIONS
The NCAA announced, on Sunday, March 3, the pre-allocations for qualifying for the NCAA Division I Wrestling National Championships, with the EIWA holding 53 total automatic qualifications.

Each qualifying tournament was awarded pre-allocations to the national tournament based on regular season performance by conference wrestlers through Feb. 26. The pre-allocations were determined by using a sliding scale of the three standards, win percentage, coaches' rank, and RPI ranking; while never going below the base of .700 winning percentage, top 30 coaches' ranking and top 30 RPI ranking until reaching the maximum of 29 wrestlers per weight class.

For each wrestler that reached the threshold in at least two of the three categories, his conference tournament was awarded a qualifying spot in that weight class. Each conference is awarded a minimum of one automatic qualification per weight class, which will go to the tournament champion, even if they did not have any wrestlers reach at least two of the three thresholds. NCAA championship spots for each qualifying event will be awarded at conference tournaments based solely on place-finish.

After all the conference tournaments have concluded, the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee will meet in-person to select the remaining 47 at-large qualifiers, which will be announced on March 12, while brackets and seeding will be announced on NCAA.com at 8 p.m. on March 13. All weight classes will consist of 33 wrestlers.

EIWA NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRE-ALLOCATIONS
125 – 5
133 – 5
141 – 4
149 – 4
157 – 3
165 – 5
174 – 6
184 – 7
197 – 6
285 – 8

ALL-IVY LIONS
Nick Babin, Lennox Wolak and Aaron Ayzerov were named honorable mention as part of the 2024 All-Ivy League honors as announced by the Ivy League on Wednesday, March 6.

Babin, Wolak and Ayzerov each finished the Ivy League dual slate with a 3-2 record. As a team, Columbia was 2-3 against Ivy League opponents with wins against Harvard and Brown.

FOLLOWING THE LIONS
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