Columbia University Athletics

At Columbia: Placed sixth at Easterns with wins over Zackary Morse (Princeton) 10-1, Shawn Logue (Franklin & Marshall) 4-2 and Neil Cisper (Penn) 7-2...earned All-Ivy League second team honors with conference victories against Jack Sullivan (Penn) 12-11 and Jon Butler (Harvard) 8-2...won the New York State Championships at 197...beat Connor Sanders (Army) 4-2 in the final...placed fifth at the Nittany Lion Open and was fifth at the Keystone Classic...suffered through injuries as a sophomore, only competing twice ... earned fifth place at N.Y. State Championships after winning five times ... has loads of potential ... "Nick is a talented wrestler who was coached well in a very good high school program," Brendan Buckley says ... 13-8 as a first-year after winning eight of first 10 ... earned second place in the Empire State Open, his first college competition, including a pin of the second seed ... will win the close ones -- posted consecutive 8-7 decisions over North Carolina and Clarion wrestlers in East Stroudsburg Open, had 4-3 win vs. Air Force, and 5-4 victory vs. Brown.

Reynolds High: Followed former captain and All-Ivy League standout Steve Popovitch `03 from Reynolds ... lettered in wrestling (4) and football (3) ... captained both ... Pennsylvania state runner-up at 189 as a senior for the Raiders, losing to the same person he had met a week before ... state qualifier as a sophomore at 171, seventh in the state as a junior at 189 ... three-time section champion, two-time district champ ... regional runner-up as a senior ... third at the famed Ironman Tournament, second in Manheim Holiday Tournament ... 12-11 as a first-year, followed by 30-13 as a sophomore, 38-6 as a junior, and 37-5 as a senior ... 117-35 career ... scored 254 points as a senior, among Reynolds' top four all-time ... three-time All-Mercer County on the gridiron as an offensive lineman and linebacker.

Personal: Urban studies major ... son of Todd and the late Tami ... works for his father's masonry company in the summers ... Nicholas James Sommerfeld, b. June 4, 1986 in West Palm Beach, Fla.

2004-05: 13-8, 1-0 Ivy League
2005-06: 5-3, 0-0 Ivy League
2006-07: 20-11, 2-2 Ivy League

Career: 38-22, 3-2 Ivy League