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Junior Scott Giffin defeated No. 6 Mike Benefiel en route to All-America honors and a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Tournament, the highest finish for a Penn wrestler since 2007.
The EIWA tournament will be held at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena this Saturday and Sunday, and will feature 13 teams all fighting for the season crown.
The Penn wrestling team made quick work of an inferior Princeton squad Saturday, downing the Tigers, 23-11. Sunday proved less fruitful, however, as the Quakers could not keep up with the No. 7 Mountain Hawks, falling 30-9.
The Quakers walked away from their trip to Hofstra on Sunday having won six of their eight contests on the day (each team won a decision by forfeit), culminating in a 31-12 drumming of the Pride (5-7-2).
The Quakers will travel to Hempstead, N.Y., Sunday to take on a hobbled Hofstra team that has seen its starting 125- and 149-pound starters go down with season-ending injuries.
In a doubleheader of sorts, the Red and Blue lost to a ranked Pittsburgh squad and then hopped on the bus to nearby Wexford, Pa., to enact some revenge against Clarion.
Penn senior wrestlers Cesar Grajales and Matt Dragon are on the injury report once again as the Quakers travel across the state Saturday to take on No. 23 ranked Pittsburgh.
When they face the the No. 23 Panthers tomorrow, the Quakers will go up against many of the same wrestlers they upset in a 20-16 victory last year when the Panthers were ranked 24th.
Though the Penn wrestling team entered Sunday’s match on the high of a two-game win streak and with a golden opportunity to take down a national powerhouse, they left disappointed.
Though the stat sheet might suggest that the Virginia wrestling team bested Penn at last month’s Southern Scuffle, the less heralded Quakers may have actually left with the advantage.