I think this should be a fairly good year for Columbia with an opportunity to qualify four wrestlers to the NCAA championships (the most since 2014) and an opportunity to crown an EIWA champion (their first since 2018).
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| 125 Joe Manchio Junior Record: 47-26 NCAA: 20'NQ EIWA: 19'5th, 20'2nd |
Manchio has some impressive wins thus far in his career, including sticking Lehigh's Brandon Paetzell in 4:13, but as of right now I see Manchio finishing about 4th in the EIWA. He's not beating Patrick Glory of Princeton or Vitali Arujau of Cornell & in two matches he has not looked good vs Hofstra's Dylan Ryder. Nevertheless, parity is high within the weight class as it is within the conference. Hard telling what will happen.
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| 133 Angelo Rini Sophomore Record: 25-10 EIWA: 20'7th |
Rini hasn't faced Brandon Paetzell of Lehigh, Michael Colaiocco of Pennsylvania or Jacob Allen of Navy. What he has done though is defeat Carme Ferrante of Pennsylvania, Michael Jaffe of Harvard and Darren Miller of Bucknell. With that said, I can see Rini as good as EIWA champion and I don't see him any worse than 4th.
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| 141 Matt Kazimir Junior Record: 44-14 NCAA: 20'NQ EIWA: 20'2nd |
Two things stick out to me when evaluating Matt Kazimir's future. A 7-5 loss to Wil Gil of Franklin & Marshall and an 18-0 technical fall over EIWA champion Malyke Hines of Lehigh. It's also important to note that Kazimir has never faced Binghamton's Zack Trampe, but he does own a victory over Army's Corey Shie. As to where I stand today, I believe Kazimir is Columbia's best shot at an EIWA individual title.
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| 165 David Berkovich Sophomore Record: 7-9 |
I'm not completely sold that Berkovich will qualify for the NCAA's, but I am pretty sure that he'll place top 8 at the EIWA championships. He owns a 2:23 fall over EIWA champion Holden Heller of Hofstra.
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125 - NQ
133 - NQ
141 - NQ
149 - DNQ
157 - DNQ
165 - Possible NQ
174 - DNQ
184 - DNQ
197 - DNQ
HWT - DNQ
Columbia looking solid throughout the lower-weights, where they should have the most success this season.
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