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ITHACA, N.Y. - Senior 174-pounder Nolen Zeigler won the 174-pound bracket at the Ithaca Invitational to highlight a group of three to place for the Lycoming College wrestling team, which finished fifth in the 12-team field, on Saturday at Glazer Arena.
Senior 197-pounder Ivan Neal placed fourth and first-year 125-pounder Teli Bobotas, a Montoursville graduate, finished fifth.
The Warriors posted 87 points to finish fifth, ahead of Penn College (63), Emmanuel (58.5), 16th-ranked Springfield (58), Oswego (54), Cortland (52.5), Norwich (49.5) and Elmira (15.5) and behind Niagara C.C. (108), 22nd-ranked Ithaca (154.5), 10th-ranked Castleton State (156) and 14th-ranked Johnson & Wales (184.5).
Zeigler opened the day with a pair of second-period pins, getting past Norwich's Jordan Sonon-Hale in the quarterfinal and Johnson & Wales' Thomas Vecchio in the semifinal before pinning Ian Sutherland of Johnson & Wales in the first period in the final.
Neal posted a 20-2 tech fall of Cortland's Chris Ayala in the quarterfinals before Avery Canzano notched a 12-4 major decision in the semifinal and Springfield's Oliver Parker earned a 2-1 win in the third place match.
Bobotas was pinned in his quarterfinal match, but came back to post a 19-3 tech fall of Penn College's Rowen Humphrey before he pinned Niagara C.C.'s Kadin Cole in 2:04 to reach the fifth-place match, where he tech-falled Emmanual's Brentan Ritchie.
The Warriors are back in action on Sunday when they head to Arcadia University to face Rowan College of South Jersey at 11:30 a.m. and 20th-ranked Arcadia at 1 p.m.