PHILADELPHIA – Penn Wrestling will host Columbia on Sunday for its second dual meet of the season. The Quakers and the Lions will meet at The Palestra at 1 p.m. on Sunday, January 23.

#23 Penn vs. Columbia  
Sunday, January 23 | 1 p.m.
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The Quakers and Lions are meeting for the first time since a February 8, 2020 when Columbia edged out Penn at the Palestra, 17-15. The Quakers won three of the first four matches, but the Lions stormed back— a tech. fall at 184 heavily contributing—to take an 11-9 lead. Penn clawed its way back in front as Michael Colaiocco put the Quakers up, 15-14 heading into the final match. However, a late third-period takedown at 133 proved to be the difference, as a 4-3 decision in that final match gave the Lions the victory.
 
Penn hosted Drexel on Tuesday for extra countable matches and took six of seven bouts from the Dragons. Before that, the Quakers closed out the 2021 portion of their schedule by taking second place at the MatMen Open. Eleven grapplers advanced their way to the quarterfinals at the MatMen Open, tops amoung competing teams. Three earned their way to title bouts as Ryan Miller (125), CJ Composto (141), Doug Zapf (157) all placed second in their weight classes.
 
Columbia is in the middle of an eight-dual meet road swing that began with losses at Lehigh (20-16), and at Oklahoma State (35-6). The Lions are scheduled to take on Princeton on Saturday at 1 p.m.  Columbia has six wrestlers nationally ranked, Joe Manchio (125) at #15, Angelo Rini (133) at #26,Matt Kazimir (141) at #11, Kyle Mosher (157) at #30, Joshua Ogunsanya (165) at #15 and, Nick Fine (174) at #23.

Quaker Notemeal
* For the 2021-22 season, Roger Reina has named Carmen Ferrante, Zapf, and Ben Goldin as captains for the #TheMovement. 
*For the third week in a row Penn had at least one wrestler ranked in each of the ten weight classes
* Ten Quakers currently hold national rankings* as announced by six national outlets. Miller (125), Colaiocco (133), Composto (141), Anthony Artalona (149), Zapf (157), Lucas Revano (165), Nick Incontrera (174), Neil Antrassian (184), Cole Urbas (197), Goldin (285) all earned national rankings.
 
PENN'S PROJECTED LINEUP *
125: #23 Ryan Miller
133: #12 Michael Colaiocco
141: #15 CJ Composto or Carmen Ferrante
149: #20 Anthony Artalona or Kaya Sement
157: #21 Doug Zapf
165: #24 Lucas Revano
174: #19 Nick Incontrera
184: #32 Neil Antrassian
197: #32 Cole Urbas
285: #33 Ben Goldin
 
COLUMBIA'S PROJECTED LINEUP *
125: #15 Joe Manchio
133: #26 Angelo Rini or Zach Witmer
141: #11 Matt Kazimir or Masoon Clarke
149: Danny Fongaro or Matt Arciuolo
157: #30 Kyle Mosher or Andy Garr
165: #15 Joshua Ogunsanya
174: #23 Nick Fine or Aaron Ayzerov
184: Brian Bonino or Jack McGill
197: Sam Wustefeld
285: Dan Conley
 
*Rankings listed are individuals highest ranking from the following list of rankings: Amateur Wrestling News, Flo-wrestling, Intermat, Wrestlstat, The Open Mat, and Wrestling Insider Newsmag.