LEWISBURG, Pa. – The nationally ranked University of Pennsylvania wrestling team completed the first day of the 2024 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships at Bucknell University on Friday night.
 
Penn sits tied for third in the field of the tournament at 62.5 points, with eight grapplers still fighting to place heading into the final day of the championships. Junior Nick Incontrera was the first Quaker to punch his ticket to the 2024 NCAA Wrestling Championships from his two wins in the first and second sessions.
 
#18 CJ Composto (141), #23 Jude Swisher (149), #23 Lucas Revano (157), and #6 Incontrera (174) all went 2-0 on the day to secure a spot in Saturday's semifinal round. Max Gallagher (125), #21 Maximus Hale (184), #25 Cole Urbas (197), and John Stout fell to the consolation bracket but will continue their quest to place on Saturday.
 
Composto won two decisional battles in the first and second sessions to cement himself in the 141-semifinal round. The junior opened his outing with a hard-fought battle against Harvard's Michael Jaffe. In a similar fashion to the regular season meeting between the two Ivy foes, the match went back-and-worth with Composto coming out on top by decision, 10-9, thanks to a takedown in the third period.
 
First-year standout Swisher had an outing in his EIWA debut, pinning Michael Zarif (Binghamton) in 4:04 before beating Princeton's Eligh Rivera for a second time this year. In the quarterfinal contest with #29 Rivera, Swisher scored three takedowns in the match to top the Tiger by a major decision, 13-1.
 
Revano continued his stellar senior run during the first day of the tournament as he opened the round of 16 with a 19-4 tech fall over Dominic Wheatley (Franklin and Marshall). In the quarterfinals, Revano grabbed a decision over Harvard's James Harrington, 9-3, to advance to the semifinal round.
 
Junior Incontrera secured his spot at Kansas City with a pair of day-one wins. The #6 wrestler opened his third EIWA Championships appearance with a major decision over Lehigh's Connor Herceg, tallying four takedowns over the Mountain Hawk to win 15-4. Incontrera's quarterfinal win from a sudden victory battle with host Bucknell's Myles Takats. The New Jersey native recorded the sole takedown in overtime to claim a 4-1 victory and a spot in the semifinals.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Gallagher, Swisher, and Adam Thomson (165) made their EIWA Championships debuts in the first session.
 
*The Red and Blue had eight wrestlers in Gallagher, #9 Michael Colaiocco (133), Composto, Swisher, Revano, Hale, and Urbas make it to the quarterfinal round of their weight classes.
 
*Gallagher, Composto, Swisher, Revano, Hale, and Urbas can still punch their tickets to Kansas City in Saturday's round of action.
 
Day 1 Results
125
Max Gallagher (7)
RD16: Gallagher (Penn) def. Mike Joyce (Brown), 14-4 MD
QF: Brett Ungar (Cornell) def. Gallagher (Penn), 4-3 DEC
CONS 8 (2): Gallagher (Penn) def. Desmond Pleasant (Drexel), 15-7 MD
 
133
#9 Michael Colaiocco (3)
RD16: Colaiocco (Penn) def. Sean Pierson (Princeton), 11-2 MD
QF: Braden Basile (Army West Point) def. Colaiocco (Penn), 13-5 MD
CONS 8 (2): Micah Roes (Binghamton) def. Colaiocco (Penn), 7-3 DEC
 
141
#18 CJ Composto (4)
RD16: Composto (Penn) def. Michael Jaffe (Harvard), 10-9 DEC
QF: Composto (Penn) def. Kai Owen (Columbia), 8-3 DEC
 
149
#23 Jude Swisher (4)
RD16: Swisher (Penn) def. Michael Zarif (Binghamton), 4:04 F
QF: Swisher (Penn) def. #29 Eligh Rivera (Princeton), 13-1 MD
 
157
#23 Lucas Revano (2)
RD16: Revano (Penn) def. Dominic Wheatley (Franklin & Marshall), 19-4 TF
QF: Revano (Penn) def. James Harrington (Harvard), 9-3 DEC
 
165
Adam Thomson (15)
RD16: #17 Brevin Cassella (Binghamton) def. Thomson (Penn), 4-2 DEC
CONS 16 (2): Thomson (Penn) def. Calvin Pineda (Sacred Heart), 20-4 TF
CONS 8 (1): Jake Logan (Lehigh) def. Thomson (Penn), 8-1DEC
 
174
#6 Nick Incontrera (2)
RD16:  Incontrera (Penn) def. Connor Herceg (Lehigh), 15-4 MD
QF: Incontrera (Penn) def. Myles Takats (Bucknell), 4-1 DEC, SV
 
184
#21 Maximus Hale (4)
RD16: Hale (Penn) def. Will Conlon (Hofstra), 12-1 MD
QF: #26 Aaron Ayzerov (Columbia) def. Hale (Penn), 6:18 F
CONS 8 (2): Hale (Penn) def. Justin Griffith (Drexel), 8-3 DEC
 
197
#25 Cole Urbas (5)
RD16: Urbas (Penn) def. Cael Crebs (Navy), 6:55 F
QF: #12 Luke Stout (Princeton) def. Urbas (Penn), 17-2 TF
CONS 8 (2): Urbas (Penn) def. Wolfgang Frable (Army West Point), 6:42 F
 
285
John Stout (9)
RD16: #31 Matthew Cover (Princeton) def. Stout (Penn), 13-3 MD
CONS 8 (1): Stout (Penn) def. Harrison Shapiro (Franklin & Marshall), 4-1 DEC
CONS 8 (2): Grady Griess (Navy) def. Stout (Penn), 6:23 F