University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Career Honors
2023 NCAA Qualifier 
2023 First-Team All-Ivy
2022 NCAA Qualifier
2019 EIWA Champion (149)
2019 NCAA Qualifier (149)
2019 Midlands Championships Sixth Place (157)
2018 Michigan State Open Champion (149)
2019 Michigan State Open Runner-Up (157)
2018 Keystone Classic Third Place (149)
2019 Second-Team All-Ivy
2019 NWCA All-Academic
2019 EIWA Academic Achievement Award

International Experience
2019: Third place at 2019 U23 World Team Trials in Greco (72kg) ... Seventh place at 2019 U23 World Team Trials in freestyle (74kg). 

2022-23 (157): Moved up a weight class from his junior season … Placed second at the 119th EIWA Championships to earned his third trip to the NCAA Championships … Named first-team All-Ivy for the second time in his career … Led the team with 26 total wins with an overall record of 26-6, 10-3 in dual meets, 7-1 against EIWA opponents, and 4-1 in Ivy action … Consistently in the national rankings and ended the regular season ranked by the NCAA Coaches' Panel (#16), Amateur Wrestling News (#20), Flo-wrestling (#24), Intermat (#17), Wrestlestat (#15), and The Open Mat (#20) … Two-time champion of his weight class, taking home the 157-pound title at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic and the PRTC Keystone Classic … Set a career record with a 13-second pin in the opening bout of the Midlands Championships (12/29), earning him the title of Fastest Fall and taking fourth place at The Championships in Hoffman Estates, Ill.

2021-22: Posted a 13-5 overall record … Went 4-3 in dual meets … Earned a 4-2 record over EIWA opponents … Went 1-2 in Ivy duals … Picked up dual wins over Columbia (1/23), #14 Lehigh (2/4), LIU (2/6), and American (2/20).

2020-21: All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 ... One of three team captains.

2019-20: One of three team captains … Missed second half of the season due to injury … Posted a 14-6 record … Placed second at the Michigan State Open (11/2) … Placed sixth at the prestigious Midlands Championships (12/29-30) … Placed third at the Keystone Classic (11/24) … Ranked fifth on the team with 34 takedowns … Tied for eighth on the team with 14 wins … Tenth on the team with 52 team points … Five wins over ranked opponents.

2018-19: EIWA Champion (149 pounds) … NCAA Championships qualifier (149) … Finished Round of 12 at NCAAs … Michigan State Open champion (149) … Third place at Keystone Classic (149) … Second-team All-Ivy … NWCA All-Academic selection … EIWA Academic Achievement Award recipient … Team high 28 wins … 28-7 overall record … 11-3 in dual meets ... 17-2 against EIWA opponents ... Team-high five falls … Most wins by a Penn freshman since 2006 … First Penn freshman to win an EIWA championship since 2006 … Went 4-0 at MSU Open to win championship (11/3) … Went 5-1 at Keystone Classic to take third (11/19) … Pinned Rider’s Evan Fidelibus in dual meet (11/29) … Defeated Maryland’s No. 18 Alfred Bannister in overtime, 5-3, in dual meet (12/2) … Went 2-1 at Midlands (12/29) … Went 4-0 at EIWA Championships to win title (3/8-9) … Defeated Navy’s Jared Prince, 3-1 (SV), in championship match … Went 3-2 at NCAA Championships in Pittsburgh to finish Round of 12 (3/21-22) … Earned No. 13 seed at NCAAs … After a 5-4 loss in first round to Minnesota’s No. 20 Tommy Thorn, won three in a row to reach the Round of 12 … Defeated No. 29 Matthew Zovistoski (Appalachian State), 16-1 … Defeated No. 19 Cole Martin (Wisconsin), 7-2 … Defeated No. 28 Michael Sprague (American), 3-1 (SV) … Edged in Round of 12 by No. 8 Jarret Degen (Iowa State), 6-5.

High School: Ranked No. 21 overall in the Class of 2018 by InterMat … Ranked No. 32 overall in the Class of 2018 by FloWrestling … Ranked No. 7 in the country at 152 pounds by FloWrestling … Ranked No. 7 in the country at 152 pounds by InterMat … Three-time Fargo Freestyle national champion … 2017 Junior National Greco Roman finalist … Four-time Florida state champion (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018) … Competed at FloWrestling's "Who's Number One" event in 2017 … Runner-up at 2017 Walsh Ironman at 152 pounds … Served as team captain.
 
Personal: Son of Christina and George Artalona … Father played football at Potomac State College … Uncle, Chris, wrestled at Chattanooga … Enrolled in the School of Engineering and Applied Science ... Athletic experience at Penn endowed by the Cudzil Family Wrestling Student-Athlete Experience Endowment.