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2024-25 Wrestling Roster

Levi Ventura
Tony DiMarco
Michael Nance
Sam Janicki
Michael Nance

Max Gallagher

  • Position 125
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Blue Point, N.Y.
  • Highschool Bayport-Blue Point

Biography

CAREER HONORS
2025: NCAA Qualifier
2025: Ivy League Championships Second Place
2025: Ivy League Qualifier
2025: Unanimous First Team All-Ivy
2025: NWCA Scholar All-American
2024: Keystone Classic Champion
2024: NCAA Qualifier
2024: NWCA Scholar All-American
2024: EIWA Qualifier
2023: Keystone Classic Champion

2024-25:
Went 23-10 on the year, posting a strong 12-2 dual record … Recorded a perfect 5-0 Ivy League record off wins over Columbia's (1/24) Sulayman Bah (11-3 MD), Harvard's (2/2) Isaia Adams (4:13 F), Brown's )2/2) Jared Brunner (19-4 TF), nationally ranked Cornell's (2/9) Marcello Miliani (12-3 MD), and Princeton's (2/16) Eligh Rivera (8-3 DEC) to land Unanimous First Team All-Ivy … Picked up ranked dual wins over Virginia’s (12/6) #28 Keyveon Roller (23-8) and Rutgers’ (2/19) #8 Dean Peterson (5-4) … Placed fourth at the Journeymen Classic (11/10), topping Harvard’s #13 Diego Sotelo (4-1, SV) … Placed first at the Keystone Classic (11/24) off a perfect 4-0 outing … Placed sixth at the Midlands Championships (12/29-30), highlighted by a win over Cal Poly’s Koda Holeman (4-1, SV) in the quarterfinals … Earned runner-up at 124 at the Ivy League Championships, topping the Crimson’s Sotelo (13-4) to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships … Topped Cornell’s #32 Milani to grab at victory at the NCAA Championships (3/20-22).

2023-24: Posted a 20-10 overall record … Went 5-3 in duals, picking up Ivy wins over Brown (2/3), Harvard (2/4), and Princeton (2/17) to land Second Team All-Ivy … Won his first collegiate dual over North Carolina’s (1/12) Marco Tocci (20-4) … Placed first at Keystone Classic (11/19) … Captured fifth place at the EIWA Championships (3/8-9) to qualify for NCAA Championships in Kansas City (3/21-22).

High School: Four-year varsity letterman and captain under coach Dave Cruz … 2022 New York State Champion 156-12 career high school record … 2022 Fargo All-American (5th) … 2022 Super 32 All-American (5th) … 2022 Iron Man All-American … Named top NY wrestler of the class of 2023 … Finished high school career ranked #3 in the nation at 126 lbs. (2022-2023) … National Honors Society … Seal of biliteracy in Spanish … 2023 Doc Fallot scholar-athlete award recipient.
 
Personal: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    125
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    125