Meet your 2021 Illinois Matmen champs and placers
Pictured: Greg Bulsak,  Rutgers' 2021 Illinois MatMen Champion (197). Photo courtesy of Rutgers Athletics. 

BRACKETS AND RESULTS

Official 2021 Matmen Open brackets  and results can be found on Tournaflex. Click here

Finals

125 - Justin Cardani (Illinois) over Ryan Miller (Penn) 4-3 133 - Lucas Byrd (Illinois) over Micky Phillipi (Pittsburgh) 5-4 141 - Sebastian Rivera (Rutgers) over CJ Composto (Penn) 18-3 149 - Josh Heil (Campbell) over Austin Gomez (Wisconsin) 3-1SV 157 - Elijah Cleary (Pittsburgh) over Doug Zapf (Penn) 9-8 165 - Dean Hamiti (Wisconsin) over Phil Conigliaro (Harvard) 21-6 174 - Edmond Ruth (Unattached) over Mason Kauffman (Northern Illinois) 3-2TB 184 - Myles Amine (Michigan) over Mark Hall (Michigan) 4-2 197 - Greg Bulsak (Rutgers) over Nino Bonaccorsi (Pittsburgh) 3-2 285 - Trent Hillger (Wisconsin) over Ethan Laird (Rider - Unattached) 2-0

3rd

125 - Antonio Lorenzo (Cal Poly) over Sheldon Seymour (Lehigh) 13-5 133 - Drew Mattin (Michigan) over Julian Farber (Northern Iowa) 10-0 141 - Cole Matthews (Pittsburgh) fall Joe Zargo (Wisconsin) 4:14 149 - Anthony Artalona (Penn) over Anthony White (Rutgers) 3-1 157 - Jake Keating (Virginia) over Alex Carida (Bloomsburg) 5-3 165 - Jake Wentzel (Pittsburgh) over Izzak Olejnik (Northern Illinois) 3-0 174 - Manuel Rojas (High School) over Reece Heller (Hofstra) 8-4 184 - Bernie Truax (Cal Poly) fall Zac Braunagel (Illinois) :46 197 - Braxton Amos (Wisconsin) over Cody Baldridge (North Central) 3-1 285 - Luke Luffman (Illinois) over Nathan Taylor (Lehigh) 6-1

5th

125 - Dylan Shawver (Rutgers) over Blair Orr (Penn) 12-3 133 - Joey Olivieri (Rutgers) over Carter Bailey (Lehigh) 16-3 141 - Parker Filius (Purdue) over McKenzie Bell (Rider) 9-6 149 - Max Brignola (Lehigh) over Lukus Stricker (Harvard) 8-5 157 - Brawley Lamer (Cal Poly) medical forfeit Kendall Coleman (Purdue) 165 - Zach Hartman (Bucknell) over Lucas Revano (Penn) 7-0 174 - Gerrit Nijenhuis (Purdue) over Connor O'Neill (Rutgers) 14-3 184 - Trey Munoz (Oregon State) over Brit Wilson (Northern Illinois) 12-7 197 - Cole Urbas (Penn) medical forefit Ryan Reyes (Oregon State) 285 - Michael Woulfe (Purdue) over Jake Slinger (Pittsburgh) 8-4

7th

125 - Gage Curry (Pittsburgh) over Lucian Brink (Northern Illinois) 4-2 133 - Jack Wagner (Northern Iowa) over Kurt Phipps (Bucknell) 8-4 141 - We Rachel (Illinois) fall Carmen Ferrante (Penn) 2:56 149 - Al DeSantis (Rutgers) medical forfeit Christian Kanzler (Illinois) 157 - Grant Zamin (Unattached) over Garrett Model (Wisconsin) 4-3 165 - Holden Heller (Hofstra) over Danny Braunagel (Illinois) 6-5 174 - Nick Incontrera (Penn) over Joshua Kim (Harvard) 8-0 184 - Neil Antrassian (Penn) over Gregg Harvey (Pittsburgh) 8-3 197 - Chris Kober (Campbell) over Levi Hopkins (Campbell) 6-1 285 - Ben Goldin (Penn) over Boone McDermott (Rutgers) 6-4

Team Scores

1) Pittsburgh 121.5 2) Penn 118 3) Wisconsin 117 4) Illinois 105 5) Rutgers 94

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