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Detroit, Mich.
Princeton University
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NCAA Championships
Head coach Chris Ayres, associate head coach Sean Gray, Patrick Glory, Quincy Monday, assistant coach Nate Jackson, associate head coach Joe Dubuque and athletic trainer Michael Tremblay at the 2022 NCAA Championships.
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Glory, Monday Finish as NCAA Runners-Up as Princeton Makes More Program History
March 19, 2022 | Wrestling
Complete Results
Getting its first NCAA Championship finalist in 20 years and two in the same year for the first time ever made for some history for the Princeton wrestling team, but company for Bradley Glass '53 as the lone Princeton wrestler to win an NCAA Championship will remain a goal to pursue.
At 125 pounds, top-seeded Michigan grad student Nick Suriano was a 5-3 winner over third-seeded Princeton junior Patrick Glory, and at 157 pounds, second-seeded Northwestern grad student Ryan Deakin was a 9-2 winner over fifth-seeded Tiger junior Quincy Monday.
In the 125-pound final, Suriano took a 2-0 lead with a takedown late in the first period and made it 4-0 with a reversal early in the second. Glory pulled within 4-3 in the third on three penalty points to Suriano, who received three cautions and three stalling calls over the course of the match. Suriano added an escape to push the lead back to two points with less than 30 seconds to go and held off Glory's takedown attempts as time ran down. The match was the 16-0 Suriano's second-closest of the season, as Penn State's Drew Hildebrandt came within a point of Suriano, 2-1, during the teams' dual in January. It was also only the fourth win without bonus points for Suriano this season.
Glory ended with a 20-2 record while finishing as the NCAA runner-up and becoming Princeton's first NCAA finalist in 20 years. The All-American honor Glory earned by finishing in the top eight was his third, joining him with Matthew Kolodzik '21 as the only Tigers in program history to earn at least three All-American honors. Glory finished sixth at the 2019 NCAAs and was a 2020 All-American honoree, as was Monday, after the cancelation of the NCAAs that year.
In the 157-pound final, Monday took the lead with a takedown two minutes into the match before Deakin halved that with an escape coming out of that takedown and pulled even with an escape off the second-period start. Deakin took the lead with a takedown 39 seconds into the third period and opened up the margin with a four-point near-fall in the final minute before adding the riding-time point. The wrestlers were meeting for the third time, with Deakin winning 8-3 in the Cliff Keen Invitational final in December and 5-2 in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Midlands tournament.
Monday earned his second All-American honor and finished his season with a 24-4 record, finishing as an EIWA champion and the NCAA runner-up. His final appearance, which came after earning his first four wins at the NCAAs, made it Princeton's first time with two finalists in the same year. Deakin finished his season unbeaten at 18-0.
Princeton's 38 points were its most at the NCAA Championships in program history, surpassing the 35 Princeton had in 2019. Princeton's 16th-place finish was the sixth time in program history that the team finished in the top 20 at the NCAAs, including each of the last two times the championships were held and Princeton competed. Along with a fifth-place finish in 1951, the year Glass won the unlimited-weight title, Princeton finished 14th in 1978, 15th in 2019, 16th in 1985 and 17th in 1984. Princeton was one of only three schools with multiple finalists, along with Penn State and Michigan.
Princeton brought six wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, tied for the second-most in program history with 2019 and 2020, and behind only the seven from 2017. Along with Glory and Monday, who were NCAA qualifiers in 2019 and 2020, Marshall Keller (149) won a consolation match in his NCAAs debut, as did fellow junior Travis Stefanik (184), in what was his third NCAA ticket along with 2019 and the canceled 2020 meet. Stefanik's win was his first at the NCAAs. Freshman Luke Stout (197) won his first-round match in his debut at the meet, and sophomore Matt Cover (HWT) made his NCAA Championship debut as well.
Getting its first NCAA Championship finalist in 20 years and two in the same year for the first time ever made for some history for the Princeton wrestling team, but company for Bradley Glass '53 as the lone Princeton wrestler to win an NCAA Championship will remain a goal to pursue.
At 125 pounds, top-seeded Michigan grad student Nick Suriano was a 5-3 winner over third-seeded Princeton junior Patrick Glory, and at 157 pounds, second-seeded Northwestern grad student Ryan Deakin was a 9-2 winner over fifth-seeded Tiger junior Quincy Monday.
In the 125-pound final, Suriano took a 2-0 lead with a takedown late in the first period and made it 4-0 with a reversal early in the second. Glory pulled within 4-3 in the third on three penalty points to Suriano, who received three cautions and three stalling calls over the course of the match. Suriano added an escape to push the lead back to two points with less than 30 seconds to go and held off Glory's takedown attempts as time ran down. The match was the 16-0 Suriano's second-closest of the season, as Penn State's Drew Hildebrandt came within a point of Suriano, 2-1, during the teams' dual in January. It was also only the fourth win without bonus points for Suriano this season.
Glory ended with a 20-2 record while finishing as the NCAA runner-up and becoming Princeton's first NCAA finalist in 20 years. The All-American honor Glory earned by finishing in the top eight was his third, joining him with Matthew Kolodzik '21 as the only Tigers in program history to earn at least three All-American honors. Glory finished sixth at the 2019 NCAAs and was a 2020 All-American honoree, as was Monday, after the cancelation of the NCAAs that year.
In the 157-pound final, Monday took the lead with a takedown two minutes into the match before Deakin halved that with an escape coming out of that takedown and pulled even with an escape off the second-period start. Deakin took the lead with a takedown 39 seconds into the third period and opened up the margin with a four-point near-fall in the final minute before adding the riding-time point. The wrestlers were meeting for the third time, with Deakin winning 8-3 in the Cliff Keen Invitational final in December and 5-2 in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Midlands tournament.
Monday earned his second All-American honor and finished his season with a 24-4 record, finishing as an EIWA champion and the NCAA runner-up. His final appearance, which came after earning his first four wins at the NCAAs, made it Princeton's first time with two finalists in the same year. Deakin finished his season unbeaten at 18-0.
Princeton's 38 points were its most at the NCAA Championships in program history, surpassing the 35 Princeton had in 2019. Princeton's 16th-place finish was the sixth time in program history that the team finished in the top 20 at the NCAAs, including each of the last two times the championships were held and Princeton competed. Along with a fifth-place finish in 1951, the year Glass won the unlimited-weight title, Princeton finished 14th in 1978, 15th in 2019, 16th in 1985 and 17th in 1984. Princeton was one of only three schools with multiple finalists, along with Penn State and Michigan.
Princeton brought six wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, tied for the second-most in program history with 2019 and 2020, and behind only the seven from 2017. Along with Glory and Monday, who were NCAA qualifiers in 2019 and 2020, Marshall Keller (149) won a consolation match in his NCAAs debut, as did fellow junior Travis Stefanik (184), in what was his third NCAA ticket along with 2019 and the canceled 2020 meet. Stefanik's win was his first at the NCAAs. Freshman Luke Stout (197) won his first-round match in his debut at the meet, and sophomore Matt Cover (HWT) made his NCAA Championship debut as well.
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