EAST STROUDSBURG, PA - After the morning session of the EIWA Wrestling Championships, in which the consolation rounds were completed, the top four team spots have been clinched heading into the championship finals.

Cornell, which has six finalists and two other place winners, had 121.5 points, followed by Navy in second with 101 points, Penn in third with 93.5 points, Lehigh in fourth with 80 points and Columbia in fifth with 74.5 points.

The morning session helped determine what individual athletes will compete at the NCAA Championships in Auburn Hills, Mich. in two weeks. The conference has 47 NCAA qualifiers. The top four in each weight class automatically qualify, and conference coaches select seven wildcards from the rest of the field.

Cornell had only two wrestlers in Saturday morning's action, but finished strong, as they claimed a third place with Josh Arnone at 184 pounds and a fourth place with Joey Hooker at 174 pounds. Arnone defeated top-seed David Craig of Lehigh in the bronze-medal match, 5-1.

Navy, which has four in the finals, got a third-place from John Cox at 149 pounds, and a pair of fifth-place winners in Joseph Baker at 133 pounds and Matthew Parsons at 197 pounds.

Penn, with three in the finals, got a third place from Matt Herrington at 174 pounds, and three fifth-place winners in Brett McCurdy at 141 pounds, Zachary Shanaman at 165 pounds and Lior Zamir at 184 pounds.

The wildest match of the session came at 141 pounds, when Max Meltzer of Harvard won the third-place match over Kyle Borschoff of American, 7-4 in a tiebreaker. The match went 11 minutes before Meltzer was able to emerge as the winner.

EIWA MEDAL MATCHES
Championship pairings listed
3rd and 5th place scored posted

125 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Troy Nickerson (Cornell) vs. No. 2 Matt Eveleth (Penn)
3rd - Brandon Kinney (Columbia) dec. Fernando Martinez (Army), 8-5
5th - Matt Fisk (Lehigh) maj dec. Jasen Borschoff (American), 9-0

133 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Matt Valenti (Penn) vs. No. 2 Adam Frey (Cornell)
3rd - Robert Preston (Harvard) dec. Seth Ciasulli (Lehigh), 5-4
5th - Joseph Baker (Navy) dec. David Marble (Bucknell), 10-2

141 pounds
Finals - No. 2 Matt Ciasulli (Lehigh) vs. No. 4 Matthew Kyler (Army)
3rd - Max Meltzer (Harvard) dec. Kyle Borschoff (American), 7-4 tb, 11:00
5th - Brett McCurdy (Penn) dec. Mark Savino (Brown), 5-3, sv, 9:27

149 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Jordan Leen (Cornell) vs. No. 2 JP O'Connor (Harvard)
3rd - John Cox (Navy) dec. Matthew Dunn (Columbia), 10-4
5th - Damien Swietlki (American) dec. Scott Heckman (East Stroudsburg), 11-9, sv

157 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Matt Dragon (Penn) vs. No. 2 John Jarred (Navy)
3rd - Devin Mesanko (Columbia) dec. David Nakasone (Lehigh), 3-1, sv
5th - Christian Snook (Army) dec. Robert Latessa (Harvard), 6-5

165 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Michael Cannon (American) vs. No. 3 Steve Anceravage (Cornell)
3rd - Andrew Rendos (Bucknell) dec. Shawn Kitchner (Brown), 6-4
5th - Zachary Shanaman (Penn) dec. Ricky Turk (Columbia), 8-2

174 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Matt Stolpinski (Navy) vs. No. 2 Matthew Palmer (Columbia)
3rd - Matt Herrington (Penn) dec. Joey Hooker (Cornell), 9-3
5th - Rudy Rueda (American) dec. Mike Whalen (Rutgers), 8-2

184 pounds
Finals - No. 2 Louis Caputo (Harvard) vs. No. 5 Antonio Miranda (Navy)
3rd - Josh Arnone (Cornell) dec. David Craig (Lehigh), 5-1
5th - Lior Zamir (Penn) dec. Justin Barent (Columbia), 9-3

197 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Jerry Rinaldi (Cornell) vs. No. 2. Josh Glenn (American)
3rd - Eric Lapotsky (Bucknell) dec. Matt Cassidy (Lehigh), 11-6
5th - Matthew Parsons (Navy) dec. Nick Sommerfield (Columbia), 4-2

285 pounds
Finals - No. 1 Ed Prendergast (Navy) vs. No. 3 Zach Hammond (Cornell)
3rd - Nathan Thobaben (Army) pin Levon Mock (Brown), 1:38
5th - Paul Weibel (Lehigh) dec. Kevin Lester (Columbia), 8-6, sv