Results

MOORHEAD, Minn. (Dec. 5, 2015) - The LIU Post wrestling team went out with a flourish in its trip to the Midwest, recording 11 Top-5 finishes at the Dragon Open, hosted by Minnesota State University-Moorhead on Saturday at Nemzek Fieldhouse.

Sophomore Joe Calderone (Huntington Station, N.Y.) and junior Vinny Turano (Wantagh, N.Y.) led the way with respective second-place finishes at 133 and 141 lbs.

Calderone majored (9-0) and teched (15-0) his first two opponents, before pinning Augsburg's Jacob Raymond in 2:24 to advance to the final. In their second meeting in as many days, Calderone fell to the nation's second-ranked wrestler, Blake Bosch of MSU-Moorhead, by an 8-2 count.

Turano scored 14-9 and 17-7 decisions over North Dakota State's Mitchell Friedman and Thomas Walton, en route to reaching the 141-lb. title bout. However, Turano lost a close 4-3 match to St. Cloud State's Taner Trembley.

Sophomores Matt Langan (Wantagh, N.Y.) and Ronnie King (Islip, N.Y.) individually wrestled their way to third-place showings in the 149- and 184-lb. brackets.

Langan, after an opening-round bye, blanked MSU's Dylan Connell, 4-0, but lost 6-1 to North Dakota State's Kyle Gliva to advance to the wrestlebacks. Langan later squared off again with Connell in the third-place match and came away victorious, 5-1.

King won all of his matches on the afternoon via decision. Despite a 3-2 loss to NDSU's Alexander Bleeker in the semifinals, King beat freshman teammate Logan McGinn (Medford, N.Y.), who eventually placed fifth, and Tim Young in the consolation bracket to secure a third-place finish.

Sophomore Ed Ramirez, Jr. (Massapequa, N.Y.) placed fourth at 165. He pinned his first opponent in 4:18, and followed with majors of Jamestown's Jacob Paul (12-0) and Rochester Community College's Tyler Vogt (16-2). However, in the third-place bout, Ramirez came up short in a 2-0 loss to Chris Schmidt of Ridgewater.

In addition to McGinn, five other Pioneers finished fifth. They were junior Tyler Walsh (West Islip, N.Y.) at 125, sophomores Jake Horton (Medford, N.Y.) at 197 and James Louison (Hauppauge, N.Y.) at 285, and freshmen T.J. Fabian (Wading River, N.Y.) at 141 and Dan Arkow (Merrick, N.Y.) at 174.

Fabian pinned back-to-back opponents in the wrestlebacks, including NDSU's Friedman in the fifth-place bout. McGinn and Louison also clinched their fifth-place spots via pinfall. Arkow majored Jamestown's Chris Love, 9-1, in his fifth-place match.

Head Coach Joe Patrovich and his LIU Post squad return to the mat next Saturday (Dec. 12), when they wrestle at the Mariner Duals, hosted by the United States Merchant Marine Academy at 11 a.m. in Kings Point, N.Y.