After kicking off the 2021-22 season a week ago when it crowned three individual champions at the Clarion Open, the Navy wrestling team will keep its focus on tournament action when it travels to Vestal, N.Y. to compete at the 12-Annual Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open on Sunday. The tournament will be held at the Events Center with doors opening at 8:00 am and competition set for 9:00 am.

The tournament is held annually on the second Sunday in November (right around Veterans Day) to honor former Binghamton graduate and wrestler (2007-10) Jonathan Kaloust, a Navy SEAL who was killed in the line of duty in May of 2013.

An "open" tournament, there will be no team scoring and unattached wrestlers are eligible to compete. The field includes wrestlers representing American, Binghamton, Bloomsburg, Brown, Bucknell, Buffalo, Clarion, Columbia, Cornell, Edinboro, Franklin & Marshall, Lock Haven, Navy, Penn State, Princeton, Rider and Sacred Heart. Navy is expected to send 17 wrestlers to the Bearcat Open.

FloWrestling will handle the multimedia coverage with live brackets on its website, while a live video stream ($) will also be available via the Bearcat Wrestling Club. Links to both the live brackets and video stream are available on the NavySports.com website.

Projected Navy Lineup
• 125 - Jacob Allen (Sr, Poway, Calif.)  / Dayton DelViscio (Fr, Media, Pa.) or Grant Treaster (So, Newton, Kan.)
• 133 - Josh Koderhandt (Fr, Belleville, Ill.) / Luke Lucerne (So, Newtown, Pa.)
• 141 - Jonathan Miranda (Sr, Poway, Calif.)
• 149 - PJ Crane (Jr, Horsham, Pa.) / Payne Carr (Fr, Sturgis, Ky.)
• 157 - Andrew Cerniglia (So, Nazareth, Pa.)
• 165 - Val Park (Jr, Edmond, Okla.) / Sammy Starr (Fr, Leechburg, Pa.)
• 174 - Shane Finney (Sr, Carlsbad, Calif.) / Cael Crebs (Fr, Montoursville, Pa.)
• 184 - David Key (So, Norcross, Ga.) / Hunter Johns (Jr, Dayton, Ohio)
• 197 - Jacob Koser (Jr, Dillsburg, Pa.)
• 285 - Grady Griess (So, Grand Island, Neb.) / Riley Smith (Sr, Mason, Mich.)

Mids In the Rankings (Intermat // FloWrestling // Amateur Wrestling News)
• 125 - Jacob Allen - 32 // NR // NR
• 157 - Andrew Cerniglia - 23 // NR // NR
• 184 - David Key - 29 // 21 // 17
• 197 - Jacob Koser - 21 // 23 // 19

Weekly Rewind
• Navy opened the 2021-22 campaign last Sunday at the Clarion Open where freshman Josh Koderhandt (133) joined returning NCAA qualifiers Andrew Cerniglia (157) and Jacob Koser (197) atop the podium as individual champions.
• Wrestlers representing 26 different institutions (including unattached wrestlers), along with a handful of unrostered competitors took part in the open.
• 15 wrestlers took the mat for the Mids with five placing among the top six in their respective weight classes.
• Five of the 15 wrestlers in action for Navy were making their collegiate debut - Dayton DelViscio (125 / Fr / Media, Pa.), Josh Koderhandt (133 / Fr / Belleville, Ill.), Payne Carr (149 / Fr / Sturgis, Ky.), Cael Crebs (175 / Fr / Montoursville, Pa.) and Grady Griess (285 / So / Grand Island, Neb.) - and all five won at least one match.
• Fourth-seeded Josh Koderhandt dominated the competition en route to winning his first-collegiate tournament title in what also was his first-collegiate tournament appearance. He outscored his opponents 22-1, including defeating David Evans of Penn State in the finals by a 10-1 major decision. Additionally, he pinned West Virginia's Garett Lautzenheiser at 3:34 in the semifinals.
• Second-seeded Andrew Cerniglia claimed his first-collegiate tournament title after his first season was limited to duals due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Cerniglia pinned his first-two opponents in 50 seconds and 1:28 before scoring decisions over the No. 3 (8-3) and No. 4 (11-4) seeds.
• Top-seeded Jacob Koser earned his second-career tournament title (2019-20 All-Academy Championship) by putting together a 4-0 mark and featured a 13-5 major decision over third-seeded William Feldkamp of Clarion in the finals.
• David Key (184) was named a Second-Team Preseason All-EIWA selection by Intermat behind Binghamton's Lou Deprez, a 20021 All-American and two-time EIWA Champion.

What's Ahead
• The Midshipmen will play host to the annual Navy Classic next Saturday, Nov. 20 at Wesley Brown Field House. Action will begin at 10:00 am.
• The field includes wrestlers from American, Bloomsburg, Bucknell, The Citadel, Cleveland State, Edinboro, Kent State, Lock Haven, Michigan State, Navy, Ohio, Rutgers and VMI.
• Admission to the 2021 Navy Classic is free
• A reminder that vehicular access to the Naval Academy is limited to those drivers with a Department of Defense identification card.
• All other visitors may park outside of the Naval Academy grounds and walk through the security gates at Gate 1 or they may take the complimentary shuttles. The shuttles will run from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm and will pick spectators up in front of the Naval Health Clinic located at the Naval Station (695 Kinkaid Rd, Annapolis, MD 21402) and will have drop-offs at Alumni Hall (women's basketball game), followed by Wesley Brown Field House where wrestling is being held.
• Visitors 18 years and older must present a government-issued identification card (driver's license / passport) to gain access to the Academy grounds, while visitors under 18 must by accompanied by an adult.
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