The Fighting Scots finished with 142.5 points to edge Bloomsburg, which finished with 134.5 points. Clarion was third with 110.0 points, while Lock haven grabbed fourth place with a total of 99.5 points. Ten teams competed in the championships.
Edinboro finished with a total of four champions, including a pair of three-time winners. Jarrod King and Pat Bradshaw became the 49th and 50th three-time champions at 165 and 184 lbs., respectively. King joins his brother Matt as a three-time champion.
Bloomsburg had three champions, including Nate Graham, who recorded his second straight title at 174 lbs.
Matt Moley of Bloomsburg was named the Outstanding Wrestler after wining all three of his bouts at 157 lbs. by fall. The two-time All-American pinned Jarrett Hostetter of Millersville in 2:10 in the finals. It was Moley’s first PSAC crown.
Edinboro had a young and somewhat patched up lineup, but that didn’t matter to Flynn. “Winning is winning,” he grinned afterwards. “I don’t care if it’s young guys, old guys, whatever. I thought we wrestled better than we have been. I still think that we have a little bit of work to do. We’ve been focusing on our effort. Our effort was better, even in the losing matches.”
Edinboro's Eric Morrill got the finals started with an 8-2 decision over Jason Guffey of Bloomsburg at 125 lbs., recording the matches’ only three takedowns. Cory Bowers of Gannon followed with a 4-3 decision over Clarion’s Jay Ivanco, the 125 lb. champion in 2008, in the 133 lb. title match. The two battled through two scoreless periods before Bowers posted a pair of third period takedowns to become Gannon’s first PSAC champion.
At 141 lbs., freshman Frank Hickman of Bloomsburg, the third seed, upset top-seeded Joel Webster of Edinboro by major decision, 10-2. Lock Haven’s Brock Parker, the biggest surprise of the tourney as a fifth seed, picked up a 3-1 decision in overtime over Josh Roosa of Bloomsburg, the third seed, at 149 lbs. That left Parker with wins over the first, third and fourth seeds.
Following Moley’s win at 157 lbs., King and Bloomsburg’s Ricky Schmelyun met for the second straight year in the 165 lb. championship bout. King prevailed 4-0, with a first period takedown, plus a point for stalling and riding time. King, the defending Division I national champion, won an extremely strong weight class that also included Mercyhurst’s Josh Shields, the defending Division II national champion.
Graham garnered his second straight 174 lb. title with a 5-2 decision over Shippensburg’s Chris Barrick. Bradshaw won his first two titles at 197 lbs., then moved down to 184 lbs. this year. In a wild match, he handed Shane Mallory of East Stroudsburg an 11-6 defeat thanks to a takedown and five total near-fall points.
The 197 lb. match featured a battle of top-seeded Shawn Fendone of Edinboro and Clarion freshman Alex Thomas, the second seed. Thomas need just two minutes to pin Fendone.
A year ago Chris Birchler lost the heavyweight title to Edinboro’s Joey Fendone while competing for East Stroudsburg. Now a Fighting Scot, Fendone was in Birchler’s corner as the senior won a 9-4 decision over Dan Craig of Lock Haven.
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