The Wabash College wrestling team posted 13 top-eight finishes with five individual titles in the ten weight classes to dominate Saturday's Spartan Mat Classic at Manchester University. The Little Giants finished first out of 13 teams competing in the tournament.
 
Evan Burge, Daniel Uribe, Tyson Nisley, Ray Arebalo, and Chase Baczek each won their respective weight classes. Burge won four bouts at 141 pounds and recorded two technical falls and a pin against Baldwin Wallace's Keegan McMahon.
 
Uribe scored three pins and a tech fall to win the 149-pound title. He dropped Marian University's Ian Heath in 54 seconds before scoring pins against Claude Buckmaster from Heidelberg (6:25) and Brody Arthur from Manchester (4:50) on the way to a 5-0 record for the day to win the weight class title.
 
Nisley earned five victories in all of his 157-pound matches to claim the title in that weight class. He recorded a pin against Jeffrey Nixon (4:21) in the opening match. Nisley added a pin against Thomas West from Baldwin Wallace (6:39) before pinning Cornerstone's Thade Radosa in the finals to claim the 157-pound title.
 
Arebalo recorded five victories with a tech fall and three major decisions to earn the 174-pound weight class crown. Baczek scored four wins, including three tech falls, in the 184-pound bracket to capture first place overall in that weight class.
 
Blake McGee placed second at 141 pounds. He won three consecutive matches by tech falls before losing to Burge in the title bout. Ayden Lutes scored a second-place finish at 149 pounds. He earned two early victories by decision before advancing to the finals against Uribe.
 
Andrew Punzalan picked up three wins with two tech falls, including a victory in the finals of the 125-pound weight class to finish third overall. Eero Gross won five consecutive matches after an opening-round loss to place fifth at 165 pounds. Gross scored a tech fall in the second round and a pin in the third on his way to a fifth-place finish. Neil Johnson wrestled to fifth place in the 197-pound weight class by recording four victories, including three straight wins in his final three bouts. He pinned three different opponents – Joshua McKelvin from Marian University (2:56), Geoffry Kaminsky from Ohio Wesleyan (0:50), and Matt Hanke from UW-Oshkosh (0:53) in the finals.
 
Mawuli Nevis added a sixth-place finish at 165 pounds with four victories. He earned a tech fall in the consolation second round before pinning Andrew Mushkin from Ohio Wesleyan (0:47). Nevis added a major decision and a two-point victory in the next two rounds before facing Gross in the finals to finish in sixth place. Caleb Drousis earned a sixth-place finish at 133 pounds by scoring three wins with a major decision. Andrew Ross finished seventh at 149 pounds with five victories in the bracket, including three tech falls and a major decision.
 
Wabash raced away to the team title with 192.5 points, well ahead of Baldwin Wallace in second place with 118.5 points. Cornerstone finished in third place with 112.5 points, and Marian University took fourth place with 107.5 points.
 
The Little Giants will host the Wabash Invitational next Saturday at the Knowling Fieldhouse beginning at 9 a.m.