Wabash captured four individual titles and 16 top-eight finishes to win the team title at the 2024 Adrian College Invitational to open the 2024-25 wrestling season. James Day, Edgar Albino, Andrew Ross, and Titus Waters scored individual titles at the meet.
 
Wabash won the team competition with 177 points. Adrian finished second with 128.5 points, and Case Western earned third place with a score of 115.5 points.
 
Day finished 3-0 after moving up to 133 pounds. He scored a pin in his opening bout, followed by a 17-0 tech fall in the semifinals. Day scored a 3-1 win over Art Martinez from Case Western in the finals to claim the weight class title.
 
Albino won all four bouts in his 141-pound bracket to win the weight class title. He scored a pin and a 16-1 tech fall in the first two rounds before a 4-2 decision in the semifinals sent him to the championship bout. Albino defeated Desmond Diggs from Mount St. Joseph by a 15-3 major decision to earn the title.
 
Ross finished 4-0 at 149 pounds to win the title in that weight class. He started the day with an 8-7 win before winning by pin in the quarterfinals. An 8-4 victory in the semifinal round preceded a 5-3 win over teammate Carson Fettig in the finals for the first-place finish. Fetting picked up two wins by scores of 10-3 and 5-3 to set up the championship bout against Ross and an eventual second-place finish in the bracket.
 
Waters rode a 3-0 finish to the 285-pound bracket individual championship. He earned pins in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds before scoring a 10-3 win in the title bout over Demitrius Hernandez from Heidelberg in the title match.
 
Tim Smith took second place at 157 pounds for Wabash with two pins in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds. Christopher Bohn added an eighth-place finish at 157 pounds.
 
Mawuli Nevis finished second at 165 pounds with a 3-1 record for the tournament. He scored a pin in his first bout before capturing a 4-1 sudden victory in the quarterfinals. A 4-2 win over teammate Ayden Lutes put Nevis in the championship match, where a 3-1 loss ended in a second-place finish. Jesse Herrera earned a third-place finish at 165 pounds with three wins on the day. He scored a pin in his first match of the tournament, then rallied with a 5-1 win after a semifinal-round loss. Herrera scored a 5-2 sudden victory in the consolation finals over Lutes to claim third place overall. Lutes posted two victories to earn a fourth-place finish in the 165-pound bracket. He won a tight 11-10 victory in the quarterfinal round to advance to the semis to face Nevis. Lutes rallied for a 13-6 win in the consolation round before a heartbreaking 5-2 sudden-victory loss in the finals ended in a fourth-place finish.
 
Neil Johnson finished 3-1 to earn a second-place finish at 184 pounds. He pinned opponents in the first two rounds, then scored a 30-14 tech fall in the semifinal round before a loss in the championship bout ended in a second-place finish.
 
Andrew Punzalan finished third at 125 pounds for the Little Giants with a 3-1 record in the bracket. After an opening-round loss, he posted a pin in the consolation round, then scored a 14-4 major decision and an 18-0 tech fall to earn the third-place finish. Teammate Jake Lentz earned a 7-4 victory to finish seventh in the 125-pound bracket.
 
Zach Huckaby earned three victories to capture a third-place finish at 174 pounds for Wabash. He scored a 5-3 first-round tiebreaker win, then came back to earn a tech-fall victory and a 4-0 decision in the consolation bracket after a semifinal-round loss. Jaylen Young added a fourth-place finish in the bracket by posting four victories for the tournament. He captured a first-round pin before scoring three consecutive consolation bracket wins after a quarterfinal-round loss. Young lost 4-2 to Huckaby in the third-place bout. Cooper McCloy picked up three wins to finish fifth at 174 pounds. He scored back-to-back pins in the first two rounds before a loss in the semifinal round, followed by a 3-1 loss to Young in the consolation bracket. McCloy scored an 18-0 tech fall in the finals to claim the fifth-place finish.
 
 
Seven Wabash wrestlers earned top-eight finishes in the freshmen/sophomore brackets at the tournament. Ike O'Neill won the 165-pound bracket by going 3-0 for the day with a pin, a 19-7 major decision, and a 19-3 tech-fall victory in the finals. Owen Fagan finished 4-1 for the day to finish third at 141 pounds. Lucas Murphy placed third at 157 pounds with a 3-1 record. Spencer Watson finished 4-1 in the tournament to place third in the 285-pound freshman/sophomore bracket. Dominick Paul picked up two victories for a sixth-place finish at 149 pounds. Quentin Keen won a pair of matches to finish seventh in the 125-pound bracket. Ethan Guevara placed eighth at 174 pounds in the freshman/sophomore bracket by scoring two victories.
 
Wabash will compete at the Millikin Big Blue Open and the Albion College Invitational on November 9.