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UB wrestlers meet end on first day of NCAA Championships

John Arceri, Jay Nivison and Michael Petite represented the Bulls on the national stage

Graduate John Arceri (blue singlet) represented UB last week at the NCAA Championships.
Graduate John Arceri (blue singlet) represented UB last week at the NCAA Championships.

All three UB wrestlers competing in last week’s NCAA Championships in Detroit resigned their singlets just one day into the event.

The three-day conference at Little Caesars Arena saw graduate student John Arceri and redshirt freshman Jay Nivison make their first career appearances at the NCAA Championships. Two-time NCAA veteran redshirt-junior Michael Petite also represented the Bulls on the national stage. 

All three Bulls fell to big-name opponents at the first hurdle on Thursday.

Arceri competed in the 149 lb. division. The Long Island native dropped a 5-0 decision to Ohio State redshirt junior Sammy Sasso, the fourth seed and the Big Ten runner-up, before getting pinned by Northern Iowa redshirt sophomore Colin Realbuto in the first period.

Nivison was pinned by four-time All-American NC State graduate student Hayden Hidlay, before dropping an 8-0 major decision to Wyoming redshirt senior Hayden Hastings. 

A fighting spirit never left Petite, as he trailed 4-2 against NC State freshman Ed Scott — an ACC champion — but rallied to tie the match in the second period with an impressive escape. But Scott got the better of him with a pin, landing Petite in the consolation bracket, where he faced off against Pittsburgh redshirt senior Elijah Cleary and dropped a 3-2 decision. 

UB went 12-6 overall and 7-2 in Mid-American Conference duals this season. That’s the most MAC wins the Bulls have ever earned in a season.

The mats will return in fall 2022.

Sophie McNally is an assistant sports editor and can be reached at sophie.mcnally@ubspectrum.com


SOPHIE MCNALLY
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Sophie McNally is an assistant sports editor at The Spectrum. She is a history major studying abroad for a year from Newcastle University in the UK. In her spare time, she can be found blasting The 1975 or Taylor Swift and rowing on a random river at 5 a.m.  

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