The wrestling team will continue its season this weekend with trips to Clarion and Franklin & Marshall. The Tigers (2-5) face Clarion (1-0) tonight and wrestle against Franklin & Marshall (0-4) on Saturday. Princeton is coming off a great 18-16 dual-match win over Bucknell. Bucknell was marked the highest-rated team Princeton has defeated in more than a decade, and the team is looking to continue its success this weekend.
“Our team is coming off of a number of very strong individual performances at the Southern Scuffle,” sophomore 125-pounder Garrett Frey said. “Daniel Kolodzik has been really improving every week this year, and he’s slowly establishing himself as a top contender in the [Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association] this year at 157 pounds. Tony Comunale had a huge win over a ranked opponent who he had previously lost to earlier in the season. I’m hoping our team can continue to ride this momentum into Friday’s and Saturday’s duals.”
Senior 174-pounder and captain Travis Erdman is in the middle of the best season of his career. Frey is heading into the weekend 19-4 on his personal season and is looking to get 20 wins for the second year in a row. The Tigers also have five other starters with at least 10 wins, including Kolodzik, who has 15 wins so far.
“The team is looking good so far this season,” junior 165-pounder Andy Lowy said. “We have a lot of young talent and the potential to really make some noise in the Ivy League.”
Clarion’s top threat is 157-pounder James Fleming, who has won 19 of 21 matches this season. The top wrestler at Franklin & Marshall is 133-pounder Jake Bucha, who has won 11 of 12 matches this season.
“Clarion is a tough team,” Lowy said. “All their guys will go hard the whole match, so we need to keep wrestling until the last whistle and be even tougher than they are if we want to beat them.”
“This is my first competition of the season, as I’ve finally managed to make the cut down to 165 pounds. So I’m definitely using these matches to get ready for our Ivy matches in February,” he added.
This weekend’s matches are two of the last three nonconference matches left in the season before the Ivy League season starts up in February.
“This weekend really starts our string of duals,” Erdman said. “Both of the matches this weekend are winnable, and I think we will. We should win them both, and that will be a huge confidence boost going into February.”
“The Ivy matches in February are the biggest part of the year for us as a team,” Frey added. “We use every match as preparation for the Ivy duals. Wins this weekend will really boost our confidence going into February, and it will help make the next three weeks or so of training much more productive. As always, we will need to have a strong team performance and supreme individual effort to come home with two victories this weekend.”
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