Wrestling at the Fessenden Tournament

The Eaglebrook wrestling team awoke early on Saturday morning to travel to Fessenden School for their annual wrestling tournament. For our older wrestlers, it was their only tournament of the season, as our tournament was snowed out, and we were unable to travel to Cardigan Mountain because of fog. As this was our last meet or tournament of the year, everyone wanted to perform well, especially our sixth formers. We arrived a little early, which gave us ample time to weigh in, to cut our nails, and in one case, to shave our facial hair.

After the coach’s meeting, where we decided the brackets, the wrestling began. Many of our wrestlers were off to a tough start, as few were able to win their first matches. This automatically seeded those wrestlers who lost into the consolation bracket. However, we did have some wrestlers make it on to the next round. Despite this success, none of our wrestlers made it to the finals in their brackets. Instead, we had several wrestlers win their consolation brackets, which gave them third place. Those wrestlers were Noah Burstein ’16 in the 96.6 lb. weight class, PJ Miccoli ’14 in the 134 lb. weight class, and Bryan Wijaya ’13 in the 220.8 weight class. Joseph Kwon ’13 also placed fourth in the 220.8 weight class. Overall, our team placed eighth out of fourteen. We had a strong season this school year, and we look forward to continuing to develop our wrestlers as our program progresses.