Eagles Wrestling Take AAC Crown!

David Finney | photos by Nicolas Castro

Waleska, GA - Eagles Wrestling Program held the AAC Championships on Friday, February 18, 2022 which brought in all the best wrestlers from the AAC to The Brown Athletic Center. It was a day full of matches starting early in the morning going through late afternoon where ten individual weight classes were placed, but also team points were accumulated to find which team was on top.

Reinhardt Wrestling was the favorite coming in and they would place the most wrestlers into the finals. The champions earn automatic bids to go to the NAIA Nationals where the competition level is very high. In additions to the wrestling matches and crowned champions, the Eagles had two individual honors. Coach Bedard was named AAC Coach of the Year and Cole Luallen was named AAC Wrestler of the Year. Below is list of the wrestling results.

Reinhardt Honors: 

Coach of the year: Jeff Bedard

Wrestler of the year: Cole Luallen (149 pounds)

Champions

Koby Milner 125 lbs

Ivan Arguello 133 lbs

Trent Leon 141 lbs

Cole Luallen 149 lbs

Trevor Burdick 157 lbs

Matt Jenkins 165 lbs

Cole Tenety 174 lbs

Jacob Henderson 197 lbs

Nic Jarvis 285 lbs

Runner-Ups:

Michael Land 133 lbs

Dawson Bates 141 lbs

Avry Mutschler 149 lbs

The next stop is the NAIA National Championships where the competition increases for the Eagles. The tournament is March 4th & 5th in Park City, KS.