Pitt Wrestling Earns Six Freestyle All-America Honors
4/30/2010 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
April 30, 2010
PITTSBURGH - The Pitt wrestling program continues to add to its success in the off-season as six current Panthers have earned Freestyle All-America honors at various national championships.
Rising junior and 2010 NCAA All-American Tyler Nauman (Middletown, Pa./Middletown) finished second at the University Freestyle Nationals and has been selected to represent USA Wrestling at the Pan American Championships, which will take place in Monterrey, Mexico on May 2. Nauman will compete in the 163-pound weight class and will be joined by former Pitt National Champion and former assistant coach Keith Gavin, who will compete at 185 pounds. The duo makes up two of the eight-person freestyle team competing.
In addition, Nauman will join teammates Ethan Headlee and Ryan Tomei at the University World Team Trials in Colorado Springs at the end of May. Headlee (Waynesburg, Pa./Waynesburg) finished eighth at the US Freestyle Open and Tomei (Irwin, Pa./Penn-Trafford) took third at the University Freestyle Nationals.
Qualifying for the Junior World Team Trials in Colorado Springs are Anthony Zanetta (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks) who finished second at the FILA Junior Nationals, P.J. Tasser (Belle Vernon, Pa./Belle Vernon) who also finished second at the FILA Junior Nationals and Karl DeCiantis (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) who took third at the event.
If they should make the University or Junior World teams, Pitt will have representatives in Italy for the University World Championships and in Hungary for the FILA Junior World Championships.