YORK, Pa. – Quinn Haddad headlined 10 place-winners as the No. 12 TCNJ wrestling team finished in third place on the final day of the New Standard Invitational.
Haddad was runner-up at 197 for the Lions, who compiled 113.5 team points to land behind only Johnson and Wales (149) and Averett (122). TCNJ's 10 place-winners were the most of any team at the loaded competition.

Daniel Surich (184) and Thomas Marretta (285) placed third, while Nick Denora (125) and Mike Conklin (141) finished fourth in their respective weight classes. Fifth-place finishers for the Lions included Jake Giordano (133), Domenic Difrancescantonio (141), Matt Surich (165), Joe Daddario (184), and Peter Wersinger (285).

Haddad edged Maxwell Sims of Merchant Marine, 3-2, and nipped JWU's Dylan Harr, 3-1, with a last-minute takedown to reach the championship bout, where he conceded a 5-1 decision to Michael Dooley of Stevens.

Daniel Surich notched an 8-0 major decision over Merchant Marine's Luke Gauthier to gain the semifinals, where he fell 8-3 to Ithaca's Eze Chuckwueze. Surich bounced back to rout W&L's Brad Basham by 15-0 technical fall and emerged with a 4-3 decision over Merchant Marine's William Sims to take third.

Marretta fell to Brockport's Richard Knapp in the heavyweight semifinals, but came back to score a 2-1 decision over teammate Wersinger and claimed third with a 5-2 victory opposite Averett's Trent Ragland.

Denora defeated teammate Ryan Rosenthal, 3-1, and scored a 14-6 major over Johns Hopkins' Brent Lorin before advancing to the third-place bout via medical forfeit. He was pinned by W&L's Riley Parker to settle for fourth.

After losing in the quarterfinals at 141, Conklin ran off three straight high-scoring victories – 15-2 over teammate Drake Torrington, 14-2 against Trevor Mastorio of Stevens, and 16-9 over Difrancescantonio – to wrestle for third. Conklin lost 15-7 to Averett's Brandon Woody.

Difrancescantonio reached the semifinals with a 10-4 decision against Merchant Marine's Edward Pinc, then dropped a 9-2 decision to JWU's Hayden Brown. After Conklin defeated him, Difrancescantonio pinned Pinc in 4:20 in the rematch to grab fifth.

Matt Surich reached the semifinals at 165 before bowing out of the title hunt at the hands of Hopkins' Dominick Reyes. He was pinned by W&L's Joe Salerno, and took fifth with a medical forfeit.

Daddario gave the Lions a pair of place-winners at 184. He edged Stevens' Michael Conrad, 7-5, and followed a forfeit with a pin of York's Thomas Quelet. Sims won a second matchup with Daddario, 13-3, but the Lion rebounded to pin Basham in the fifth-place tilt.

The wrestling team has a month off before returning to action against Stevens on January 5.