University of Pittsburgh Athletics
Thursday, March 21
Pittsburgh, Pa.
12 P.M.
Pitt
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Session 1
NCAA Wrestling Championships Return to Pittsburgh Thursday
3/20/2019 8:18:00 PM | Wrestling
Five Pitt Wrestlers Ready to Compete at PPG Paints Arena
PITTSBURGH – For the first time since 1957, the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships return to Pittsburgh beginning Thursday, March 20 and concluding Saturday, March 23 at PPG Paints Arena. The University of Pittsburgh wrestling team will have five representatives competing on the national stage.
Representing the Panthers are redshirt freshman Micky Phillippi (133), redshirt junior Taleb Rahmani (157), redshirt freshman Nino Bonaccorsi (184), redshirt junior Kellan Stout (197) and junior Demetrius Thomas (285).
HOW TO FOLLOW
PITT AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
LAST TIME OUT
STOUT AWARDED AT-LARGE BID
OUR FIVE
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Representing the Panthers are redshirt freshman Micky Phillippi (133), redshirt junior Taleb Rahmani (157), redshirt freshman Nino Bonaccorsi (184), redshirt junior Kellan Stout (197) and junior Demetrius Thomas (285).
HOW TO FOLLOW
- ESPN will television 'every mat, every match' again this year. Complete details on the broadcast schedule can be found here.
- Daily ESPN schedule:
- Thursday, March 21
- Session 1 – ESPNU
- Session 2 – ESPN
- Friday, March 22
- Session 3 – ESPNU
- Session 4 – ESPN
- Saturday, March 23
- Session 5 – ESPNU
- Session 6 – ESPN
- Thursday, March 21
- Live results, updated brackets and mat assignments throughout the weekend will be available on TrackWrestling.com.
- For updates throughout the weekend, follow the team on Twitter at @Pitt_WRES.
PITT AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- National Champions: 16
- Last National Champion: Keith Gavin, 2008 (174)
- All-Americans: 76
- Last All-American: Tyler Wilps, 2015 (174)
- Best Team Finish: 2nd – 1954, 1955, 1957
- Most NCAA Qualifiers in a year: 10 (1956)
LAST TIME OUT
- Pitt earned a fourth place finish at the 2019 ACC Wrestling Championship Saturday, March 9 as two Panthers were crowned champions.
- Phillippi earned the 133-pound title and was also named the ACC Most Valuable Wrestler for his efforts. He became just the second Pitt wrestler to collect the honor as Tyler Wilps also accomplished the feat in 2015.
- Thomas captured the heavyweight title, becoming the first to do so in Pitt history.
- Four Panthers punched tickets to the NCAA Championships including Phillippi, Thomas, redshirt junior Taleb Rahmani and redshirt freshman Nino Bonaccorsi.
- With the automatic bid, Rahmani became a three-time NCAA qualifier.
STOUT AWARDED AT-LARGE BID
- Redshirt junior Kellan Stout was awarded an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships following the conference championships.
OUR FIVE
- 133 – Micky Phillippi (19-2)
- Seed: 4
- First Round Opponent: #29 Gary Joint (Fresno State)
- Who's #1: Daton Fix (Oklahoma State)
- 157 – Taleb Rahmani (16-6)
- Seed: 12
- First Round Opponent: #21 Justin Thomas (Oklahoma)
- Who's #1: Jason Nolf (Penn State)
- 184 – Nino Bonaccorsi (19-6)
- Seed: 13
- First Round Opponent: #20 Will Sumner (Utah Valley)
- Who's #1: Myles Martin (Ohio State)
- 197 – Kellan Stout (12-8)
- Seed: 23
- First Round Opponent: #10 Tom Sleigh (Virginia Tech)
- Who's #1: Bo Nickal (Penn State)
- 285 – Demetrius Thomas (26-4)
- Seed: 8
- First Round Opponent: #25 Hayden Maley (Stanford)
- Who's #1: Derek White (Oklahoma State)
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