Binghamton University’s wrestling team didn’t have the best of days this Sunday as only one of the Bearcats, Donnie Vinson in the 149-pound weight class, managed to become champion of his group at the Binghamton University Brute Open, although there were some standout performances.

From the 125-pound weight class, Drew Bloss defeated T.J. Popolizio of Brown University, but lost to Mike Demarco of Rutgers University in the second round. In the same group, Tyler Malmberg lost to Joe Langle of Rutgers in the first round. Bloss overcame Malmberg in the race for third, but unfortunately lost out on a chance to place by losing to eventual fifth-place winner Steve Mytyke of Drexel.

In the 141-pound weight class, students Anwar Goeres and Kareem Naguib took fourth and sixth place, respectively. Goeres managed to defeat Ben Rose of Western New England College, Chris Piccolella of Navy Prep and Shane Strumwasser of Columbia University before losing out to Trevor Welde of Rutgers, who was coming off of a win over Kareem Naguib. Welde went on to take second place. Anwar lost out on third to Stephen Delorenzo of Brown, while Naguib could not manage to take fifth place from Chris Davis of Sacred Heart University.

Vinson managed five wins in a row to win the 149-pounds weight group. After overcoming James Baffoni of Brown, he went on to dispose of P.J. Barach of Bloomsburg. He was then faced against Mike Roberts of Boston and Binghamton’s own Justin Lister, who would overcome Kellen Bradly to gain fourth, but fail to take third from Bobby Ward. Vinson, however, did not stop winning, as he defeated Walter Peppelman of Harvard to win the group.

In the 157-pound group Jon Kaloust could not beat Brown’s Leonard Marandino in the first round or Stan Morrison from Drexel in the second. In the same group, however, Nate Patterson recorded three consecutive wins against Dustin Tancredi from Bloomsburg University, Bubby Graham of American University and Greg Zanetti of Rutgers. He could not stop J.P. O’Conner, who would go on to win the group, and had to settle for fourth as he could not stop Scott Winston of Rutgers.

From the 165-pound group Ryan McGarity won second place after beating Jake Schalles of Navy Prep followed by Alex Rinaldi of Drexel. He continued his winning ways against Chris Perry of Springfield College and Jake Wilson of Shippensburg University, but was beaten by the eventual champion, Mack Lewness.

In the 174-pound group, Anthony Esposito defeated Shaun Fausey of Drexel, but lost in the second round to Peter Capone of Navy Prep. Brett Nelson also lost in the second round; he was beaten by Mike Whalen of Rutgers after Nelson had won over Nassau’s Jules Doliscar in the first round.

Josh Patterson did very well to take third place in the 184-pound weight class. After beating Brown’s Josh Serene in the first round he won against Jon Hade of Shippensburg and then Hofstra University’s Anthony Tortora. Although he lost to Cornell’s Cameron Simaz, the second place winner, he did beat Cornell’s Justin Kerber and Nate Holley to come away with third place.

Corey Waite was the final Bearcat to place, taking sixth place in the 197-pound group. Although he lost to George Kocher in the first round, he won the next four in a row to take sixth place.