Team Scores | Final Brackets

TRENTON, N.J. – The weekend ended with one ticket to the NCAA Championships and a handful of near misses, but the Golden Eagle wrestling team acquitted itself well overall at the 2021 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championships hosted by Rider.
 
The tournament represented a major improvement for Clarion from a year ago, with the Golden Eagles jumping from 12^th place as a team in 2020 to seventh place in 2021. The Golden Eagles finished with 57.5 team points thanks to their strong finish on Sunday.
 
The biggest news of the day was Greg Bulsak punching his ticket to the NCAA Division I Championships with a third-place finish at 197 pounds, marking the fourth straight year he has qualified for the Big Dance. After falling in the semifinals last night, Bulsak needed to win a pair of matches on Saturday to clinch an automatic qualifier spot, and win he did, starting with a bout against Northern Illinois's Gage Braun. Bulsak defeated Braun for the second time this year, with the result never really in doubt as the former controlled action until reaching a 6-2 decision.
 
That set up another meeting with Rider's Matt Correnti in the third-place bout, an opponent that Bulsak had pinned twice this season – once at home, and once in the quarterfinal round last night. There were no wins by fall this time, but the result remained the same as Bulsak worked Correnti for a 10-2 major decision and a bid to NCAAs.
 
Just missing out on making a trip to the championships was senior Max Wohlabaugh, who nearly put together a string of exciting victories to take third place at 184 pounds. He started his day with a 5-2 decision over SIU-Edwardsville's Ryan Yarnell, setting up a bout with Rider's George Walton in the consolation semifinal. Walton got the better of Wohlabaugh in the team's dual earlier this year but Wohlabaugh flipped the script here as the two went to tiebreakers. Wohlabaugh escaped Walton in his tiebreaker session to take a 2-1 lead, and then proceeded to ride Walton out in the next session to take the win. That set up a rematch with Cleveland State's DeAndre Nassar, with Nassar holding out to win by decision in the third sudden victory period. Wohlabaugh finished in fourth place.
 
Elsewhere, the Golden Eagles rallied in several other weight classes to put a couple more grapplers on the podium at the end of the day. Freshman John Worthing started his first career MAC Tournament unseeded but finished in fifth place thanks to a strong showing in the consolation bracket, starting on Saturday with a win over Cleveland State's Anthony Rice by 6-4 decision. He was still in play for an NCAA bid before falling to Edinboro's Jacob Oliver in the consolation semis, but rallied to defeat George Mason's Paul Pierce in the fifth place match. Kolby Ho took sixth place at 165 pounds, beating Ohio's Colt Yinger in the consolation quarters before falling to Central Michigan's Alex Cramer and Rider's Jake Silverstein. Kyle Schickel and Ty Bagoly also finished in the top-eight in their respective brackets, at 141 and 285 respectively.