YORK, Pa. – Senior heavyweight Connor Fulmer (Catawissa, Pa./Southern Columbia) became the 113^th Lycoming College wrestler to win a Middle Atlantic Conference Championship, leading a group of six that placed at the event at York College on Saturday, Jan. 21.
 
Fulmer, who won the title with an anti-climatic medical forfeit in the finals, cruised through the tournament, posting a 23-second pin of York's John Farrell before notching an 18-0 technical fall of King's Jacob Feese to move into the semifinals, where Fulmer beat Wilkes' Caleb Burkhart, 6-3.
 
Fulmer is Lycoming's last MAC champion, as the school transitions to the Landmark Conference, which does not currently sponsor wrestling, in 2023-24. He is the 21^st Warrior heavyweight to win the conference title and the first since 2019 National Champion Garrett Wesneski won the tournament in 2018.
 
The 4-0 performance at the tournament improved Fulmer to 27-1 this year and 83-9 in his career with 42 career pins.
 
Sophomore Robbie West (Washington, Pa./Fort Cherry) earned Third Team All-MAC honors by taking third at heavyweight, sophomore 165-pounder Chase Chapman (Philipsburg, Pa./Philipsburg-Osceola) and sophomore 149-pounder Logan Bartlett (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area), senior 157-pounder Hunter O'Connor (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore Area) and first-year 174 pounder Eli Crum (Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs) all took sixth.
 
Stevens won the tournament with 152 points, just ahead of Alvernia, which posted 138.
 
West went 5-1 en route to a third-place finish, as he improved to 23-4 on the season. He started with a pin of Wilkes' Trevor Gitski in 4:10. After a loss in the quarterfinals, he pinned sophomore teammate Jacob Davis (Laurel, Del./Laurel) in 2:10 and Messiah's Hayden Benner in 57 seconds to reach the consolation semifinals, where he beat Burkhart, 4-2, and then earned a medical forfeit in the third-place match.
 
Chapman started the day with an upset, notching a 2-1 win over third-seeded Chris Stathopoulos before pinning sixth-seeded Frankie Theroux of King's in 5:39 to reach the semifinals. After two losses moved him to the fifth-place match, he picked up a medical forfeit.
 
Bartlett notched three wins en route to his sixth-place finish, notching pins of York's Joseph Cinquemani, Messiah's Josh Rosado and Wilkes' Ben Grater. O'Connor went 3-1 en route to his sixth-place finish, posting a pin, a major decision and a decision before he left the tournament. Crum rolled into the semifinals, notching a 16-1 technical fall of Wilkes' Devin Doty and a 7-5 decision of Messiah's John Sumner, before King's Kade Kravits posted a 7-2 win in the semifinals.
 
The 19^th-ranked Warriors get back on the mat on Saturday, Jan. 28, when they head to King's (Pa.) for a 12 p.m. dual.