WASHINGTON, Pa. – Junior 125-pounder Kaden Majcher (Turbotville, Pa./Warrior Run) won the 125-pound weight class to lead the Lycoming College wrestling team, which had 10 wrestlers place to help it finish second at the Washington & Jefferson Invitational on Saturday, Nov. 11.
 
Sophomore 174-pounder Eli Crum (Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs), sophomore 184-pounder Jimmy Ellis (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata) and senior heavyweight Robbie West (Washington, Pa./Fort Cherry) finished second, senior 157-pounder Wiley Kahler (Pottsville, Pa./Nativity BVM) and senior 197-pounder Gable Crebs (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville Area) each finished fourth, junior 157-pounder Logan Bartlett (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area) and first-year 197-pounder Ivan Neal (Georgetown, Del./Sussex Central) took fifth and junior 133-pounder Thomas Conselyea (Landing, N.J./Roxbury) and junior 141-pounder Cooper Gilham (Bellefonte, Pa./Bald Eagle Area) took sixth.
 
Thomas More won the team title with 168.5 points, just ahead of Lycoming (167). The Warriors finished ahead of McDaniel (153.5), Alfred State (137) and St. John Fisher (109), which rounded out the top five of the 17 teams at the tournament.
 
Majcher, entering as a No. 2 seed, posted a pin in 71 seconds in the opening round of Washington & Jefferson's Michael Cruz and notched a 17-0 tech fall of McDaniel's Romeo Tsai before downing St. John Fisher's Daniel Parkulo, 9-6, in the semifinals. He downed Thomas More's Shay Horton, 9-8, in the final.
 
Crum posted three tech falls and a pin en route to the finals, where Waynesburg's Colby Morris notched a 14-11 sudden-victory win. Ellis notched two pins and a major decision as he reached the finals at 184 pounds, where he lost via pinfall by Alfred State's Sean Malenfant. West had three pins en route to the finals, where he fell to Thomas More's Daulton Mayer.
 
Kahler won his first three matches before dropping a 2-1 decision in the semifinals to Penn State Behrend's Peyton Hearn at 157 pounds.
 
Crebs won his first two matches to reach the semifinals before he dropped his last two matches of the day to take fourth. Bartlett went 5-1 and Neal went 4-1 en route to fifth-place finishes. Conselyea went 4-2 and Gilham went 3-2 en route to sixth-place finishes.
 
The Warriors are back on the mat on Saturday, Nov. 18, when they head to the Waynesburg Duals to face Marymount (Va.) (11 a.m.), Waynesburg (12:30 p.m.) and Averett (2 p.m.).