Region III Brackets
McDaniel's Thomas Monn and Merchant Marine's Tyler Withers secured titles at the 2025 NCAA Region III Championship hosted by Messiah. The duo headlined a group of six Centennial Conference wrestlers who qualified for the NCAA national tournament.
Monn won gold at 149 for the second time in his career while Withers captured gold at 184 for the first time. Other national qualifiers included Merchant Marine's Reid Garrison (285) with a second-place finish and third-place finishes from Gettysburg's Gavin Pascoe (157) and Justin Richey (165), and Muhlenberg's Andrew Loniewski (141). The top three placewinners in each weight class qualify for nationals.
All six Centennial teams competed at the Region III Championship in the newly-structured regional format from the NCAA. In previous years, the six CC teams were spread across three different regions. Merchant Marine led the way in the team standings with a fifth-place finish at 97.5 points among the 17 teams that scored points. Gettysburg (8th, 69.5 pts), Muhlenberg (9th, 68.5 pts), Ursinus (10th, 58 pts) and McDaniel (11th, 53 pts) finished in consecutive places while Johns Hopkins took 15th with 19 points.
McDaniel's Monn won his second regional championship and will make his second appearance at the national championships. In 2023, he became the first freshman All-American in program history with a sixth-place finish at nationals. The junior finished with a perfect 4-0 record, totaling two falls, including one in 5:28 over No. 14-ranked Michael Conklin of TCNJ in the finals. Monn advanced to the championship with a tight 2-0 decision over No. 15 Ethan Composto of Gettysburg in the semifinals, improving to 3-0 against his Centennial Conference rival this season. McDaniel has had at least one wrestler qualify for the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships in each of the last three seasons.
For Merchant Marine, Withers went an undefeated 4-0 with one pin and two major decisions to win the individual regional championships at the 184-pound bracket. Garrison won his first three bouts at 285 with two pins and a major decision, but lost in the finals via a close 13-10 decision to Alvernia's Mauro Pellot.
Muhlenberg's Loniewski finished third at 141 pounds to become the Mules' ninth national qualifier since 2020 and the program's first at 141 since 2007. He punched his ticket in the same way that he won the Centennial Conference title: by scoring a dramatic win against an opponent who had defeated him earlier. Loniewski reached the third-place match by recording consecutive major decisions against opponents from Alvernia and NYU. That gave him three consecutive major decisions in the tournament, matching his previous total from the season. In the consolation final, Loniewski faced a Messiah opponent who beat him 10-5 the previous day, in the quarterfinals. He recorded a 7-6 decision in the rematch for his 30th win of the year and a spot at nationals.
Gettysburg's Pascoe placed third at 157 to advance to the national championship meet for the first time. Pascoe opened his day by edging York's Frank Gulli 14-13 before dropping a 19-4 match to eventual champion Cooper Pontelandolfo (NYU) in the quarterfinals. Pascoe then worked his way back with a 6-3 win over Bret Murphy (King's) to advance to Saturday. He opened his second day with an 8-2 decision over Tallion Elloitt (Marymount) before downing Messiah's Clay Gainer 4-1 in sudden victory in the consolation semifinals. In the third-place bout, Pascoe notched a 7-3 win over Merchant Marine's Edward Pinc. Richey started with a 15-0 technical fall over Delaware Valley's Matt Mushinski in his path to a national qualifier at 165. In the quarterfinals, Richey pinned NYU's Hassan Khan just 19 seconds into the second period before falling to top-seeded and eventual champion Matt Lackman (Alvernia) by fall in the semifinals to start Saturday's action. Richey downed Elizabethtown's Justice Hockenberry-Folk 7-4 in the consolation semifinals before notching a 6-3 win over Messiah's Keegan Demarest in the third-place bout.
The 2025 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships will be held March 14-15 at Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence, R.I.
CC National Qualifiers
141: Andrew Loniewski, Muhlenberg (3rd place)
149: Thomas Monn, McDaniel (1st place)
157: Gavin Pascoe, Gettysburg (3rd place)
165: Justin Richey, Gettysburg (3rd place)
184: Tyler Withers, Merchant Marine (1st place)
285: Reid Garrison, Merchant Marine (2nd place)
