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The 32nd annual Centennial Conference wrestling championship is set for Saturday at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., with action beginning at 10 a.m. This will mark the second time that the Mariners have hosted the CC championship (also in 2019). 

The host Mariners will look to defend their title after a thrilling victory in Gettysburg last season. At last year's championship, Merchant Marine knocked off two-time defending champion Ursinus by just 1.5 points for the team crown, the smallest margin of victory in conference championship history. It marked the fifth overall CC crown for the Mariners and first since 2011. Ursinus holds the most team titles in CC history withh 13, followed by Merchant Marine (5), Stevens (5), McDaniel (4), Washington and Lee (2), Johns Hopkins (1), and Muhlenberg (1). 

Ursinus completed its fourth consecutive unbeaten season in CC duals this season, posting a 5-0 dual mark with at least a 17-point margin of victory in each matchup. Merchant Marine went 4-1 while Gettysburg also secured a winning dual record at 3-2. 

Six individual champions return to the field Saturday, led by three-time 149-pound champion Thomas Monn of McDaniel. Already one of 19 wrestlers in conference history to have won Centennial gold at least three times, Monn will aim to become the ninth CC wrestler, and first since 2014, to win gold four times. The three-time CC Wrestler of the Year and two-time Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet is a perfect 33-0 on the year including 5-0 in CC duals with one pin and four technical falls. The Green Terror senior owns a 135-11 career record, which is tied for third on the all-time CC list. Monn is also the clear frontrunner for the Chris Clifford Award, given annually to the senior wrestler with the most career points at Centennial championships. 

Merchant Marine's Tyler Withers is the other multi-time champion in the field. Withers won 184-pound titles each of the last two seasons but will be competing at 197 this time around. Withers is 8-1 on the year and 3-0 in CC duals, including one win at heavyweight. He was the Co-Most Outstanding Performer of the championship at the 2024 meet along with Monn. 

Other returning champions aiming for another gold are Merchant Marine's Wesley Wydick at 133, Gettysburg's Justin Richey at 174, Ursinus' Anthony Cerulli at 174 and Ursinus' Sean Cowan at 197. Wydick and Cerulli are the defending champions at 133 and 174, respectively. Richey won at 165 last year while Cowan won at 174 in 2024. 

Six silver medalists vying for more hardware include Muhlenberg's CJ Horvath (2025 runner-up at 133; Competing at 125 in 2026), Ursinus' Andrew Schaen (2025 runner-up at 141), Gettysburg's Gavin Pascoe (2025 & 2024 runner-up at 157), Ursinus' Braden Kmak (2025 runner-up at 165; Competing at 157 in 2026), Ursinus' Nils Updale (2025 runner-up at 184, 2024 runner-up at 197; Competing at 184 in 2026), and Muhlenberg's Ryan Fairchild (2024 runner-up at 184; Competing at 197 in 2026). 

A trio of wrestlers competing on Saturday are ranked in the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) individual national rankings. McDaniel's Monn is ranked second at 149, Merchant Marine's Withers is 10th at 197, and Ursinus' Mohamed Abdelatty is 11th at 185. Twenty-two wrestlers are regionally ranked entering the championship.