Tennessee’s Phillip Simpson has been selected for the EIWA Hall of Fame - Phillip Simpson was a Tennessee state wrestling champion competing for his secondary school, Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville. He was the first wrestler in Tennessee history to win the state wrestling championship four times.

Mount Olive downs Queens 22-21. The Queens University of Charlotte men's wrestling team (1-4; 0-1 SACC) lost its home opener to Mount Olive (1-0; 1-0 SACC) in a back-and-forth battle by a 22-21 final score. The Royals held an eight point advantage entering the final two matches, but surrendered nine consecutive points to fall short in the South Atlantic Conference Carolinas opener.

Belmont Abbey downs Newberry 20-16. The Belmont Abbey wrestling team captured their first win of the season earning the 20-16 victory over Newberry. The win is the first for the Crusades over the wolves in program history. The Abbey is now 1-1 overall with a 1-0 South Atlantic Conference Carolinas record. Newberry moves to 0-1.

Results
125: Zach Shupp (NEW) over Brandon Crowder (BAC) (Fall 2:08)
133: Elijah Boyd (BAC) over Timothy Luker (NEW) (Dec 5-4)
141: John Carayiannis (BAC) over Devan Moore (NEW) (Dec 11-8)
149: Tyler Pepe (BAC) over Trevor Mansfield (NEW) (Dec 3-0)
157: Will Evans (NEW) over Tyler Gregor (BAC) (Dec 8-3)
165: Mitch Dean (BAC) over Nolan Wheeler (NEW) (TF 22-7 6:36)
174: Caleb Spears (NEW) over Christos Avgeros (BAC) (MD 15-6)
184: Connor Billingsley (BAC) over Armando Acosta (NEW) (Dec 8-2)
197: Logan Branham (BAC) over Kaleb Haven (NEW) (Dec 10-8)
285: Devon Rice (NEW) over Justin Wright (BAC) (Dec 2-2)

King downs Emmanuel 25-15. The 24th-ranked Tornado won three matches via bonus points Wednesday night as they topped Emmanuel College in their South Atlantic Conference Carolinas opener.

King Women down Emmanuel 44-2. The second-ranked King University women's wrestling kicked off their 2021-22 season Wednesday night with a huge win over ffith-ranked Emmanuel College. The Tornado won every match that was contested, including a two falls, five technical falls and a pair of forfeits.

National Signing Day:

• Cole Hunt and Danny Nini sign with UNC

• Congrats to all of the SE hammers that signed and congrats to the all of the wrestlers heading to the #dirtysouth for the next step in their career. Below are some of the information we found on social media throughout the day …

Missed a Champ from this past weekend.

• Davidson’s Jake Fernicola claims the 285 FR/SO title at SE Open - Sophomore Jake Fernicola swept the heavyweight freshman/sophomore bracket of the Southeast Open Sunday in wrestling's first meet of the season. The Piedmont, S.C., took the title by winning by decision 4-0 over his first opponent from VMI, then pinning his second opponent from Tiffin University. Fernicola then pinned his third opponent in the semis before winning by a 3-1 decision over Jacob Sartorio from Appalachian State.

Another tournament added to the schedule … tournaments still looking for teams. GP West Invitational (TN), Panhandle Championships (FL), Eagles Landing Duals (GA), Cleveland Duals (TN), Redskin Duals at Manteo (NC) and Tigerland at Foard (NC) to tournaments looking for teams on Schedule Page.

Tennessee and North Carolina Coaches Pre-Season Team Rankings are posted. More detail of the rankings in SEWrestle+.

College wrestling on tap tonight:

• King at Emmanuel

• Belmont Abbey at Newberry

• Mount Olive at Queens

Alabama Girls Wrestling Schedule:

• 11/13 Gulf Shores : Jr. High, JV and Girls

• 11/13 Thompson Duals

• 11/19-20 Gulf Coast Clash, Mobile

• 11/24 Hewitt Invitiational

• 11/30 Over the Mt. Duals, Thompson

• 12/3 Red Devils Duals, Phoenix City

• 12/17 Tuscaloosa County Inv.

• 12/21 Indians Inv, Wetumpka

• 12/29 Arab , Girls division
  Gulf Shores Scuffle

• 1/14-1/15 Heaton Memorial Duals and Girls Individual , Daphne

• 1/14-1/15 Southeastern Pools, Thompson

• 1/15 Eagle Invitational,WS Neal

• 1/7-1/8 Baldwi County Tournament, Foley

• 1/22 AHSAA Girls State Tournament, Thompson HS

• High School Team Rankings for North Carolina and Tennessee will drop today.

• Life U Men's Wrestling has Great Showing at Pepsi Patriot Open - The No. 2 nationally ranked Life University men's wrestling team placed well at the Pepsi Patriot Open over the weekend as Julian Hernandez brought home first in the 149 lbs. bracket to lead the way.

• Askew claims individual title at Falcon Invite - Missouri Baptist women's wrestling impresses at the Falcon Invite on Saturday with two individual champions and four total placers.

• Godinez claims individual title at Falcon Invite - Jasmin Godinez won the 109 lb. weight class with a fall-over against Jessica Corredor of Missouri Baptist. Godinez finished with 42 total match points.

• Amani Jones takes 2nd at Pointer Open - In her first meet as a Cardinal, Amani Jones finished in second place in the 123-pound weight class. Jones earned her first pin of her career in her first match, she won by tech fall in the quarterfinals (10-0), earned another pin in the semifinals before falling in the championship match.