Five Men's Wrestlers Regionally Ranked
Five members of the Muhlenberg men's wrestling team are in the top eight in Region 3 in the first National Collegiate Wrestling Association rankings of 2025.
The Mules who earned regional rankings are (pictured left to right, above):
• graduate student Joey Lamparelli, seventh at 125
• sophomore CJ Horvath, eighth at 133
• sophomore Andrew Loniewski, fourth at 141
• senior Fletcher Goodman, sixth at 184
• senior Paul Parise, sixth at 197
Lamparelli, a two-time Centennial Conference champion, is 8-3 this season, including a fourth-place finish at Messiah's Petrofes Invitational. He has a career record of 89-26.
Horvath earned his first regional ranking after starting the season with a 6-2 record, with three of his wins coming by technical fall. He went 18-6 at 125 as a freshman.
Loniewski is 9-8 with four pins so far in 2024-25. Muhlenberg's leader with 27 wins last season, he placed fourth at the Petrofes Invitational, going 5-2 with both losses coming to regionally ranked opponents.
Goodman had an outstanding fall semester, going 13-4 with three major decisions, two technical falls and four pins. He placed seventh at the Petrofes Invitational, winning his final bout on a major decision.
Parise, 13-6 on the season with a team-leading six pins, is coming off a fourth-place finish in the Petrofes Invitational and has a career record of 55-47. He is tied for second among active Mules with 22 career pins.
After a layoff of a month, Muhlenberg returns to action this weekend at the Virginia Duals, a bracketed 16-team tournament that features some strong teams from around the country at the Division III, Division II, NAIA and Division I club levels. The Mules are seeded eighth and open with Apprentice School, with the winner taking on the winner of the match between top-seeded Kutztown, the 18th-ranked team in Division II, and St. Andrews.
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