Thursday, March 20
Philadelphia, Pa.
7 p.m. ET
Central Michigan University
at
NCAA Championships Session 2
Spidle, Amaker, Lovett Remain in the Hunt at NCAA Championships
3/20/2025 11:22:00 PM | Wrestling
PHILADELPHIA – Three Central Michigan wrestlers will continue in their quest for All-America honors after opening day on Thursday at the NCAA Championships at the Wells Fargo Center.
CMU's Sean Spidle (133 pounds), Johnny Lovett (157) and Chandler Amaker (165) are in their respective weight class consolation brackets and each is scheduled to wrestle early on Friday.
The Chippewas' Mason Shrader (149) and Alex Cramer (174) each went 0-2 on Thursday and were eliminated from the tournament.
Spidle, Lovett and Amaker must win three consecutive matches in the consolation bracket on Friday to earn a place on the podium and become an All-American.
Spidle, who entered the tournament as the 23rd seed, opened with a 4-1 upset victory over 10th-seeded Dylan Sawver of Rutgers, a returning All-American, on Thursday before falling to No. 7 Nic Bouzakis of Ohio State, 9-4.
On Friday, Spidle, a redshirt junior who is in the NCAA Championships for the first time, will wrestle No. 25 Kurt Phipps of Bucknell on Friday.
Lovett, the No. 15 seed, opened with an 11-3 major decision win over Iowa's Jacori Teemer, the 18th seed who is a four-time All-American who last season finished as the national runner-up. Lovett then dropped a 10-4 decision to Cornell's Meyer Shapiro, the No. 2 seed.
Lovett, a graduate student who is wrestling in the NCAA Championships for the fifth titme, will face 17th-seeded DJ McGee of George Mason on Friday. McGee defeated Lovett in the Mid-American Conference Championships title match two weeks ago.
The 33rd-seeded Amaker posted an 8-5 sudden victory win over No. 32 Jared Keslar of Pitt in their opening-bout pigtail match and then lost to top-seeded Mitchell Messenbrink of Penn State on a 16-0 technical fall.
Amaker, a redshirt junior who is making his first NCAA appearance, rebounded with an 8-6 win over 17th-seeded Noah Mulvaney of Bucknell and is scheduled to face Northwestern's Maxx Mayfield, the 18th seed, on Friday.
Shrader, a redshirt junior who was seeded 24th, was pinned by Penn's Cross Wasilewski, the No. 9 seed, in 6:03 in his opening bout and then dropped a 7-3 decision to Lehigh's Malyke Hines, the 25th seed.
Cramer, a graduate student who was seeded 10th, dropped a 13-2 major decision to MJ Gaitan of Iowa State, the 23rd seed, in his opening bout. He then dropped a 3-2 decision to Brody Baumann of Purdue, the 26th seed.
Cramer, a four-time NCAA qualifier and a two-time MAC champion, closed his career with a 106-51 record. He is one of just 28 wrestlers in program history to have registered 100 wins.
CMU's Sean Spidle (133 pounds), Johnny Lovett (157) and Chandler Amaker (165) are in their respective weight class consolation brackets and each is scheduled to wrestle early on Friday.
The Chippewas' Mason Shrader (149) and Alex Cramer (174) each went 0-2 on Thursday and were eliminated from the tournament.
Spidle, Lovett and Amaker must win three consecutive matches in the consolation bracket on Friday to earn a place on the podium and become an All-American.
Spidle, who entered the tournament as the 23rd seed, opened with a 4-1 upset victory over 10th-seeded Dylan Sawver of Rutgers, a returning All-American, on Thursday before falling to No. 7 Nic Bouzakis of Ohio State, 9-4.
On Friday, Spidle, a redshirt junior who is in the NCAA Championships for the first time, will wrestle No. 25 Kurt Phipps of Bucknell on Friday.
Lovett, the No. 15 seed, opened with an 11-3 major decision win over Iowa's Jacori Teemer, the 18th seed who is a four-time All-American who last season finished as the national runner-up. Lovett then dropped a 10-4 decision to Cornell's Meyer Shapiro, the No. 2 seed.
Lovett, a graduate student who is wrestling in the NCAA Championships for the fifth titme, will face 17th-seeded DJ McGee of George Mason on Friday. McGee defeated Lovett in the Mid-American Conference Championships title match two weeks ago.
The 33rd-seeded Amaker posted an 8-5 sudden victory win over No. 32 Jared Keslar of Pitt in their opening-bout pigtail match and then lost to top-seeded Mitchell Messenbrink of Penn State on a 16-0 technical fall.
Amaker, a redshirt junior who is making his first NCAA appearance, rebounded with an 8-6 win over 17th-seeded Noah Mulvaney of Bucknell and is scheduled to face Northwestern's Maxx Mayfield, the 18th seed, on Friday.
Shrader, a redshirt junior who was seeded 24th, was pinned by Penn's Cross Wasilewski, the No. 9 seed, in 6:03 in his opening bout and then dropped a 7-3 decision to Lehigh's Malyke Hines, the 25th seed.
Cramer, a graduate student who was seeded 10th, dropped a 13-2 major decision to MJ Gaitan of Iowa State, the 23rd seed, in his opening bout. He then dropped a 3-2 decision to Brody Baumann of Purdue, the 26th seed.
Cramer, a four-time NCAA qualifier and a two-time MAC champion, closed his career with a 106-51 record. He is one of just 28 wrestlers in program history to have registered 100 wins.
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