Anthony Ashnault and Nick Suriano will go for gold at the 2019 NCAA Championships. Rutgers has never had a national champion and came ever so close, losing 5-1 to Iowa’s Spencer Lee in the 125 pound finals in 2018.
Suriano will make his second appearance after taking out Michigan’s Stevan Micic 4-1, while Ashnault finally broke through in his third trip to the semi finals, beating Princeton’s Matt Kolodzik for the fourth time, 2-0.
The finals will start at Heavyweight (285), so Suriano will the get the first crack to be the “first champion,” but if they both win, we’ll just combine them.