Tyler Reinhart was the runner-up at 174 lbs. and Levi Niebauer placed second at 197 lbs. to lead a group of seven Mountain Cat wrestlers who placed in the Top-6 at Saturday's 75^th Annual PSAC Championships at Edinboro University.  Pitt-Johnstown's fourth-place finish was tops among the eight Division II teams and the program's best since joining the conference in 2013-14.
 
Division I programs Lock Haven (156.0 pts.) Clarion (122.0 pts.), and Edinboro (120.5 pts.) finished first through third in the team competition.  Pitt-Johnstown was fourth with 89.5 points, and Merchurst was fifth with 63.0 points in the 12-team field.
 
After an opening round bye, Reinhart scored major decisions over Edinboro's Zach Ancewicz and Gannon's Jake Stratton to set up a finals match against Lock Haven's Jared Siegrist at 174 lbs.  Reinhart jumped out to a 4-1 lead, but was forced do injury default at 1:42 and place as the runner-up.
 
Niebauer also received a first round by at 197 lbs. before pinning Lock Haven's Tristan Sponseller at 5:19 and holding off Mercyhurst's Wes Phipps, 6-4 in the semifinals.  After a scoreless first period in the title bout, Clarion's Dustin Conti got an escape and a takedown in the second to climb out to a 3-1 lead.  Niebauer narrowed it to 3-2 with an early third period escape, but couldn't complete the comeback and suffered a 4-3 loss.
 
The Mountain Cats also got third-place finishes from Chris Eddins (141 lbs.) and Cody Law (157 lbs.) to join Reinhart and Niebauer on the All-PSAC Team.
 
At 141 lbs., Eddins advanced to the semifinals with a pair of decision victories, before suffering a 7-2 loss to eventual champion Brock Zacheral from Clarion.  Eddins bounced back with six third period points and a point for riding time to defeat Gannon's Carmine Ciotti in the third-place bout.
 
Law opened the tournament with a 22-7 technical fall over Michael Springer (Shippensburg) and a fall at, before being pinned 157-lb runner-up Mac Turner (Clarion).  Law then recorded a 19-3 technical fall over Kutztown's Mikey O'Brien and placed third when Mercyhurst's Owen Watkins was forced to medical forfeit.
 
Pitt-Johnstown's D.J. Sims marked the fifth Mountain Cat to reach the semifinals on his way to a fourth-place finish.  Sims pinned Shippensburg's Derrick Berberick at 3:00 to reach the third-place match, but slipped to fourth with a 3-0 loss to Bloomsburg's Bruce Graeber.
 
Corey Falleroni (149 lbs.) and Devin Austin (165 lbs.) both placed fifth for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
After dropping his first match, Corey Falleroni wrestled back to win three of his next four matches to place fifth.  In the fifth-place match, Falleroni trailed Chad Haegele 7-1 in the early going, but scored four points as time was running down in the third period to secure a 10-7 win.
 
Austin also battled back three wins after suffering an opening round loss.  Austin rebounded with a technical fall and two decision wins, before pinning Edinboro's Fritz Hoehn in just 52 seconds in the fifth-place bout.
 
Matt Siszka (125 lbs.), Sam Holandez (133 lbs.), and Steve Edwards (184 lbs.) all wrestled, but did not place.
 
Pitt-Johnstown travels to the Midwest Classic in Indianapolis next weekend and to the Division II National Duals on January 4 and 5.  The Mountain Cats will wrestle their next home match on January 20 against Wheeling Jesuit (WV) University at 7 p.m.