Princeton, NJ – Hofstra red-shirt junior Ricky Stamm won his weight class and junior Sage Heller and sophomore Zachary Knighton-Ward placed second in their respective weight classes as the Pride opened their 2019-20 season at the Princeton Open at Jadwin Gymnasium Sunday afternoon.

Thirteen Hofstra wrestlers competed but it was Stamm, who placed seventh at 174 pounds in the EIWA Championships last March, recording a 4-0 slate to win the 165-pound weight class. Stamm, who was 21-14 and selected the team's Most Valuable Wrestler last season, defeated Lehigh's Chase Gallik in the title match.

Red-shirt sophomore Zachary Knighton-Ward, who won 11 unattached matches last season, tallied a 3-0 mark at 285 to finish second. He lost to Lewis Fernandes from the Finger Lakes Prep (club) in the non-countable first-place match.

Red-shirt junior Sage Heller, who was 8-7 before suffering a season-ending injury last season, suffered a similar fate, going 2-0 at 174-pounds and losing to Chris Foca from Finger Lakes in the title match.

Freshman Reece Heller tallied a 4-1 slate on Sunday and placed fifth in the 149-pound weight class for Hofstra's final placing wrestler. Graduate-student Garrett Lambert posted a 1-1 mark at 133-pounds as did junior college transfer, Charles Small at 184-pounds. Sophomore Holden Heller tallied a 1-2 record at 157-pounds as did red-shirt freshman Reggie Poulin at 285-pounds.

Red-shirt junior Vinny Vespa was 0-1 at 141 as was red-shirt sophomore Charlie Kane at 149-pounds. Senior Jacob Martin at 133-pounds, and sophomore Dylan Ryder and Matt Templeton at 125 were all 0-2.

There was no team scoring in the Princeton Open.

Hofstra returns to action next Sunday, November 10 at the Journeymen/My House Northeast Classic in Troy, New York.