Vestal, NY – Hofstra red-shirt sophomore Ricky Stamm has advanced to day two of the 2019 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships at Binghamton University's Events Center.

Stamm, a native of Levittown, New York, advanced to Saturday's Session Three which begins at 10 a.m. with championship semifinals before Stamm will face Binghamton's Vincent Deprez in the third round of wrestle-backs starting at 11:45 a.m. Five NCAA Championship bids will be on the line at this weight on Saturday. While the seventh-place match will be contested at 12:35 p.m., the top six places will be decided in Session Four beginning at 3 p.m.

Stamm, who picked up his 20^th win of the season Friday night, was 1-1 in Session Two to improve to 20-13 on the season. After an opening round victory Friday morning, Stamm fell to Lehigh's top-seed Jordan Kutler, 9-4 in the quarterfinals. Stamm rebounded to defeat Harvard's Joshua Kim, 3-2 in the second round of the consolations.

The five remaining Hofstra wrestlers who entered Session Two were not as lucky as Stamm as all five were eliminated from the Championship. Starting from the championship bracket, freshman Holden Heller dropped two matches at 149 Friday night, falling to Princeton's top-seed Matt Kolodzik by pin at the 2:01 mark before being knocked out by Harvard's 10^th-seed Brock Wilson, 4-2 in the consolations. Heller, the ninth-seed, finishes his season with a 15-11 mark. Senior Nezar Haddad, who also the ninth-seed at 197, also dropped two matches in Session Two, falling to top-seed Patrick Brucki from  Princeton, 8-3 before being knocked out by Brown's tenth-seed Tucker Ziegler, 3-1. Haddad finishes his career with a 15-15 final record this season.

Three wrestlers had the uphill battle of elimination matches with freshman Dylan Ryder being knocked out at 125 by Binghamton's fifth-seed Audey Ashkar, 15-1. Ryder, who was the sixth-seed, finishes his season at 23-13. Classmate Trey Rogers was eliminated at 184-pounds with a 10-0 loss to the fifth-seed Noah Stewart from Army West Point. Rogers ends his season with an 18-20 slate. Red-shirt junior Omar Haddad also was knocked out of the championship at 285-pounds with a 9-0 loss to the second-seed Joey Goodhart from Drexel. Haddad, the eighth-seed, ends his season with a 13-16 record.

In the team standings entering Saturday, defending champion Lehigh has 85 points with Cornell and Princeton tied for second with 82 points. Army West Point is fourth with 78 points while Navy is fifth with 54 points. Hofstra is in 15^th-place with nine points.