2022-23 Wrestling Roster
Roster
Brian Bonino
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Paramus, N.J.
- High School:
- Paramus
2022-23 / Graduate Student
NWCA Scholar All-American…EIWA Academic Achievement Award…2023 Wrestlers in Business Network Philly Male Wrestler of the Year…wrestled at 184 to a 24-10 record…completed 18 decision victories and two falls…opened the season with a second-place finish at the PRTC Keystone Classic with three decisions…his defeat of No. 32 Ben Vanadia (Purdue) helped give Drexel its first program victory against the B1G opponent…bested No. 23 Caleb Hopkins (Campbell) and No. 22 Maximus Hale in dual competition…claimed fourth place at the EIWA Championships, going 3-2 on the weekend…recorded a fall over Joe LoPresti (LIU), 3-2 victory over David Key (Navy), and earned a 4-4 TB2 RT victory to earn an automatic bid to his first NCAA Tournament as the 25th seed…victorious over No. 8 Matt Finesilver (Michigan, 3-2), David Key (Navy, 3-2), and EIWA champion No. 17 Tate Samuelson (Lehigh, SV 3-1)…finished one win short of All-American status after he fell to Caleb … a member of the team that owned the nation’s highest team GPA at 3.6117.
2021-22 / Senior (at Columbia)
Wrestled in 23 matches at 184 pounds...compiled one fall and one sudden victory...won 5-3 against No. 29 David Key of Navy...defeated No. 31 Gregg Harvey of Pitt 3-1...won three matches at EIWA Championships.
2020-21 / Junior (at Columbia)
Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019-20 (at Columbia)
Did not compete (Greyshirt).
2018-19 / Sophomore (at Columbia)
Wrestled in 27 matches for the Lions...finished 12-15 on the year...won first match of the season with a 10-0 majority decision at 197 pounds over William Baldwin of Old Dominion at the Princeton Open...defeated teammate Michael Bulkin at Princeton Open in a sudden victory (3-1)...earned 6-3 win over Tom Lane from Cal-Poly at the Black Knight Invite...won 8-3 over VMI's Max Gallahan....victorious in first three EIWA matches of the season against Hofstra, Sacred Heart, and Penn...won two matches at the EIWA Championships.
2017-18 / Freshmen (at Columbia)
Wrestled in eight matches...4-4 overall and 1-0 in duals.
Background
Wrestled for four years at Paramus High School in New Jersey...Finished third at the New Jersey State Championships in the 195-pound bracket as a senior...Picked up all-league, all-county, and all-state honors his final season, and all-league and all-county honors as a junior...Also wrestled for the Apex Wrestling Club...A two-time first team all-league football player, and a former baseball player in the Little League World Series
Personal
Son of Tara and Robert Bonino, in the MBA program at Drexel.
