2023-24 Wrestling Roster
Roster
Gabe Onorato
- Position:
- 141/149
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Gibbstown, N.J.
- High School:
- Paulsboro
2023-24 / Redshirt Junior
Competed in 16 matches for the Dragons in tournament action at 141 pounds…8-8 overall…1-0 in duals…earned first career dual victory in a 7-3 decision against Khyvon Grace of West Liberty…compiled three victories in the F&M Open including a 13-1 major decision against Sander Miller of Columbia…a member of the team that owned the nation’s third highest team GPA at 3.5456.
2022-23 / Redshirt-Sophomore
Wrestled at 149…9-8 record..won eight decisions and claimed a major decision…defeated Domenic DeFalco, 5-1 (Campbell) and Tyson Humphreys, 6-4 (Utah Valley) in dual action...a member of the team that owned the nation’s highest team GPA at 3.6117.
2021-22 / Sophomore
Redshirt season...wrestled in four matches at 149 pounds…earned a fall in 3:42 against Zach Orsargos of UNA-ESU to open his season…defeated Christian Hodges of UNA-Navy and Spencer Stewart of Sussex County with decisions to push his win total to three.
2020-21 / Freshman
Made an appearance in three matches as a freshman…tallied a 2-1 record as an alternate at 149 pounds…recorded to fall victories against Sacred Heart and Bloomsburg…pinned Tommy Eboli (SHU) in 6:57 and Christian Gannone (Bloom) in 2:12…an NWCA Scholar All-American… a member of the team that owned the nation’s seventh highest team GPA at 3.455.
Background
Three-year member of the wrestling program at Paulsboro High School in Paulsboro, N.J., where he was a three-time state qualifier…reached the 100-career win plateau…District 26 champion at 145 pounds in 2018, 2019 and 2020…placed fifth at 145 pounds at the New Jersey state tournament in 2018 and 2020…won the New Jersey Group 1 team state championship as a sophomore and senior…finalist at 2019 Flo Nationals…2019 New Jersey Freestyle state finalist as a junior…won a New Jersey Freestyle state championship in 2018…attended Collingswood High School in Collingswood, N.J. as a freshman, where he was First Team All-Colonial Conference, a District 28 champion at 132 pounds and a New Jersey state qualifier…named an NHSCA Freshman All-American in 2017…also played football as a quarterback and strong safety…inducted into the National Honors Society…president and salutatorian of his graduating class.
Personal
Son of Bob and Kim Onorato…has two siblings, Riley and Roman…older brother, Riley, is also a member of the Drexel wrestling team…father wrestled at Elizabethtown and Ursinus…majoring in business.
