The NAIA Falcon Invite held in Park City, Kansas this weekend a suburb of Wichita had Texas Wesleyan University and Wayland University both men’s and women’s teams in attendance. There was also a hand full of other Texas wrestlers from other colleges in attendance as well. Over all it was the Texas Wesleyan Women who ran away with the tournament as they placed top 4 in 8 of the 10 weights represented with 6 champions. This tournament also had several Texas women in their college debut.
The Texas men had some placers with 2 each from Texas Wesleyan University and Wayland Baptist. 3x state champ a Canyon Randall alum Johnathon Ortegon at 125lbs placed 4th and 3x state champ of Lubbock HS, Alex Pena at 133lbs placed 3rd for Wayland Baptist. At 184lbs Texas Wesleyan’s Don Doyle and at 197 DeAndre Rucker both placed 2nd after reaching the finals.