FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- No. 5 Indiana Tech remained unbeaten in WHAC duals this season with a 3-0 record on Saturday at the Doug Edgar Indoor Track. The Warriors shut out both Cleary (60-0) and Cornerstone (55-0), before outlasting No. 7 Marian 28-9 in a matchup of the two top teams in the league. 

The Warriors (4-0 WHAC) pinned all three Cleary opponents that took the mat, as Matt Gimson (133 lbs.), Corey Cavanaugh (149), and Braydon Erb (285), needed less than eight combined minutes to earn match wins. The other seven weight classes were Cougar forfeits.

Against Cornerstone, Tech won four live matches and six forfeits. Gimson scored a six-point fall after 2:00 in his match at 133, Landon Buchanan eeked out a 1-0 decision at 165, Griff Bekish majored his Golden Eagle counterpart at 174 14-5, and Cameron Mayes-Butler earned a pin at 285.

The day's final match, undoubtedly the most competitive, saw the Warriors win seven of the ten weights to take the inside track toward the first-ever WHAC regular-season title. Braxton Vest kicked things off with a 5-0 decision over Jacob Simone at 125, before Gimson's third fall of the day, this one an 18-second domination of Dylan McElvey, that staked the Warriors to a 7-0 lead. Asa Garcia got the Knights on the board with an 8-1 decision over Kyle Kantola at 141 before Nick Gates, Nate Wheeler, and Sam York reeled off three-straight wins by major decision, fall, and decision, at 149, 157, and 165 respectively, to extend the Warrior lead to 22-3 after six bouts.

Griff Bekish dropped a 5-2 decision at 174, that stalled the Tech celebrations only momentarily, as Eric Vermillion at 184, and heavyweight Braydon Erb put any MU comeback hopes to bed with a pair of decisions sandwiching a Jacob Brandt loss at 197. Vermillion claimed an 8-1 win over Sam Osho, another perennial national qualifier, further staking his claim as the top 184-pounder in the NAIA.

Tech has two remaining road WHAC duals at Siena Heights and Lourdes next week, and the Greyhound Open on Feb. 5, before visiting Rochester Hills, Mich., for the WHAC Championships at Rochester University on February 11.