CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Two ranked wins Monday helped App State's Caleb Smith earn his third fifth-place finish at the Southern Scuffle.
Tommy Askey, unseeded at 157 pounds, went 4-2 to place seventh. Sean Carter's 3-3 mark at 133 pounds resulted in an eighth-place showing.
Matching his finishes from 2022 and 2020, Smith went 5-2 at McKenzie Arena with two losses to top-20 opponents. His takedown in a Sudden Victory overtime period produced a 7-5 win against 28th-ranked Braxton Brown of Maryland to clinch a top-six spot, and Smith rallied for a 5-4 win in the fifth-place match against 16th-ranked Stevo Poulin from Northern Colorado.