Two days after six Rutgers wrestlers secured automatic berths for the NCAA Championships, another Scarlet Knight punched his ticket.
Redshirt sophomore 174-pounder Jordan Pagano received an at-large qualifying bid for the 2017 NCAA Championships from March 16-18 in St. Louis.
After finishing the Big Ten Tournament with six placewinners, including 141-pound champion Anthony Ashnault, Rutgers will send seven wrestlers to the NCAA Championships.
A South Brunswick native who boasts a 26-9 record this season and a 42-20 mark for his career, Pagano dropped a close tiebreaker bout in the Big Ten Championships wrestlebacks, falling 3-2 to Minnesota's Brett Pfarr to finish one match shy of automatically qualifying for NCAAs.