SIU Edwardsville @ Buffalo

SIU Edwardsville Men’s Wrestling picked up a 25-9 road victory over Buffalo Men’s Wrestling at the University at Buffalo on January 7, 2024. The dual finished with SIUE ahead by 16 team points, a margin that came down to bonus scoring more than one-on-one decisions.

The most consequential bout was at 141 pounds, where Eric Almarinez of SIU Edwardsville overwhelmed Buffalo’s Caleb Brooks, posting a 15-3 major decision. That major decision delivered four team points and stood out as the only listed bonus-point result, creating a gap Buffalo could not erase. Almarinez’s dominant margin on the mat provided the scoring surge that shaped the final scoreboard.

With that bonus win as the defining result, SIUE closed out the dual comfortably, while Buffalo’s efforts fell short of generating the extra-team-point results needed to narrow the difference. In a meet where bonus points proved decisive, Almarinez’s 141-pound major was the clear turning point in Buffalo on January 7.