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Alec Pantaleo

Alec William Pantaleo (Born July 9, 1996) is an American Freestyle wrestler and Folkstyle wrestler. In Freestyle wrestling he is a Junior and U23 national champion and multiple time USA Wrestling world team member. He represented the University of Michigan wrestling program over a 5-year career, in which he was a three-time All-American, a Big Ten Conference champion, and third place finisher at the NCAA Division I national championships. Alec currently represents the United States of America and Cliff Keen Wrestling club in international and domestic Olympic Freestyle Wrestling.

High school
Born in Garden City, Michigan, Pantaleo went on to attend Canton High School in Michigan. During his time as a high schooler, he became a two-time State place winner and MHSAA State champion. He captured a Michigan state title at 135 pounds as a sophomore (2012) and was as two time state finalist, claiming runner-up honors as a senior (2014). He lost his junior season to injury. He owns a career prep record of 177-9, including a near-perfect 51-1 mark as a senior.

https://mgoblue.com/sports/wrestling/roster/alec-pantaleo/18364

https://www.mhsaa.com/Portals/0/documents/WR/2012%20IWR%20Finals/D1/placewt007.htm

https://michigangrappler.homestead.com/files/High_School/HS13-14/recruits_top10_6-10.html

https://patch.com/michigan/plymouth-mi/canton-wrestler-looks-gold-world-junior-championship

College
Alec Pantaleo chose to attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor following his successful high school career.

2014-15
As a true freshman, Alec was as NCAA qualifier. He posted a 2-2 record at the NCAA championships (March 19-21). He claimed fourth place at the B1G chamionship (March 7-8) with a 3-2 record. He fell to Iowa's #4 Brandon Sorenson, 2-0, in then semifinals, yet avenged an earlier-season loss to Penn State's Zack Beitz with a 3-1 decision in the Big Ten wrestle-backs. In Big Ten duals he posted a 7-2 record. Alec claimed runner-up honors at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Dec. 5-6) with a 4-1 record. Alec captured the 149-pound freshman/sophomore title at the Michigan State Open (Nov. 2) with a 5-0 record.

2015-16
As a sophomore Alec went on to achieve All-American honors by place 6th at the NCAA Division I national Championships (March 19-21) at 149lbs. He pinned Drexel's fourth-seeded Matthew Cimato in 3:48 in the quarterfinal to secure his first All-American honor. A few weeks prior, Alec took third at the B1G conference championship with a 4-1 record. At the conference championships he avenged a earlier season loss to former NCAA National champion Jason Tsirtsis with a 8-4 decision in the third-place bout. He also earned a third-place finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Dec 4-5) with a 7-1 record.

2016-17
Alec redshirted and did not compete in any collegiate wrestling events.

2017-18
As a Junior Alec went on to achieve All-American honors by place 5th at the NCAA Division I National Championships (March 15-17) at 157lbs. He captured the B1G conference championship with a 3-0 record. At the conference championship he defeated Ohio State's Micah Jordan with a 3-1 score in the final bout. Earlier in the season he went 5-0 to captured the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational title with a 10-3 win over Micah Jordan in the finals and a 9-3 semi-final win over Nebraskas #4 ranked Tyler Berger.

2018-19
As a fifth-year Senior Alec once again secured an {[All-American]] honor by placing third at the NCAA Division I National Championships. He carried a 6-1 record at his final collegiate competition, as well as avenged his only loss of the tournament to North Carolina State's Hayden Hidlay. Pantaleo lost to Hidlay in the quarterfinals in overtime but best him in the third place bout with a 5-3 decision. Alec took third place at the Big Ten conference championship with a notable 10-4 win over Northwestern's #3 ranked Ryan Deakin in the medal match. Alec missed much of his senior season due to a serious case of Mononucleosis.

https://mgoblue.com/sports/wrestling/roster/alec-pantaleo/18364

Freestyle career
Alec has garnered notable success in freestyle wrestling, following his first appearance to the international circuit in 2015. Since then, Alec has finished top-eight at every United States Freestyle national-championships and represented the United States overseas numerous times.

2015
Alec finished with runner up honors at the Junior National Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pantaleo fell to Wyoming's Archie Colgan in the 70kg championship bout.

2016
Alec won the Junior National Championships at 66kg, beating Princeton's Matthew Kolodzik in the first place-bout. He then proceeded to make the United States Junior World team at 66kg by beating Kolodzik two more time times in a best-of-three final bout. Pantaleo went on to represent the United States at the Junior World Championships in Macon, France later that summer. While overseas he posted a 1-1 record, defeating Georgi Sulava from Georgia in the opening round, but eventually falling to Vikas Vikas from India in the following preliminary match. Pantaleo finished with a 10th place finish at the 2016 Junior World Championships.

https://www.flowrestling.org/video/5614466-66-kg-final-matt-kolodzik-princeton-vs-alec-pantaleo-michigan-match-1 https://www.flowrestling.org/video/5626793-66kg-r1-alec-pantaleo-usa-vs-g-sulava-geo https://www.flowrestling.org/video/5626829-66-kg-r2-alec-pantaleo-usa-vs-vikas-ind

2017
Pantaleo placed 5th at the USA Senior National Men's Freestyle Championships at 70kg in Las Vegas, Nevada

2018
Pantaleo placed 3rd at the 2018 Senior National Men's Freestyle championships at 70kg in Las Vegas, Nevada

2019
Alec won the 70kg U23 National Championships in Akron, Ohio, and was bestowed the Outstanding Wrestler Award by USA wrestling following a remarkably dominate performance. Pantaleo posted a perfect 7-0 record and outscored his opponents by a margin of 69-2. Additionally, he secured his spot as a 2019 U23 World Team Member. Later that year, Pantaleo finished 8th in the world at the U23 World championships in Budapest, Hungary. In the opening round Pantaleo defeated Stefan Tonu of Moldova by a score of 8-0. He then fell to Daud Ibragimov of Azerbaijan by a score of 9-8. Pantaleo finished with a record of 1-1.

Domestically, Pantaleo also placed 4th at the 70kg 2019 Senior National Men's Freestyle championships in Las Vegas, Nevada at and 8th at 74kg in Fort Worth, Texas

https://mgoblue.com/story.aspx?filename=wrestling-pantaleo-captures-70kg-title-named-ow-at-u23-world-team-trials&file_date=6-2-2019 https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2019-11-04/heres-what-we-learned-u23-wrestling-world-championships

2020
Pantaleo won gold at the Cerro Pelado International in Havana, Cuba with a perfect 5-0 record while representing the United States at 70kg. In the final bout Pantaleo beat former United States national champion/ world team member Reece Humphrey by a score of 7-2.

https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2020/February/16/Pantaleo-and-Cox-win-gold-medals-at-Cerro-Pelado-in-Cuba

Pantaleo also earned a 3rd place finish at the inaugural Flowrestling 150lb 8-man bracket challenge in Austin, Texas. Pantaleo went 2-1 in route to a bronze medal, beating former NCAA national champions Jordan Oliver and Anthony Ashnault. Pantaleo fell to James Green by a score of 4-2 in the semi-finals.

https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/24043 https://www.trackwrestling.com/membership/ViewProfile.jsp?twId=543353096