ROCHESTER, N.Y. - McDaniel College men's wrestling junior Xavier Howard and senior Jaedyn Harris each won their respective weight classes at the 2024 NCAA Mideast Regional hosted by RIT Saturday.

The Green Terror finished fourth as a team with 88.5 points. TCNJ finished first with 151.0 points while Ithaca finished third with 138.5 points and Elizabethtown came in third with 115.5 points.

As a result of their individual titles, Howard and Harris qualify for the 2024 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships in La Crosse, Wisconsin March 15-16. Both will be making their first-ever appearance at the national championship meet.

Howard was named Outstanding Wrestler after totaling four wins at 157 pounds. Ranked third in the Mideast Region, he posted a 7-2 decision over Max Yahre of Oneonta State in the semifinals before upsetting top-ranked Wenchard Pierre-Louis of Ithaca in the championship with a fall in 4:48.

Howard also recorded a fall in 6:04 against sixth-ranked Mark Bush of RIT on Friday.

Harris posted a perfect 5-0 record at 197 pounds. The region's top-ranked wrestler who is also at No. 10 in Division III, won by decision over Ithaca's Ryan Galka, 8-6, before securing the title following a a forfeit by Keevon Berry of Centenary in the championship. Berry is ranked second in the region.

After earning All-America honors a year ago, sophomore Thomas Monn was looking to make his second-straight trip to the national championships, but fell to a pair of top-5 regionally ranked wrestlers in the semifinals and third-place match.

Monn was pinned for just the second time in 74 career matches in the semifinals against fifth-ranked Michael Conklin of TCNJ who prevailed in 4:59. After a 2-1 decision over Cortland State's Christian Paredes in the consolation semifinals, Monn was edged by No. 11 Matthew Beyer of Ithaca in the third-place match, 4-2.

In two seasons at McDaniel, Monn has a record of 67-7, including a mark of 31-4 this year.

Sophomore Ryan Ohler finished fifth at 165 pounds after totaling a 5-2 record. He began the day with a fall in 3:57 over Dennis Slovick of Pitt-Bradford, but fell to Shawn Marchesano of Ursinus for the second time in three matches this season with a spot in the third-place match awaiting the winner.

Ohler won the first meeting between the two, 6-0 on Feb. 3, before Marchesano edged out an 8-5 decision in the Centennial Conference championship match on Feb. 10.

Ohler concluded his first regional championship with a 12-1 major decision over Chris Roybal of Johns Hopkins in the first-ever meeting between the two.