{"id":185177,"date":"2026-04-04T05:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:02:26","slug":"harkless-named-2026-sunyac-wrestler-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185177\/","title":{"rendered":"Harkless named 2026 SUNYAC Wrestler of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2013 RIT senior <a href=\"https:\/\/ritathletics.com\/sports\/wrestling\/roster\/josh-harkless\/18990\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18990\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Harkless<\/a> was named the 2026 SUNYAC Wrestler of the Year announced by the conference on Thursday (April 2).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHarkless won the 285 lb. national championship beating defending champion Mitch Williamson, 2-1 in the title bout. \u00a0The 2025 SUNYAC Co-Wrestler of the Year, Harkless is RIT&#8217;s first national champion since RIT Athletics Hall of Fame member Matt Hamill won in 1999.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHarkless was named the Division III Most Dominant Wrestler for 2025-26 and the NCAA Region 2 Most Outstanding Wrestler. He won the 285 lb. title at the SUNYAC Championships and the RIT Invitational.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHarkless posted a 46-3 record in 2025-26 which is second-most in a season in program history. His 32 pins this season was a program record for pins in a season. \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA\u00a0three-time All-American, Harkless finished his career third in program history with a 141-23 record. He is third in program history with 141 career wins and second in program history with 83 career pins.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2013 RIT senior Josh Harkless was named the 2026 SUNYAC Wrestler of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-185177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}