Michael Macchiavello
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| Full name | Michael Justin Macchiavello | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 24, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Monroe, North Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Freestyle and Folkstyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | NC State | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Lehigh Valley WC Titan Mercury WC Wolfpack WC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Pat Popolizio Adam Hall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Justin Macchiavello (born December 24, 1994) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler. During his collegiate career at NC State, Macchiavello won the 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling title at 197-pounds. Following college, he would continue wrestling on the senior level freestyle circuit. Macchiavello formally competed for the Wolfpack Wrestling Club in Raleigh, North Carolina and now competes for the Leigh Valley Wrestling Club in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[1]
Macchiavello attended Sun Valley High School in Monroe, North Carolina. He was the 2013 NCHSAA 4A 182-pound wrestling state champion. He placed third at the 2012 NCHSAA 4A state championships at 182-pounds and was also a two-time placer at FloNationals.[2]
College career
During his collegiate career at NC State, he finished second at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championships twice and won the 197-pound national title at the 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 11–14 as a freshman and 9–8 as a sophomore. Macchiavello would redshirt for a season and returned his redshirt junior year with a 26–8 record and was the 10th seed at 184-pounds at the 2017 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, where he finished one win shy of All-American honors. His redshirt senior year he moved up to 197-pounds, where he went 22–3, becoming an All-American and NCAA champion.[3]
