Completed Event: Wrestling versus NCAA Championship on March 20, 2025 , , NTS

Career: Team Captain in 2010-11 … Finished career with 36-39 overall record.
2010-11: Wrestled at 165 pounds … Registered an 8-17 overall record … Went 5-11 in tournament action and 2-6 in dual match bouts … Posted an overtime win in dual match at Davidson … Took third at the Appalachian State Open … Team Captain.
2009-10: Did not compete.
2008-09: Competed unattached at 165 pounds ... Posted a 15-7 overall record in tournaments ... Took third at the Citadel Open and seventh at the Southern Scuffle ... Registered four consecutive falls at the Southern Scuffle.
2007-08: Posted an 8-5 record in all matches at 165 pounds ... went 7-5 in tournament action ... won his lone dual match of the season ... registered two falls.
Prep: Four-year letterwinner ... wrestled to 104-27 record in career ... placed second in states as a senior ... regional and district individual champion in 2007 ... finished fifth at Beast of the East meet as a senior ... team went 113-4 in his four years ... won three state team championships and one second-place finish ... two-year letterwinner on the crew team.
Personal: Born Charles William Mello III on March 14, 1989, in San Diego, Calif. ... son of Charles Jr. and Pamela Mello ... has one brother, Robert, and two sisters, Katherine and Elizabeth.
Willy Mello | |||||
Year | Weight | Tourn. | Dual | ACC | Overall |
2007-08 | 141 | 11-9 | 2-6 | 0-2 | 13-15 |
2008-09 | 165 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 15-7 |
2009-10 | 165 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2010-11 | 165 | 5-11 | 3-6 | 1-4 | 8-17 |
Total | 31-27 | 5-12 | 1-6 | 36-39 | |
Italics denote redshirt year |