The Pride, who saw their streak of consecutive conference championships end at nine including eight in the CAA, will be sending senior Jonny Bonilla-Bowman, and sophomores P.J. Gillespie and Ben Clymer to the NCAA Championships in 12 days.

Hofstra, which finished in fifth place with 41 points, trailed CAA champion Binghamton (87.5), Old Dominion (73), Rider (58.5) and Drexel (46.5) in the standings while George Mason (29.5), Boston U. (28), Sacred Heart (21.5) followed the Pride.

Saturday, three Pride wrestlers were in the championship matches with four others in the consolation bracket. At 133 pounds, freshman Luke Vaith gave top-seed Steve Mytych from Drexel all he could handle for three periods. But after a 1-1 tie through seven minutes, Mytych copped the CAA title on the riding time point. With the CAA granted one automatic bid to the NCAA Championships at 133 pounds, Vaith (16-18) will have to wait to see if he has earned at at-large bid to Omaha. At 165 pounds where the CAA had two automatic bids, Gillespie (31-13) battled top-seeded Chris Brown from Old Dominion before dropping a 2-1 decision in the second tiebreaker. The Long Beach native then downed Rider's Rob Morrison in the "true second place" match, 9-5 to earn his second NCAA Championship bid. At 184 where the CAA had two bids to the NCAA Championships, Clymer fell to Binghamton's Nate Schiedel, 4-3, in the title match. Clymer (24-7) will make his first NCAA Championship appearance.

At 157 pounds where three NCAA bids were on the line in the CAA, senior Jonny Bonilla-Bowman (18-6), who dropped a 12-9 decision to Drexel's Joe Booth Friday night, earned his way into the NCAA Championships by defeating Rider's Zac Cibula, 8-4 in the consolation semifinals, and Sacred Heart's Anthony Priore in the third-place match to get his fourth bid to the NCAA Championship.

Three other Pride wrestlers ended their seasons in the consolation bracket Saturday. At 125 pounds, freshman Jamie Franco ended his season with a 6-5 loss to Sacred Heart's Patrick Feeley in the consolation semifinals. Franco wraps up his season with a 6-16 mark. At 141 pounds, red-shirt freshman Tyler Banks (10-20) dropped a 3-1 decision to Rider's Matt Bradley in the consolation semifinals. At 285 pounds, red-shirt freshman Paul Snyder (11-16) dropped a 5-2 decision to Binghamton's Corey Waite in the consolation semifinals to end his season.

The CAA received 18 automatic bids to the NCAA Championships as part of 284 automatic bids the NCAA granted to 11 conferences and regionals. Forty-six at-large bids will be determined in the coming days.

Hofstra's three NCAA qualifiers in 2010 mark the 14th consecutive year that three or more Pride wrestlers have qualified for the NCAA Championships.

-30-