The two-day, 64-player tournament was set up in four different brackets of 16 competitors, grouped according to skill and team position.
The A draw featured the top players from each squad, while the B, C and D drew players of corresponding rank.
Dartmouth (4-1, 0-1 Ivy) proved to be a dominant host, nearly completing a sweep of all four draws. Big Green players won the A, B and C brackets, while falling in the finals of the D.
Leading the charge for the Big Green was Nick Sisodia '12, who beat the number one player for Williams, junior Ethan Buchsbaum, in five games on Sunday afternoon.
Victory was no easy feat for Sisodia, who has been playing number three for Dartmouth. He won his opening round match in four games, and it took him five games to gain victory in his last three contests. He trailed two games to one in three of his matches.
"Overall, I'm happy with my play this weekend," said Sisodia. "At times I had concentration lapses that made my weekend a lot harder, but I dug in and pushed when it mattered."
Dartmouth's number one player, co-captain Andrew Boumford '09 was forced to default his opening round match because of travel problems returning back to campus from his home in Winnipeg, Canada. He went on to win the consolation in the A draw.
Matches between players from Dartmouth and Williams (2-3, 2-1 NESCAC) were common this weekend, foreshadowing a late January showdown with the Ephs.
No. 10 Williams lies just two spots behind No. 8 Dartmouth in the national rankings, meaning that the Big Green will have to fend Williams off in order to secure a spot in the top bracket at the Collegiate Squash Association's team national tournament.
"A win against Williams is very important," said co-captain Ted Newhouse '09. "They beat us last year at nationals, and everyone is determined not to let it happen again. I think that focus showed this weekend."
Newhouse also did well for himself during the weekend, securing the third spot in the A bracket after falling to Sisodia in the semi-finals. Mike Lewis '11 followed with a fourth place effort.
The B draw also pitted two Big Green teammates against one another in the finals. Co-captain Tyler Young '09 battled Michael Shrubb '10 for five hard games, but eventually fell to Shrubb, a Bermuda native, in a match also played late on Sunday.
In the match to determine third place, Steve Wetherill '12 defeated Luke Lee '12 in three games to complete the Dartmouth sweep of the medal stand.
The C draw was dominated by Ted Schroeder '11, who cruised to victory in the finals over Williams' sophomore Jeremy Herrmann in three games. Schroeder asserted his dominance on the rest of the bracket all weekend, never dropping a game over four matches.
In the D bracket, freshman Jared Zuckerman of Williams defeated Dartmouth's Michael Hauge '12 in four games.
"After a long break, everybody turned in very solid performances this weekend," Young said. "It showed that everybody worked hard on their own to get ready for bulk of the season coming up. It also shows that we're ready to go."
"Everyone played well and fought hard this weekend," Sisodia said. "But more importantly, the tournament put us in a competitive mind-set for the busy schedule ahead. This is another confidence booster for the rest of the season."
The busy schedule consists of an action-packed January and February, as the Big Green will play all of its Ivy League foes except Harvard and do battle with notable NESCAC opponents Trinity and Williams in Hanover later this month.
The team traveled to Canada from the week of December 11-18, where it beat the University of Western Ontario by a score of 5-4 for the first time in the program's history. The win moved Dartmouth into the eight spot in the national rankings and temporarily secured it a place in the A draw of the national tournament.
The Big Green will need to stay on top of its game however, as one more loss to a lower ranked opponent will have serious implications on its postseason hopes.
The team's next test arrives next weekend, when it will look to upset Yale in Hanover before hopping on the bus to battle against Middlebury in the second part of a split-venue doubleheader.
The Dartmouth men will play Yale at 11 a.m. before traveling to Middlebury for a 4 p.m. match.
