During his collegiate career at NC State, Macchiavello won the 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling title at 197-pounds.

[1] Macchiavello attended Sun Valley High School in Monroe, North Carolina.

[2] 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.

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.

During 2019, he finished second at the 2019 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament and third at the 2019 US Open at 92 kg.