SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Augustana wrestling team starts the new year with its third-consecutive home dual on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Elmen Center. The Vikings (2-2) take on the Mountaineers of Western Colorado University (1-1).
After the home dual, the Vikings head to Fremont, Nebraska, on Saturday to compete in the Viking-Warrior Open, starting at 9 a.m.
Continue readingMINNEAPOLIS — InterMat has released NCAA Division I wrestling rankings.
Continue readingMOORHEAD, Minn.—The Minnesota State University Moorhead wrestling team will travel to Kenosha, Wis., this weekend for a dual against Wisconsin-Parkside. The dual begins on Saturday at 7 p.m.
In their last competition, the Dragons traveled to Indianapolis, Ind., for the Midwest Classic. Sophomore Mason Schulz finished seventh at 141 for MSUM and went 4-2 on the weekend. Schulz pinned Seton Hill’s Joel Cawoski in 4:37 before losing to Wisconsin-Parkside’s Pernevlon Sheppard 12-1. Schulz beat Central Oklahoma’s Nate Keim by medical forfeit in the seventh-place match.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Saint John’s University senior Noah Becker (Browerville, Minn.) finished third for the second consecutive season to lead the Johnnies at the two-day Citrus Invitational Sunday-Monday, Dec. 29-30, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Becker posted a 3-0 record Sunday at 133 pounds before falling to Charlie Nash of Baldwin Wallace (Ohio), who is ranked as high as sixth nationally at 141 by D3wrestle.com, by a 3-1 decision in the semifinal Monday morning.
He bounced back with a 7-1 victory, the 75th of his career, and claimed third with a 4-2 win over Levi Englman of Ferrum (Va.), the top-ranked wrestler according to the National Wrestling Coaches’ Association (NWCA). Down 2-1, Becker scored a reversal with just under one minute remaining in the match and had over a minute of riding time.
Continue readingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Newcomer Tanner Cook pinned two ranked opponents in leading the South Dakota State University wrestling team to a pair of victories Monday on the final day of the South Beach Duals.
The Jackrabbits, who finished the two-day event with a 3-1 dual record, posted a 19-17 victory over Michigan State in the first match of the day and wrapped up the event with a 29-8 win against Old Dominion. SDSU improved to 4-3 overall, matching its win total in duals from a year ago.
Continue readingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With five individuals winning weight class titles, the Augsburg University men’s wrestling team claimed the championship at the Citrus Invitational, held on Sunday and Monday.
Nineteen Auggies competed in the two-day tournament, going 78-26 with 43 bonus-point wins — 28 pins, seven technical falls and nine major decisions. Ranked No. 3 in the latest National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III dual-meet national rankings and No. 5 in the NWCA tournament rankings, Augsburg won the 14-team tournament with 192.0 points. No. 15/19-ranked Olivet (Mich.) was second with 169.5 points, and No. 7 Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio) was third with 149.0. Six of the 14 teams in the field were ranked in either of the two NWCA Division III national rankings.
No. 2-ranked 133-pounder Victor Gliva (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) reached a career milestone in winning his weight class title. Going 5-0 on the weekend with two first-period pins, Gliva is now 103-22 in his career, including a perfect 14-0 record this season. In one of the biggest matchups in the tournament, Gliva scored a 6-1 win over Levi Englman of Ferrum (Va.), the top-ranked 133-pounder nationally, in the semifinals. He then scored a 3-2 win over Charles Nash of Baldwin-Wallace, a returning Division III All-American, in the title match. Gliva now has six pins and a technical fall among his 14 wins this season.
Continue readingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On the final day of the South Beach Duals the Minnesota wrestling program defeated the Duke Blue Devils 53-0 before dispatching the Cornell Big Red 31-12.
The Maroon and Gold got their hand-raised in 18-of-20 individual bouts. On the weekend Minnesota won 28 total individual dual bouts.
With two more pins on the day Mitch McKee moved into a tie with Jared Lawrence for 12th in Gophers history with 33 career pins. Lawrence was McKee’s club coach at the PINnacle Wrestling School.
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