2017 Bracket Facts

  • No #1 seed finished lower than third place, and every #1 seed made the semifinals.
  • The lowest seeded champion was #4 Daniel Del Gallo at 149, and he faced one of the two unseeded finalists in the tournament.
  • 157 had the most unseeded placewinners. 5th through 8th place were all unseeded, while the top four places went in order of seed.
  • One one of the top 3 seeded wrestlers failed to place (Vandall, 165)
  • Owen Doster (Wabash), Michael LaBell (JWU), and Christos Giatras (Augustana) lost in the preliminary round and came place to place. All three of them finished 7th.
  • Lucas Jeske (Augsburg) was the only wrestler with more than one technical fall in the tournament.
  • Gregory Warner (York) scored the only first period tech fall.
  • There were five falls in the first minute of matches and 36 in the first period.
  • Six wrestlers competed seven times in the tournament. 22 more wrestlers had six matches.
  • Triston Engle (Brockport) scored more team points in his 4th place finish at 197 (20.5) than Lucas Malmberg (Messiah) scored as the 125 champ (20). He also won the most falls award.
  • 197 had the most pins with 11. 157 had the least with 4. Unsurprisingly, 197 scored the most team points, though 174 scored the least.
  • Augsburg led all teams with 7 falls. Wartburg led with 3 tech falls.
  • 10 wrestlers entered the tournament undefeated. Four won the championship (Weinmann, Dierna, DeVos, Roseberry).
  • Lucas Malmberg (Messiah), Bobby Dierna (Cortland), and Zachery Roseberry (Delaware Valley) all became 4x All-Americans.
  • Riley Lefever (Wabash) finished his career with 92.5 team points, 6 falls, and 4 NCAA Championships.