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Concordia College Moorhead Cobbers
Head Coach: Clay Nagel
Years at School as head coach:5 years
Career Record at school:45-22
Assistant Coaches: Matt Nagel

2009-2010 Dual Meet Record:12-5
2009-2010 National Qualifiers and All-Americans:
141 – Ben Anderson – 1-2
149 – Justin Berns – 3-2 (7th Place – All-American)
174 – Ross Dankers – 3-3 (8th Place – All-American)
184 – Phil Moenkedick – 3-0 (National Champion)

Returning Qualifiers and All-Americans (any year):
141 – Ben Anderson – 1-2
149 – Justin Berns – 3-2 (7th Place – All-American)
174 – Ross Dankers – 3-3 (8th Place – All-American)
184 – Phil Moenkedick – 3-0 (National Champion)

Number of returning wrestlers who competed in 2010 national qualifier: 9

Top returning starters:
125- Daron Hohbein (4th Great Lakes)
141- Ben Anderson (4th Great Lakes, NCAA qualifier)
141- Mike Holman 2009 (Great Lakesd 4th)
149- Justin Berns (2nd Great Lakes, 7th NCAA)
157- Kevin Fynboh (5th Great Lakes)
165- Matt Jeska (4th Great Lakes)
174- Ross Dankers (2nd Great Lakes, 8th NCAA)
184- Phil Moenkedick (NCAA Champion)
197- Nate Schmitz (4th Great Lakes)
285 – Tom Bouressa (5th Great Lakes)

Top incoming wrestlers:
Andre Dorschner, 6th MN
Mark Wychor, 6th, 4th MN
Jake Long, 1st, 2nd, MN
Brandon Haluptzok, 3rd, 5th MN
Kyle Leduc, 3x MN placer
Taylor Brown, 6th MT
Chad Mack, 5th, 3rd MN
Cody Kasprick, 1st, 6th, 8th ND
Tim Ruter, 4th MN
Jordan Bendson, 2nd, 2nd MN

Season outlook:
The Cobbers have an outstanding nucleus of veteran upperclassman that includes nine returning starters.  Three of those were All-Americans, including 2x finalist and defending champion Phil Moenkedick.  Ross Dankers and Justin Berns are the other All-Americans, and Ben Anderson was a national qualifier a year ago.  Coach Nagel has done a fantastic job getting some of Minnesota’s top talent to Concordia, and that work has been paying off in the tough Great Lakes Region.  All nine returning starters placed in the top six at the regional tournament, so the team should be poised to have another good performance at the regional and at the NCAA Championships in La Crosse.