Weekend Results 2/12-14
Friday
PAC Championship at Thiel
Messiah 42, Elizabethtown 3
TCNJ 21, Delaware Valley 20
Luther 45, Buena Vista 3
Ithaca 32, Wilkes 6
Wartburg 45, Loras 6
Saturday
Centennial Conference Championships
Mid State Invitational
Winona State Invitational
Southern Wrestling Tournament at Greensboro
UAA Championships
Springfield Tri (Williams, WPI)
Bridgewater State Tri (Rhode Island, Trinity)
Johnson & Wales Quad (Southern Maine, LIU-Post)
Oneonta 21, RIT 15
Messiah 29, TCNJ 10
St. John’s 32, Jamestown 20
Sunday
WIAC Championships
John Carroll Open
Wesleyan Duals (Lycoming, Oswego, Norwich)
Western New England Tri (Daniel Webster, Plymouth State)
Mary 22, St. John’s 15
Simon Fraser 23, Pacific 3
Shorter 39, Hungtingdon 15
Roger Williams at Brown Tri with Harvard
Events this Weekend 2/12-14
Friday
PAC Championship at Thiel
Elizabethtown at Messiah
Delaware Valley at TCNJ
Luther at Buena Vista
Ithaca at Wilkes
Loras at Wartburg
Saturday
Centennial Conference Championships
Mid State Invitational
Winona State Invitational
Southern Wrestling Tournament at Greensboro
UAA Championships
Northern Wrestling Association Championship
Springfield Tri (Williams, WPI)
Bridgewater State Tri (Rhode Island, Trinity)
Johnson & Wales Quad (Hunter, Southern Maine, LIU-Post)
Oneonta at RIT
TCNJ at Messiah
St. John’s at Jamestown
Sunday
John Carroll Open
Wesleyan Duals (Lycoming, Oswego, Norwich)
Western New England Tri (Daniel Webster, Plymouth State)
Dickinson State Tri (St. John’s, Mary)
WIAC Championships
Simon Fraser at Pacific
Shorter at Hungtingdon
Roger Williams at Brown Tri with Harvard
MyHOUSE Wrestler of the Week: Nick Koch
The MyHOUSE Wrestler of the Week is Nick Koch of Whitewater. Koch won the 133 lbs. bracket at the Don Parker Open at Eau Claire this past weekend. It was the second year in a row that Koch won the tournament. This year, he defeated #6 ranked Gabe Foltz of Concordia-Moorhead and #10 ranked Sam Bennyhoff of Augsburg on his way to the championship. Koch is now 17-3 on the year.
Koch, a sophomore from Round Lake, Illinois, now has a career record of 26-10 in his second year with the Warhawks. He placed 3rd at the NUWAY Open and has not yet been defeated by a Division III opponent. The Warhawks head to Stevens Point for the WIAC Championships this Sunday. Each team can enter two wrestlers per weight, and Whitewater is seeking a fifth straight team championship.
NWCA Rankings #7
NWCA Rankings #7 – January 27, 2016 Individual | Team | Tournament Team
MyHOUSE/d3wrestle.com Rankings #9
MyHOUSE Sports Gear presents the eighth set of the MyHOUSE/d3wrestle.com 2015-2016 Individual and Tournament rankings.
Note: As always, the wrestlers in the Contender and Honorable Mention sections are not in any specific order.
d3wrestle.com Rankings #9 – February 10, 2016
Team Tournament Rankings
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 | Wartburg | 80 |
| 2 | Messiah | 48 |
| 3 | Cortland | 42 |
| 3 | La Crosse | 42 |
| 5 | Luther | 34 |
| 6 | Augsburg | 33 |
| 7 | Ithaca | 32 |
| 7 | Roger Willliams | 32 |
| 9 | Wabash | 31 |
| 10 | Coe | 29 |
| 11 | Stevens Point | 27 |
| 12 | Stevens | 26 |
| 12 | Williams | 26 |
| 14 | Elmhurst | 24 |
| 14 | TCNJ | 24 |
| 14 | Whitewater | 24 |
| 17 | Concordia-Moorhead | 23 |
| 18 | Alma | 22 |
| 19 | Baldwin Wallace | 21 |
| 19 | Central | 21 |
| 19 | Wilkes | 21 |
| 22 | Delaware Valley | 18 |
| 22 | Lycoming | 18 |
| 22 | NYU | 18 |
| 25 | Wheaton | 16 |
| 26 | John Carroll | 15 |
| 26 | Eau Claire | 15 |
| 28 | Ferrum | 14 |
| 29 | Johnson & Wales | 13 |
| 30 | Springfield | 12 |
| 30 | Ursinus | 12 |
Tuesday Results
Events This Week
Monday
Warner Pacific at Pacific
Tuesday
John Carroll at Muskingum
Ohio Northern at Baldwin Wallace
Mount Union at Heidelberg
Stevens Point at Eau Claire
Centenary Tri (King’s, Mount St. Vincent)
Wednesday
Buena Vista at Loras
Ferrum at Liberty
Emanuel at Huntingdon
Coast Guard at Merchant Marine
Thursday
Wabash at Trine
North Central at Elmhurst
Coe at Dubuque
Centenary at Delaware Valley
Simpson at Central
La Crosse at Augsburg
Cornell at Millikin
Friday
PAC Championship at Thiel
Elizabethtown at Messiah
Delaware Valley at TCNJ
Luther at Buena Vista
Ithaca at Wilkes
Loras at Wartburg
Saturday
Centennial Conference Championships
Northern Wrestling Association Championship
Mid State Invitational
UAA Championships
Winona State Invitational
Southern Wrestling Tournament at Greensboro
Springfield Tri (Williams, WPI)
Bridgewater State Tri (Rhode Island, Trinity)
Johnson & Wales Quad (Hunter, Southern Maine, LIU-Post)
Oneonta at RIT
TCNJ at Messiah
St. John’s at Jamestown
Sunday
John Carroll Open
Wesleyan Duals (Lycoming, Oswego, Norwich)
Western New England Tri (Daniel Webster, Plymouth State)
Dickinson State Tri (St. John’s, Mary)
WIAC Championships
Simon Fraser at Pacific
Shorter at Hungtingdon
Roger Williams at Brown Tri with Harvard
Weekend Results 2/5-7
Friday
Roger Williams 36, Rhode Island 6
Augustana 35, Chicago 16
Messiah 29, York 12
Buena Vista 22, Simpson 20
Elizabethtown 25, King’s 14
TCNJ 26, Wilkes 9
La Crosse 24, Stevens Point 12
Saturday
Jim Fox Invitational at Dubuque
Messiah Open
John Summa Invitational at Baldwin Wallace
Panther Open at Ferrum
Don Parker Open at Eau Claire
Greyhound Open at Indianapolis
Stevens Quad (McDaniel, Washington & Lee, NYU)
Johns Hopkins Quad (Gettysburg, Ursinus, Merchant Marine)
Williams Quad (Ithaca, Oneonta, Wesleyan)
Plymouth State Tri (JWU, Springfield)
Penn College Tri (Centenary, SVU)
Norwich Tri (Daniel Webster, AIC)
Coast Guard Tri (WPI, Bridgewater State)
Allen 30, Huntingdon 15
Sunday
Trinity Quad (Southern Maine, WNEU, SUNY-Sullivan)
MyHOUSE Wrestler of the Week: Josh Thomson
The MyHOUSE Wrestler of the Week is Josh Thomson of Messiah. Thomson won the 184 lbs. championship at the Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational this past weekend in dominating fashion. He pinned his first four opponents before defeating Parkside’s Montrail Johnson, the #7 ranked wrestler in Division II, 10-1 in the finals. He helped Messiah to a third place team finish and was named the Outstanding Wrestler at the event.
Thomson, a senior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is a three time All-American, finishing 3rd as a freshman, 4th as a sophomore, and 3rd as a junior. He recently set the Messiah College career records for both pins and wins, and now sits at 161-18 for his career with 58 falls. His record this season is 28-2 with both losses coming at the Midlands in December. He won titles this season at the Messiah Open, Roger Williams Invitational, Messiah Petrofes Invitational, and the Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational. The third ranked Thomson and the rest of the Falcons take on York College in a dual meet on Friday night.
Mark DiSalvo to lead Thomas More College
Thomas More College has announced that Mark DiSalvo will be the first wrestling coach for the Saints when they begin competition next season. DiSalvo has coached at Cornell and his alma mater Central Michigan where he was a two time NCAA All-American. He has most recently been running the DiSalvo Wrestling School and assisting at Dayton Christian High School. Read on for more from Thomas More Athletic Communications
Mark DiSalvo Named Thomas More Head Wrestling Coach
Feb 02, 2016
(CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky.) – Thomas More College President David A. Armstrong, J.D. and Director of Athletics Terry Connor have announced the hiring of Mark DiSalvo as the first-ever head wrestling coach at Thomas More.DiSalvo, who brings five-years of intercollegiate wrestling coaching experience to Thomas More, will build the Saints’ program from the ground up as the 2016-17 season will be the program’s inaugural season. He started his coaching career at Cornell University during the 2006-2007 season. While at Cornell, DiSalvo coached three All-Americans and helped the team finish 12th at the NCAA Division I Championship. He spent the next four seasons at Central Michigan University, where he coached 12 All-Americans including two NCAA individual finalists. DiSalvo helped coach the Chippewas to a seventh, 12th, 13th, and 14th place finish at the NCAA Championships during his four seasons at Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
“I would like to thank President Armstrong and Athletic Director Terry Connor for the opportunity to launch and lead the Thomas More College Wrestling Program,” stated DiSalvo. “I am encouraged by the decision to add wrestling and motivated to develop an elite student-athlete experience for all who wear the Saints singlet. I am excited to increase my involvement in the regional wrestling community ensuring Thomas More Wrestling evolves into a developmental resource for Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio. My family and I are very passionate about the preservation and growth of this great sport and thrilled to have the opportunity to launch and lead this program.”
DiSalvo was a two-year letter winner in wrestling at Central Michigan, where he earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts, Sports Management and a Master of Science, Administration. During his wrestling career at Central Michigan, he was a two-time NCAA All-American and National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) All-Academic. DiSalvo was an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient and was a two-year Mid-American Conference Commissioners Award honoree, while also earning the Harry Richards Coaches Award at Central Michigan. During college he earned an invitation to train at the United States Olympic Training Center, taking an Olympic redshirt in 2004.
“We are extremely excited to have Mark DiSalvo as the College’s first-ever head wrestling coach,” commented Connor. “He has a tireless work ethic, has coaching experience in successful intercollegiate programs and is an excellent teacher of the sport of wrestling. We are very confident that he will build a program that will be among the conference and region’s best academically and athletically.”
Recently, DiSalvo has been the president of the Greater Cincinnati Wrestlers in Business, volunteer coach at Dayton Christian High School and has ran the DiSalvo Wrestling School in Waynesville, Ohio. He resides in Waynesville with his wife, Leslie and son Willard.
Thomas More announced wrestling as the 22nd varsity sport in November and the program will begin competing during the 2016-17 academic year.
Events this week
Tuesday
Baldwin Wallace at Mount Union
John Carroll at Ohio Northern
Muskingum at Heidelberg
Eau Claire at Platteville (rescheduled for Thursday)
Wednesday
Springfield City Championships (Springfield, WNEU, AIC, STCC)
McDaniel at Gettysburg
Oswego at Alfred State
NYU at Merchant Marine
St. Johns at Concordia-Moorhead
Thursday
MSOE at Oshkosh
Eau Claire at Platteville
Trine at Alma
Central at Luther
Dakota Wesleyan at St. Olaf
Mount St. Joseph at Wabash
Parkside at Wabash
Belmont Abbey at Greensboro
Coe at Cornell
Adrian at Olivet
Augsburg at Wartburg
Pacific at Clackamas CC
North Central at Millikin
Friday
Rhode Island at Roger Williams
Chicago at Augustana
Messiah at York
Simpson at Buena Vista
King’s at Elizabethtown
Wilkes at TCNJ
La Crosse at Stevens Point
Saturday
Jim Fox Invitational at Dubuque
Messiah Open
John Summa Invitational at Baldwin Wallace
Panther Open at Ferrum
Don Parker Open at Eau Claire
Greyhound Open at Indianapolis
Stevens Quad (McDaniel, Washington & Lee, NYU)
Johns Hopkins Quad (Gettysburg, Ursinus, Merchant Marine)
Williams Quad (Ithaca, Oneonta, Wesleyan)
Plymouth State Tri (JWU, Springfield)
Penn College Tri (Centenary, SVU)
Norwich Tri (Daniel Webster, AIC)
Coast Guard Tri (WPI, Bridgewater State)
Allen at Huntingdon
Sunday
Trinity Quad (Southern Maine, WNEU, SUNY-Sullivan)
Weekend Results 1/29-31
Friday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Friday & Saturday)
Johnson & Wales 23, Rhode Island 16
Thiel 24, Waynesburg 16
Wartburg 33, Coe 0
Cortland 29, Delaware Valley 13
York at Southern Virginia
Gettysburg 35, Washington & Lee 17
Johns Hopkins 40, Washington & Lee 14
Saturday
Duhawk Open at Loras
All-Academy Championships
USC Wildcat Open
North Country Open at St. John’s
Muhlenberg Duals (Ursinus, McDaniel, Merchant Marine, W&L, NYU)
Gettysburg Quad (Johns Hopkins, NYU, Stevens)
NEWA-Metro Duals (TCNJ, RWU, Williams, Bridgewater State, Hunter, Centenary)
WPI Quad (Brockport, Plymouth State, Southern Maine)
York Quad (PSU-Mont Alto, Camden CC, Rowan)
Ithaca 43, Delaware Valley 4
Binghamton 36, Ithaca 6
Springfield at Wesleyan
Sunday
Wilkes Duals (Scranton, Alfred State, RIT, Oneonta, WV Tech)
Lycoming 32, King’s 12
St. Andrew’s 39, Greensboro 15
TCNJ 28, Springfield 15
Weekend Events 1/29-31
Friday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Friday & Saturday)
Johnson & Wales at Rhode Island
Thiel at Waynesburg
Wartburg at Coe
Delaware Valley at Cortland
York at Southern Virginia
Washington & Lee at Gettysburg
Washington & Lee vs Johns Hopkins
Saturday
Duhawk Open at Loras
All-Academy Championships
USC Wildcat Open
Muhlenberg Duals (Ursinus, McDaniel, Merchant Marine, W&L, NYU)
Gettysburg Quad (Johns Hopkins, NYU, Stevens)
NEWA-Metro Duals at Roger Williams
WPI Quad (Brockport, Plymouth State, Southern Maine)
York Quad (PSU-Mont Alto, Camden CC, Rowan)
Delaware Valley at Ithaca
Springfield at Wesleyan
Sunday
Wilkes Quad (Scranton, Alfred State, RIT)
Lycoming at King’s
St. Andrew’s at Greensboro
TCNJ at Springfield
