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NCAA Division III Championships (TrackWrestling.com)

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Returning 2023 All-Americans in Bold

Matt Lackman of Alvernia lost in overtime in the national finals last year to his brother Nathan. Fortunately, he has no family drama this year and will be able to focus on putting another Lackman on top of the podium. He is 42-0 this year with wins over seven other qualifiers and 36 bonus point victories. He will be challenged by a strong field that includes three All-Americans from last year at the weight. Noah Leisgang was third last year, beating TCNJ’s Sacco in the consolation finals. Sacco beat Cooper Willis of Augsburg in the consolation semifinals. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th placewinners at this weight from last year are all back to slug it out again.

Willis had only lost to Iowa’s Mike Caliendo before the regional and had defeated the defending Division II champ twice early in the season. He then lost 1-0 to Leisgang in the Upper Midwest semifinals after Leisgang rode him out for the entire third period. Leisgang went on to win an overtime decision over Tristan Massie of UW-Eau Claire in the finals, avenging a loss from December. Massie is a returning qualifier who was eliminated from last year’s tournament by Willis. Massie also has a loss to Willis this season in November.

Will Esmoil of Coe went on a tear at the end of the season and dominated the tough Lower Midwest Regional with three falls and two tech falls. He finished 4th at this weight in 2022 but missed out on qualifying last season with a 7th place regional finish. He has two losses to Willis and one to Northeast Regional champion Patrick Wisniewski of JWU. He pinned 2023 round of 12 finisher Alex Villar of North Central in the first period of the regional final.

Brian Schneider qualified last year as well for Elizabethown at this weigh. He has just four losses on the year. Three are to Lackman and one was in the regional tournament to Sacco. He has one win over a wrestler in the bracket, a major decision over Averett’s Taylor in January. He also has two wins over 2023 qualifier Zach Needles, a late injury scratch at the regional.

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Nolan Hertel won last year’s NCAA Championship in tight tiebreaker match and has gone on to win every match since, including another tiebreaker win in the NWCA All-Star match against the defending Division II champ at 157. He is a three-time Upper Midwest regional champ and aiming for his third All-American award. Cooper Pontelandolfo of NYU was 6th at 165 last year and the year before but dropped to 157 this season. He has won 26 matches in a row since losing at the Princeton Open to start the year, including wins over Ryan Smith of Stevens and Peter Kane of Williams, the other two returning All-Americans in the bracket.

Kane lost his first and last match of the season so far, but won everything in between after finishing 7th here last season. His participation in the postseason was a bit of a question mark since his last match before the regional came on January 6th. His opponent in the 7th place match last year was Ryan Smith of Stevens, the highest ranked of the three wrestlers named Smith in this weight class (there were two Vogels in my bracket in 2003). Tim Smith turned around an earlier loss to Thomas West to win the Central region, and Gabriel Smith will be looking for his first win over a qualifier this year when the tournament starts on Friday.

Upper Midwest runner-up Blake Jagodzinske was one of the most overqualified backups in the country last year who was stuck behind NCAA runner-up Tyler Shilson. Last season, he was 31-4 with wins over three NCAA qualifiers. This year, he is 16-6 with a win over 2023 149 runner-up Javen Estrada and Lower Midwest qualifier Clayton McDonough of Luther. The third place finisher in the same region is freshman Jermaine Butler, a Wheaton champ with a win this year over the Lower Midwest winner.

Patrick McGraw of John Carroll has been seeded the last two years but is still looking for a spot on the podium. Last year, he lost to Kane and Ryan Smith, both of whom are in the bracket this year. He was upset in the regional semifinal by Tim Smith but came back to qualify for the third time. Thomas West of Baldwin Wallace was also eliminated in last year’s tournament by Ryan Smith

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Michael Petrella of Baldwin Wallace is a two time finalist and returning champion who has just four career losses to go with 100+ wins. He was undefeated last year and this year so far and is a close second in the NCAA Most Dominant Standings. He is 38-0 with 36 bonus point wins. His father Paul was the first ever wrestling national champion for Baldwin Wallace. He is a huge favorite in a weight class that only has two returning 2023 All-Americans. The other is last year’s 8th place finisher Charlie Stuhl of Augsburg. His only DIII losses are to the wrestlers who placed above him at the region, and he has wins over both finalists from the Lower Midwest.

Even though there are just two returning 2023 All-Americans, there is a lot of national experience in the weight. Michael Conklin was a 2022 placewinner here while Zach Sato and Colby Frost qualified in 2022. None of the three qualified last year, but they have returned to the bracket in 2024. Daniel Uribe, Matthew Beyer, and Tyler Goebel were here at 149 last year, and Eric Kinkaid and Nate Fitt both qualified at 141 last season. That makes ten entries at this weight with national tournament experience.

Zach Soda joins his teammate Berdiyorov as transfer qualifiers for New England College. Soda spent two years at Edinboro before returning to his native New England and finishing as a regional runner-up. Another transfer in the mix here is Charlie Dojan of Wartburg. He was 14-2 last season behind national runner-up Javen Estrada. He has a pair of wins over Kinkaid of Loras but lost to him in the regional final. The third place finisher in the Lower Midwest was Ty Koedam of Coe. He has double digit losses and no wins against anyone in the field, but he did earn his spot here by beating Wheaton champ Axel Hernandez of Buena Vista twice at the regional.

Washington & Jefferson freshman Taylor Smith has had an outstanding debut season. His high school results were good but not necessarily predictive of a 43-4 season and a regional championship. He split with Mike Glynn of RIT (losing the last match), and his only other win against a qualifier was the regional final against Even Linder of Washington & Lee. He did, however, win against an eventual DII qualifier in his very first match for the Presidents. Smith joins Koedam as the only freshmen qualifiers at 149. Also worth noting here is Max Honiss of Albion. He went from 16-20 last year to a national qualifier this year.

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Sam Stuhl of Augsburg won a battle of unseeded wrestlers in last year’s NCAA final when he defeated Ethan Harsted of Wheaton 5-1. He will not have to repeat the feat this year, though he will not be the favorite in La Crosse this weekend. That honor goes to Jacob Reed of Ohio Northern. Reed has placed third in each of his first two years for the Polar Bears, though his one loss here last year was to Stuhl in the semifinals. He is undefeated this year at 26-0. Another contender is Josh Wilson of Greensboro. He is undefeated against DIII and a two-time NCAA All-American, though he was down big in the regional final before pinning Messiah’s Gehr.

Gehr was a 2022 All-American at this weight but did not wrestle last year. He had a tight match with Reed in the Wheaton finals that hinged on one scramble that Reed won. Only two of his 23 wins have lasted a full seven minutes. One of those decisions was against fellow qualifier Jacob Dado of Ozarks. James Rodriguez became the first ever All-American for Castleton in 2022 with an 8th place finish (losing to Gehr in the 7th place match) and improved by one spot to 7th here last season. He gave up a late takedown to lose in the regional semifinals to Bobur Berdiyorov of New England College (and Uzbekistan). Berdiyorov was an NJCAA All-American last season and also wrestled for his junior college in the 2018-2019 season.

Kyler Romero of Wartburg has been biding his time to get a chance in the Knights lineup and has made the most of it with a 20-1 record and two wins over the defending champion. He avenged his one loss to Schropp of Loras twice late in the season. Lower Midwest runner up Pierre Baldwin has two losses, one to Romero and one to Dresden Grimm of Coe that he avenged in the regional semifinal.

Mideast champ Alex Samson of St. John Fisher is the first qualifier for the Cardinals since bringing the program back in 2022 after a 38 year hiatus. He is currently undefeated in his first season as a grad transfer from Mercyhurst. He defeated Gabe Goss of Oswego, a freshman who upset #5 ranked returning qualifier Xavier Pena of Centenary in the regional semifinals. Pena joins other 2023 qualifiers Evan Burge of Wabash and Victor Perlleshi of JWU in the search for a spot on the podium in La Crosse.

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Defending national champion Robbie Precin has the longest current winning streak in all three divisions of NCAA wrestling. He recently won his fourth regional title and has just two losses in his career. He is a big favorite to earn his third straight NCAA title. Three other returning 2023 All-Americans are in the bracket and are among those hoping to dethrone Precin. Tyler Fleetwood defeated Jaden Hinton in the 3rd place match a year ago and both return this year. Hinton has two losses, one at 141 and one to a wrestler not in the bracket. Fleetwood was 3rd at the Upper Midwest, and half of his eight losses are to regional champ Dominik Mallinder of Whitewater, a qualifier here a year ago. The final returning All-American is Chase Randall of Coast Guard. Randall was 8th last season and won the Northeast region this year.

The regional weekend threw some chaos into the weight when a pair of top-5 wrestlers failed to qualify. Coe’s Bryce Parke lost to Boryla of Augustana in the quarterfinals but came back to pin Boryla in a spladle late in the consolation finals to earn his spot in the tournament. Top seeded Ty Bisek was upset by the 8th seed in the Upper Midwest then fell 13-0 to Fleetwood in a consolation semifinal match between returning All-Americans with the same result as the consolation semis at last year’s NCAA tournament.

Joey Langeman of Trine became the first qualifier for his team since 2015 with a third place finish in the Central. He lost in the quarterfinals, but came back to get 3rd as the #5 seed. Alfred State got their first ever NCAA qualifier in Zach Levey at this weight. Levey previously qualified for Brockport, so it will not be his first trip to the tournament. He beat Haws from Centenary, a qualifier last year, to earn his spot in the regional finals. Haws came back for 3rd to earn his second trip to the championships.

Gabriel Leo-Esparolini of JWU, Desmond Diggs of Mount St. Joseph, and Mideast champ Isaias Torres of Ithaca all return from last year’s bracket. Also returning to the championships is Zach Beckner of Ferrum. Beckner was a 2017 NCAA runner-up at 125 in his first season at Ferrum, making and unseeded run to the finals. He is back in the lineup this year and back at the NCAA tournament after taking 3rd in the Southeast.

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Six All-Americans return to this weight class including the 2022 and 2023 champions Jacob Decatur and Joziah Fry. The two met up in the finals last year with Fry winning 4-2. Neither of these two have put in a full season at 125 with Fry spending the entire second half at 133 and Decatur not taking the mat until the second semester. Fry cruised through the regional, winning by tech fall in the finals in his first action at 125 since December 2nd. Decatur is 26-2 in a busy half season of work. He lost twice at the National Duals, once to North Central’s Guzman and once to Koontz of Dubuque who is not in the bracket here. He does have wins over five other wrestlers in the bracket.

Christian Guzman was third last year after an impressive freshman season. He has been even better this year, only losing at the Midlands to a pair of DI opponents. He has the already mentioned win over Decatur as well as a pair of wins over conference rival and returning All-American Blasioli of Millikin. Blasioli was 5th here last year, winning his final match against Barrett of Averett, the winner in the Southeast Region. Last year’s 4th place finisher, Jake Craig of Southern Maine, dropped to 125 for the second half of this season and finished third in the Northeast Region. He avenged a loss from earlier in the season after falling to 2023 qualifier Gavin Bradley of Castleton in the semifinals.

Keep an eye out for Izza Balsiger of UW-Eau Claire. He was a 2013 All-American at UW-La Crosse as a freshman and returned in January at 31 years old to qualify as the Upper Midwest runner-up. His last year on the mat was the first under the regional system. With the tournament in Wisconsin, his wife and two children should be able to watch him compete. Jalen Dunson, who defeated Balsiger in the regional final, had a great tournament and has come on strong in the second half of the season.

Jayden Cardenas won the Mideast region at 125 after qualifying at 133 last season. He defeated 2023 All-American Lamparelli of Muhlenberg and then beat Ethan Liptzin of Elizabethtown in the finals after Liptzin upset top-seeded Matt Griffin of TCNJ who did come back through to qualify in third. Two other wrestlers making a return to the tournament include Day of Wabash, who was seeded 3rd last year but went 1-2, and Jack Stanley of Mount Union, a 2020 qualifier for Baldwin Wallace and a 2022 qualifier at his current school.

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2024 Championships Guide Sample

Map of Wrestler Hometowns (color coded by region)

More info to come when the brackets are released next week. Last year’s version of this post

Teams per region with a qualifier (63 out of 121 total teams)
Lower Midwest – 10 of 20 (187 individual entries)
Upper Midwest – 7 of 19 (178 entries)
Central – 10 of 19 (171 entries)
Mideast – 14 of 21 (193 entries)
Northeast – 10 of 20 (189 entries)
Southeast – 12 of 22 (206 entries)
180 of 1,124 regional entries qualified (16.0%)
1,095 regional entries in 2023
1,066 regional entries in 2022

Returning 2023 All-Americans who did not qualify
Lower Midwest – 125 Koontz (7th), 157 Estrada (2nd), 165 Fuller (7th), 174 Richardson (6th)
Upper Midwest – 133 Bisek (6th)
Mideast – 125 Lamparelli (8th), 149 Monn (6th)
Southeast – 141 Kowalski (7th)

The Northeast region ends today, finalizing the list of 180 NCAA qualifiers.

All NCAA qualifiers so far can be found on this spreadsheet.

Full results for the other five regions

Northeast – 10:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

The Central, Mideast, Southeast, and Upper Midwest regions conclude competition today, while the Northeast begins.

Central – 11:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Mideast – 10:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Southeast – 11:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Upper Midwest – 12:00pm: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Northeast – 10:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Plus the Lower Midwest concluded yesterday
Lower Midwest – 11:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Day two of the Lower Midwest region begins at 10:00am Central, while the Central, Mideast, Southeast, and Upper Midwest regions start today.

Regional links and times (all times Eastern)
Lower Midwest – 11:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Central – 11:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Mideast – 10:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Southeast – 11:00am: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

Upper Midwest – 1:00pm: Live Results | Live Video | Preview | Event Home Page

The first regional tournament kicks off today at 1:00pm Central from the Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids. Wrestling continues tomorrow at 10:00am Central, and four other regions commence with day one.

Preview | Event Home Page

Live Results | Live Video ($)

You can also check out previews for the other five regions here:
Central | Mideast | Northeast | Southeast | Upper Midwest

Thursday and Friday, February 29 – March 1, 2024
Alliant Energy Powerhouse | Host Site | 2023 Results

Teams (20):
Augustana, Buena Vista, Central, Coe, Cornell, Dubuque, Eureka, Fontbonne, Huntingdon, Illinois Wesleyan, Loras, Luther, Millikin, Nebraska Wesleyan, North Central, University of the Ozarks, Schreiner, Simpson, Wartburg, Westminster

NWCA Ranked Tournament Teams
#1 Wartburg
#4 North Central
#16 Central
#19 Coe
#21 Millikin
#23 Dubuque
#23 Augustana

Three of the seven returning NCAA champions from last year are in this region, and all three have had predictably dominant seasons. 2x champ Robbie Precin of North Central has not lost since the NWCA D3 tournament in 2021 and has the longest active win streak in all of NCAA wrestling. He has just two losses in five years of competition. Zane Mulder is 20-0 174 in his quest to repeat for Wartburg, while teammate Massoma Endene is 19-0 at 197 and will also be looking to defend his title. Along with the three returning champs is North Central’s Javen Estrada, a finalist last year at 149 who has moved up to 157 this season.

125 has a lot of firepower with the #1, #2, and #4 ranked wrestlers. All three were All-Americans last year at this weight. Christian Guzman has only lost at the Midlands and was 3rd here last season. Brady Koontz, like Guzman, has a win over previous NCAA champ Jacob Decatur and wrestled in the 2023 World Championships in Greco-Roman. Zac Blasioli finished 5th last season, and both of his losses this year are to Guzman. Heavyweight will also be a battle. In addition to three top-ten individuals, there are seven wrestlers who appear in the Contender and Honorable Mention sections of the rankings. Multiple wrestlers who appear in the rankings will fail to place at 285 in one region!

Top 10 Ranked Individuals | February 22nd Ranking (29 total)
125: #1 Guzman (North Central), #2 Koontz (Dubuque), #4 Blasioli (Millikin), #9 Birchman (Wartburg)
133: #2 Precin (North Central), #3 Boryla (Augustana), #6 Pins (Wartburg)
141: #3 Baldwin (Central), #6 Romero (Wartburg), #10 Rosen (North Central)
149: #5 Dojan (Wartburg), #9 Hernandez (Buena Vista)
157: #6 Estrada (North Central), #7 McDonough (Luther), #9 Callaway (Millikin)
165: #5 Esmoil (Coe), #6 Villar (North Central), #7 Bohren (Loras)
174: #1 Mulder (Wartburg), #10 Glaster (Millikin)
184: #6 Ross (Wartburg), #7 McLaren (Cornell), #8 Voss (Coe)
197: #1 Endene (Wartburg), #8 Linahon (Central), #10 Arsenault (Coe)
285: #7 Bates (North Central), #8 Williamson (Wartburg), #10 West (Luther)

Contenders & H.M. (33 total)
125: Hornback (Coe), Hedges (Eureka)
133: Beck (Central), Haney (Millikin)
141: Dado (Ozarks), Schropp (Loras), Grimm (Coe)
149: Kinkaid (Loras), Macias (Augustana)
157: Roth (Dubuque), Smith (Cornell), Fiser (Loras), Meeker (Wartburg)
165: Burgess (Huntingdon), Fuller (Wartburg), McDonough (Luther), Smiley (Dubuque)
174: Gnida (Loras), Richardson (Coe), Geigner (North Central)
184: Cervantes (North Central), West (Central)
197: Badger (Augustana), Pannell (Dubuque), Steenhoek (Luther), Steffen (Cornell)
285: Dancy (Coe), Haury (Huntingdon), Lewis (Ozarks), Matson (Dubuque), Woodrey (Augustana), Brinker (Cornell), Hearne (Central)

Friday and Saturday, March 1-2, 2024
Lycoming College | Host Site | 2023 Results

Teams (22):
Alvernia, Averett, Delaware Valley, Ferrum, Gettysburg, Greensboro, King’s, Lycoming, Marymount, Messiah, PSU-Behrend, Roanoke, Shenandoah, Southern Virginia, St. Vincent, Stevens, Thiel, Washington and Lee, Washington and Jefferson, Waynesburg, Wilkes, York

NWCA Ranked Tournament Teams
#8 Alvernia
#10 Stevens
#18 Greensboro
#21 Ferrum

Matt Lackman of Alvernia has lost one match in the past two seasons, and it was in the national finals to his brother Nathan. That makes him 85-1 over his last two campaigns, and he comes into the postseason as the favorite at 165. The other #1 ranked wrestler here is Rayshawn Dixon of Ferrum. Dixon pinned Olivet’s King in the Wheaton finals to earn the top spot and joins Lackman in having a perfect season record. After dropping a heartbreaking match in last year’s All-America round that featured multiple reviews and the referee initially raising the wrong wrestler’s hand, he is looking toward the top of the podium. While Dixon is ranked #1, he has a teammate who joins Lackman as the other returning finalist in the region. Zach Beckner was a 2017 finalist at 125 lbs. and has found his way back to the Ferrum lineup seven years later.

141 has a lot of firepower in the Southeast. Josh Wilson is ranked 2nd after finishing 8th and 5th (at 133) the past two seasons. Josiah Gehr of Messiah was 7th in 2022 at this weight while Luke Kowalski of Gettysburg was 7th at 133 last year. Nico Diaz of Stevens qualified at 133, and Avery Leonard qualified at 141. Competition will be fierce for the three qualifying spots. 184 looks like a dogfight as well. There are no wrestlers in the top ten, but there are six in the Contender and Honorable Mention section of the rankings. It will likely come down to who is having the best weekend to determine who will make the trip to Wisconsin two weeks later.

Top 10 Ranked Individuals | February 22nd Ranking (14 total)
125: #7 Cafurello (Roanoke), #8 Barrett (Averett)
133:
141: #2 Wilson (Greensboro), #4 Gehr (Messiah), #8 Diaz (Stevens)
149:
157: #3 Smith (Stevens)
165: #1 Lackman (Alvernia), #10 Needles (Messiah)
174: #4 Morris (Waynesburg), #5 Major (Stevens), #9 Kelly (Washington & Lee)
184:
197: #6 Pellot (Alvernia), #7 Butka (Wilkes)
285: #1 Dixon (Ferrum)

Contenders & H.M. (34 total)
125: Asfour (Delaware Valley), Samano (Ferrum), Majcher (Lycoming), Vega (Stevens)
133: Blair (Delaware Valley), Hoerle (Stevens), Robson (Roanoke), Beckner (Ferrum)
141: Kowalski (Gettysburg), Leonard (Alvernia), Samuel (Roanoke)
149: Lindner (Washington & Lee), Vizzoni (Stevens), Babb (Alvernia)
157: Hartranft (Wilkes), Cornell (Messiah), DeLorenzo (Delaware Valley)
165: Reid (Roanoke), Troni (Washington & Lee)
174: Crum (Lycoming), Mitchell (Averett)
184: Kassis (Alvernia), Martsinovsky (Stevens), Hall (Delaware Valley), Moose (Marymount), Moseley (Averett), Slayton (Messiah)
197: Crebs (Lycoming), Santowski (Washington & Lee), Eckley (Delaware Valley), Pellot (Roanoke), Wagner (Stevens)
285: Flynn (Delaware Valley), Ragland (Averett)