Great story from Mideast Region

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RIT assistant coach Jason Bovenzi joined host Jason Bryant for an episode of the Short Time podcast this week to relay a story from the 2015 Mideast Regional involving 149 lbs. wrestlers Brad Mayville of RIT and Chris Williamson of Messiah. Click the link below to listen and find out what happened.

ST165: RIT’s Jason Bovenzi tells us a tremendous story that came out of the Division III postseason

Bovenzi is in his second season as an assistant at RIT. He was the 1993 and 1995 NCAA Division III champion, and he was inducted into the Division III Wrestling Hall of Fame in March.

Riley Lefever 3rd at UWW Juniors

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Riley Lefever, a two time NCAA Champion at 184 from Wabash, placed third at the UWW Junior National Freestyle Championships this past weekend in Las Vegas at 84kg. The UWW Junior division is for wrestlers born between 1995 and 1998 and typically features top high school seniors along with college freshmen and sophomores. Lefever was 5-1 for the tournament, only losing to champions Zahid Valencia in the quarterfinals.

There you have it Riley comes away with Bronze at Fila Junior Nationals. pic.twitter.com/5oFhJwFF75

— Wabash Wrestling (@wabashwrestling) May 10, 2015

Heidelberg seeks grad assistant

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Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, is looking for a graduate assistant. We are a NCAA Division III program and compete in the Ohio Athletic Conference. During the 2014-2015 season Heidelberg placed six wrestlers at regionals, two national qualifiers, and one All-American. In addition three wrestlers were named NWCA Scholar All-Americans.

In exchange for your coaching services, you will receive a stipend and full tuition to our graduate school. For available programs, please visit: http://www.heidelberg.edu/academiclife/grad

If interested, please email head coach Tony Patrizi at apatrizi@heidelberg.edu. Include your resume and three references.

Pistone leaves Southern Maine for FGCU

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Joe Pistone has stepped down as the head coach at the University of Southern Maine in order to accept a position as head coach of the Florida Gulf Coast University NCWA team. Pistone coached at Southern Maine for 12 seasons and won over 100 dual meets with the Huskies. In 2014-2015, Southern Maine won 16 duals, sent a pair of wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, and Daniel Del Gallo was the recipient of the Elite 89 award given to the NCAA qualifier with the highest cumulative GPA.

Florida Gulf Coast University is an NCAA Division I school with an NCWA wrestling program. The team sent three wrestlers to the NCWA Championships last year with Noah Huxley placing 4th in the NCWA-only weight of 235 lbs. The school, located in Fort Myers, Florida, is perhaps best known for its 2013 “Dunk City” basketball team that made it to the NCAA Sweet 16 as a 15th seed.

Pistone replaces outgoing coach Pat Milkovich, a National Wrestling Hall of Fame member, 2x NCAA Division I champion, and a 4x NCAA finalist for Michigan State. Milkovich had coached the team since the 2011-2012 season.

The move has not yet been officially announced on the Southern Main website, but this post will update once a succession plan is announced.

College wrestling: FGCU club team getting new coach

Waynesburg Quad Seeks 4th Team

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Waynesburg is hosting a quad on December 12th, and is in need of a fourth team. Waynesburg, Baldwin-Wallace, and Stevens Institute of Technology are the other three teams. Contact the Waynesburg staff for more details.

rheadlee@waynesburg.edu

Ron Headlee’s cell # – 724-984-2953

Grossmann named to AWN All-Rookie Team

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Matthew Grossmann of Wilkes, the 2015 NCAA Champion at 133 lbs., was named to the Amateur Wrestling News All-Rookie First Team for the 2014-2015 season. Grossmann is the only Division III wrestler to be honored on one of the All-Rookie teams this season. Click below to read the full article. Note at that Grossmann is mistakenly referred to as a Division II champion and that his last name is misspelled. A correction should be issued in the next issue of Amateur Wrestling News.

Amateur Wrestling News 2015 All-Rookie Team

Wrestling Rules Committee Recommends Four Point Near Fall, Stalling Clarification

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The NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee has released the recommendations that will be sent to the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel for implementation in the 2015-2016 season. You can read the official release below, but here is a summary of the potential (but very likely) rule changes for next season.

1. Clarification of the drop down stalling rule. The top wrestler will be warned for stalling when moving both hands to his opponent’s legs for five continuous seconds. This rule was in place for 2014-2015, but it was inconsistently enforced. This clarification aims to make it a more objective call.

2. Clarification of neutral stalling. Any out of bounds call in the neutral position must be accompanied by one of the following: Stalling for intentionally going out of bounds, stalling for pushing or pulling the opponent out of bounds, no call because wrestling was taking place. This is not a push out or step out rule, and it will be interesting to see how it is called and how the call changes throughout the season. There is significant judgment to be exercised in this situation, and it seems likely that some officials will make minimal, if any, adjustment to their current way of calling stalling.

3. Change in near fall points. Putting an opponent in a near fall position for two or three seconds will result in a two point near fall, while putting a wrestler in a near fall position for four seconds will result in a four point near fall. The three point near fall has been eliminated along with the five second requirement.

4. Separating “control of mat area” and “questioning the official” in the penalty sequence. Read the release for more details about this minor change. The only question is whether control of mat area will be more rigorously enforced now that it is separate. Here is an example of an unpenalized violation of control of mat area.

5. Interlocking fingers in neutral. First instance is called potential dangerous. Subsequent instances will be called stalling on the wrestler who initiates the position.

6. Eliminating the four point tech fall. The wording is not especially clear, but it seems like all tech falls will be treated equally whether or not the winning wrestler scored a near fall.

7. Referee’s position. The referee will wait a minimum of one second between saying “set” to the top wrestler and blowing the whistle. This standardizes the start of wrestling and attempts to eliminate rolling and quick starts.

8. The NWCA All-Star Classic will experiment with takedowns being worth three points.

There is also information about the potential for changing the way tournaments are scored to be closer to dual meet scoring.

Wrestling Rules Committee recommends making two experimental rules permanent

John Carroll seeks graduate assistant

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John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio is looking for a graduate assistant. We are a NCAA Division III program and compete in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

In exchange for your coaching services, you will receive a stipend and full tuition to our graduate school. For available programs, please visit: http://sites.jcu.edu/academics/pages/graduate-programs/

If interested, please email head coach Mark Hawald at mhawald@jcu.edu. Include your resume and three references.

John Carroll hires Hawald

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John Carroll University has announced former Case Western Reserve and Mount Union coach Mark Hawald as the the successor to longtime coach Kerry Volkmann. Hawald was a 2004 NCAA All-American for John Carroll, a four time NCAA qualifier, and the school record holder for career wins. He was the head coach at Case for three years and Mount Union for five years before that. In 2011, he was named the d3wrestle.com Coach of the Year. Read on for the release from John Carroll

Mark F. Hawald Tabbed As Head Coach For John Carroll University Wrestling Program

A man with unique ties to its glorious past has been charged with leading the John Carroll University wrestling program toward a promising future.

Mark Hawald, a 2005 graduate of John Carroll University, has been named head coach of the school’s intercollegiate wrestling program after an extensive national search.

“We are excited that Mark has agreed to continue the strong legacy of John Carroll wrestling as our new head coach,” said Laurie Massa, Director Varsity Athletics and Recreation at John Carroll. “He has led two programs in exemplary fashion since he left John Carroll, with successful recruiting and student athlete development. I am happy to welcome him back to lead our wrestling program to even greater levels of achievement competitively, academically, and as a viable part of our community.”

Hawald arrives at John Carroll after three seasons as head coach at nearby Case Western Reserve and five seasons holding the same position at the University of Mount Union.

In his three seasons at Case Reserve, Hawald forged a 12-31 dual meet record in a rebuilding effort. The Spartans had lost 24 consecutive dual meets prior to his arrival. He coached two NWCA Scholar Teams and two NWCA National Scholar Athletes.

In the five years he coached at Mount Union, Hawald guided the Purple Raiders to a pair of top 20 finishes at the NCAA Divison III national championships, including an 8th place showing in 2011. Among his charges were 14 NCAA Division III National Qualifiers and seven NCAA Division III All-Americans.

In dual meets, Hawald’s teams posted a 42-25 record as the Purple Raiders mentor, including 24-4 over the last two seasons. His teams captured two Ohio Athletic Conference titles, and he was a three-time OAC Coach of the Year. 10549Hawald and his charges also enjoyed success academically, with two designated NWCA Scholar Teams and 12 NWCA National Scholar Athletes

In 2011, he was named d3wrestle.com National Coach of the Year.

“I have legends to follow in Coach Tony DeCarlo and Coach Kerry Volkmann,” said Hawald, who becomes just the third head coach in the 51-year history of the program. “Over the careers of these two men, John Carroll wrestling has won an NCAA Championship, celebrated over 100 individual All-Americans, and has turned hundreds of young men into successful members of our society. I want to continue and build upon this tradition and that means I have to get to work immediately.”

Hawald returns to his alma mater, where he spent four seasons (2002-2005) as a student-athlete. As a four-year letterwinner in wrestling, Hawald was a 2004 NCAA Division III All-American (3rd place at 174 pounds), a four-time NCAA Division III national qualifier, and a four-time OAC Champion. He graduated as the program’s all-time leader in victories with 122 – a record he shares with Joe Schmidt.

His undergraduate success was not limited to the wrestling mat, as he was a three-time NWCA National Scholar Athlete, a 2005 OAC Clyde A. Lamb Award winner (highest honor a student-athlete can receive from the conference), and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Winner

“When I arrived on this campus 15 years ago, my goal was to win an individual NCAA championship,” said Hawald, who received his BSBA in 2005 in Accountancy and his Master’s in Business Administration in 2007 from John Carroll. “Every decision I made in my everyday life was guided by this goal. Today, my goal is mostly the same. I want to win a NCAA team title and all my time and energy will be focused to get me to this goal”

The program Hawald takes over has a hallowed history at John Carroll. The lone Division III national championship won by any sport at the school was claimed by the wrestling team in 1975 – a squad that included his father, Mark J. Hawald.

“I am taking over a program that has a storied history and I am proud that my family has been and continues to be a part of it,” said Hawald. “My father had a successful career here in the 1970s and coached here in the 1980s. I have been to matches and practices since I was a baby and even was part of the team’s annual trip to Florida when I was just one year old. I wrestled here and I hope someday my own children will also be Blue Streak wrestlers.”

d3wrestle.com Named NWMA Website of the Year

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d3wrestle.com was named the 2015 National Wrestling Media Association Website of the Year. The award winners were announced at the NCAA Division I Championships in St. Louis, and the press release came out yesterday. Click below to read about all of the winners.

National Wrestling Media Association announces annual journalism award winners

Award Winners
Broadcaster of the Year: Anthony Robles, ESPN/Pac-12 Network
Journalist of the Year: Brad Wilson, Easton Express-Times
Website of the Year: d3wrestle.com
Publication of the Year: Cedar Rapids Gazette
Photographer of the Year: John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com
New Media Specialist: Jason Bryant, Mat Talk Online
Division I SID of the Year: Taylor Miller, Oklahoma State
Small College SID of the Year: Jackie Paquette, Indianapolis
Jay Hammond Memorial Service Award: Mike Finn, W.I.N. Magazine & Pat Tocci, NWCA

Moulsoff and Valek drop interim tags at Augsburg

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Augsburg College announced last week that interim Head Coach Jim Moulsoff and interim Associate Head Coach Tony Valek will drop the interim designation and remain in their current positions in future seasons. Moulsoff has been at Augsburg since 2008 and became the head coach when Mark Matzek resigned after last season. Valek, a 2012 Augsburg graduate and 3x All-American, stepped into the role vacated by Moulsoff at the same time.

Moulsoff and Valek led Augsburg to the 2015 NCAA Championship and a 13th straight regional title. Moulsoff was named NWCA Division III Coach of the Year and Rookie Coach of the Year, while Valek was named NWCA Assistant Coach of the Year. Read on for the Augsburg release.

Moulsoff, Valek earn Augsburg wrestling coaching roles

Final NCAA Season Long Awards Standings

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Final standings released; awards handed out at championships

With the conclusion of the NCAA Division I Championships, the NCAA closed the books on the season long awards for falls, tech falls, and Most Dominant Wrestler. These awards only count matches within the division. For example, Cody Lovejoy led the standings for falls by racking up 24 falls against other Division III opponents, even though he amassed 27 total falls this season.

Lovejoy of Ohio Northern was 42-3 on the year and was the top seed at the NCAA Championships. He had back to back 40+ win seasons and is a two time winner of the Elite 89 Award given to the NCAA qualifier with the highest GPA. Lovejoy placed 7th at the 2014 NCAA Championships. He led the Division III standins with 24 in-division falls in a total time of 61:26.

Nathaniel Giorgio of Coast Guard led the tech fall standings with 13 tech falls in a combined 46:27. Giorgio finished as a four time NCAA qualifier and three time All-American. He was the 2012 d3wrestle.com Freshman of the Year and was named the 2015 Pilgrim League Wrestler of the Year and NEWA Most Dominant.

Riley Levever of Wabash was named the Most Dominant wrestler in Division III, scoring 5.22 team points per match against in-division opponents. The scoring system calculates an average dual team points with positive entries used for wins and negative entries for losses. Lefever won his second NCAA Championship as a sophomore 184 and has yet to lose to a Division III opponent in his career. He was also the 2014 d3wrestle.com Freshman of the Year.

All three Division III winners led the entire NCAA in their respective categories.

NCAA STAT LEADERS — FALLS

Division III
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Cody Lovejoy	Ohio Northern	285	24	61:26
2	James Bethel	SUNY Oneonta	285	23	65:12
3	Jose ‘Luis’ Hernandez	Milwaukee Engineering	285	20	74:26
4	Shane Siefert	Wisconsin-Whitewater	197	19	45:15
5	DJ Tirelli	Johnson & Wales (R.I.)	133	19	46:30
6	Christoper Chorzepa	Williams	184	19	66:41
7	Riley Lefever	Wabash	184	18	40:04
8	Isaiah Shipman	Messiah	285	17	33:24
9	CJ Caserta	Stevens Tech	165	17	61:18
10	Terrance Jean-Jacques	Rhode Island College	285	16	22:23

NCAA STAT LEADERS — TECH FALLS

Division III
Rank	Name	School	Weight	TFs	Time
1	Nathaniel Giorgio	Coast Guard	133	13	46:27
2	Michael Polizzi	Stevens Tech	157	12	68:44
3	Jake Savoca	Williams	149	9	55:45
4	Alex Kramer	Ursinus	141	8	46:42
5	Nathan Pike	New York University	141	7	35:03
6	Collin Lesko	Alma	125	7	35:16
7	Zach Joseph	Springfield	149	7	37:13
8	Cary Palmer	Hunter	141	7	47:06
9	Jesse Bader	Hunter	165	7	47:21
10	Edward Pierce	Wesleyan (Conn.)	149	6	19:54

NCAA STAT LEADERS — MOST DOMINANT

Division III
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Points
1	Riley Lefever	Wabash	184	5.22
2	Donald Longendyke	Augsburg	285	4.9
3	AJ Kowal	Stevens Tech	174	4.7
4	Cody Lovejoy	Ohio Northern	285	4.7
5	Conner Lefever	Wabash	174	4.59
6	Terrance Jean-Jacques	Rhode Island College	285	4.56
7	Shane Siefert	Wisconsin-Whitewater	197	4.56
8	Kaleb Loht	Messiah	141	4.53
8	Mike Fuenffinger	Augsburg	125	4.46
10	Nathaniel Giorgio	Coast Guard	133	4.4

2015 Picks Game Winner

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The winner of the 2015 NCAA Picks Game is Stamina. The team entered earned 162 points, easily outpacing the competition. Stamina picked nine All-Americans, seven finalists, and two champions. See the winning team below

Stamina

125 – #1 seed, Mike Fuenffinger, Augsburg, 24 points, NCAA Champion
133 – unseeded, Chad Bartschenfeld, Augsburg, 15 points, 2nd place
141 – unseeded, Ben Henle, St. John’s, 0 points
149 – #4 seed, Kenny Martin, Wartburg, 19 points, NCAA Champion
157 – #5 seed, Steven DeWitt, Loras, 14.5 points, 4th place
165 – #6 seed, Nolan Barger, Lycoming, 17.5 points, 3rd place
174 – #3 seed, Zach Zotollo, TCNJ, 19 points, 2nd place
184 – #7 seed, Devin Peterson, Wartburg, 16 points, 2nd place
197 – #2 seed, Shane Siefert, Whitewater, 19 points, 2nd place
258 – #8 seed, Terrance Jean-Jacques, Rhode Island, 18 points, 2nd place

Total – 162 points

2015 Wrestler of the Year

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The 2015 d3wrestle.com Wrestler of the Year is Mike Fuenffinger of Augsburg. Fuenffinger won his second consecutive NCAA Championship at 125 lbs., going wire to wire as the top ranked wrestler at his weight. He finished the season 34-1, going undefeated against Division III competition and winning 15-2 in the NCAA finals. He opened the tournament with 8-0, 6-2, and 10-3 wins before winning by fall in the semifinals. His finals matchup was a rematch of the 2014 NCAA finals against Lucas Malmberg of Messiah. He won by major decision in 2014 and matched that in 2015 to close out his career as a three time All-American an helped Augsburg win a 12th NCAA team championship while winning the Outstanding Wrestler award at the tournament.

An accounting and math major from Hibbing, Minnesota, Fuenffinger won the Husky Open, Citrus Invitational, and West Regional on his way to the NCAA title, and he was the runner-up in the Auggie-Adidas open to a Division II All-American. Fuenffinger finished his career with a 110-21 record with 25 pins, 11 tech falls, 26 major decisions, and a 31 match winning streak.

Fuenffinger has also made his mark in Greco-Roman wrestling on the national scene. He has placed in the both the University and Senior level national championships and is a two time member of the FILA Junior World Team. Congratulations to Mike Fuenffinger, the 2015 d3wrestle.com Wrestler of the Year.

Previous Winners
2014 – Nazar Kulchytskyy, Oshkosh
2013 – Nazar Kulchytskyy, Oshkosh
2012 – Byron Tate, Wartburg
2011 – Minga Batsukh, St. John’s
2010 – Clayton Rush, Coe

2015 Coach of the Year

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The 2015 d3wrestle.com Coach of the Year is Eric Keller of Wartburg. Coming off a string of four straight NCAA Championships, Keller was tasked with building a competitive team from a group that returned just 3 of the 103.5 points the Knights scored at the 2014 NCAA Championships. The team began the season unranked for the first time in recent memory, but quickly climbed the rankings as the season progressed. It took time for Wartburg to assert itself as a top team, and the Knights dropped an early season dual to La Crosse. That would be the last loss for Wartburg this season, as the new starting lineup began to perform, and the team finished with an 18-1 record, running their conference dual meet winning streak to 181.

By the end of the season, the Wartburg lineup consisted of one returning starter from 2014, one freshman, two transfers, and six wrestlers who were backups the year before. This group included Andrew Steiert, the #1 seed at 165 at the NCAA Championships, and Brandon Welter, the #4 seed at 174 at the NCAA Championships. Both were starters for the first time this year, and both had wrestled 149 in 2014. The current 149, the only NCAA Champion for the Knights, is Kenny Martin, a junior college transfer who did not place in the 2014 NJCAA Championships.

Wartburg began the postseason with a 40 point win in the Central Region and brought nine wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, all of whom were seeded. Only 133 lbs. starter Connor Campo was a starter the year before, and he had gone 0-2 at the Championships. The team entered the tournament ranked #1 but finished second following an unexpected championship run from Augsburg. Wartburg had eight All-Americans and a pair of finalists. Coach Keller took a lineup with zero returning NCAA points to a runner-up finish, and he is the 2015 d3wrestle.com Coach of the Year.

Previous Winners
2014 – Tim Fader, Whitewater
2013 – Steve Marianetti, Elmhurst
2012 – Jim Miller & Eric Keller, Wartburg
2011 – Mark Hawald, Mount Union
2010 – Dave Malecek, La Crosse

2015 All-Freshmen Team & Freshman of the Year

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Update – An earlier version of this post had a weight class error that has now been corrected

The 2015 d3wrestle.com Freshman of the Year is Matthew Grossmann of Wilkes University. Grossmann won the 133 lbs. weight class at the 2015 NCAA Championships in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Grossmann picked up falls in both of his opening matches, including a victory over #4 seed Connor Campo of Wartburg. He defeated the top seed Nate Giorgio of Coast Guard in the semifinals before dispatching unseeded Chad Bartschenfeld of Augsburg 4-3 in the championship bout.

The Lancaster, Pennsylvania, native had six losses on the year and was in a fight to even own the starting spot at Wilkes, but his improvement throughout the season culminated in the national title. After taking a loss at the MAC Championships on January 24th, Grossmann had his hand raised in every subsequent match, including the finals of the East Region and in a 5-1 dual win over 2014 NCAA runner-up Alex Gomez of Ithaca. He was 2nd in the Monarch Invitational, 2nd at Petrofes, 2nd at the Wilkes Open, 1st at the Will Abele Invitational, and 2nd in the MAC.

In high school, Grossmann was a two time Pennsylvania AAA placewinner with a career record of 136-31 for Manheim Township High School. Read on for the full d3wrestle.com All-Freshmen Team.

2015 d3wrestle.com All-Freshmen Team (records are taken from Trackwrestling)

125 – Jakob Stageberg, Concordia-Moorhead, NCAA Qualifier, 27-13
133 – Matthew Grossmann, Wilkes, NCAA Champion, 36-6
141 – Kaz Onoo, Wartburg, 4th Central Region, 23-10
141 – Nashid Barrow, Buena Vista, NCAA Qualifier, 25-9
149 – Josh Evans, Wilkes, NCAA Qualifier, 21-14
157 – Gable Frandsen, Augsburg, NCAA Qualifier, 18-14
165 – Nick Velez, Ithaca, NCAA Qualifier, 33-11
174 – AJ Kowal, Stevens, 4th East Region, 30-4
184 – Ben Swarr, Messiah, NCAA Qualifier, 18-3
197 – Kyle Koser, Messiah, 5th Mideast Region, 37-14
285 – James Bethel, Oneonta, 4th NCAA, 39-6

2015 Results for the 2014 All-Freshmen Team

125 – Lucas Malmberg, Messiah – NCAA Runner-Up, Mideast champion
133 – Dustin Weinmann, La Crosse – 19-8, WIAC Runner-Up
141 – Charlie Banaszak, Chicago – did not wrestle
149 – Nick Drendel, Dubuque – did not wrestle
157 – Larry Cannon, Messiah – 4th Mideast Region
165 – Stephen Aiello, Wheaton – NCAA Qualifier
174 – Carlos Toribio, Ithaca – 5th Northeast Region at 184
184 – Riley Lefever, Wabash – NCAA Champion, Midwest champion
197 – Hunter Ayen, Springfield – NCAA Qualifier
285 – Zachery Roseberry, Delaware Valley – NCAA 3rd, East champion

2015 Picks Game Results Post

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Please post your team results as a comment to this post. In order to help you calculate your score, the link below will take you to a list of the team points scored by every wrestler who scored in the tournament. If a wrestler is not on the list, he scored zero team points at the tournament. List your team results using the format below, using the same name and email address as in your initial entry. I made picks before the tournament as well, so the example team below is my team.

2015 NCAA Team Points

IF YOU DO NOT PRECISELY FOLLOW THE FORMAT SHOWN BELOW YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. Once a sufficient time has passed, the winner will be verified and contacted to receive the prize.

The format is as follows: weight, seed, last name, team, points

125, US, Stageberg, Concordia-Moorehead, 0.5
133, US, Bartschenfeld, Augsburg, 15
141, 1, Loht, Messiah, 15.5
149, 3, Fava, Delaware Valley, 16
157, 5, DeWitt, Loras, 14.5
165, 8, Velez, Ithaca, 1
174, 4, Welter, Wartburg, 2.5
184, 7, Peterson, Wartburg, 16
197, 6, Roman, Wartburg, 9
285, 2, Longendyke, Augsburg, 24.5
Total 114.5

Photos from the 2015 NCAA Championships

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Click below for all of the d3wrestle.com photos from the 2015 NCAA Championships. There is a gallery for podium photos, and then there is a gallery for each of the ten weight classes. All of the semifinals and finals are in the galleries, as are many other matches. Each photo is identified with the weight class and the names and schools of each wrestler.

2015 d3wrestle.com Championships Gallery

2015 Academic Awards

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Daniel Del Gallo of Southern Maine is the 2015 Elite 89 Award winner

2015 NWCA Scholar All-Americans | 2015 NWCA Top 30 Scholar Teams

To qualify as an NWCA Scholar All-American, a wrestler must be in at least his second semester at a school. His GPA must be at least 3.2 and he must meet at least one of the following wrestling criteria:

1. 2015 NCAA Qualifier with a record above .500
2. Regional top 6 AND greater than .500 record AND competed in 50% or greater of a teams’s schedule
3. Record above 0.670 AND competed in 50% or greater of a team’s schedule

The team GPA is calculated as an average of the top ten students on each team. At least six of the ten athletes chosen must have competed in the NCAA qualifying tournament, and the other athletes must have competed in at least 50% of the team’s scheduled contests.

In order to be eligible for any academic awards, the school and coach must be active NWCA members in good standing with current membership dues.

Lastly, the NCAA also presents the Elite 89 Award at each of its 89 championship events. The Elite 89 Award is given to the athlete with the highest GPA competing at the final championship site in each sport. The 2015 Elite 89 Award winner for Division III Wrestling is sophomore Daniel Del Gallo of the University of Southern Maine.

NWCA Announces All-Academic Teams and Individuals for 2014-2015 Season
by Jon McGovern (President of the NCAA III National Wrestling Coaches Association)
March 22nd, 2015

Hershey, PA – The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) has announced its annual NCAA Division III All-Academic Top 30 Teams and Individual Academic All-Americans for the 2014-2015 wrestling season during the NCAA III Championships in Hershey PA.

Kings College was honored as the nation’s top academic wrestling program with a 3.59 team GPA. The runner-up in this year’s team competition was Olivet College. Following their top team finish last season with a 3.64 team GPA and #1 NWCA Academic Scholar Team finish in 2014, Olivet Head Coach Brandon Brissette’s squad once again delivered a strong performance with a 3.58 team GPA in 2015.

Rounding out the Top 10 Academic Scholar teams was the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (3.54) in 3rd, Alma College (3.52) in 4th, Wabash College (3.51) in 5th, Concordia-Moorhead (3.5) in 6th, University of Chicago (3.49) in 7th, Norwich University (3.48) in 8th, Luther College (3.46) in 9th, and St. Johns (3.45) in 10th.

There were 159 NCAA III Wrestlers that earned NWCA Academic All-American honors. Alma College had the most individuals on the list as eight of their student-athletes earned NWCA Academic All-American honors. Wabash College and UW Whitewater finished second in totals with 6 student-athletes each earning NWCA Academic Scholar honors.

The student-athletes earning the highest GPA were Reed Van Anrooy from Luther College with a 4.0 GPA majoring in Biology and Daniel Del Gallo from Southern Maine with a 4.0 GPA majoring in Philosophy and Sociology. Cody Lovejoy from Ohio Northern finished with the 3rd highest GPA with a 3.99 GPA in Pharmacy. Dan Del Gallo of Southern Maine was also selected as the 2015 Elite 89 Award winner.

“The NWCA All-Academic Team and Individual Team is one of the best acknowledgements that we can give to our coaches and athletes at the end of a physically grueling season” said NWCA Executive Director Mike Moyer. “These young men have proved that they are not only talented competitors but are leaders in the classroom as well. The NWCA Board of Directors and staff look forward to watching these student-athletes continue their success at the collegiate level and eventually as the leaders of the future once they earn their college degrees.

For a list of the Top 30 teams, click here: https://www.d3wrestle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-NWCA-Top-30-Scholar-Teams.pdf

For a list of the individual Academic All-Americans click here: https://www.d3wrestle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-NWCA-Scholar-All-Americans.pdf

About the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA)
The National Wrestling Coaches Association, established in 1928, is a non-profit organization for the advancement of all levels of the sport of wrestling with primary emphasis on developing coaches who work in academic environments. The membership embraces all people interested in amateur wrestling. The three core competencies of the NWCA are: coaching development, student-athlete welfare, and promotion of wrestling.

2015 Championship Data

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Region Performance

Region	All-Americans	Team Points	Champions
Central	18	217	2
East	15	203	2
Midwest	15	205.5	2
Mideast	14	185.5	1
Northeast	11	147	1
West	7	121.5	2

Three Year Totals 2013-2015 (since the regional system was in place)

Region	All-Americans	% of total AA	Team Points	% of total Points
Central	46	19.167	611.5	19.106
East	41	17.083	542.5	16.950
Midwest	50	20.833	675	21.090
Mideast	40	16.667	503.5	15.732
Northeast	39	16.250	489	15.279
West	24	10.000	379	11.842

2015 All-Americans (unseeded in italics; 23 total)

	125			165
1	Fuenffinger	Augsburg	1	Sewera	Coe
2	Malmberg	Messiah	2	Schneider	La Crosse
3	Bewak	Johns Hopkins	3	Barger	Lycoming
4	Gunter	Baldwin Wallace	4	Guidi	Waynesburg
5	Agnitsch	Wartburg	5	Hensel	Augsburg
6	Rea	Wilkes	6	Steiert	Wartburg
7	Page	Central	7	Farmer	Wabash
8	Amato	WPI	8	Bader	Hunter
	133			174
1	Grossman	Wilkes	1	Lefever	Wabash
2	Bartschenfeld	Augsburg	2	Zotollo	TCNJ
3	Obert	Luther	3	Thomson	Messiah
4	Gomez	Ithaca	4	Harrington	Coe
5	Giorgio	Coast Guard	5	Cain	RIT
6	Pike	NYU	6	Gardner	Concordia-Moorhead
7	Haynes	Delaware Valley	7	Chase	Baldwin Wallace
8	Campo	Wartburg	8	Newman	Whitewater
	141			184
1	Palmer	Hunter	1	Lefever	Wabash
2	Van Anrooy	Luther	2	Peterson	Wartburg
3	Loht	Messiah	3	Olsen	Wheaton
4	Jones	NYU	4	Chorzepa	Williams
5	Steger	Loras	5	Dowdley	Heidelberg
6	Binion	North Central	6	Carlson	La Crosse
7	Adcock	Whitewater	7	Sheehan	NYU
8	Ferinde	Johnson & Wales	8	Beckwith	Cortland
	149			197
1	Martin	Wartburg	1	Giaramita	Cortland
2	Fava	Delaware Valley	2	Siefert	Whitewater
3	Mayville	RIT	3	Twohey	La Crosse
4	Arnold	Ursinus	4	Karns	Delaware Valley
5	Perkin	Whitewater	5	Horner	Coe
6	Mirman	John Carroll	6	Roman	Wartburg
7	Keeter	Augsburg	7	Hechsel	Augsburg
8	Lohr	Waynesburg	8	Seabold	Central
	157			285
1	Carr	Washington & Jefferson	1	Longendyke	Augsburg
2	Lefever	Wabash	2	Jean-Jacques	Rhode Island
3	Lopez	Williams	3	Roseberry	Delaware Valley
4	DeWitt	Loras	4	Bethel	Oneonta
5	Wagenhoffer	Wartburg	5	Nagle	Wartburg
6	Collins	Ithaca	6	Maresh	Alma
7	Garrison	Mount Union	7	Edgren	Whitewater
8	Mancella	TCNJ	8	Herman	Luther

Class listing of 2015 NCAA Qualifiers (thanks to Caleb Williams for compiling)

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