Budd Whitehill Duals Day 1 (Semis: Ithaca vs Wilkes; Cortland vs TCNJ)
Central 20, St. Olaf 18
Coe 37, Loras 3
Dubuque 22, Cornell 20
Wartburg 38, Luther 3 (137th straight IIAC win for Wartburg)
Delaware Valley 31, McDaniel 13
Yakima Valley CC 22, Pacific 19
St. Cloud State 35, UW-Eau Claire 12
UW-La Crosse 25, UW-Stevens Point 7
Click below for the Budd Whitehill Duals page including results, brackets, and link to the LiveSportsVideo feeds of all four mats. Day 2 starts Saturday at 9am.
Yesterday’s post was for the previous week, but the d3wrestle.com/WWSport.com Wrestler of the Week for the week of January 4th is Ben Anderson of Concordia University-Moorhead. Wrestling at 141 lbs., Anderson won all five of his matches at the NWCA National Duals to help Concordia to a 6th place finish in the event. Along the way, he defeated 2009 All-American Kevin Donahue of Cornell and 2009 NCAA Champion Minga Batsukh of St. John’s. He also topped Alex Dahl of UW-La Crosse, Chris LeClere of Coe, and John Donaleski of Johnson & Wales. At the time of the Duals, Anderson was ranked third, Batsukh was first, and Donahue was sixth in the d3wrestle.com Rankings.
Anderson, a junior from Frazee, Minnesota, is currently 22-3 on the year with a championship at the Cobber Open. He was a 2007 NCAA Qualifier before just missing the tournament last season. The wins this past weekend took him above 80 wins for his career, giving him a current career record of 81-29. For his success this weekend, Anderson was moved to the top spot in the latest d3wrestle.com rankings at 141 lbs. He will next take the mat with Concordia Saturday at the Blue Hawk Open at Dickinson State.
The latest d3wrestle.com rankings can be found in the link below. The return of Matt Kelly for Wartburg, Jafari Vanier, for Augsburg, Kyle Bilquist fore Delaware Valley and Minga Batsukh (from injury) for St. John’s should be reflected. 141 and 285 are the weights with changes at the top. Also, see the latest individual NEWA rankings.
This one is a week late, but the d3wrestle.com/WWSPort.com Wrestler of the Week for the week of December 28th is Nick Nothern of Cornell. Nothern won the Cornell Matman Invitational at 133 lbs. from the #3 seed, defeating #2 seed Tom Mirocha of Wartburg and #1 seeded returning All-American Matt Kelly of Wartburg. Nothern took a pair of overtime matches over the Wartburg wrestlers to take the title. He got a takedown in the second sudden victory period to win 7-5 against Mirocha in the semifinals and got a takedown in the first sudden victory to top Kelly 4-2.
Nothern, a senior from Salina, Kansas, is currently 11-6 on the season following this most recent weekend’s action at the National Duals. He is a three time National Qualifier and two time All-American, placing sixth as a sophomore and second as a junior last season. Coming into the season, Nothern had 94 career wins, so his 11 wins so far this year has taken him over the century mark and up to 105 total. Nothern is currently ranked 8th in both the d3wrestle.com and NWCA rankings at 133, and Cornell takes the mat next on Friday at home against the University of Dubuque.
New #1 team this week after Augsburg won the National Duals.
NWCA Team Rankings #6 January 11, 2010
NWCA Individual Rankings #6 January 11, 2010
Next rankings will be January 26th.
Click below for a gallery of photos from the semifinals of the NWCA National Duals featuring Augsburg, Wartburg, Delaware Valley, and Coe.
NWCA National Duals Brackets | Meet Results (select Division III to see only D3 results)
Virginia Duals Brackets | Meet Results (select desired match from dropdown box)
Chuck Porter Duals at Knox
Lakeland Duals
PA-NY Duals
USM Quad PSC Results | WPI Results | Trinity Results
Bridgewater Tri
Washington & Lee Quad
North South Duals
William Penn Open
Pitt Quad (w/Waynesburg)
Cincinnati Duals (MSJ)
Muskegon Quad (Olivet, Trine)
Kutztown 45, Muhlenberg 7
Elizabethtown 26, Roger Williams 9
Elizabethtown 39, Scranton 6
Roger Williams 47, Scranton 0
UW-Eau Claire 42, Itasca CC 9
St. Olaf 27, UW-Eau Claire 15
St. Olaf 57, Itasca CC 0
Thiel 36, Case 11
Calumet 34, Manchester 17
WNEC 26, Norwich 16
USMMA vs Boston, Rutgers, Army
Takedown Radio did an interview recently with Wartburg coach Jim Miller.
Cornell Matman Invitational Team | Brackets (Matt Kelly makes his return for Wartburg)
Menlo Invitational (Pacific only DIII team)
Midwest Classic at University of Indianapolis Team | Brackets
Flash Flanagan Open at Loras
Embry-Riddle 41, Pacific 6
Central Florida 32, Pacific 13
Augsburg 42, UW-Eau Claire 0
The last d3wrestle.com/WWSport.com Wrestler of the Week for 2009 is Jesse Harrington of Delaware Valley. Harrington was the champion at 157 lbs. at the Sunshine Open on Monday in Florida. He came in as the fourth seed in a bracket featuring the #1, #4, and #5 ranked wrestlers from the most recent NWCA Individual Rankings. Harrington, ranked 6th, defeated #1 ranked Jason Adams of Augsburg by an 8-6 decision in the semifinals before topping #5 ranked Zach Mizer (#10 in d3wrestle.com rankings) of Heidelberg 6-0 in the finals. Also in the bracket was #4 ranked returning All-American Dan DiColo of TCNJ.
Harrington, a junior from New Providence, New Jersey, is currently 13-3 on the year with all three losses to Division I opponents. He was second at the Cyclone Open at Centenary College. Harrington missed all of last season with an injury, but he was the Midwest Regional runner-up and NCAA Qualifier at 149 lbs. in 2008, finishing with a 27-8 record. His championship win at Sunshine was his 40th career victory. After splitting the squad between Sunshine, Midlands, and the Wilkes Open, Delaware Valley returns to action at the Long Island Open on January 3rd before traveling to Iowa for the NWCA National Duals January 9th and 10th.
