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UW-Stevens Point Preview

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Five starters return from last year’s 10th place team, but both All-Americans graduate for UW-Stevens Point.  In his 11th season, Coach Johnson looks to build on last year’s top ten finish and reload with incoming freshmen and last season’s backups.  Each of the returning national qualifiers has the experience and talent to stan on the podium this coming March.  Qualifier Ben Engelland joined the team late last year after completing the football season, but he has chosen to focus solely on wrestling, so he will be with the Pointers from the opening whistle in 2008-2009.  Stevens Point looks to restock with a talented class featuring Michigan state champ Derek Saari, MI state placewinner Joe Mileski, and Alaska state champ Jeremy Fulk.  DeCleene, Wozniak, and Engelland hope to lead their team to a WIAC title after a 2nd place finish a year ago.

Team: UW-Stevens Point
Head Coach: Johnny Johnson (Oklahoma)
Years at School as head coach: 11th season.
Career Record at school: 91-57-2
Assistant Coaches: Yan White, Joel Burdick, David Davila, Chris Brown, & Eric Bath

2007-2008 Dual Meet Record: 15-6-1
2007-2008 National Qualifiers and All-Americans: Jake Calhoun, Chase DeCleene, Jake Wozniak, Eric Bath (5th/174), Ben Engelland, Craig Bollig (3rd/197)
Returning Qualifiers and All-Americans: DeCleene, Wozniak, & Engelland

Top returning starters: DeCleene-NQ, 2nd WIAC, Wozniak-NQ, 2nd WIAC, Engelland-NQ, 2nd WIAC

Top incoming wrestlers: Joe Mileski (125) – MI, 3-time UP Champion, 5th at lower Michigan state tournament, & 1st at Brute/Adidas nationals in Kansas.  Jeremy Fulk (197)- 4-time state placewinner in Alaska (6th, 6th, 1st, & 2nd)

Messiah Preview

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Messiah College broke new ground last year when they joined the Empire Conference along with fellow former MAC team Lycoming.  In their first year in the new conference, they placed six in the top four, and five of those return this season.  Messiah finished last year in the national rankings and hopes to continue a gradual climb to the upper levels of Division III.  Leading the team this season is returning NCAA qualifier Trent Zempel.  Zemple just missed the podium as a sophomore last year.  Eight other starters return for the Falcons in 2008-2009, but several will be pushed by a number of talented freshmen including 3x VA placewinner Kevin Delawder and 2x NJ State Qualifiers Rich Pennisi and Chris Hardenberg.  MD placewinners Matt Cross and Tim Stewart also join the squad but will start the season behind veteran wrestlers.  Though not a state qualifier, Ty Kanouff won several matches in college opens last season and projects as a possible starter at 125.  Top returners are  Zempel (165), 33 match winner Craig Gin (149/157), 29 match winner Dave Jones (174), and 26 match winner Mike Bressler (149/157).

Team: Messiah College
Head Coach: Bryan Brunk (WNEC ’98)
Years at School as head coach: 6th year
Career Record at school: 45-55
Assistant Coaches: Ben Stum, Josh Cragg

2007-2008 Dual Meet Record: 10-12
2007-2008 National Qualifier: Trent Zempel 165
Returning Qualifier: Trent Zempel 165

Top returning starters:
Trent Zempel Round of 12 NCAA, 149/157 Craig Gin-33-12, 4th Empire; 149/157 Mike Bressler 28-13, 2nd Empire; 174 Dave Jones 29-18, 4th Empire.

Top incoming wrestlers:
125- Ty Kanouff-2X 4th PA-AAA Northeast Region
141- Kevin Delawder- 3X VA-AA State Placer (4,6,5)
141- Rich Pennisi- 2X NJ State Q
149- Chris Hardenberg- 2X NJ State Q
157- Matt Cross- MD State Champion
174- Tim Stewart- 2X MD State placer (4,3)

d3wrestle.com on Twitter

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d3wrestle.com is now on Twitter.  For now, the Twitter page will be links to the individual posts on d3wrestle.com, but the future may include live updates from various wrestling events, including the NCAA tournament.  If you use Twitter, feel free to begin following d3wrestle at http://twitter.com/d3wrestle

Wartburg Preview

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After an outstanding season that saw the Knights come home with three champs and nine All-Americans, Wartburg has reloaded and should be favored to repeat as National Champions in 2009.  Jacob Naig, Aaron Wernimont, and Romeo Djoumessi all return to defend their titles from 2008 and are joined by returning All-Americans Matt Kelly, Justin Hanson, and Zach McKray.  2007-2008 saw Head Coach Jim Miller reach 300 wins at Wartburg in just his 17th season at the helm.  In year 18, he seeks his 7th NCAA title and 17th straight Iowa Conference championship.  The returning core is very strong, and they will be backed by an impressive incoming class of transfers and freshmen.  This group includes Iowa State transfer Mark Kist at 125.  He spent some time starting in Ames last year and should be a strong All-American candidate.  Also, Fargo runner-up and Iowa state champ Byron Tate comes in at 197 along with 2x CA state champ Gilberto Camacho and AZ state champ Eric Reichert.  Beyond these top recruits, 16 other state placewinners will join the Knights for 2008-2009.  The full list is published on the d3wrestle.com recruiting post found here (https://www.d3wrestle.com/?p=482).  Elsewhere in the lineup, Matt Kelly will drop to 133, 2007 National Qualifier Adam Weber will challenge at 165, and part time starters Grant Jenkins and Dustin Jaeger will battle Cragi Kreman for his spot at 174.

Team: Wartburg College
Head Coach: Jim Miller (Northern Iowa ’75)
Years at School as head coach: 18th year
Career Record at school: 304-28
Assistant Coaches: Eric Keller (Assoc. Head Coach), Chris Ortner, Wil Kelly, Paul Reedy, TJ Miller

2007-2008 Dual Meet Record: 22-0
2008 Nationa Qualifiers and All-Americans: Robert Struthers (4th/125), Jacob Helvey (2nd/133), Matt Kelly (5th/141), Jacob Naig (1st/149), Aaron Wernimont (1st/157), Justin Hanson (7th/165), Romeo Djoumessi (1st/184), TJ Miller (2nd/197), Brian Borchers (2nd/285)
Returning Qualifiers and All-Americans: Kelly, Naig, Wernimont, Hanson, Djoumessi, Zach McKray (8th in ’06, NQ in ’07)

Top Incoming Wrestlers:
Mark Kist, sophomore transfer from Iowa State (125)
Byron Tate, 215 lb IA state champ/2nd National freestyle (197)
Gilberto Camacho, 2x Calif State Champ at 103 (125)
Eric Reichert, Arizona State Champ at 215 (197/285)

Cortland Invitational – 2 spots left

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The Cortland Invitational on January 31st, 2009 has space for two more teams.  Entry fee is $350 and allows up to two entries per weight class.  Please contact Head Coach Brad Bruhn at Brad.Bruhn@cortland.edu if interested.

Stevens Preview

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2008 NCAA Division III Rookie Coach of the Year Mike Clayton returns for a second season at Stevens after the team’s best year since its rebirth in 2004.  Brandon MacWhinnie placed third at the NCAA championships, and the team paired an 8-4 dual meet record with a third place finish at the Centennial Conference Championships.  Nine starters return, but they will be pushed by the likes of Joey Favia and Ryan Dormann, both freshman younger brothers of current Stevens wrestlers.  Those wrestlers, Centennial runner-up Charles Favia and Leo Dormann, will swap weights this year, as Favia drops to 149 and Dormann moves up to 157.  Justin Galati will also move down from 197 to 184.  Joining Stevens this year as a graduate assistant is Danny Song, a former All-American for the Merchant Marine Academy.  Song has been competing on the freestyle circuit since the conclusion of his college competition.

Team: Stevens Institute of Technology
Head Coach: Mike Clayton (Navy ’95)
Years at School as head coach: 2nd Season
Career Record at school: 8-4
Assistant Coaches: Danny Song, Brian Cipollone, Ed Willis, Andy DeMartino, Zach Greenberg

2007-2008 Dual Meet Record: 8-4
2008 All-American: Brandon MacWhinnie (3rd/174)

Returning Centennial Placewinners: Kyle Brisson (125/3rd), Mark Bistis (133/4th), Pat Conrad (141/3rd), Charles Favia (157/2nd), James Roarty (285/3rd)

Top incoming wrestlers: Joey Favia, 4th in NJ; Ryan Dormann, 2nd at National Prep

Plymouth State Preview

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Head Coach Tommy Prairie begins his 2nd season at Plymouth State with a greatly expanded roster.  While he loses three to graduation, the new class features 16 incoming freshman including four New England placewinners and a Massachusetts state champ.  They will join three returning NEWA placewinners to bolster a squad that was 7th at the 2008 NEWA Championships and should be led by 20 match winner Josh St. Ours.

Team: Plymouth State University
Head Coach: Tommy Prairie (Williams ’05)
Years at School as head coach: 2nd season
Career Record at school: 7-12-01
Assistant Coaches: Jim Aguiar, Ryan Schieding, Billy Wilbert

2007-2008 Dual Meet Record: 7-12-01

Top returning starters:  Shawn Moseley 133 (2x Conference Placer), Fred Wilkinson 125 (2x Conference Placer), Josh St Ours 197 (2x Conference Placer)

Top incoming wrestlers: Josh Huber (3rd in New Englands 2007), Jake Gagnon (3rd in New England), Mike Willey (4th in New England), Jim Tarpey (1st Mass All States), MArshall Gleason (4th in New England)

Season Previews Start Today

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Beginning this afternoon, season previews will start to go up for teams that have submitted their information.  The previews will go up 1 or 2 per day roughly in the order that information was received.  As more information rolls in, those previews will be sprinkled in as well in the hope that all available previews will be posted before competition kicks off in November.  A link will also appear shortly in the sidebar offering a landing page where all available previews can be found.

Division III Recruiting Commitments

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Now that this list is getting pretty big, I will post information at the top here for each update
September 29th – Mount Union
September 22nd – Wartburg and Norwich

This is a list of Division III commitments taken mostly from InterMat’s list of all college commitments for this year. Keep in mind that there are no scholarships or letters of intent in Division III, so none of these commitments are actually set in stone until the wrestlers show up for orientation this fall. Additionally, some of these commitments are dated months ago and could have changed in the interim.

A large number of commitments have gone up since the May 1st deadline, so you will now need to click below to see the full Division III list.

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USMMA Picks Ilaria

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Greg Ilaria has been named head wrestling coach the the Merchant Marine Academy.  Ilaria spent the last three seasons as an assistant at Springfield College following his own wrestling career at The College of New Jersey where he was a 2x All-American.  Earlier this summer, the Merchant Marine Academy posted a job opening for a head coach but made no announcement about the apparent vacancy.  Since then, they have hired Ilaria to replace Tim Alger.  USMMA returns all four of its national qualifiers from last season’s Centennial Conference championship team.  Phil Greene (133), James Beshada (141), and Eric Vincent (197) return to defend their conference titles, and Dan Twito (149) was the Centennial wildcard.  See the release below.

Greg Ilaria Named the Head Wrestling Coach At The Academy

Season Previews in the Pipeline

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Season previews for as many teams send me information should begin to appear on the site in the next week or two in the lead up to the 2008-2009 season.  Additionally, keep an eye out for the 2nd annual preseason rankings (and notable newcomers) from d3wrestle.com.  Only 162 days until the NCAA Tournament.

Things to do in the mean time:
1. Become a fan of d3wrestle.com on Facebook
2. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader (I use my iGoogle home page)
3. Discuss the upcoming season in our forum
4. Send me pictures from last season to post in our Gallery
5. Ask the SID of your favorite team to post a link to d3wrestle.com on that team’s home page
6. Plan to go watch some DIII wrestling this season

Former Oneonta coach headed to Hall

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Al Sosa, longtime coach at Oneonta State, will be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame this weekend.  Sosa spent 38 years as head coach, winning 284 matches, and he has already been inducted into the Division III Wrestling Hall of Fame and the NY State Collegiate Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame.  See the release below.

Intermat Article

Oneonta Release (pdf)

Shaun Smith Article

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The York Daily Record has an article today about Delaware Valley Assistant Coach and 3x NCAA champion Shaun Smith as part of their The Greatest Athletes series.

Dover: Catching up with Shaun Smith

Danny Song to Assist at Stevens

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Stevens Institute of Technology has announced the hiring of Danny Song as graduate assistant for the 2008-2009 season.  Song is no stranger to the Centennial Conference, having twice won the conference championship while attending the Merchant Marine Academy.  While there, he was a 2x NCAA qualifier and placed 8th at 141 pounds in 2006.  He also qualified for the NCAA championships while wrestling for SUNY Brockport in 2004.  Song continued competing post-collegiately as a member of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club until obtaining his B.A. in Psychology this year.  See the Stevens release below.

Clayton Hires Song as Wrestling Graduate Assistant

20 Questions with Jim Gruenwald

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Jim Gruenwald is a coach at the USOEC Greco-Roman training center at Northern Michigan University and a two-time Olympian.  He also attended and wrestled for Maranatha Bible Baptist College before they joined the NCAA.  InterMat recently published an interview with Gruenwald that can be found at the link below.

20 Question with Jim Gruenwald

Eustice to Assist Duroe at Cornell

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Ty Eustice, a two time All-American at Iowa, has been hired as the full time assistant at Cornell College.  There, the Minnesota native will assist Mike Duroe after spending two years as the graduate assistant at Division II MSU-Mankato.  See the release below.

Former Iowa All-American Eustice named assistant wrestling coach

Barber Hired by USA Wrestling

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Former Augsburg coach Sam Barber has been hired as the Director of the National Coaches Education Program by USA Wrestling.  See the release below.  Barber was the head coach at Augsburg for the 2007-2008 season before unexpected stepping down in July.  The NCEP Director oversees USA Wrestling’s certification program along with other duties involved with coaching education.

Sam Barber hired as NCEP Manager for USA Wrestling

Bridgewater State Assistant Coach Position

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Bridgewater State College is looking for a part time assistant coach to start immediately.  You can find the job listing on TheMat.com by going here.  Jason York recently took over as the head coach at BSC, which placed 5th at the 2008 NEWA Championships and will have NCAA qualifier Frank Cammisa back as well as an incoming class featuring Massachusetts and New England champion John Sughrue.

Manny Hopes to Continue Proud Simpson Tradition

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Clint Manny was named to the head coach position at Simpson College in April after Ron Peterson stepped down following 13 years of leading the Storm.  In his time with Simpson, Peterson had the chance to coach Manny to 148 wins, good for the most wins in the rich history of Simpson Wrestling.  A three time All-American and two-time runner-up, Manny became one of the younger coaches in Division III when he ascended from assistant to head coach at his alma mater.

Quite a few head coaches wrestled at the school they now coach, and Manny is one of them.  He has great enthusiasm not only for coaching, but also for Simpson College.  He describes his time at Simpson as a student as some of the best years of his life, and the experience there shaped him into the person he is today.  Taking that to heart, Manny recognizes how he as a coach will help shape the college experience of his wrestlers as they traverse the four years of college.  “The value of the relationships I built at Simpson with my teammates and coaches truly is priceless, and I want to provide those same opportunities for my wrestlers,” Manny states.  He goes on to say, “Ron Peterson has taught me a lot in the last 3 years as an assistant and I’m still learning every day.”

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College Wrestling Tournament List

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Click the link below for a list of all college wrestling tournaments for the 2008-2009 season.  The yellow highlighted items are regular season tournaments hosted by Division III schools.  The green highlighted items are the national qualifying tournaments in Division III.

2008-2009 Tournament List

Here are the host sites for each qualifying tournament:

Centennial – McDaniel
Empire – Oswego
Great Lakes – Concordia (WI)
Iowa – Luther
Metro – York
Midwest – Trine
New England – Springfield
Ohio – Muskingum
Wisconsin – UW-Oshkosh

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