2021-2022 d3wrestle.com Rankings #8
These rankings are up to date through matches contested Wednesday, February 3rd.
Wartburg and Alma Women’s Head Coach Positions Open
Head Women’s Wrestling Coach – Wartburg College
Function of Position:
Responsible for leadership and oversight of all coaching duties for the women’s wrestling team. May include teaching in the Health/Physical Education department if qualified, or an additional second administrative or coaching assignment. Reports to Director of Athletics with operational oversight from
Director of Wrestling.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Recruit student athletes in accordance with NCAA rules and regulations.
- Organize, prepare, and conduct individual and team practices, training and competition.
- Coordinate all strategic aspects, including film analysis and scouting.
- Represent women’s wrestling program to various institutional programs and externally to media, students, parents, and the general public.
- Provide student athlete academic support.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Head Women’s Wrestling Coach – Alma College
Position Summary – The Head Women’s Wrestling Coach is responsible for all aspects of coaching the team including recruiting, fitness training, practice, competition and travel. The director will advocate for the importance of a women’s wrestling program within the campus community, as well as the larger Alma community, and will serve as a role model of the high standards expected of our students. A successful candidate will have experience recruiting students, as well as cultivating friends of the various programs to meet enrollment and fundraising goals. The successful candidate will demonstrate and support a commitment and sensitivity to diversity, gender equity, and equal opportunity. This position reports directly to the Director of Wrestling.
Wrestler of the Week: Bradan Birt
The d3wrestle.com Wrestler of the Week is Bradan Birt of Millikin. Birt won the Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational last weekend at 165 lbs. He started the weekend with three first period falls before registering a tech fall against d3wrestle.com Contender Casey Allen of Cornell in the semifinals. That set up a finals match with #7 ranked Brandon Peckham of UW-Stevens Point. After a scoreless first period, Birt used an escape and reversal to get on top where he secured the fall as time ran out in the second period. With four falls, Birt won the Most Falls award for the event and was named Outstanding Wrestler. Birt’s father, Millikin head coach Ryan Birt, won the same tournament in 1999 and was also named Outstanding Wrestler that year. Additionally, Birt was named CCIW Wrestler of the Week for the second time this season.
Birt, a senior from Epworth, Iowa, is currently 30-0 this season with 17 falls and is ranked #1 in the d3wrestle.com Rankings. He won the Millikin Open to go along with this championship this past weekend. He placed 7th in the 2018 NCAA Championships and 6th at the 2019 Championships. He was the #2 seed at the canceled 2020 NCAA tournament and was the 165 lbs. champion at the NWCA DIII Championships last March. His career record is 148-13. Millikin’s next scheduled event is the CCIW Championships on February 10th at Wheaton.
Wrestling This Week 2/2-4
No teams competed yesterday or are scheduled to today (edit: UW-La Crosse and UW-Platteville are wrestling tonight). Here is what is coming up this week.
Wednesday
Brockport at RIT
Stevens at NYU
McDaniel at F&M
Pitt-Bradford at Penn State-Behrend
Norwich at Springfield
Thursday
HCAC Duals – Defiance, Manchester, Mount St. Joseph
Ursinus at Muhlenberg
Aurora at Concordia Wisconsin
Luther at Central
Delaware Valley at Centenary
Friday
Messiah at York
Cortland at NJCU
Coe at Wartburg
UW-La Crosse at UW-Stevens Point
Washington & Lee at Johns Hopkins
Loras at Dubuque
Buena Vista at Simpson
Trinity at Castleton
St. John’s at UW-Eau Claire
UW-Oshkosh at UW-Platteville
Weekend Results 1/28-30
Friday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Day 1)
Tournament Site
Carthage 28, Lakeland 21
Castleton 36, Western New England 4
Wesleyan 27, Rhode Island College 13
Alfred State 49, Penn State-Behrend 0
Averett 53, Bluefield 0
Thiel 42, Waynesburg 6
UW-Oshkosh 29, UW-La Crosse 14 (Oshkosh ends 30 match losing streak to La Crosse)
Luther 18, Dubuque 13 (300th career win for Luther coach Dave Mitchell)
York 33, Johns Hopkins 11
Roger Williams 48, Plymouth State 0
Saturday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Day 2)
Tournament Site
Alvernia Quad (Southern Virginia, Trinity, Messiah B)
York Tri(Gettysburg, PSU-Mont Alto)
Lakeland Duals (Ridgewater, Joliet, Bryant & Stratton)
Ursinus Quad (USMMA, Johns Hopkins, Muhlenberg)
Ithaca Duals (TCNJ, Stevens)
WPI Tri (Southern Maine, Hunter)
Norwich Tri (Williams, New England College)
Keystone Tri (Oneonta, Thaddeus Stevens)
Ohio Wesleyan 50, Penn State-Behrend 3
Washington & Lee 45, Shenandoah 0
Lycoming 32, King’s 17
Schreiner 36, Texas State 3
Sunday
MIAA Individual Championships
Jamestown CC Open
McDaniel Tri (Waynesburg, Averett)
Muhlenberg 28, Centenary 18
Castleton 43, Springfield 3
Augsburg 20, UW-La Crosse 19
RIT 44, Oswego 6
Weekend Wrestling 1/28-30
Friday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Day 1)
Tournament Site
Carthage at Lakeland
Castleton at Western New England
Wesleyan at Rhode Island College
Penn State-Behrend at Alfred State
Bluefield College at Averett
Waynesburg at Thiel
UW-Oshkosh at UW-La Crosse
Dubuque at Luther
Johns Hopkins at York
Saturday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Day 2)
Tournament Site
Alvernia Tri (Southern Virginia, Trinity)
York Quad (Gettysburg, Camden CC, PSU-Mont Alto)
Lakeland Duals (Ridgewater, Joliet, Bryant & Stratton)
Ursinus Quad (USMMA, Johns Hopkins, Muhlenberg)
Scranton Duals (Delaware Valley, Bergen CC)
Ithaca Duals (TCNJ, Stevens)
WPI Quad (Brockport, Southern Maine, Hunter)
Roger Williams Quad (Bridgewater State, Wesleyan, Plymouth State)
Norwich Tri (Williams, New England College)
Castleton Tri (Springfield, JWU)
Keystone Tri (Oneonta, Thaddeus Stevens)
NJCU at NYU
Ohio Wesleyan at Penn State-Behrend
Washington & Lee at Shenandoah
King’s at Lycoming
Texas State at Schreiner
Sunday
Jamestown CC Open
McDaniel Tri (Waynesburg, Averett)
Muhlenberg Tri (Centenary, Rowan of Gloucester)
Augsburg at UW-La Crosse
Oswego at RIT
2021-2022 d3wrestle.com Rankings #7
Wrestler #1-10 are in order. The following sections are arranged alphabetically. With many schedules in flux, every effort was made to catch all relevant results, but something could have been missed. A lot of great matchups should happen this week at Wheaton, the next set of rankings could be very different.
Season-long awards update
Edit: It seems like some of these numbers are not quite accurate based on the result. It is also not clear when the count was done. Mulder of Wartburg has 10 DIII falls and doesn’t appear, Arch actually has 14 falls, and Ross of JWU has 19 tech falls according to TrackWrestling. There are certainly other errors.
The first listing of the NCAA’s season long awards has been published. This set includes just most falls and most tech falls. The most dominant listing should be out later in the season. Both the falls and tech falls lists include only matches within division. As of today, Mitchell Arch of Case Western Reserve leads with 9 falls, and Michael Ross of Johnson & Wales leads with 9 tech falls. See the full lists below.
NCAA wrestling award standings debut for the 2022 season
Falls
Tech Falls
Wrestler of the Week: Patrick McGraw
The d3wrestle.com Wrestler of the Week is Patrick McGraw of John Carroll. McGraw posted a 4-0 week for the Blue Streaks split between a dual on Tuesday and three on Saturday. All came against OAC opponents, and the team finished 3-1. Against Baldwin Wallace, McGraw won 15-2 against d3wrestle.com Contender and 2020 NCAA qualifier Dalton Leightner. Against Ohio Northern, he prevailed 7-5 over d3wrestle.com Contender Jordan Hardrick. He picked up a decision and fall in John Carroll wins against Heidelberg and Muskingum.
McGraw, a sophomore from Chardon, Ohio, is currently 20-4 on the season. He was 3rd at Trine, 4th at RIT, and 3rd at the Citrus Invitational. He finished 5th in the 2020 Central Region, and his career record is now 60-11. For his efforts in recent action, he was also named the OAC Wrestler of the Week. John Carrol heads to Wheaton this weekend for the Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational.
Wrestling This Week 1/25-28
Tuesday
Thiel at Washington & Jefferson
USMMA at NYU
Wednesday
Franklin & Marshall at Gettysburg
Manchester at Wabash
Averett at Washington & Lee
Thursday
Kentucky Wesleyan at Wabash
Wartburg at Augsburg
ARC Duals at Coe (Luther, Nebraska Wesleyan, Simpson)
Friday
Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational (Day 1)
Carthage at Lakeland
Castleton at Western New England
Wesleyan at Rhode Island College
Penn State-Behrend at Alfred State
Bluefield College at Averett
Waynesburg at Thiel
UW-Oshkosh at UW-La Crosse
Dubuque at Luther
Johns Hopkins at York
Weekend Results 1/21-23
Friday
Delaware Valley 38, King’s 6
North Central 49, Elmhurst 0
North Central 28, Millikin 15
Concordia Wisconsin 35, Lakeland 18
Averett 35, Ferrum 5
UW-Whitewater 27, UW-Stevens Point 15
TCNJ 43, NJCU 0
Messiah 33, Gettysburg 13
Cornell 49, Iowa Wesleyan 6
Elizabethtown 21, Johns Hopkins 18
Alvernia 39, Penn College 12
Stevens 20, USMMA 19
Cortland vs. Nassau CCC and Niagara CCC
Saturday
Wabash Invitational
Wildcat Open at Johnson & Wales
American Rivers Conference Duals (Buena Vista, Central, Dubuque, Wartburg)
American Rivers Conference Duals (Coe, Loras, Luther)
Si Ostrach Duals at CWRU (Waynesburg, Defiance, Baldwin Wallace)
CCIW Duals at North Central
Centennial Quad at Gettysburg (McDaniel, Ursinus, Washington & Lee)
Jim White Duals at Washington & Jefferson (Hiram, Alderson Broaddus, Glenville State)
OAC Duals at Muskingum (Ohio Northern, John Carroll, Baldwin Wallace)
Brockport Tri (Oswego, Pitt Bradford)
Concordia-Moorhead 47, St. John’s 0
Alvernia 29, Messiah 13
Elizabethtown 48, Penn State-Mont Alto 5
Centenary 49, Hunter 6
Sunday
North Country Open at St. John’s
OAC Duals at Heidelberg (Otterbein, Mount Union, Wilmington)
John Reese Duals at Wilkes (Penn State-Behrend, Oneonta, WVU-Tech, Ithaca, RIT, TCNJ, NYU)
NEWA Dual Meet Tournament
Weekend Wrestling 1/21-23
Friday
King’s at Delaware Valley
Elmhurst at North Central
Millikin at North Central
Concordia Wisconsin at Lakeland
Ferrum at Averett
UW-Whitewater at UW-Stevens Point
UW-La Crosse at UW-Platteville
NJCU at TCNJ
Gettysburg at Messiah
Iowa Wesleyan at Cornell
Elizabethtown at Johns Hopkins
Alvernia at Penn College
Cortland vs. Nassau CCC and Niagara CCC
Saturday
Wabash Invitational
Wildcat Open at Johnson & Wales
American Rivers Conference Duals (Buena Vista, Central, Dubuque, Wartburg)
Si Ostrach Duals at CWRU (Waynesburg, Defiance, Baldwin Wallace)
CCIW Duals at North Central
Centennial Quad at Gettysburg (McDaniel, Ursinus, Washington & Lee)
Jim White Duals at Washington & Jefferson (Hiram, Alderson Broaddus, Glenville State)
OAC Duals at Muskingum (Ohio Northern, John Carroll, Baldwin Wallace)
Brockport Tri (Oswego, Pitt Bradford)
Concordia-Moorhead at St. John’s
Messiah at Alvernia
Penn State-Mont Alto at Elizabethtown
UW-Eau Claire at UW-La Crosse
Hunter at Centenary
Sunday
North Country Open at St. John’s
OAC Duals at Heidelberg (Otterbein, Mount Union, Wilmington)
John Reese Duals at Wilkes (Penn State-Behrend, Oneonta, WVU-Tech, Ithaca, RIT, TCNJ, NYU)
NEWA Dual Meet Tournament
Schreiner vs. Texas A&M, Texas State
