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
Wrestler of the Week: Matt Lackman
The d3wrestle.com Wrestler of the Week is Matt Lackman of Alvernia. Lackman won the Middle Atlantic Conference Championship at 165 lbs. this past weekend and helped his team to a 3rd place finish in the event. Lackman made his way to the finals with a tech fall and a pin where he met 2x NCAA qualifier Eric Hutchinson of York. The fourth-ranked Lackman prevailed 6-2 over #9 Hutchinson to take the 165 lbs. crown.
Lackman, a sophomore from Wernersville, Pennsylvania, is currently 21-1 on the year for the Golden Wolves. He has won championships at the Alvernia Invitational and MAC Championships, and he was 2nd at the Racich Rumble at Ursinus. Last season, Lackman finished 3-0 in limited action due to COVID-19, giving him a career record of 24-1 to date. Alvernia is next in action for duals Friday against Penn College and Saturday against Messiah.
Wednesday Results 1/19
Edited to correct team name in the Whitewater vs. Platteville match
DIII schools can fight for more, but will they?
There are 1,098 schools in the NCAA. Division I has 350 schools, Division II has 310 schools, and Division III leads the way with 438 schools, close to 40% of the total membership. Keep that number in mind.
Tomorrow, the member schools of the NCAA will vote on the newly written NCAA Constitution. You can read the 20 page document here if you like. Included in that document is the following passage:
Article 3. Finance
https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/governance/ncaa/constitution/NCAAGov_Constitution121421.pdf
A. Resources will be allocated to the three divisions to provide standard membership services, including championships. Division II will receive 4.37% and Division III will receive 3.18% of all operating revenue sources, as agreed on January 9, 1996
Division III receives 3.18% of the NCAA’s revenue each year, and that percentage has not changed in 25 years. Even though Division III has 41% more schools than Division II, it receives less than 3/4 the revenue. Division I schools are hesitant to agree to increasing these percentages, since the schools in those divisions raise almost none of the revenue. Over 90% of the NCAA’s revenue each year comes from television contracts for March Madness. However, it is unclear why Division II, a smaller group of schools and athletes should have a dramatically larger piece of the pie. The 3.18% allocated to Division III has not kept up with the cost of providing acceptable championship experiences, as most starkly shown last season when the NCAA simply canceled Division III winter championships rather than pay for them. Division I and Division II managed to conduct championships for their winter athletes without a problem.
Division III schools are being told they should step up and vote for the new constitution and lock in the paltry 3.18% number for the future, but they do not have to listen. Approving the new constitution requires a 2/3 supermajority vote. Each school and conference gets one vote. The 438 Division III schools and 43 voting conferences combine to make up almost exactly 40% of the votes. Division III alone can stop the constitution from passing, and this is exactly what the member schools should do. They should fight for a bigger piece of the revenue allocated to DII and DIII. There are 128 more schools and over 60,000 more athletes in Division III than in Division II, yet Division III is allocated over $13 million less this year. Division III spends 75% of its revenue on championships. Imagine how the experience of the athletes could be improved with another $9-10 million dollars available (the DIII wrestling championship budget is just under $470,000).
I hope that the schools in Division III are aware of this and willing to stand up for their schools and their division. The NCAA is made up of its member schools, so the member schools in Division III should fight hard to improve the athletic experience of their athletes. There is no reason to sit idly by and rubber stamp this constitution.
Wrestling This Week 1/18-21
Tuesday
Wilmington at Baldwin Wallace
Mount Union at Muskingum
Heidelberg at John Carroll
Otterbein at Ohio Northern
Wednesday
Gettysburg at McDaniel
UW-Platteville at UW-Whitewater
Pitt-Bradford at Thiel
Nebraska Wesleyan at Buena Vista is postponed, but Buena Vista is looking for a team to replace NWU on Wednesday.
Thursday
Adrian at Trine
Alma at Olivet
Washington & Jefferson at Waynesburg
MSOE at Aurora
Friday
King’s at Delaware Valley
UW-La Crosse at UW-Platteville
Elmhurst at North Central
Concordia Wisconsin at Lakeland
Ferrum at Averett
UW-Whitewater at UW-Stevens Point
NJCU at TCNJ
Gettysburg at Messiah
Iowa Wesleyan at Cornell
Elizabethtown at Johns Hopkins
Millikin at North Central
Alvernia at Penn College
Cortland vs Nassau CCC and Niagara CCC
Weekend Results 1/14-16
Friday
Virginia Duals (Friday & Saturday)
Southern Maine 28, American International 19
Saturday
Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at Messiah
Cliff Keen/Mike Duroe Invitational at Cornell
Spartan Mat Classic at Manchester
Will Abele Invitational at Ursinus
Al Hanke Invitational at Elmhurst
Mid Winter Classic at Liberty Arena
CWRU Tri (Hiram, Lake Erie)
Castleton Quad (New England, NJCU)
Trinity Quad (Johnson & Wales, WPI, Roger Williams)
Williams Tri (Bridgewater State, Hunter)
Thiel Mel Barry Duals
Sunday
Mount Union Purple Raider Open
Pacific Boxer Open
Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference Championships at Ithaca
Weekend Wrestling 1/14-16
Keep an eye on cancellations if you are interested in a specific matchup.
Friday
Virginia Duals (Friday & Saturday)
Millikin at North Central
Southern Maine at American International
Saturday
Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at Messiah
Cliff Keen/Mike Duroe Invitational at Cornell
Spartan Mat Classic at Manchester
Will Abele Invitational at Ursinus
Al Hanke Invitational at Elmhurst
Mid Winter Classic at Liberty Arena
CWRU Tri (Hiram, Lake Erie)
Castleton Quad (New England, NJCU, RIT)
Trinity Quad (Johnson & Wales, WPI, Roger Williams)
Williams Tri (Bridgewater State, Hunter)
Wesleyan at Springfield
Jamestown CC at Thiel
Sunday
Mount Union Purple Raider Open
Pacific Boxer Open
Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference Championships at Ithaca
Wrestler of the Week: Cody Baldridge
The d3wrestle.com Wrestler of the Week is Cody Baldridge of North Central. Baldridge helped lead the Cardinals to a 3rd place finish at the NWCA National Duals last week. He won all three of his matches at 197 lbs. on the weekend including a 6-4 win over #1 ranked Isaac Lahr of UW-La Crosse and a 20-5 tech fall over 2x NCAA qualifier Tommy Wrzesien of Johnson & Wales. Baldridge’s performance followed up a 4th place finish at the Matmen Open the previous week.
Baldridge, a senior from Morris, Illinois, is currently 19-3 on the season. He was ranked 3rd prior to the last two weeks of action. Last season, he was 11-2 and won the NWCA DIII tournament championship at 197 lbs. In 2019 and 2020, he qualified for the NCAA Championships. His career record is 81-17, and he was named the CCIW Wrestler of the Week for the second time.
North Central takes on CCIW foe Millikin Friday night at home.
Wrestling This Week 1/12-14
Be sure to check on the status of individual matches as they approach. Schedules are fluid right now with cancellations and rescheduled duals.
Wednesday
Fontbonne at Lincoln College Quad
Gettysburg at Elizabethtown
Thiel at Case Western Reserve
NJCU at Muhlenberg
Trinity at New England College
Thursday
MSOE at Concordia Wisconsin
Central at Loras
UW-Stevens Point at Carthage
UW-Whitewater at UW-La Crosse
Friday
Virginia Duals (Friday & Saturday)
Millikin at North Central
Southern Maine at American International
