By Rob Sherrill University of Michigan coach Joe McFarland put a bulls-eye on his program last November, assembling the nation’s No. 1 early signing class. All season long, the Wolverine futures lived up to the hype. McFarland’s six November signees all advanced to their high school state championship matches, five winning titles and one losing [...]
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New-look NCAA qualifiers include ever-growing EIWA and possible merger of three conferences out west
By Bryan Van Kley, WIN Publisher College wrestling on the Division I level may be seeing the beginning of seismic shifts in terms of conferences and NCAA qualifiers or regionals. The dominos started to fall last year when Rutgers and Maryland announced they were leaving the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association and Atlantic Coast Conference for [...]
By Rob Sherrill Traditionally, Pennsylvania and Ohio are the two states that produce the most NCAA All-Americans, and that was the case again this year. Nearly one in three of this year’s All-Americans – 24 of the 78 who were products of American high school wrestling – were natives of one of the two states. [...]
DES MOINES, IOWA — Cornell’s Kyle Dake made history and Penn State clinched a third straight team championship Saturday night in Wells Fargo Arena. NCAA Final Brackets Final NCAA standings With the NCAA saving the 165-pound final as the last match contested in this year’s tournament, Dake rallied to defeat last year’s national champ David [...]
By Mike Finn DES MOINES, Iowa — Trailing by 20.5 points before the start of Saturday morning’s medal round, Oklahoma State knew that it would need a perfect morning from the five Cowboys competing to have a chance to catch first-place Penn State. NCAA Session-5-Brackets NCAA WR_Session V Team Scores The Cowboys nearly did it [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Every wrestling fan has talked about such a meeting and the NCAA even adjusted its finals’ schedule so the 165-pound championship would be the final bout contested on Saturday night in Wells Fargo Arena … and it’s going to happen after both Cornell’s three-time champion Kyle Dake and Penn State’s 2012 [...]
By Mike Finn DES MOINES, Iowa — Penn State actually relinquished its team lead during the quarterfinal session of the 2013 NCAA Nationals … until David Taylor, Quentin Wright and the rest of their bonus-points-producing Lions took to the mat. team scores after quarterfinals Session-3-Quarterfinal Brackets And by the time Taylor pinned Illinois’ Conrad Polz [...]
By Mike Finn Going into the 2013 Nationals, the individual talent level was considered one of the best in NCAA history, considering 85th annual postseason event featured ten previous national champions. And the cream of the crop definitely proved its value during the second round of this year’s tournament in Wells Fargo Arena in Des [...]
The following are notes on the first round of the NCAA Division I Nationals in Des Moines, Iowa, March 21. NCAA Session-1-Brackets All-American Vinson among notable first-round upset victims If it’s the NCAA national tournament, there are going to be first-round upsets … and the 2013 Nationals were no exception as 20 ranked wrestlers [...]
By Mike Finn The following are some notes heading into the 2013 NCAA Division I wrestling national tournament that begins Thursday morning, March 21, and ends Saturday night, March 23, at the Wells Fargo Arena. Welcome to the Main Event For the first time in the 85-year history of the NCAA Division I national [...]
