UPDATED: Wartburg clinches NCAA Div. III Nationals title, placing five in championship finals
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by Jon Gremmels, Special to TheMat.com
Eric DeVos motions to the Wartburg fans after winning his match in the semifinals of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships on Saturday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. DeVos is one of five Wartburg finalists. The Knights clinched their record-tying 12th team title Saturday. Jon Gremmels photo.
CEDAR RAPIDS -- The distance from Waverly-Shell Rock High School to Wartburg College is roughly 12 blocks. Eric DeVos's journey from W-SR to Wartburg covered more than 2,100 miles.
Back home geographically, DeVos is back home on the wrestling mat, too, with a trip to the finals of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships. He is part of a championship team again, too.
When DeVos beat Coe's Ryan Harrington 6-4 in the semifinals at 174 pounds it essentially clinched Wartburg's fifth national championship in the past six years and record-tying 12th overall.
"That's so much better," DeVos said after learning about the team title from Coach Eric Keller. "I didn't think it could feel any better (than reaching the finals), but now it does."
DeVos is one of five Wartburg wrestlers who will compete in tonight's finals at the U.S. Cellular Center. Joining him are defending champion Kenny Martin, a junior at 149 pounds; senior Drew Wagenhoffer at 157; senior Nick Michael at 165; and senior Gerard Roman at 197.
The Knights have 125.5 points heading into the finals, leading Messiah by 34.5. Messiah did make the Knights sweat a bit when it won seven consecutive matches Saturday morning, including three in the semifinals.
Luther was third with 59 points, while Augsburg and Wabash were tied for fourth with 46.5.
"Coming in, we were the heavy favorites and everyone wrestled to their potential, but our expectations for ourselves is way beyond what anyone else thinks," DeVos said. "We know what we're capable of, and I think you're just starting to see that right now. That's our coaches getting us to believe in ourselves and just get us prepared. All year, every day of the season, is up to this day right here. You could tell out there."
DeVos headed to the University of Pennsylvania after reaching the Iowa state finals in three of his four years at Waverly-Shell Rock. After a couple of years at Penn, he spent a semester at Iowa, but he thought his wrestling career was over after that.
"It's definitely been a journey, but I've just built off it, learned from it, grew from it," DeVos said. "Pennsylvania, I loved it out there, but it's far away from home and my dad had some health issues, and it's hard being away from him like that. I was out there for a little over a year and it was tough, so I wanted to get back somewhere local.
"I know some of the guys at Iowa and had a short stay there, but it wasn't the right fit for me."
It looked as if that might be the end of a successful career that started with two Minnesota state titles for Apple Valley at 103 pounds as a seventh- and eighth-grader, a runner-up finish at 112 for Waverly as a freshman in 2009, a state title at 119 as a sophomore, a third-place finish at 119 as a junior and another runner-up finish, at 126, as a senior in 2012.
"Last year at this time I wasn't planning on wrestling again," he said. "Then a year ago I told Andrew Steiert (a teammate from high school and again at Wartburg) -- he had to wrestle the Coe kid (2015 national champion Farai Sewera) at 165 in the regional final -- 'You go out there and beat him and I'll come out for wrestling next year,' and he beat him in double-overtime.
"That's kind of where this chapter starts, and I guess we're still writing it now, but it will be fun to see where it ends."
Martin got Saturday's chapter for Wartburg rolling in the semifinals, starting a string of wins in four consecutive weight classes. All four matches were won in the final 30 seconds.
Martin used a double-leg shot to take down John Carroll's Dan Mirman with 19 seconds left to break a 1-1 tie. Martin won 3-2 to beat Mirman in the semifinals for the second year in a row.
Wagenhoffer, the third seed, followed with a similar type of win. He scored a takedown with 25 seconds left to beat Williams' second-seeded Jorge Lopez 7-5 in a battle of New Jersey natives.
The Knights got another late win at 165. Michael, the second seed, took down Colin Navickas of Stevens Institute of Technology out of scramble with 19 seconds left for a 5-3 decision.
DeVos, the top seed at 174, made those three wins appear as if they were done with plenty of time remaining. Trying to beat fourth-seeded Ryan Harrington of nearby Coe College for a third time this season, DeVos was in a 4-4 tie before scoring the winning points with 2 seconds left.
"I've got good defense," DeVos said. "He took that shot, I got my hips back, pulled in my front head where I like to be and I knew we were close to out of bounds. ... I cracked him down to his hip, ... the ref said two and I knew that was it right there.
"It was good to be able to finish a match like that."
DeVos said constant drills in the practice room got him ready for the finisher.
"It goes back to the practice room, the situation Coach puts us in," DeVos said. "It's tied up 20 seconds left, down one 20 seconds left, you've got to go score. All that in the practice room translates out there on the mat."
Roman gave Wartburg its fifth finalist, and his was the most dominating performance of them all. He defeated defending national champion Joe Giaramita of Cortland State 10-3. Roman scored a quick takedown, then pushed his lead to 9-1 in the second period with an escape, a takedown and a four-point near fall.
Messiah's three finalists are top seed Lucas Malmberg at 125, seventh-seeded Ben Swarr at 174 and third-seeded Josh Thomson at 184.
Malmberg, a junior, moved into the 125-pound final for the third year in a row with a 7-1 win over fourth-seeded Arnulfo Olea of Wartburg. Malmberg took control quickly with a takedown and near fall.
Malmberg will face unseeded CJ Pestano of Central in the final. Pestano used a reversal to a near fall in the tiebreaker to beat third-seeded Jakob Stageberg of Concordia (Moorhead, Minnesota) 5-3.
Swarr, who will face DeVos in the finals, pinned third-seeded Tyler Schneider of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 3:26. Thomson, a four-time All-American, scored an 11-1 major decision against La Crosse's Austin Cook in the semifinals at 184.
The other finalist at 184, Wabash's Riley Lefever, will try to win his third title in as many years. He beat fourth-seeded AJ Kowal of Stevens Institute of Technology 15-6.
The Little Giants will have a second finalist, too.
Unseeded Devin Broukal recorded a takedown with 24 seconds left in the sudden-victory period to beat fourth seed Jesse Gunter of Baldwin Wallace 5-3 in the semifinals at 133. Broukal will face second-seeded Nathan Pike, who became NYU's first finalist with a 7-5 win against third-seeded Ryan O'Boyle of McDaniel.
Jimmy Nehls of Elmhurst scored a takedown on the edge with 10 seconds left for a 5-3 win at 141 against Nathaniel Behnke of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Nehls, the second seed, will face top seed Drew Van Anrooy of Luther, a 2-0 winner against Justin Kihn of Heidelberg.
The tournament host, Cornell College, will be represented in the finals at 149 after Trevor Engle beat fifth-seeded Seth Lansberry 5-3. Engle used an escape and takedown to expand his lead to 5-1 in the third period. Engle will face Martin in the finals.
In Wartburg's other finals matchups, Wagenhoffer will face Cortland State's Bobby Dierna at 157, Michael will take on fifth-seeded Logan Hermsen of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Roman will meet Roger Williams' David Welch at 197.
Dierna, who did not wrestle last season, is in the finals for the second time in three years. The 2014 runner-up at 149, Dierna advanced to the 157-pound final with an 8-2 win against Luther's unseeded Tristan Zurfluh 8-2.
Hermsen, who nearly became Eric Hensel's third consecutive casualty by pin, went ahead 6-5 on a second-period reversal and beat the eighth seed from Augsburg 12-6.
Welch, who beat Roman earlier in the year, needed a takedown with 5 seconds left to hand Adrian freshman Angus Arthur his first loss, 3-2.
The final final will have defending champion Donny Longendyke of Augsburg facing second-seeded Zach Roseberry of Delaware Valley. Longendyke pinned Alma's Trevor Maresh in 5:16. Roseberry handed Wartburg's Lance Evans an 8-6 loss, clinching it with a third-period takedown after a point for stalling pulled Evans within 6-5.
Follow the championship finals on Twitter at @d3onthemat
NCAA DIV. III NATIONALS
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 12
Results heading into gold-medal finals
.
125
1st - No. 1 Lucas Malmberg (Messiah) vs. C.J. Pestano (Central)
3rd – Jacob Spearman (Washington & Jefferson) dec. Zac Denny (Wis.-Whitewater), 3-2
5th - No. 4 Arnulfo Olea (Wartburg) pin No. 3 Jacob Stageberg (Concordia-Moorhead), 5:26
7th - No. 6 James Kaishian (Ithaca) dec. Jan Rosenberg (Coe), 8-4
133
1st - Devin Broukal (Wabash) vs. No. 2 Nathan Pike (NYU)
3rd - Dustin Weinmann (Wis.-LaCrosse) dec. No. 3 Ryan O’Boyle (McDaniel), 10-6
5th – No. 4 Jesse Gunter (Baldwin Wallace) dec. Phillip Opelt (Cornell), 4-2, SV 1
7th – No. 1 Connor Campo (Wartburg) inj. dft. No. 7 Romeo Riley (Alma College)
141
1st - No. 1 Drew Van Anrooy (Luther) vs. No. 2 Jimmy Nehls (Elmhurst)
3rd - No. 3 Nathaniel Behnke (Wisconsin-Eau Clair) maj. dec. No. 5 Justin Kihn (Heidelberg), 9-0
5th - Gregory Warner (York -PA) maj. dec. No. 7 Chris Williams (Millikin), 17-7
7th- No. 8 Jeremy Border (Mount Union) med. forfeit No. 4 Shawn Giblin (Rhode Island College)
149
1st - Trevor Engle (Cornell College) vs. No. 3 Kenneth Martin (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 2 Dan Mirman (John Carroll) dec. No. 5 Seth Lansberry (Lycoming), 4-3
5th – No. 4 Blake Santi (Elmhurst) tech. fall No. 7 Dakota Gray (Luther), 16-1
7th – No. 6 Rashad Kennedy (Augsburg) dec. Joey Gaccione (Johnson & Wales - RI), 10-3
157
1st - No. 1 Robert Dierna (SUNY-Cortland) vs. No. 3 Drew Wagenhoffer (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 2 Jorge Lopez (Williams) dec. No. 8 Larry Cannon (Messiah), 10-8
5th - Tristian Zurfluh (Luther) dec. No. 4 Logan Meister (Ferrum College), 3-1
7th - Grant Parker (Augsburg) dec. No. 5 Nick Bova (Wabash), 8-3
165
1st - No. 5 Logan Hermsen (Wis.-Stevens Point) vs. No. 2 Nicholas Michael (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 3 Nolan Barger (Lycoming) dec. No. 6 Colin Navickas (Stevens Tech), 6-1
5th - No. 8 Eric Hensel (Augsburg) dec. Jeff Hojnacki (Messiah), 12-10
7th – Nick Velez (Ithaca) dec. No. 1 Farai Sewera (Coe), 10-4
174
1st - No. 1 Eric DeVos (Wartburg) vs. No. 7 Ben Swarr (Messiah)
3rd - No. 4 Ryan Harrington (Coe) dec. No. 3 Tyler Schneider (Wis.-LaCrosse), 5-2
5th- Sonnieboy Blanco (Washington and Jefferson) dec. Joshua Sibblies (Centenary-NJ), 5-3
7th - Garrett Beaman (St. Olaf) pin Doug Hamann (The College of New Jersey), 1:11
184
1st - No. 1 Riley Lefever (Wabash) vs. No. 3 Josh Thomson (Messiah)
3rd - No. 4 A,J. Kowal (Stevens Tech) dec. No. 5 Justin Kreiter (Luther), 3-2
5th - No. 6 Carlos Toribio (Ithaca) dec. Austin Cook (Wis.-LaCrosse), 7-1
7th – Brandon Conrad (Rhode Island College) maj. dec. No. 8 Jeff Palmeri (Brockport), 19-9
197
1st - No. 1 David Welch (Roger Williams) vs. No. 2 Gerard Roman (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 3 Joe Giaramita (SUNY-Cortland) dec. No. 4 Angus Arthur (Adrian), 8-4
5th - No. 6 Jamie Jakes (Alma College) dec. Ricky Fisher (Merchant Marine), 6-2
7th – No. 7 Michael Swider (Wheaton - IL) dec. Malcolm Watson (Loras), 4-2, SV-2
285
1st - No. 1 Donald Longendyke (Augsburg) vs. No. 2 Zachery Roseberry (Delaware Valley)
3rd - No. 2 Lance Evans (Wartburg) dec. No. 4 Trevor Maresh (Alma), 4-2
5th – No. 6 Paul Triandafilou (Gettysburg) dec. Jason Wright (Messiah), 5-1
7th - Tyler Maher (Stevens Tech) dec. No. 7 Conner Herman (Luther), 3-1
Team Standings
1. Wartburg 125.5
2. Messiah 91.0
3. Luther 59.0
4. Augsburg 46.5
4. Wabash 46.5
6. Wisconsin-La Crosse 37.0
7. Stevens Institute Of Technology 34.0
8. Elmhurst 33.0
9. SUNY-Cortland 31.5
10. Cornell College 30.5
11. Alma College 30.0
12. Coe 28.5
13. Lycoming 28.0
14. Ithaca 26.5
15. Washington and Jefferson 23.0
16. New York University 20.5
17. Roger Williams 20.0
18. Delaware Valley University 19.5
19. Central (IA) 18.0
20. McDaniel 17.5
20. York (PA) 17.5
22. Adrian 15.5
22. Wisconsin-Eau Claire 15.5
22. Wisconsin-Whitewater 15.5
25. John Carroll 15.0
25. Wisconsin-Stevens Point 15.0
27. Williams College 14.5
28. Heidelberg 13.5
29. Rhode Island College 12.5
30. Merchant Marine 10.5
31. Baldwin Wallace 10.0
31. Concordia-Moorhead 10.0
33. Gettysburg 9.0
33. St. Olaf 9.0
35. Centenary (NJ) 8.5
35. Ferrum College 8.5
37. Brockport 8.0
37. Millikin University 8.0
39. Johnson & Wales (RI) 7.5
39. Mount Union 7.5
41. The College of New Jersey 6.5
42. Wheaton (IL) 5.5
43. Loras 4.0
44. Hunter 2.0
44. North Central (IL) 2.0
46. Southern Maine 1.5
46. Wisconsin-Platteville 1.5
48. Springfield 1.0
48. St. Johns (MN) 1.0
48. Ursinus 1.0
51. Concordia (WI) 0.5
51. Elizabethtown 0.5
CEDAR RAPIDS -- The distance from Waverly-Shell Rock High School to Wartburg College is roughly 12 blocks. Eric DeVos's journey from W-SR to Wartburg covered more than 2,100 miles.
Back home geographically, DeVos is back home on the wrestling mat, too, with a trip to the finals of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships. He is part of a championship team again, too.
When DeVos beat Coe's Ryan Harrington 6-4 in the semifinals at 174 pounds it essentially clinched Wartburg's fifth national championship in the past six years and record-tying 12th overall.
"That's so much better," DeVos said after learning about the team title from Coach Eric Keller. "I didn't think it could feel any better (than reaching the finals), but now it does."
DeVos is one of five Wartburg wrestlers who will compete in tonight's finals at the U.S. Cellular Center. Joining him are defending champion Kenny Martin, a junior at 149 pounds; senior Drew Wagenhoffer at 157; senior Nick Michael at 165; and senior Gerard Roman at 197.
The Knights have 125.5 points heading into the finals, leading Messiah by 34.5. Messiah did make the Knights sweat a bit when it won seven consecutive matches Saturday morning, including three in the semifinals.
Luther was third with 59 points, while Augsburg and Wabash were tied for fourth with 46.5.
"Coming in, we were the heavy favorites and everyone wrestled to their potential, but our expectations for ourselves is way beyond what anyone else thinks," DeVos said. "We know what we're capable of, and I think you're just starting to see that right now. That's our coaches getting us to believe in ourselves and just get us prepared. All year, every day of the season, is up to this day right here. You could tell out there."
DeVos headed to the University of Pennsylvania after reaching the Iowa state finals in three of his four years at Waverly-Shell Rock. After a couple of years at Penn, he spent a semester at Iowa, but he thought his wrestling career was over after that.
"It's definitely been a journey, but I've just built off it, learned from it, grew from it," DeVos said. "Pennsylvania, I loved it out there, but it's far away from home and my dad had some health issues, and it's hard being away from him like that. I was out there for a little over a year and it was tough, so I wanted to get back somewhere local.
"I know some of the guys at Iowa and had a short stay there, but it wasn't the right fit for me."
It looked as if that might be the end of a successful career that started with two Minnesota state titles for Apple Valley at 103 pounds as a seventh- and eighth-grader, a runner-up finish at 112 for Waverly as a freshman in 2009, a state title at 119 as a sophomore, a third-place finish at 119 as a junior and another runner-up finish, at 126, as a senior in 2012.
"Last year at this time I wasn't planning on wrestling again," he said. "Then a year ago I told Andrew Steiert (a teammate from high school and again at Wartburg) -- he had to wrestle the Coe kid (2015 national champion Farai Sewera) at 165 in the regional final -- 'You go out there and beat him and I'll come out for wrestling next year,' and he beat him in double-overtime.
"That's kind of where this chapter starts, and I guess we're still writing it now, but it will be fun to see where it ends."
Martin got Saturday's chapter for Wartburg rolling in the semifinals, starting a string of wins in four consecutive weight classes. All four matches were won in the final 30 seconds.
Martin used a double-leg shot to take down John Carroll's Dan Mirman with 19 seconds left to break a 1-1 tie. Martin won 3-2 to beat Mirman in the semifinals for the second year in a row.
Wagenhoffer, the third seed, followed with a similar type of win. He scored a takedown with 25 seconds left to beat Williams' second-seeded Jorge Lopez 7-5 in a battle of New Jersey natives.
The Knights got another late win at 165. Michael, the second seed, took down Colin Navickas of Stevens Institute of Technology out of scramble with 19 seconds left for a 5-3 decision.
DeVos, the top seed at 174, made those three wins appear as if they were done with plenty of time remaining. Trying to beat fourth-seeded Ryan Harrington of nearby Coe College for a third time this season, DeVos was in a 4-4 tie before scoring the winning points with 2 seconds left.
"I've got good defense," DeVos said. "He took that shot, I got my hips back, pulled in my front head where I like to be and I knew we were close to out of bounds. ... I cracked him down to his hip, ... the ref said two and I knew that was it right there.
"It was good to be able to finish a match like that."
DeVos said constant drills in the practice room got him ready for the finisher.
"It goes back to the practice room, the situation Coach puts us in," DeVos said. "It's tied up 20 seconds left, down one 20 seconds left, you've got to go score. All that in the practice room translates out there on the mat."
Roman gave Wartburg its fifth finalist, and his was the most dominating performance of them all. He defeated defending national champion Joe Giaramita of Cortland State 10-3. Roman scored a quick takedown, then pushed his lead to 9-1 in the second period with an escape, a takedown and a four-point near fall.
Messiah's three finalists are top seed Lucas Malmberg at 125, seventh-seeded Ben Swarr at 174 and third-seeded Josh Thomson at 184.
Malmberg, a junior, moved into the 125-pound final for the third year in a row with a 7-1 win over fourth-seeded Arnulfo Olea of Wartburg. Malmberg took control quickly with a takedown and near fall.
Malmberg will face unseeded CJ Pestano of Central in the final. Pestano used a reversal to a near fall in the tiebreaker to beat third-seeded Jakob Stageberg of Concordia (Moorhead, Minnesota) 5-3.
Swarr, who will face DeVos in the finals, pinned third-seeded Tyler Schneider of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 3:26. Thomson, a four-time All-American, scored an 11-1 major decision against La Crosse's Austin Cook in the semifinals at 184.
The other finalist at 184, Wabash's Riley Lefever, will try to win his third title in as many years. He beat fourth-seeded AJ Kowal of Stevens Institute of Technology 15-6.
The Little Giants will have a second finalist, too.
Unseeded Devin Broukal recorded a takedown with 24 seconds left in the sudden-victory period to beat fourth seed Jesse Gunter of Baldwin Wallace 5-3 in the semifinals at 133. Broukal will face second-seeded Nathan Pike, who became NYU's first finalist with a 7-5 win against third-seeded Ryan O'Boyle of McDaniel.
Jimmy Nehls of Elmhurst scored a takedown on the edge with 10 seconds left for a 5-3 win at 141 against Nathaniel Behnke of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Nehls, the second seed, will face top seed Drew Van Anrooy of Luther, a 2-0 winner against Justin Kihn of Heidelberg.
The tournament host, Cornell College, will be represented in the finals at 149 after Trevor Engle beat fifth-seeded Seth Lansberry 5-3. Engle used an escape and takedown to expand his lead to 5-1 in the third period. Engle will face Martin in the finals.
In Wartburg's other finals matchups, Wagenhoffer will face Cortland State's Bobby Dierna at 157, Michael will take on fifth-seeded Logan Hermsen of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Roman will meet Roger Williams' David Welch at 197.
Dierna, who did not wrestle last season, is in the finals for the second time in three years. The 2014 runner-up at 149, Dierna advanced to the 157-pound final with an 8-2 win against Luther's unseeded Tristan Zurfluh 8-2.
Hermsen, who nearly became Eric Hensel's third consecutive casualty by pin, went ahead 6-5 on a second-period reversal and beat the eighth seed from Augsburg 12-6.
Welch, who beat Roman earlier in the year, needed a takedown with 5 seconds left to hand Adrian freshman Angus Arthur his first loss, 3-2.
The final final will have defending champion Donny Longendyke of Augsburg facing second-seeded Zach Roseberry of Delaware Valley. Longendyke pinned Alma's Trevor Maresh in 5:16. Roseberry handed Wartburg's Lance Evans an 8-6 loss, clinching it with a third-period takedown after a point for stalling pulled Evans within 6-5.
Follow the championship finals on Twitter at @d3onthemat
NCAA DIV. III NATIONALS
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 12
Results heading into gold-medal finals
.
125
1st - No. 1 Lucas Malmberg (Messiah) vs. C.J. Pestano (Central)
3rd – Jacob Spearman (Washington & Jefferson) dec. Zac Denny (Wis.-Whitewater), 3-2
5th - No. 4 Arnulfo Olea (Wartburg) pin No. 3 Jacob Stageberg (Concordia-Moorhead), 5:26
7th - No. 6 James Kaishian (Ithaca) dec. Jan Rosenberg (Coe), 8-4
133
1st - Devin Broukal (Wabash) vs. No. 2 Nathan Pike (NYU)
3rd - Dustin Weinmann (Wis.-LaCrosse) dec. No. 3 Ryan O’Boyle (McDaniel), 10-6
5th – No. 4 Jesse Gunter (Baldwin Wallace) dec. Phillip Opelt (Cornell), 4-2, SV 1
7th – No. 1 Connor Campo (Wartburg) inj. dft. No. 7 Romeo Riley (Alma College)
141
1st - No. 1 Drew Van Anrooy (Luther) vs. No. 2 Jimmy Nehls (Elmhurst)
3rd - No. 3 Nathaniel Behnke (Wisconsin-Eau Clair) maj. dec. No. 5 Justin Kihn (Heidelberg), 9-0
5th - Gregory Warner (York -PA) maj. dec. No. 7 Chris Williams (Millikin), 17-7
7th- No. 8 Jeremy Border (Mount Union) med. forfeit No. 4 Shawn Giblin (Rhode Island College)
149
1st - Trevor Engle (Cornell College) vs. No. 3 Kenneth Martin (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 2 Dan Mirman (John Carroll) dec. No. 5 Seth Lansberry (Lycoming), 4-3
5th – No. 4 Blake Santi (Elmhurst) tech. fall No. 7 Dakota Gray (Luther), 16-1
7th – No. 6 Rashad Kennedy (Augsburg) dec. Joey Gaccione (Johnson & Wales - RI), 10-3
157
1st - No. 1 Robert Dierna (SUNY-Cortland) vs. No. 3 Drew Wagenhoffer (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 2 Jorge Lopez (Williams) dec. No. 8 Larry Cannon (Messiah), 10-8
5th - Tristian Zurfluh (Luther) dec. No. 4 Logan Meister (Ferrum College), 3-1
7th - Grant Parker (Augsburg) dec. No. 5 Nick Bova (Wabash), 8-3
165
1st - No. 5 Logan Hermsen (Wis.-Stevens Point) vs. No. 2 Nicholas Michael (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 3 Nolan Barger (Lycoming) dec. No. 6 Colin Navickas (Stevens Tech), 6-1
5th - No. 8 Eric Hensel (Augsburg) dec. Jeff Hojnacki (Messiah), 12-10
7th – Nick Velez (Ithaca) dec. No. 1 Farai Sewera (Coe), 10-4
174
1st - No. 1 Eric DeVos (Wartburg) vs. No. 7 Ben Swarr (Messiah)
3rd - No. 4 Ryan Harrington (Coe) dec. No. 3 Tyler Schneider (Wis.-LaCrosse), 5-2
5th- Sonnieboy Blanco (Washington and Jefferson) dec. Joshua Sibblies (Centenary-NJ), 5-3
7th - Garrett Beaman (St. Olaf) pin Doug Hamann (The College of New Jersey), 1:11
184
1st - No. 1 Riley Lefever (Wabash) vs. No. 3 Josh Thomson (Messiah)
3rd - No. 4 A,J. Kowal (Stevens Tech) dec. No. 5 Justin Kreiter (Luther), 3-2
5th - No. 6 Carlos Toribio (Ithaca) dec. Austin Cook (Wis.-LaCrosse), 7-1
7th – Brandon Conrad (Rhode Island College) maj. dec. No. 8 Jeff Palmeri (Brockport), 19-9
197
1st - No. 1 David Welch (Roger Williams) vs. No. 2 Gerard Roman (Wartburg)
3rd - No. 3 Joe Giaramita (SUNY-Cortland) dec. No. 4 Angus Arthur (Adrian), 8-4
5th - No. 6 Jamie Jakes (Alma College) dec. Ricky Fisher (Merchant Marine), 6-2
7th – No. 7 Michael Swider (Wheaton - IL) dec. Malcolm Watson (Loras), 4-2, SV-2
285
1st - No. 1 Donald Longendyke (Augsburg) vs. No. 2 Zachery Roseberry (Delaware Valley)
3rd - No. 2 Lance Evans (Wartburg) dec. No. 4 Trevor Maresh (Alma), 4-2
5th – No. 6 Paul Triandafilou (Gettysburg) dec. Jason Wright (Messiah), 5-1
7th - Tyler Maher (Stevens Tech) dec. No. 7 Conner Herman (Luther), 3-1
Team Standings
1. Wartburg 125.5
2. Messiah 91.0
3. Luther 59.0
4. Augsburg 46.5
4. Wabash 46.5
6. Wisconsin-La Crosse 37.0
7. Stevens Institute Of Technology 34.0
8. Elmhurst 33.0
9. SUNY-Cortland 31.5
10. Cornell College 30.5
11. Alma College 30.0
12. Coe 28.5
13. Lycoming 28.0
14. Ithaca 26.5
15. Washington and Jefferson 23.0
16. New York University 20.5
17. Roger Williams 20.0
18. Delaware Valley University 19.5
19. Central (IA) 18.0
20. McDaniel 17.5
20. York (PA) 17.5
22. Adrian 15.5
22. Wisconsin-Eau Claire 15.5
22. Wisconsin-Whitewater 15.5
25. John Carroll 15.0
25. Wisconsin-Stevens Point 15.0
27. Williams College 14.5
28. Heidelberg 13.5
29. Rhode Island College 12.5
30. Merchant Marine 10.5
31. Baldwin Wallace 10.0
31. Concordia-Moorhead 10.0
33. Gettysburg 9.0
33. St. Olaf 9.0
35. Centenary (NJ) 8.5
35. Ferrum College 8.5
37. Brockport 8.0
37. Millikin University 8.0
39. Johnson & Wales (RI) 7.5
39. Mount Union 7.5
41. The College of New Jersey 6.5
42. Wheaton (IL) 5.5
43. Loras 4.0
44. Hunter 2.0
44. North Central (IL) 2.0
46. Southern Maine 1.5
46. Wisconsin-Platteville 1.5
48. Springfield 1.0
48. St. Johns (MN) 1.0
48. Ursinus 1.0
51. Concordia (WI) 0.5
51. Elizabethtown 0.5
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