Lock Haven's Kyle Shoop climbs in latest updated NCAA wrestling award standings

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2018 NCAA Wrestling Awards that will be awarded in March at the respective Division I, II and III Wrestling Championships.

The inaugural NCAA Wrestling Awards were presented at the 2012 wrestling championships. The three awards, given in each division, honor the Most Dominant Wrestler as well as the student-athletes that have accumulated the most falls and the most technical falls throughout the course of the regular and postseasons.

For falls and tech falls to be counted they must come against opponents in the same division. Ties in the two categories are broken based on the aggregate time.

This week’s Most Dominant Wrestler award standings requires a 17-match minimum in the division to qualify.

Last year’s winner, Zain Retherford of Penn State, has put himself in a strong position to repeat by increasing his average to 5.57 team points per match, which leads all divisions. Penn State is in good position to bring home the trophy, regardless, as Retherford leads four Nittany Lions in the top five.

Pittsburgh-Johnstown 157-pounder Cody Law leads Division II with 4.65 team points per match, while his 141-pound teammate Chris Eddins is third (4.22), bracketing Nebraska-Kearney heavyweight Jarrod Hinrichs with 4.43 points.

Ithaca 184-pounder Jake Ashcraft has moved into the lead in Division III with 5.24 points, ahead of Isaiah Bellamy of Wesleyan (Connecticut) and Michael DiNardo from Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island).

The Most Dominant Wrestler standings are calculated by adding the total number of points awarded through match results and dividing that number by the total number of matches wrestled. Points per match are awarded as follows.

Fall, forfeit, injury default or DQ = 6 points (-6 points for a loss)
Tech falls = 5 points (-5 points for a loss)
Major decision = 4 points (-4 points for a loss)
Decision = 3 points (-3 points for a loss)

Hofstra heavyweight Mike Hughes maintain his hold on the Division I lead with 17 falls, which is one more than Retherford and two more than Penn State’s Jason Nolf.

In Division II, Central Oklahoma 165-pounder Mason Thompson enters regional competition with his 14 falls, which is three more than Tiffin 184-pounder Hayden Bronne, St. Cloud State heavyweight Lawrence Phillips and Hinrichs.

Wesleyan (Connecticut) teammates Devon Carrillo and Isaiah Bellamy are tied with 19 falls in Division III. Carrillo, at 197 pounds, holds the aggregate time tiebreaker by more than eight minutes over his heavyweight teammate.

Kyle Shoop has staked his claim to the award for technical falls in Division I with 12 at 141 pounds for Lock Haven, two more than North Dakota State’s Cam Sykora. Four more wrestlers are hanging around in third with nine tech falls.

Nick Vandermeer of Lake Erie and Connor Craig of Wheeling Jesuit each have eight tech falls in Division II. Vandermeer has a significant lead of more than 14 minutes in the aggregate time tiebreaker.

Messiah 197-pounder Kyle Koser has 15 tech falls in 62:21 to lead Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) 133-pounder Jay Albis with 15 tech falls in 68:35. No other wrestler in Division III has more than 12 tech falls.

NCAA STAT LEADERS - FALLS
Division I
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Mike Hughes	Hofstra	285	17	32:11
2	Zain Retherford	Penn St.	149	16	50:36
3	Jason Nolf	Penn St.	157	15	41:53
4	Bo Nickal	Penn St.	184	14	20:58
5	Ben Darmstadt	Cornell	197	14	27:23
6	Shakur Rasheed	Penn St.	197	11	13:33
7	Matt Stencel	Central Mich.	285	11	15:22
8	Mark Hall	Penn St.	174	10	19:26
9	Bryce Meredith	Wyoming	141	10	19:47
10	Chad Walsh	Rider	165	10	43:53
Division II
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Mason Thompson	Central Okla.	165	14	43:41
2	Hayden Bronne	Tiffin	184	11	17:12
3	Lawrence Phillips	St. Cloud St.	285	11	19:37
4	Jarrod Hinrichs	Neb.-Kearney	285	11	48:57
5	Trenton Piatt	Western St.	125	10	42:44
6	Justin Haneke	Southwest Minn. St.	157	9	22:20
7	Nicholas Mason	Tiffin	197	9	29:08
8	Jarred Oftedahl	St. Cloud St.	141	8	17:33
9	Colton Looper	Central Okla.	197	8	21:27
10	Phillip Springsteen	Mary	165	8	23:55
DivisionIII
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Devon Carrillo	Wesleyan (CT)	197	19	32:15
2	Isaiah Bellamy	Wesleyan (CT)	285	19	41:05
3	Jake Evans	Waynesburg	285	18	39:35
4	Michael DiNardo	Johnson & Wales (RI)	197	17	38:13
5	Jake Ashcraft	Ithaca	184	16	39:45
6	Isaac Odell	Wheaton (IL)	184	16	48:01
7	Triston Engle	Brockport	197	15	31:07
8	Zachary Rieger	Adrian	285	15	35:42
9	Kaidon Winters	RIT	157	15	48:26
10	Joe Fusco	Springfield	285	15	53:52

NCAA STAT LEADERS - TECH FALLS
DivisionI
Rank	Name	School	Weight	TechFalls	Time
1	Kyle Shoop	Lock Haven	141	12	53:53
2	Cam Sykora	North Dakota St.	133	10	42:19
3	Austin DeSanto	Drexel	133	9	28:56
4	Jamel Morris	NC State	133	9	32:53
5	Ethan Lizak	Minnesota	125	9	42:27
6	Myles Martin	Ohio St.	184	9	46:15
7	Ke-Shawn Hayes	Ohio St.	149	8	30:41
8	Isaiah Martinez	Illinois	165	8	36:44
9	Chance Marsteller	Lock Haven	165	8	37:17
10	Jacob Kasper	Duke	285	8	46:23
Division II
Rank	Name	School	Weight	TechFalls	Time
1	Nick Vandermeer	Lake Erie	165	8	34:39
2	Connor Craig	Wheeling Jesuit	157	8	49:35
3	George McGuire	Gannon	157	7	37:43
4	Cody Law	Pitt.-Johnstown	157	7	38:46
5	Ryan Appleby	Kutztown	285	7	41:24
6	Sebastian Vidika	Ashland	125	6	19:35
7	Natean Vandermeer	Findlay	174	6	25:23
8	Nolan Kistler	California Baptist	174	6	29:26
9	Nate Trepanier	Lindenwood (MO)	149	5	25:19
10	Nick Becker	Wis.-Parkside	174	5	26:07
DivisionIII
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Tech Falls	Time
1	Kyle Koser	Messiah	197	15	62:21
2	Jay Albis	Johnson & Wales (RI)	133	15	68:35
3	Jimmy Davis	Loras	149	12	49:06
4	Bradan Birt	Millikin	149	12	49:22
5	Cross Cannone	Wartburg	149	12	49:26
6	Kyle Fank	Wartburg	197	11	43:17
7	Stephen Maloney	Messiah	149	11	46:52
8	Ben Swarr	Messiah	174	11	47:51
9	Adrian Gonzalez	Johnson & Wales (RI)	165	9	39:57
10	Sunny Nier	Wabash	125	8	20:09

NCAA STAT LEADERS - MOST DOMINANT
Division I
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Avg. Team Points
1	Zain Retherford	Penn St.	149	5.57
2	Bo Nickal	Penn St.	184	5.13
3	Jason Nolf	Penn St.	157	5.10
4	Daniel Lewis	Missouri	174	4.84
5	Mark Hall	Penn St.	174	4.83
6	Seth Gross	South Dakota St.	133	4.76
7	Ben Darmstadt	Cornell	197	4.69
8	Zahid Valencia	Arizona St.	174	4.67
9	Mike Hughes	Hofstra	285	4.64
10	Michael Kemerer	Iowa	157	4.63
Division II
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Avg. Team Points
1	Cody Law	Pitt.-Johnstown	157	4.65
2	Jarrod Hinrichs	Neb.-Kearney	285	4.43
3	Chris Eddins	Pitt.-Johnstown	141	4.22
4	Vince Dietz	St. Cloud St.	197	3.96
5	Darren Wynn	McKendree	141	3.82
6	Jarred Oftedahl	St. Cloud St.	141	3.68
7	Ivan McClay	Notre Dame (OH)	125	3.65
8	Kolton Eischens	St. Cloud St.	174	3.63
9	Brandon Supernaw	Western St.	174	3.62
10	Bradley Metz	Findlay	184	3.60
Division III
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Avg. Team Points
1	Jake Ashcraft	Ithaca	184	5.24
2	Isaiah Bellamy	Wesleyan (CT)	285	4.80
3	Michael DiNardo	Johnson & Wales (RI)	197	4.74
4	Troy Stanich	Stevens	133	4.74
5	Guy Patron	Loras	197	4.74
6	Darden Schurg	Wabash	174	4.74
7	Kyle Hatch	Wabash	157	4.67
8	Peter Del Gallo	Southern Me.	125	4.64
9	Jake Evans	Waynesburg	285	4.62
10	Devon Carrillo	Wesleyan (CT)	197	4.61
10	Maxwell Nauta	Centenary (NJ)	141	4.61