Augsburg, with four champions, dominates to win NCAA Div. III Nationals title
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by Jon Gremmels, D3onthemat, Special to TheMat.com
Augsburg NCAA champion team photo courtesy of Augsburg Athletics.
ROANOKE, Va. – The same momentum Augsburg brought into the opening round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships was there at the end, too, Saturday night.
The Auggies, who for all intents and purposes, won their 13th team title with an impressive performance Friday, carried that dominance into the finals, winning all four of their championship matches at the Berglund Center.
Ryan Epps (157 pounds) and Lucas Jeske (165) repeated as national champions, and David Flynn won at 141 and Lance Benick capped the night by winning the title at 197 as the Auggies won with 130 points.
“We came in here with a goal and a plan, and listened to what our coaches told us to do,” said Benick, who beat Millikin’s Keajion Jennings 8-5 in the title bout. “We scored points; we let it fly. The wins come with scoring points, and everyone did what they needed to do.”
Flynn started the perfect night when he recorded a takedown with 33 seconds left and erased the riding-time advantage of Wabash’s Chris Williams by maintaining control the rest of the way for a 4-3 victory in the 141-pound championship match.
“The last 30 seconds felt like five minutes, but I pride myself on my top position,” Flynn said.
Flynn said his focus changed a bit during the two-day tournament.
“At the beginning I was out there to score points for the team,” Flynn said. “Tonight, having it clinched up, it was more for myself.”
Epps and Jeske won their second titles in much different fashions in back-to-back matches.
Epps trailed Mount Union’s Antwon Pugh 8-5 when Pugh was called for stalling for the fifth time, giving Epps the win by disqualification.
“That’s not the way I wanted to win, but after the first period I felt him gassing pretty bad,” Epps said. “I liked how I won the first time (in the 2018 final) better.”
The win also surprised Jeske, who was waiting in the wings to wrestle while Epps competed.
“I was like mind-blown,” he said.
Jeske had a scare earlier Saturday in the semifinals when he was almost pinned by Wabash's Kyle Hatch. Hatch built a 6-0 lead, but Jeske battled off his back and eventually pulled even at 7-7 to force overtime. He then scored the winning takedown in the first two-minute sudden-victory period.
“I don’t want to talk about that one,” Jeske joked after winning the title. “I had wrestled him at National Duals, and the same kind of thing happened. I’m always good at keeping calm. That was a close one that had me worried.”
Jeske kept control in the final as he beat Dempsey King of Rochester Institute of Technology 6-2.
“I felt in control the whole time,” Jeske said. “There was not a lot that was opening him up, so I had to do what I could.”
The team title was Augsburg’s 13th and ended a three-year run by Wartburg.
“Honestly, my main focus all year was the team title,” Jeske said. “I wanted all my brothers to feel what it’s like (to win a championship).”
With all of the champions returning, the Auggies already are thinking about tying Wartburg at 14 team titles next year.
“That’s the plan, to get another one … and be a three-time national champion (individually),” Epps said.
Augsburg finished with seven All-Americans. Besides the four finalists, Victor Gliva placed fifth at 125, Alex Wilson was fourth at 149 and Tanner Vassar took fifth at 174.
In an interesting twist, the DQ win for Epps helped Loras hold on to finish second with 66 points.
“I never had cheered for an Augsburg wrestler,” said Loras Coach T.J. Miller, a former national champion for his father, Jim, at Wartburg, Augsburg’s main rival.
It marked the highest finish in program history for the Duhawks.
“It was an unbelievable feeling when we clinched,” Miller said. “The kids battled back in the consolations, and that’s where we did it.”
Loras had five All-Americans. Clint Lembeck led the Duhawks with a third-place finish at 141, Brandon Murray (157) and Eddie Smith (165) each placed fourth; Guy Patron, last year's runner-up who was pinned in the fifth-place match at 197; and Jacob Krakow took eighth at 174.
Johnson & Wales also benefited from the Mount Union DQ and finished third in the team standings with 63 points.
“We didn’t have the tournament we wanted,” Johnson & Wales Coach Lonnie Morris said. Still, the Wildcats finished with their highest finish in national tournament history.
Jay Albis highlighted the tournament for Johnson & Wales, winning his second consecutive title at 125 pounds. He was named the tournament’s outstanding wrestler after pinning Mike Tortorice of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2 minutes, 26 seconds in the finals.
“It’s twice as nice,” Albis said. “I was really loose and had fun. It was my last time ever competing.”
Other All-Americans for the Wildcats were Bobby Jordan, who took third at 133, while Khamri Thomas did the same at 184.
Ithaca edged Mount Union 59.5-58.5 for fourth place.
Jake Ashcraft led the Bombers with a second-place finish at 184.
He was seconds away from winning the title but was penalized for stalling with 2 seconds left, sending his match with John Boyle of Western New England into overtime. Boyle then became the first champion in his school’s history when he took down Ashcraft with 15 seconds left in the one-minute sudden-victory period for the 5-3 win.
“It really hasn’t (sunk in),” Boyle admitted. “I worked so hard for this. It feels unreal.”
He said he had wrestled Ashcraft about six times, and this was his second win.
Ithaca finished with five All-Americans. Joining Ashcraft in the top eight were
Ferdinand Mase (fourth, 125), Ben Brisman (fourth, 141), Jake O’Brien (fourth, heavyweight) and Austin Whitney (eighth, 165).
Another overtime winner was Lycoming’s Garrett Wesneski. He scored a takedown in the first 10 seconds of sudden victory to beat Augustana’s Adarios Jones in the heavyweight final.
“Once it went to overtime, he was digging, not really shooting, trying to score cheap points off me,” Wesneski (31-1) said. “I said to myself, I’m going to get a good setup, get my go-to shot that I drill all the time. I finished it like I always do in practice, and the rest was history.”
The loss was the first in 30 matches this season for Jones, who placed third in the nation in 2017 but suffered an injury that ended his season late in the year in 2018.
Darden Schurg of Wabash also prevailed in overtime, beating defending champion Jairod James of Mount Union 5-3 at 174 pounds. Schurg won two of three matches against James this season.
“It happened to be my day this time,” Schurg said. “We’ve had the same plan all year; it was our strategy to go out there and have fun. I kept it close and had fun.”
Schurg wasted no time in overtime, scoring a takedown in the first 10 seconds.
Mount Union had a tough night in the finals with that loss and the DQ at 157. But things started well when Jordin James beat Ben Vosters of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 9-7 at 133 pounds. And Mount Union finished with its best placing ever at the national tournament.
“I had this plan when I was at Iowa Lakes (Community College),” James said. “I wanted to join Coach (Josh) Malave to make a super team with my brother (Jairod). Then I found out Antwon Pugh was going there, too – he has been a friend since seventh grade.”
Mount Union also had an eighth-place finish from Luke Hernandez at 149.
Unseeded Ryan Budzek of The College of New Jersey won the title at 149 with a 4-2 win against 2018 runner-up Gregory Warner of York.
“You can’t really think about that stuff,” Budzek said of the seeding. “It doesn’t mean anything. You know deep down inside if you deserve it.
“It took everything I had.”
Wartburg, which had won the past three team titles, wound up in sixth place with 52 points and didn’t have a finalist for the first time since 2002. For the second day in a row, the Knights saw a returning champion defeated.
After being upset by Pugh in the semifinals, 2018 national champion Cross Cannone won a pair of matches to take third place at 157. Teammate Kyle Briggs (174) also took third for the Knights.
Brady Fritz was sixth at 141, and heavyweight Bowen Wileman also placed sixth.
NCAA DIV III NATIONALS
at Roanoke, Va,
125 pounds
1st Place Match - Jay Albis (JWU (Providence)) won by fall over Mike Tortorice (Wis.-Whitewater) (Fall 2:26)
3rd Place Match - Peter Del Gallo (Southern Me.) won by decision over Ferdinand Mase (Ithaca) (Dec 8-5)
5th Place Match - Victor Gliva (Augsburg) won by fall over Cameron Timok (Central (IA)) (Fall 4:03)
7th Place Match - Carlos Champagne (Wabash) won by decision over Eron Haynes (Neb. Wesleyan) (Dec 9-6)
133 pounds
1st Place Match - Jordin James (Mount Union) won by decision over Ben Vosters (Wis.-Stevens Point) (Dec 9-7)
3rd Place Match - Bobby Jordan (JWU (Providence)) won in sudden victory - 1 over Charles Nash (Baldwin Wallace) (SV-1 5-3)
5th Place Match - Jake Giordano (TCNJ) won by decision over Yoseph Borai (Stevens Institute Of Technology) (Dec 8-2)
7th Place Match - Levi Englman (Ferrum) won by decision over Taylor `Kimo` Dial (Merchant Marine) (Dec 3-2)
141 pounds
1st Place Match - David Flynn (Augsburg) won by decision over Chris Williams (Millikin) (Dec 4-3)
3rd Place Match - Clint Lembeck (Loras) won by injury default over Ben Brisman (Ithaca) (Inj. 2:47)
5th Place Match - Evan Drill (NYU) won by major decision over Brady Fritz (Wartburg) (MD 13-3)
7th Place Match - Brendan Ladd (Alma) won by major decision over Mario Vasquez (Ferrum) (MD 14-0)
149 pounds
1st Place Match - Ryan Budzek (TCNJ) won by decision over Gregory Warner (York (PA)) (Dec 4-2)
3rd Place Match - Brett Kaliner (Stevens Institute Of Technology) won by major decision over Alex Wilson (Augsburg) (MD 15-3)
5th Place Match - Zachary Cooper (Alma) won by decision over Jarrad Lasko (John Carroll) (Dec 4-2)
7th Place Match - Ryan Snow (Brockport) won in sudden victory - 1 over Luke Hernandez (Mount Union) (SV-1 8-6)
157 pounds
1st Place Match - Ryan Epps (Augsburg) won by disqualification over Antwon Pugh (Mount Union) (DQ)
3rd Place Match - Cross Cannone (Wartburg) won by major decision over Brandon Murray (Loras) (MD 10-1)
5th Place Match - Kaidon Winters (Rochester Institute of Technology) won by medical forfeit over Bradan Birt (Millikin) (M. For.)
7th Place Match - Keone Derain (Elmhurst) won by decision over Grant Zamin (Wis.-La Crosse) (Dec 6-4)
165 pounds
1st Place Match - Lucas Jeske (Augsburg) won by decision over Dempsey King (Rochester Institute of Technology) (Dec 6-2)
3rd Place Match - Mark Choinski (Wis.-Oshkosh) won by decision over Eddie Smith (Loras) (Dec 6-3)
5th Place Match - Nicholas Bonomo (Wis.-Whitewater) won by decision over Kyle Hatch (Wabash) (Dec 9-4)
7th Place Match - Taylor Shay (Roger Williams) won by decision over Austin Whitney (Ithaca) (Dec 10-5)
174 pounds
1st Place Match - Darden Schurg (Wabash) won in sudden victory - 1 over Jairod James (Mount Union) (SV-1 5-3)
3rd Place Match - Kyle Briggs (Wartburg) won by major decision over Daniel Kilroy (TCNJ) (MD 13-1)
5th Place Match - Tanner Vassar (Augsburg) won by tech fall over Arthur (A.J.) Aeberli (Coast Guard) (TF-1.5 7:00 (19-4))
7th Place Match - Ben Sarasin (Chicago) won by decision over Jacob Krakow (Loras) (Dec 9-5)
184 pounds
1st Place Match - John Boyle (Western New Eng.) 36-6 won in sudden victory - 1 over Jake Ashcraft (Ithaca) 27-3 (SV-1 5-3)
3rd Place Match - Khamri Thomas (JWU (Providence)) won in sudden victory - 1 over Joshua Glantzman (Merchant Marine) (SV-1 3-1)
5th Place Match - Kyle Peisker (Chicago) won by medical forfeit over Dylan Roth (Heidelberg) (M. For.)
7th Place Match - Nick Stencel (Wis.-Whitewater) won by fall over Josh Edel (Coe) (Fall 1:55)
197 pounds
1st Place Match - Lance Benick (Augsburg) 32-3 won by decision over Keajion Jennings (Millikin) 32-4 (Dec 8-5)
3rd Place Match - Riley Kauzlaric (Wis.-Whitewater) won by decision over Etiini Udott (Centenary (NJ)) (Dec 5-2)
5th Place Match - Taylor Mehmen (Coe) won by fall over Guy Patron (Loras) (Fall 5:00)
7th Place Match - Zeckary Lehman (Baldwin Wallace) won by decision over Antonio McCloud (Mt. St. Joseph) (Dec 6-2)
285 pounds
1st Place Match - Garrett Wesneski (Lycoming) 31-1 won in sudden victory - 1 over Adarios Jones (Augustana (IL)) 29-1 (SV-1 9-7)
3rd Place Match - James Bethel (SUNY Oneonta) won by decision over Jake O`Brien (Ithaca) (Dec 4-0)
5th Place Match - Drew Kasper (Otterbein) won by decision over Bowen Wileman (Wartburg) (Dec 8-4)
7th Place Match - Konrad Ernst (Wis.-La Crosse) won by fall over Connor Calkins (Rochester Institute of Technology) (Fall 6:59)
Team Standings
1 Augsburg 130.0
2 Loras 66.0
3 JWU (Providence)63.0
4 Ithaca 59.5
5 Mount Union 58.5
6 Wartburg 52.0
7 Wis.-Whitewater 49.5
8 TCNJ 44.0
9 Millikin 42.0
9 Wabash 42.0
11 Rochester Institute of Technology 32.5
12 Stevens Institute Of Technology 28.0
13 Lycoming 23.5
14 Baldwin Wallace 19.5
15 Western New Eng. 19.0
16 Wis.-Oshkosh 18.5
17 Alma 18.0
17 York (PA) 18.0
19 SUNY Oneonta 17.5
20 Augustana (IL) 17.0
20 Merchant Marine 17.0
ROANOKE, Va. – The same momentum Augsburg brought into the opening round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships was there at the end, too, Saturday night.
The Auggies, who for all intents and purposes, won their 13th team title with an impressive performance Friday, carried that dominance into the finals, winning all four of their championship matches at the Berglund Center.
Ryan Epps (157 pounds) and Lucas Jeske (165) repeated as national champions, and David Flynn won at 141 and Lance Benick capped the night by winning the title at 197 as the Auggies won with 130 points.
“We came in here with a goal and a plan, and listened to what our coaches told us to do,” said Benick, who beat Millikin’s Keajion Jennings 8-5 in the title bout. “We scored points; we let it fly. The wins come with scoring points, and everyone did what they needed to do.”
Flynn started the perfect night when he recorded a takedown with 33 seconds left and erased the riding-time advantage of Wabash’s Chris Williams by maintaining control the rest of the way for a 4-3 victory in the 141-pound championship match.
“The last 30 seconds felt like five minutes, but I pride myself on my top position,” Flynn said.
Flynn said his focus changed a bit during the two-day tournament.
“At the beginning I was out there to score points for the team,” Flynn said. “Tonight, having it clinched up, it was more for myself.”
Epps and Jeske won their second titles in much different fashions in back-to-back matches.
Epps trailed Mount Union’s Antwon Pugh 8-5 when Pugh was called for stalling for the fifth time, giving Epps the win by disqualification.
“That’s not the way I wanted to win, but after the first period I felt him gassing pretty bad,” Epps said. “I liked how I won the first time (in the 2018 final) better.”
The win also surprised Jeske, who was waiting in the wings to wrestle while Epps competed.
“I was like mind-blown,” he said.
Jeske had a scare earlier Saturday in the semifinals when he was almost pinned by Wabash's Kyle Hatch. Hatch built a 6-0 lead, but Jeske battled off his back and eventually pulled even at 7-7 to force overtime. He then scored the winning takedown in the first two-minute sudden-victory period.
“I don’t want to talk about that one,” Jeske joked after winning the title. “I had wrestled him at National Duals, and the same kind of thing happened. I’m always good at keeping calm. That was a close one that had me worried.”
Jeske kept control in the final as he beat Dempsey King of Rochester Institute of Technology 6-2.
“I felt in control the whole time,” Jeske said. “There was not a lot that was opening him up, so I had to do what I could.”
The team title was Augsburg’s 13th and ended a three-year run by Wartburg.
“Honestly, my main focus all year was the team title,” Jeske said. “I wanted all my brothers to feel what it’s like (to win a championship).”
With all of the champions returning, the Auggies already are thinking about tying Wartburg at 14 team titles next year.
“That’s the plan, to get another one … and be a three-time national champion (individually),” Epps said.
Augsburg finished with seven All-Americans. Besides the four finalists, Victor Gliva placed fifth at 125, Alex Wilson was fourth at 149 and Tanner Vassar took fifth at 174.
In an interesting twist, the DQ win for Epps helped Loras hold on to finish second with 66 points.
“I never had cheered for an Augsburg wrestler,” said Loras Coach T.J. Miller, a former national champion for his father, Jim, at Wartburg, Augsburg’s main rival.
It marked the highest finish in program history for the Duhawks.
“It was an unbelievable feeling when we clinched,” Miller said. “The kids battled back in the consolations, and that’s where we did it.”
Loras had five All-Americans. Clint Lembeck led the Duhawks with a third-place finish at 141, Brandon Murray (157) and Eddie Smith (165) each placed fourth; Guy Patron, last year's runner-up who was pinned in the fifth-place match at 197; and Jacob Krakow took eighth at 174.
Johnson & Wales also benefited from the Mount Union DQ and finished third in the team standings with 63 points.
“We didn’t have the tournament we wanted,” Johnson & Wales Coach Lonnie Morris said. Still, the Wildcats finished with their highest finish in national tournament history.
Jay Albis highlighted the tournament for Johnson & Wales, winning his second consecutive title at 125 pounds. He was named the tournament’s outstanding wrestler after pinning Mike Tortorice of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2 minutes, 26 seconds in the finals.
“It’s twice as nice,” Albis said. “I was really loose and had fun. It was my last time ever competing.”
Other All-Americans for the Wildcats were Bobby Jordan, who took third at 133, while Khamri Thomas did the same at 184.
Ithaca edged Mount Union 59.5-58.5 for fourth place.
Jake Ashcraft led the Bombers with a second-place finish at 184.
He was seconds away from winning the title but was penalized for stalling with 2 seconds left, sending his match with John Boyle of Western New England into overtime. Boyle then became the first champion in his school’s history when he took down Ashcraft with 15 seconds left in the one-minute sudden-victory period for the 5-3 win.
“It really hasn’t (sunk in),” Boyle admitted. “I worked so hard for this. It feels unreal.”
He said he had wrestled Ashcraft about six times, and this was his second win.
Ithaca finished with five All-Americans. Joining Ashcraft in the top eight were
Ferdinand Mase (fourth, 125), Ben Brisman (fourth, 141), Jake O’Brien (fourth, heavyweight) and Austin Whitney (eighth, 165).
Another overtime winner was Lycoming’s Garrett Wesneski. He scored a takedown in the first 10 seconds of sudden victory to beat Augustana’s Adarios Jones in the heavyweight final.
“Once it went to overtime, he was digging, not really shooting, trying to score cheap points off me,” Wesneski (31-1) said. “I said to myself, I’m going to get a good setup, get my go-to shot that I drill all the time. I finished it like I always do in practice, and the rest was history.”
The loss was the first in 30 matches this season for Jones, who placed third in the nation in 2017 but suffered an injury that ended his season late in the year in 2018.
Darden Schurg of Wabash also prevailed in overtime, beating defending champion Jairod James of Mount Union 5-3 at 174 pounds. Schurg won two of three matches against James this season.
“It happened to be my day this time,” Schurg said. “We’ve had the same plan all year; it was our strategy to go out there and have fun. I kept it close and had fun.”
Schurg wasted no time in overtime, scoring a takedown in the first 10 seconds.
Mount Union had a tough night in the finals with that loss and the DQ at 157. But things started well when Jordin James beat Ben Vosters of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 9-7 at 133 pounds. And Mount Union finished with its best placing ever at the national tournament.
“I had this plan when I was at Iowa Lakes (Community College),” James said. “I wanted to join Coach (Josh) Malave to make a super team with my brother (Jairod). Then I found out Antwon Pugh was going there, too – he has been a friend since seventh grade.”
Mount Union also had an eighth-place finish from Luke Hernandez at 149.
Unseeded Ryan Budzek of The College of New Jersey won the title at 149 with a 4-2 win against 2018 runner-up Gregory Warner of York.
“You can’t really think about that stuff,” Budzek said of the seeding. “It doesn’t mean anything. You know deep down inside if you deserve it.
“It took everything I had.”
Wartburg, which had won the past three team titles, wound up in sixth place with 52 points and didn’t have a finalist for the first time since 2002. For the second day in a row, the Knights saw a returning champion defeated.
After being upset by Pugh in the semifinals, 2018 national champion Cross Cannone won a pair of matches to take third place at 157. Teammate Kyle Briggs (174) also took third for the Knights.
Brady Fritz was sixth at 141, and heavyweight Bowen Wileman also placed sixth.
NCAA DIV III NATIONALS
at Roanoke, Va,
125 pounds
1st Place Match - Jay Albis (JWU (Providence)) won by fall over Mike Tortorice (Wis.-Whitewater) (Fall 2:26)
3rd Place Match - Peter Del Gallo (Southern Me.) won by decision over Ferdinand Mase (Ithaca) (Dec 8-5)
5th Place Match - Victor Gliva (Augsburg) won by fall over Cameron Timok (Central (IA)) (Fall 4:03)
7th Place Match - Carlos Champagne (Wabash) won by decision over Eron Haynes (Neb. Wesleyan) (Dec 9-6)
133 pounds
1st Place Match - Jordin James (Mount Union) won by decision over Ben Vosters (Wis.-Stevens Point) (Dec 9-7)
3rd Place Match - Bobby Jordan (JWU (Providence)) won in sudden victory - 1 over Charles Nash (Baldwin Wallace) (SV-1 5-3)
5th Place Match - Jake Giordano (TCNJ) won by decision over Yoseph Borai (Stevens Institute Of Technology) (Dec 8-2)
7th Place Match - Levi Englman (Ferrum) won by decision over Taylor `Kimo` Dial (Merchant Marine) (Dec 3-2)
141 pounds
1st Place Match - David Flynn (Augsburg) won by decision over Chris Williams (Millikin) (Dec 4-3)
3rd Place Match - Clint Lembeck (Loras) won by injury default over Ben Brisman (Ithaca) (Inj. 2:47)
5th Place Match - Evan Drill (NYU) won by major decision over Brady Fritz (Wartburg) (MD 13-3)
7th Place Match - Brendan Ladd (Alma) won by major decision over Mario Vasquez (Ferrum) (MD 14-0)
149 pounds
1st Place Match - Ryan Budzek (TCNJ) won by decision over Gregory Warner (York (PA)) (Dec 4-2)
3rd Place Match - Brett Kaliner (Stevens Institute Of Technology) won by major decision over Alex Wilson (Augsburg) (MD 15-3)
5th Place Match - Zachary Cooper (Alma) won by decision over Jarrad Lasko (John Carroll) (Dec 4-2)
7th Place Match - Ryan Snow (Brockport) won in sudden victory - 1 over Luke Hernandez (Mount Union) (SV-1 8-6)
157 pounds
1st Place Match - Ryan Epps (Augsburg) won by disqualification over Antwon Pugh (Mount Union) (DQ)
3rd Place Match - Cross Cannone (Wartburg) won by major decision over Brandon Murray (Loras) (MD 10-1)
5th Place Match - Kaidon Winters (Rochester Institute of Technology) won by medical forfeit over Bradan Birt (Millikin) (M. For.)
7th Place Match - Keone Derain (Elmhurst) won by decision over Grant Zamin (Wis.-La Crosse) (Dec 6-4)
165 pounds
1st Place Match - Lucas Jeske (Augsburg) won by decision over Dempsey King (Rochester Institute of Technology) (Dec 6-2)
3rd Place Match - Mark Choinski (Wis.-Oshkosh) won by decision over Eddie Smith (Loras) (Dec 6-3)
5th Place Match - Nicholas Bonomo (Wis.-Whitewater) won by decision over Kyle Hatch (Wabash) (Dec 9-4)
7th Place Match - Taylor Shay (Roger Williams) won by decision over Austin Whitney (Ithaca) (Dec 10-5)
174 pounds
1st Place Match - Darden Schurg (Wabash) won in sudden victory - 1 over Jairod James (Mount Union) (SV-1 5-3)
3rd Place Match - Kyle Briggs (Wartburg) won by major decision over Daniel Kilroy (TCNJ) (MD 13-1)
5th Place Match - Tanner Vassar (Augsburg) won by tech fall over Arthur (A.J.) Aeberli (Coast Guard) (TF-1.5 7:00 (19-4))
7th Place Match - Ben Sarasin (Chicago) won by decision over Jacob Krakow (Loras) (Dec 9-5)
184 pounds
1st Place Match - John Boyle (Western New Eng.) 36-6 won in sudden victory - 1 over Jake Ashcraft (Ithaca) 27-3 (SV-1 5-3)
3rd Place Match - Khamri Thomas (JWU (Providence)) won in sudden victory - 1 over Joshua Glantzman (Merchant Marine) (SV-1 3-1)
5th Place Match - Kyle Peisker (Chicago) won by medical forfeit over Dylan Roth (Heidelberg) (M. For.)
7th Place Match - Nick Stencel (Wis.-Whitewater) won by fall over Josh Edel (Coe) (Fall 1:55)
197 pounds
1st Place Match - Lance Benick (Augsburg) 32-3 won by decision over Keajion Jennings (Millikin) 32-4 (Dec 8-5)
3rd Place Match - Riley Kauzlaric (Wis.-Whitewater) won by decision over Etiini Udott (Centenary (NJ)) (Dec 5-2)
5th Place Match - Taylor Mehmen (Coe) won by fall over Guy Patron (Loras) (Fall 5:00)
7th Place Match - Zeckary Lehman (Baldwin Wallace) won by decision over Antonio McCloud (Mt. St. Joseph) (Dec 6-2)
285 pounds
1st Place Match - Garrett Wesneski (Lycoming) 31-1 won in sudden victory - 1 over Adarios Jones (Augustana (IL)) 29-1 (SV-1 9-7)
3rd Place Match - James Bethel (SUNY Oneonta) won by decision over Jake O`Brien (Ithaca) (Dec 4-0)
5th Place Match - Drew Kasper (Otterbein) won by decision over Bowen Wileman (Wartburg) (Dec 8-4)
7th Place Match - Konrad Ernst (Wis.-La Crosse) won by fall over Connor Calkins (Rochester Institute of Technology) (Fall 6:59)
Team Standings
1 Augsburg 130.0
2 Loras 66.0
3 JWU (Providence)63.0
4 Ithaca 59.5
5 Mount Union 58.5
6 Wartburg 52.0
7 Wis.-Whitewater 49.5
8 TCNJ 44.0
9 Millikin 42.0
9 Wabash 42.0
11 Rochester Institute of Technology 32.5
12 Stevens Institute Of Technology 28.0
13 Lycoming 23.5
14 Baldwin Wallace 19.5
15 Western New Eng. 19.0
16 Wis.-Oshkosh 18.5
17 Alma 18.0
17 York (PA) 18.0
19 SUNY Oneonta 17.5
20 Augustana (IL) 17.0
20 Merchant Marine 17.0
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