Action image of King Sandoval (Maryland) courtesy of Maryland Athletics.

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2022 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 for the awards they must come against opponents in the same division (i.e. Division II vs. Division II). Ties in the two categories are broken based on the aggregate time.

King Sandoval of Maryland holds the sole lead in Division I with 11 falls at 133 pounds, but he has a group of four wrestlers chasing him with 10 falls. That group is led by Owen Pentz of North Dakota State, followed by Tanner Cook of South Dakota State and Wyatt Hendrickson of Air Force who are separated by less than two minutes of aggregate time.

UIndy 149-pounder Logan Bailey had a big weekend with three falls to move into the lead in Division II over Tiffin’s Nicholas Mason. Both wrestlers have 11 falls, but Bailey has reached that mark in eight minutes less aggregate time than Mason.

Michael Gonyea of Castleton has raced to the top spot in Division III with 19 falls at 133 pounds this season, while Washington & Lee 165-pounder Joe Salerno has 18.

Rutgers 141-pounder Sebastian Rivera has already established a dominant lead in Division I with 11 tech falls this season, including five in a row during the season against Wisconsin, Illinois, Penn State, Michigan State and Michigan. The next closest group of wrestlers have six tech falls, led by Michael McGee of Arizona State in an aggregate time of 25:32.

Nebraska-Kearney 174-pounder Austin Eldredge has pulled ahead of teammate Matt Malcom in Division II with a lead of two, 11-9, in tech falls. Brock Biddle of Pittsburgh-Johnstown and Cole Houser of Glenville State each have eight tech falls.

Johnson & Wales 174-pounder Michael Ross had a dominant start to the season and has already broken the Division III record since the implementation of the awards with 19 tech falls this season, one more than the 18 from Stephen Jarrell of Johnson & Wales in 2017.

The initial Most Dominant Wrestler standings will be released later this season to allow wrestlers to achieve the minimum number of matches required to be eligible for the standings.

NCAA STAT LEADERS - FALLS
Division I
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	King Sandoval	Maryland	133	11	23:39
2	Owen Pentz	North Dakota St.	197	10	22:53
3	Tanner Cook	South Dakota St.	165	10	23:53
4	Wyatt Hendrickson	Air Force	285	10	24:24
5	Anthony Sobotker	Binghamton	133	10	38:54
6	Josh Mason	Bloomsburg	141	9	20:28
7	Shane Finney	Navy	174	8	25:36
8	Donnell Washington	Indiana	184	8	17:09
9	Michael O'Malley	Drexel	174	8	18:30
10	Matt Stencel	Central Mich.	285	8	21:01

Division II
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Logan Bailey	UIndy	149	11	23:24
2	Nicholas Mason	Tiffin	197	11	31:32
3	Augustus Dalton	Colorado Mesa	165	9	14:53
4	Jacob Robb	Mercyhurst	285	9	23:25
5	Evan Carrigan	Newberry	125	9	31:08
6	Juan Holmes	Limestone	285	8	15:30
7	Joel Leise	Gannon	197	8	19:52
8	Logan Branham	Belmont Abbey	197	8	22:05
9	Dalton Abney	Central Okla.	197	7	9:43
10	Jaden Verhagen	Mary	125	7	14:53

Division III
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Michael Gonyea	Castleton	133	19	39:21
2	Joe Salerno	Wash. & Lee	165	18	36:36
3	Evan Fidelibus	New England Col.	149	17	37:40
4	Colin Honderd	Cornell College	184	17	45:35
5	Javen Estrada	North Central (IL)	141	15	23:51
6	Bradan Birt	Millikin	165	15	25:21
7	Mitchell Arch	CWRU	149	15	25:27
8	Matt Lackman	Alvernia	165	15	32:20
9	Cole Shaughnessy	Roger Williams	184	15	32:36
10	Kaidon Winters	RIT	157	15	33:25

NCAA STAT LEADERS - TECH FALLS
Division I
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Tech Falls	Time
1	Sebastian Rivera	Rutgers	141	11	67:16
2	Michael McGee	Arizona St.	133	6	25:32
3	Braxton Amos	Wisconsin	197	6	27:55
4	Austin DeSanto	Iowa	133	6	30:21
5	Devin Schroder	Purdue	125	6	31:14
6	Derek Spann	Buffalo	133	5	19:33
7	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	149	5	20:03
8	Cody Howard	Virginia Tech	197	5	22:07
9	Logan Messer	George Mason	174	5	22:12
10	Dakota Geer	Oklahoma St.	184	5	27:35
	Derek Spann	Buffalo	141	4	0.704166667
Division II
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Tech Falls	Time
1	Austin Eldredge	Neb.-Kearney	174	11	30:51
2	Matt Malcom	Neb.-Kearney	165	9	40:07
3	Brock Biddle	Pitt.-Johnstown	174	8	32:57
4	Cole Houser	Glenville St.	184	8	36:02
5	Nicholas Daggett	UNC Pembroke	125	7	29:46
6	Nick Novak	St. Cloud State	149	5	17:26
7	Nick James	Neb.-Kearney	141	5	19:48
8	Darius Parker	Lander	197	5	21:14
9	Hunter Reed	Findlay	174	4	14:11
10	Jonathan Andreatta	Adams St.	133	4	14:15

Division III
Rank	Name	School	Weight	Tech Falls	Time
1	Michael Ross	JWU (Providence)	174	19	80:32
2	Tyler Shilson	Augsburg	157	13	55:52
3	Nick Rogge	Augsburg	184	10	33:04
4	Schuyler Caprella	Ohio Northern	157	10	35:16
5	Fox Maxwell	Bridgewater St.	174	10	39:10
6	Bradan Birt	Millikin	165	9	34:03
7	Quinn Tobin	Alvernia	141	9	37:16
8	Cooper Pontelandolfo	NYU	165	8	32:17
9	Jacob Decatur	Baldwin Wallace	125	8	47:47
10	Gavin Hollingsworth	Alvernia	174	7	29:07

NCAA updates Wrestling Awards standings: Maryland's Sandoval (pins) and Rutgers' Rivera (tech falls) lead in Division I

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