Wrestling • Augsburg University at Ncaa Division Iii National Championships
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WRESTLING • AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY AT NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 8-9, 2019 THE NATIONAL MEET -- Twelve-time national champion Augsburg University will compete at the AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY LINEUP NCAA Division III National Championships on Friday (Ranking is 2/13 NWCA, and Saturday, March 8-9 at the Berglund Center in Seed is national tournament seed) Roanoke, Va. 2018-19 AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY Action begins at 11 a.m. (Eastern time) on 125 -- No. 2 Victor Gliva (No. 3 seed) Friday with preliminary rounds, and quarterfinal and (JR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) wrestleback action at 6 p.m. WRESTLING RESULTS/SCHEDULE 25-5 this season, 86-20 career On Saturday, action continues at 10 a.m. with Home events (bold) at Si Melby Hall, Minneapolis, Minn. championship semifinals, consolation action and 133 -- No. 2 Sam Bennyhoff (No. 2 seed) (WT) denotes White Team (junior varsity) events placing matches for third, fifth and seventh places. (SR, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS) ALL TIMES CENTRAL TIME Parade of All-Americans will be at 6:30 p.m., with 24-4 this season, 117-26 career the 10 national championship matches scheduled to Date Opponent/Tournament Time begin at 7 p.m. 141 -- No. 7 David Flynn (No. 8 seed) Sat., Nov. 17 Auggie-Adidas Open No team results (JR, Jordan, Minn./Jordan HS (Scott West)) Sat., Dec. 1 at Simpson (Iowa) Inv. 1st/17 (159.0) AUGSBURG’S ALL-AMERICAN TRADITION -- Depth has 24-5 this season, 97-30 career (69-16 AUG) Thu., Dec. 6 at MSU-Moorhead W 28-9 always been a hallmark of the Augsburg wrestling Sat., Dec. 8 at St. Cloud State Open No team results program, and that has shown in the number of 149 -- No. 7 Alex Wilson (No. 6 seed) (SR, Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis HS) Sat., Dec. 15 at Loras (Iowa) Key City Classic --- All-Americans -- finishers in the top eight of each weight class -- that the team has had in national vs. Millikin University (Ill.) W 31-9 34-5 this season, 127-36 career competition. Augsburg has earned at least two 157 -- No. 2 Ryan Epps (No. 2 seed) vs Loras College (Iowa) W 25-12 All-Americans every year since 1988. Dec. 29-30 at Citrus Open (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Augsburg has had at least one All-American in (JR, Cannon Falls, Minn./Cannon Falls HS) Did not compete - weather/travel national competition every year since 1977 -- 42 33-3 this season, 109-11 career Jan. 4-5 NWCA Division III National Duals 1st straight years. Augsburg has now earned 244 wres- 165 -- No. 1 Lucas Jeske (No. 1 seed) tling All-Americans in program history (206 in NCAA at Louisville, Ky. competition, 38 in NAIA). (JR, St. Michael, Minn./ Jan. 4 - vs. Univ. of Chicago (Ill.) W 36-3 St. Michael-Albertville HS) Jan. 4 - vs. Univ. of Wis.-La Crosse W 29-6 AUGGIES WIN REGIONAL TITLE, QUALIFY NINE SEEDED 17-0 this season, 82-9 career Jan. 5 - vs. Wabash College (Ind.) W 26-9 WRESTLERS TO NATIONALS -- Qualifying individuals in Jan. 5 - vs. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) W 20-13 nine of 10 weight classes to the national champi- 174 -- No. 5 Tanner Vassar (No. 7 seed) Jan. 4-5 (WT) NUWAY Open No team results onships, the Augsburg wrestling team claimed an (JR, Maple Lake, Minn./Maple Lake HS) NCAA regional title for the 17th straight year, win- Sat., Jan. 12 at Southwest Minnesota State W 32-6 22-7 this season, 89-27 career ning the NCAA Division III Upper Midwest Regional 184 -- No. 9 Solomon Nielsen (No. 8 seed) Sat., Jan. 12 (WT) at Cornell (Iowa) Invite 7th/17 (79.0) crown on Feb. 22-23 at Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Thu., Jan. 17 vs. Concordia College-Moorhead W 40-3 Augsburg won the won the 17-team regional with (SO, Luverne, Minn./Luverne HS) Sat., Jan. 19 at Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire W 45-0 191.0 points. Augsburg has won the team title in 26-7 this season, 53-14 career Sat., Jan. 19 (WT) at Minn. West CTC- No team results its NCAA regional every year since starting regional 197 -- No. 3 Lance Benick (No. 3 seed) competition in the 2002-03 season. Augsburg has Worthington Open (SO, Scandia, Minn./Totino-Grace HS) Sat., Jan. 26 at Saint John’s Univ. No team results now had seven or more national tournament qualifi- North Country Open ers in 16 of the last 17 seasons. 25-3 this season, 36-8 career Thu., Jan. 31 vs. Wartburg College (Iowa) L 16-15 Augsburg had five regional champions, three run- ners-up and one third-place finisher at the regional. Sat., Feb. 2 at Wis.-Eau Claire No team results The top three finishers in each weight class qualify for the national tournament. Don Parker Open Augsburg head coach Jim Moulsoff was named the Upper Midwest Region Co-Coach of the Year, along with Wis- Fri., Feb. 8 vs. Saint John’s University W 51-3 consin-Whitewater’s Matt Zwaschka, and assistant coach Tony Valek was named Upper Midwest Region Assistant Sat., Feb. 9 (WT) at Winona State Inv. 1st/8 (101.0) Coach of the Year. Feb. 22-23 NCAA Division III 1st/17 (191.0) All nine of Augsburg’s national tournament competitors are seeded among the top eight in their weight classes Upper Midwest Regional -- the most in the field. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) also has nine wrestlers qualified to the national tournament, but at UW-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wis. only have six seeded wrestlers. Defending national champion Wartburg (Iowa) has seven wrestlers in the field, with March 8-9 NCAA Div. III National Championships six seeded among the top eight. Loras (Iowa) also has seven wrestlers in the field, with five seeded competitors. Four schools have six qualifiers each -- Wabash (Ind.), Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio), Ithaca (N.Y.) and Wisconsin-White- at Berglund Center, Roanoke, Va. water, and three schools have five qualifiers each -- Wisconsin-La Crosse, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (Conn.) (Ferrum College host) and The College of New Jersey. DUAL-MEET RECORD: 11-1 OVERALL The Auggies, winners of 12 Division III team national championships since 1991, enter the meet led by two defending national champions -- 165-pounder Lucas Jeske (JR, St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville HS) NWCA DIVISION III NATIONAL POLL and 157-pounder Ryan Epps (JR, Cannon Falls, Minn./Cannon Falls HS). One of eight unbeaten wrestlers in the 180-wrestler national tournament field, Jeske is 17-0 this season and carries a 27-match winning streak into the (February 13 - Final poll before national championships, national tournament. Epps enters the national tournament at 33-3 overall and 18-1 against Division III compe- number after name is number of national tourney qualifiers) tition, with his lone loss coming to defending 149-pound national champion Cross Cannone of Wartburg (8-4 on 1. Wartburg (Iowa), 7 14. Wisconsin-Whitewater, 6 Jan. 31), who has moved up to 157 and is the top seed in the tournament in the weight class. Epps is seeded No. 2. Augsburg (Minn.), 9 15. Olivet (Mich.), 2 2 at 157. 3. Johnson & Wales (R.I.), 9 16. Millikin (Ill.), 3 Defending 133-pound national runner-up Sam Bennyhoff (SR, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS) is the No. 2 seed in his bracket, entering the tournament with a 24-4 record and 18-1 mark against Division III competition. 4. Wabash (Ind.), 6 17. New York University, 2 He’s making his fourth straight national tournament appearance. 5. Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio), 6 18. U.S. Coast Guard (Ct.), 5 Two Auggies are seeded third -- 125-pounder Victor Gliva (JR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) and 6. Ithaca (N.Y.), 6 19. Rochester IT (N.Y.), 3 197-pounder Lance Benick (SO, Scandia, Minn./Totino-Grace HS). Gliva, a three-time national qualifier and 2017 7. Mount Union (Ohio), 4 20. Concordia (Minn.), 1 All-American (eighth-place), is 25-5, while Benick is making his national tournament debut at 25-3. 8. Loras (Iowa), 7 21. Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1 Alex Wilson (SR, Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis HS) a fifth-place finisher last year at 149, is seeded sixth this 9. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 5 22. Wisconsin-Stevens Pt., 1 season in the class, while Tanner Vassar (JR, Maple Lake, Minn./Maple Lake HS), a seventh-place finisher at 174 10. Coe (Iowa), 3 23. York (Pa.), 3 last season, is seeded seventh there this year. Two Auggies are seeded eighth -- 141-pounder David Flynn (JR, Jor- 11. North Central (Ill.), 1 24. Univ. of Chicago (Ill.), 2 dan, Minn./Jordan HS (Scott West)) and 184-pounder Solomon Nielsen (SO, Luverne, Minn./Luverne HS). Flynn, 12. Central (Iowa), 2 25. Ferrum (Va.), 3 an All-American who finished third at 141 in 2017, is making his third national tournament appearance, while 13. College of New Jersey, 5 Nielsen is making his national tournament debut. athletics.augsburg.edu • Twitter: @AugsburgAuggies • Instagram: @AugsburgAuggies • Facebook: AugsburgAuggies Augsburg College -- a tradition of wrestling excellence Augsburg’s wrestling team has dominated small-college competition over the last three decades. • Augsburg has finished among the top two teams in national competition 25 times since 1975, winning national titles 12 times in NCAA Division III competition and earning runner-up honors 13 times (12 in Division III, once in NAIA). Augsburg finished among the top four teams nationally in Division III competition every year from 1989 to 2012. • The Auggies have won 12 NCAA Division III national championships in the last 28 seasons (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2015), the most in Division III history.