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WRESTLING • AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY AT NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 9-10, 2018 • PUBLIC AUDITORIUM, CLEVELAND, OHIO 2017-18 AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY THE NATIONAL MEET -- Twelve-time national champion Augsburg University will compete at AUGSBURG LINEUP WRESTLING RESULTS/SCHEDULE the NCAA Division III National Championships 125 -- Victor Gliva Home events (bold) at Si Melby Hall, Minneapolis, Minn. on Friday and Saturday, March 9-10 at the (SO, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) (WT) denotes White Team (junior varsity) events Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. 23-4 this season, 60-13 career Date Opponent/Tournament Time Action begins at 11 a.m. (Eastern time) on 133 -- No. 4 Sam Bennyhoff Friday with preliminary rounds, and quarterfinal Sat., Nov. 18 Auggie-Adidas Open No team results, (JR, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS) and wrestleback action at 6 p.m. 7 champs/co-champs 32-5 this season, 90-21 career Tue., Nov. 21 vs. St. Olaf College W 42-9 On Saturday, action continues at 10 a.m. with championship semifinals, consolation action 141 -- No. 2 David Flynn Sat., Dec. 2 at Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Candlewood Suite Duals and placing matches for third, fifth and seventh (SO, Jordan, Minn./Jordan HS (Scott West)) Sat., Dec. 2 vs. Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater W 26-16 places. Parade of All-Americans will be at 6:30 19-4 this season, 72-23 career (44-9 AUG) Sat., Dec. 2 vs. Cornell College (Iowa) W 37-6 p.m., with the championship matches scheduled 149 -- No. 3 Alex Wilson Sat., Dec. 2 vs. Elmhurst College (Ill.) W 42-3 to begin at 7 p.m. (JR, Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis HS) Sat., Dec. 2 vs. Loras College (Iowa) L 17-16 AUGSBURG’S ALL-AMERICAN TRADITION -- Depth 32-5 this season, 90-29 career Thu., Dec. 7 vs. Minnesota State Univ.-Moorhead W 35-9 has always been a hallmark of the Augsburg 157 -- No. 1 Ryan Epps Sat., Dec. 9 at St. Cloud St. Husky Open No team results wrestling program, and that has shown in the Dec. 29-30 at Citrus Open 1st/11 (211) number of All-Americans -- finishers in the (SO, Cannon Falls, Minn./Cannon Falls HS) (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) top eight of each weight class -- that the team 38-1 this season, 72-8 career Jan. 4-5 NWCA Division III National Duals Champions has had in national competition. Augsburg has 165 -- No. 2 Lucas Jeske at Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Ind. earned at least two All-Americans every year (SO, St. Michael, Minn./ Thu., Jan. 4 vs. SUNY-Cortland (N.Y.) W 53-0 since 1988. St. Michael-Albertville HS) Thu., Jan. 4 vs. North Central College (Ill.) W 34-6 Augsburg has had at least one All-American in Fri., Jan. 5 vs. Johnson & Wales Univ. (R.I.) W 18-15 26-0 this season, 61-9 career national competition every year since 1977 -- 41 Fri., Jan. 5 vs. Wartburg College (Iowa) W 21-17 straight years. Augsburg has now earned 237 174 -- Tanner Vassar Jan. 4-5 Nuway College Open No team results wrestling All-Americans in program history (201 (SO, Maple Lake, Minn./Maple Lake HS) (Fort Wayne, Ind.) in NCAA competition, 36 in NAIA). 32-8 this season, 64-18 career Sat., Jan. 13 at Cornell (Iowa) Matman Open 1st/17 (133), 2 champions AUGGIES WIN REGIONAL TITLE, QUALIFY EIGHT TO 184 -- Sebastian Larson Thu., Jan. 18 at Concordia College-Moorhead W 36-6 NATIONALS -- Qualifying individuals in seven of (SR, River Falls, Wis./River Falls HS) Sat., Jan. 20 (WT) at Minnesota West No team results 10 weight classes to the national champion- 27-10 this season, 86-55 career CTC-Worthington Open ships, and adding another qualifier as an injury Sun., Jan. 21 vs. Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire W 34-3 replacement, the Augsburg wrestling team will have eight competitors at the NCAA Division III National Sat., Jan. 27 at Saint John’s University No team results, Championships, after claiming an NCAA regional title for the 16th straight year, winning the NCAA North Country Open 5 champs/co-champs Division III Upper Midwest Regional crown on Feb. 23-24 at Augsburg’s Si Melby Hall. Thu., Feb. 1 at Wartburg College (Iowa) L 21-13 Augsburg won the won the 17-team regional with 147.0 points. Augsburg has won the team title in Sat., Feb. 3 at Wisconsin-Eau Claire No team results, its NCAA regional every year since starting regional competition in the 2002-03 season. Augsburg has Don Parker Open 3 champs/co-champs had seven or more national tournament qualifiers in 14 of the last 15 seasons. Fri., Feb. 9 at Saint John’s University W 54-0 With its eight national tournament qualifiers, Augsburg has had seven or more national tournament Sat., Feb. 10 (WT) at Winona State Invite 1st/12 (76.5) qualifiers in 15 of the last 16 seasons. Augsburg had three regional champions, two runners-up and two Fri., Feb. 16 vs. Wisconsin-Stevens Point W 33-15 Feb. 23-24 NCAA Division III 1st/17 (147.0), 3 champs third-place finishers. The top three finishers in each weight class qualify for the national tournament. Upper Midwest Regional at Si Melby Hall Augsburg head coach Jim Moulsoff was named the Upper Midwest Region Co-Coach of the Year, along with Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Dave Malacek, and assistant coach Tony Valek was named Upper Midwest March 9-10 NCAA Div. III National Championships Region Assistant Coach of the Year. at Cleveland Public Auditorium, Of Augsburg’s eight national tournament competitors, six are seeded among the top eight in their Cleveland, Ohio weight classes -- the second-most in the field, behind Wartburg’s eight. The Knights have the top-seed- RECORD: 13-2 OVERALL ed wrestlers in five weight classes. Ithaca (N.Y.) and Johnson & Wales (R.I.) both have four seeded wrestlers among their seven qualifiers each, while Baldwin-Wallace and Messiah have two each. NWCA DIVISION III NATIONAL POLL The Auggies, winners of 12 Division III team national championships since 1991, enter the meet led (FEBRUARY 19 - FINAL TEAM DUAL MEET RANKING) by top-ranked 157-pounder Ryan Epps (SO, Cannon Falls, Minn./Cannon Falls HS), who enters the tour- nament at 38-1 and on a 22-match winning streak. Lucas Jeske (SO, St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Al- 1. Wartburg (Iowa) 14. York (Pa.) bertville HS) is seeded No. 2 at 165, and is 35-1 on the year. Both Epps and Jeske are competing in 2. Augsburg (Minn.) 15. Messiah (Pa.) their second national tournaments. Jeske finished third at 165 pounds to earn All-American honors. 3. Ithaca (N.Y.) 16. Stevens Tech (N.J.) Three-time national tournament qualifierSam Bennyhoff (JR, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS) 4. Johnson & Wales (R.I.) 17. Centenary (N.J.) enters the tournament as the No. 4-seed at 133 pounds, with a 32-5 record. Also seeded fourth is 5. Loras (Iowa) 18. College of New Jersey 141-pounder David Flynn (SO, Jordan, Minn./Jordan HS (Scott West), who is 19-4 on the season. He 6. Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio) 19. Roger Williams (R.I.) earned All-American honors with a third-place finish last year at 141. 7. Coe (Iowa) 20. SUNY-Brockport (N.Y.) Alex Wilson (JR, Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis HS) is seeded No. 5 at 149, entering his first national 8. Wisconsin-Whitewater 21. Worcester P.I. (Mass.) tournament with a 32-5 record. Victor Gliva (SO, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS), who finished 9. Mount Union (Ohio) 22. Univ. of Chicago (Ill.) eighth nationally at 125 last year, is 28-6 this year and seeded seventh in his weight class. 10. Wisconsin-La Crosse 23. Wisconsin-Platteville Two Auggies are unseeded in the field --Sebastian Larson (SR, River Falls, Wis./River Falls HS) at 11. Olivet (Mich.) 24. US Coast Guard (Conn.) 184 and Tanner Vassar (SO, Maple Lake, Minn./Maple Lake HS) at 174. Larson is making his second 12. North Central (Ill.) 25. Central (Iowa) national tournament appearance, entering the meet at 27-10. Vassar is making his first national tourna- 13. Wabash (Ind.) ment appearance, entering the meet with a 32-8 record. athletics.augsburg.edu • @AugsburgAuggies • #AuggiePride 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 24 times since 1975, winning national titles 12 times in NCAA Division III competition and earning runner-up honors 12 times (11 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 27 seasons (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2015), the most in Division III history. Augsburg is one of only four NCAA schools to have won 10 or more college wrestling national titles (Oklahoma State has won 34 Division I team titles, while Iowa has won 23 Division I team titles and Wartburg has won 13 Division III team titles). Augsburg has also finished second nine times since 1984 and in the top 20 nationally (NCAA from 1983 to present, NAIA pre-1983) every year since 1971. • Against opponents from Divisions II and III, Augsburg is 327-51-1 in dual meets since the 1989-90 season. Augsburg has lost just 47 matches to non-Division I opponents since the 1995-96 season.