NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING RECORD BOOK NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING RECORDS 26 NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING RECORDS NORTHWESTERN HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ............................................................2-4 ALL-AMERICANS & WIN TOTALS .........................................................................................5 NCAA AND BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ........................................................................................6 NU OLYMPIANS .......................................................................................................................7 NCAA QUALIFIERS & MISC. AWARDS .................................................................................8 ACADEMIC AWARDS ...............................................................................................................9 YEAR-BY-YEAR AWARDS ...............................................................................................10-12 ALL-TIME LETTERWINNERS ............................................................................................... 13 JAKE HERBERT MIKE MCMULLAN KEN KRAFT 1 2021-22 Northwestern Wrestling • NUsports.com WILDCAT ALMANAC P I O N E E R E R A I N D U C T E E S The following is a look at the 17 Year Inducted Name Years of Competition wrestlers who have been enshrined in 1984 Timothy G. Lowry .....................................1923-25 the Northwestern Athletic Hall of Fame. 1984 John (Jack) H. Riley .................1929-31 (wrestler) 1948-57 (coach) 1987 Stanley “Jack” Hathaway ..........................1918-21 ART KRAFT 1990 1990 Dewitt C. Gibson .......................................1935-37 1991 Ralph Lupton ............................................1928-29 Art Kraft won the 1960 NCAA championship at 157 pounds and was a two- 1996 Justin Dart ................................................1926-29 time All-American in a time when only the top-four fnishers at each weight 1996 Bryan Hines ..............................................1922-24 class were deemed All-Americans. Following his wrestling career, Kraft was a 2000 Wesley Brown Jr. ......................................1931-33 high school coach. He started as the wrestling coach at Triton College in the 2013 Dustin Fox. ...............................................2004-08 mid-1960s and stayed for almost 20 years. There, Kraft was named Coach of the Year three times; he also coached a national championship team and many individual champions. RORY WEBER 2001 MARK MASSERY 1991 Rory Weber concluded his illustrious Wildcat wrestling career with an all-time record of 58-8. That .881 winning percentage presently ranks third all-time at In 1973, Mark Massery captured the NCAA championship at 126 pounds after Northwestern. He garnered All-America honors three years (1960-62) in the claiming his second career Big Ten championship earlier that year. Massery heavyweight division, making him one of the Wildcats’ most decorated wres- twice reached NCAA All-American status. tlers. Weber captured the Big Ten title in 1960 and was the squad’s Stuteville He continued his wrestling career after college by competing in several Award (most points) recipient in 1961. international meets and preparing for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He won the Amateur Athletic Union title in 1975 at Bloomington, Ind., and also earned the World Cup championship in 1975. As the country’s top 125-pound- JACK GRIFFIN 2002 er, Massery represented the United States in the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City where he placed third and the ’75 World Championships in In 1990, Jack Griffn became Northwestern’s Minsk, U.S.S.R. where he fnished fourth. frst individual NCAA champion since 1973 and helped NU to a fourth-place team fnish. A two-time All-American and four-time fnalist at the Big Ten Championships, Griffn is NU’s “The Northwestern campus environment in the early all-time leader in wins with 159 and lost only 1970’s had an incredible mixture of personal and cultural one dual-meet match in his entire career. styles and values that is hard to match. I think that’s still Following his wrestling career at NU, Griffn was named an alternate for the 1992 Olympic true today, which makes NU such a great place to be a team and served six seasons as an assistant student-athlete.” coach for the Wildcats under Tim Cysewski. —MARK MASSERY ’73 MARK MASSERY “My Northwestern experience was second to none. It had everything I had hoped for: great teammates, an awesome coaching staff, a plan in place to not only excel in collegiate wrestling but the classroom and in life. I am not where I am today without the Northwestern experience and all the people who gave me the resources to succeed.” —JACK GRIFFIN ’90 2 NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING • NUSPORTS.COM WILDCAT ALMANAC KEN KRAFT 2003 “What can I say? Northwestern was the place for me and It would be hard to match the dedication and service that Ken Kraft has continues to be. We have an approach to athletics that provided Northwestern University. After compiling a 38-7-2 record on the makes sense for our institution. I am entering my 57th wrestling mat, Kraft became Northwestern’s head wrestling coach in 1957, a position he held until 1979. At the time of his induction, he was the program’s year as a member of the Purple Pride. Who could have winningest coach. Following the conclusion of his coaching career, Kraft was predicted that when I took that one-year job in the spring named an associate athletic director and he served in an administrative ca- of 1957? Go ’Cats.” pacity for 24 years. As an athlete, he won the 167-pound Big Ten champion- ship his senior year. —KEN KRAFT ’57 Perhaps his most signifcant contribution to the wrestling program was the founding of the Midlands Championships, the nation’s top amateur wrestling event, which has been held every year since 1966 between Christmas and ROHAN GARDNER 2006 New Year’s Day at NU’s Welsh-Ryan Arena. For his contributions to North- western, and specifcally the wrestling program, a new wrestling facility was Rohan Gardner began his career at Northwestern as a walk-on student- built, which bears his name, the “Ken Kraft Wrestling Complex.” athlete and left as a two-time All-American. He capped a stellar career with a A founding member of the United States Wrestling Federation and its scholarship and a 108-29 overall record. president from 1972-76, Kraft was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of A 1996 National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic frst-team Fame in 1997. member, Gardner won the 1996 Big Ten crown at 177 pounds, edging Michigan State’s Erich Harvey, 9-8. He went on to fnish third at the 1996 NCAA Championships. In 1995, he won a career-most 30 matches (30-5) and placed ffth at the NCAA Championships. He was the Wildcats’ Stuteville MIKE FUNK 2004 (point leader) and Lupton (net takedowns) Award recipient in 1995 and 1996 Northwestern’s frst four-time All-American, Mike Funk also was named NU’s and won the Jack Riley Fall Trophy in 1994. Male Athlete of the Year for 1990-91. In 1991, he won the Big Ten champion- ship in the 190-pound weight class and fnished seventh at the NCAA Championships. That same year, he ROHAN GARDNER led NU in points, falls and net takedowns, sweep- ing the team’s three major postseason awards. Funk fnished his career with 122 wins—good for sixth on Northwest- ern’s all-time list—and par- ticipated in the 1991 East-West All-Star meet. Funk won a career-best 35 matches in 1990, which ranks among NU’s top-10 for single- season victories. MIKE FUNK “It was truly an honor to be inducted into life are nothing compared to what I endured during Northwestern’s Hall of Fame because as a former my last two years at Northwestern. The experiences walk-on, I never expected to be recognized along I had while a student and wrestler at Northwestern with that caliber of athletes already inducted in the are unparalleled in the impact they had on my Hall of Fame. The challenges I face in my day-to-day development into the person I am today.” —ROHAN GARDNER ’95, M.S. ’96 NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING • NUSPORTS.COM 3 NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING • NUSPORTS.COM WILDCAT ALMANAC DUSTIN FOX 2013 Dustin Fox posted a 109-29 overall record for the Wildcats, including a 29-1 mark as a senior in 2008, culminating with an NCAA heavyweight championship. In the title bout, Fox defeated Ohio State’s J.D. Bergman in a dramatic 4-2 victory that went to extra time. He fnished his NU career as the 2008 NCAA heavyweight champion, a two-time All-American and four-time NCAA qualifer.In the 2008 NCAA Championships match, Fox sustained a cut to his head, which continued to bleed throughout the match. After trainers continued to fx the cut, his headgear broke and Fox also fought off a blow to the nose, which left it broken and bloody. In true grit fashion, Fox defeated Bergman with a takedown in the match’s second sudden victory. Fox came to Northwestern after wrestling at Galion High School in Galion, Ohio. He qualifed for the NCAA championships each of his four seasons with the Wildcats and was named an All-American during his junior and senior seasons. “Northwestern provided more than a platform to excel in sports He fnished third in the country as a junior in 2007 and won a Big Ten heavyweight at the national collegiate level. It instilled, in my teammates and championship. With the win, Fox continued a Wildcats streak as a Northwestern wrestler would take home a Big Ten championship each year for fve consecutive I, a culture of athletic and academic intensity that propels us to seasons from 2005 to 2009. It marked the frst time the school has accomplished success in our lives today. For me, the biggest accomplishment the feat since 1928 to 1933. He became the Wildcats seventh different wrester to is that current and future team members are able to draw win an NCAA championship. During his time with NU, the `Cats fnished ffth in the Big Ten championships in 2006 and recorded some of the school’s top fnishes in strength from this legacy of achievement and continue to the NCAA championships. Northwestern fnished fourth in 2007, 13th in 2006 and nourish this culture at NU wrestling.