INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2018 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 they must come against opponents in the same division. Ties in the two categories are broken based on the aggregate time.
This week’s Most Dominant Wrestler award standings requires a 16-match minimum in the division to qualify.
Last year’s winner, Zain Retherford of Penn State, has put himself in a strong position to repeat by scoring an average of 5.55 team points per match, which leads all divisions. Penn State is in a good position to bring home the trophy, regardless, as Retherford leads four Nittany Lions in the top five.
Pittsburgh-Johnstown 157-pounder Cody Law leads Division II with 4.65 team points per match, while his 141-pound teammate Chris Eddins is third (4.22), bracketing Nebraska-Kearney heavyweight Jarrod Hinrichs with 4.43 points.
Ithaca 184-pounder Jake Ashcraft has moved into the lead in Division III with 5.20 points, ahead of Mike Ross of Wartburg with 5.13 points.
The Most Dominant Wrestler standings are calculated by adding the total number of points awarded through match results and dividing that number by the total number of matches wrestled. Points per match are awarded as follows.
- Fall, forfeit, injury default or DQ = 6 points (-6 points for a loss)
- Tech falls = 5 points (-5 points for a loss)
- Major decision = 4 points (-4 points for a loss)
- Decision = 3 points (-3 points for a loss)
Hofstra heavyweight Mike Hughes has ascended to the Division I lead with 15 falls, holding the aggregate time tiebreaker by 12 minutes over Jason Nolf of Penn State and 17 minutes over Retherford.
In Division II, Central Oklahoma 165-pounder Mason Thompson increased his hold on the lead with his 14 falls, which is three more than Tiffin 184-pounder Hayden Bronne and Hinrichs.
Wesleyan (Connecticut) teammates Devon Carrillo and Isaiah Bellamy are tied with 18 falls in Division III. Carrillo, at 197 pounds, holds the aggregate time tiebreaker by more than seven minutes over his heavyweight teammate.
Cam Sykora of North Dakota State and Kyle Shoop of Lock Haven lead Division I with 10 tech falls as aggregate time breaks the tie again by 1:19 (42:19 – 43:38), while Jamel Morris of NC State and Myles Martin of Ohio State each have nine.
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Nick Vandermeer of Lake Erie has reclaimed sole possession of the tech fall lead in Division II with eight.
Messiah 197-pounder Kyle Koser has 15 tech falls in 62:21 to lead Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) 133-pounder Jay Albis with 15 tech falls in 68:35. No other wrestler in Division III has more than 12 tech falls.
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Mike HughesHofstra2851529:062Jason NolfPenn St.1571541:533Zain RetherfordPenn St.1571546:264Ben DarmstadtCornell1971425:515Bo NickalPenn St.1971320:476Matt StencelCentral Mich.2851115:227Shakur RasheedPenn St.1971011:368Bryce MeredithWyoming1411019:479Jacob SchwarmUNI125916:5310Mark HallPenn St.197918:30Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Mason ThompsonCentral Okla.1651443:412Hayden BronneTiffin1841117:123Jarrod HinrichsNeb.-Kearney2851148:574Lawrence PhillipsSt. Cloud St.2851017:525Trenton PiattWestern St.1251049:256Justin HanekeSouthwest Minn. St.157922:207Nicholas MasonTiffin197929:088Jarred OftedahlSt. Cloud St.141817:339Colton LooperCentral Okla.197821:2710Phillip SpringsteenMary165823:55Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Devon CarrilloWesleyan (CT)1971832:022Isaiah BellamyWesleyan (CT)2851839:553Jake EvansWaynesburg2851734:454Michael DiNardoJohnson & Wales (RI)1971738:135Zachary RiegerAdrian2851641:476Isaac OdellWheaton (IL)1841648:017Jake AshcraftIthaca1841533:418Kaidon WintersRIT1651548:269Joe FuscoSpringfield2851553:5210Avery JonesThomas More1841557:53
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Cam SykoraNorth Dakota St.1331042:192Kyle ShoopLock Haven1411043:383Jamel MorrisNC State133932:534Myles MartinOhio St.184946:155Austin DeSantoDrexel133827:086Ke-Shawn HayesOhio St.149830:417Ethan LizakMinnesota125835:278Isaiah MartinezIllinois165836:449Chance MarstellerLock Haven165837:1710Nick LeePenn St.141735:06Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Nick VandermeerLake Erie165834:392George McGuireGannon157737:433Cody LawPitt.-Johnstown157738:464Ryan ApplebyKutztown285741:245Connor CraigWheeling Jesuit157742:356Sebastian VidikaAshland125619:357Nate VandermeerFindlay174625:238Nolan KistlerCalifornia Baptist174629:269Nate TrepanierLindenwood (MO)157525:1910Nick BeckerWis.-Parkside174526:07Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Kyle KoserMessiah1971562:212Jay AlbisJohnson & Wales (RI)1331568:353Jimmy DavisLoras1491249:064Bradan BirtMillikin1491249:225Cross CannoneWartburg1491249:266Kyle FankWartburg1971143:177Stephen MaloneyMessiah1491039:528Ben SwarrMessiah1741040:519Adrian GonzalezJohnson & Wales (RI)165939:5710George VanvalenAlfred St.184940:41
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightAvg. Team Points1Zain RetherfordPenn St.1495.552Jason NolfPenn St.1575.103Bo NickalPenn St.1845.094Daniel LewisMissouri1744.945Mark HallPenn St.1744.786Seth GrossSouth Dakota St.1334.757Michael KemererIowa1574.728Ben DarmstadtCornell1974.699Zahid ValenciaArizona St.1744.6710Mike HughesHofstra2854.55Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightAvg. Team Points1Cody LawPitt.-Johnstown1574.652Jarrod HinrichsNeb.-Kearney2854.433Chris EddinsPitt.-Johnstown1414.224Elijah HaleCentral Okla.1254.135Vince DietzSt. Cloud St.1974.006Jarred OftedahlSt. Cloud St.1413.717Darren WynnMcKendree1413.698Ivan McClayNotre Dame (OH)1333.689Bradley MetzFindlay1843.6010Brandon SupernawWestern St.1973.56Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightAvg. Team Points1Jake AshcraftIthaca1845.202Mike RossWartburg1575.133Devon CarrilloWesleyan (CT)1974.834Troy StanichStevens1334.795Isaiah BellamyWesleyan (CT)2854.766Michael DiNardoJohnson & Wales (RI)1974.746Guy PatronLoras1974.746Darden SchurgWabash1744.749Peter Del GalloSouthern Me.1254.699Jonathan HaasBrockport1254.69
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