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.
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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.
Hofstra heavyweight Mike Hughes and Penn State teammates Jason Nolf and Zain Retherford each have 12 falls in Division I, but Hughes holds the tiebreaker for the top position with an aggregate time of 18:39, 14 minutes faster than Nolf in second.
In Division II, Central Oklahoma 165-pounder Mason Thompson is off to a fast start with 10 falls. Trenton Piatt of Western State and Jarrod Hinrichs of Nebraska-Kearney have each compiled nine.
Wheaton (Illinois) 184-pounder Isaac Odell leads all three divisions with 15 falls, three more than Isaiah Bellamy of Wesleyan (Connecticut) and Dante Ginnetti of Baldwin Wallace.
North Dakota State’s Cam Sykora has taken sole possession of the Division I lead for tech falls with eight at 133 pounds, while four wrestlers are still in good position with seven.
It’s a family affair atop the standings in Division II where brothers Nick and Nate Vandermeer lead the way. Nick Vandermeer is in first with six tech falls at 165 pounds for Lake Erie, while younger brother Nate has five at 174 pounds for Findlay.
Loras 149-pounder Jimmy Davis leads Division III with 10 tech falls in an aggregate time of 40:19 to rank ahead of Cross Cannone (Wartburg) and Kyle Koser (Messiah), who each also have 10 tech falls in a longer amount of time.
The initial Most Dominant Wrestler standings will be released later this season to allow wrestlers to achieve the minimum amount of matches that is required to be eligible for the standings.
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Mike HughesHofstra2851218:392Jason NolfPenn St.1571232:583Zain RetherfordPenn St.1491239:184Ben DarmstadtCornell1971017:505Matt StencelCentral Mich.285912:396Bo NickalPenn St.18487:067Shakur RasheedPenn St.19788:548Alfred BannisterMaryland149817:249Daniel LewisMissouri165817:5410Jake KeatingVirginia149821:37Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Mason ThompsonCentral Okla.1651025:562Trenton PiattWestern St.141939:103Jarrod HinrichsNeb.-Kearney285937:464Lawrence PhillipsSt. Cloud St.285812:145Phillip SpringsteenMary165823:556Nolan KroneColorado Mesa184720:547Nate VandermeerFindlay174721:038Hayden BronneTiffin184613:099Colton LooperCentral Okla.197613:2110Jacob RobbMercyhurst285616:13Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Isaac OdellWheaton (IL)1841546:562Isaiah BellamyWesleyan (CT)2851226:353Dante GinnettiBaldwin Wallace1411254:004Gennaro CerminaraMuhlenberg1971119:065Michael DiNardoJohnson & Wales (RI)1971121:106Derek BeitzMessiah1841123:227Hunter HarrisMessiah1331124:128Lenny OgozalekGettysburg1251127:179Guy PatronLoras1971129:0410Kyle HatchWabash1571130:58
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Cam SykoraNorth Dakota St.133830:242Kyle ShoopLock Haven141732:013Chance MarstellerLock Haven165732:414Myles MartinOhio St.184738:575Branson AshworthWyoming165739:156Austin DeSantoDrexel133618:477Jamel MorrisNC State133619:178Ke-Shawn HayesOhio St.149621:389Noah StewartArmy West Point184623:3010Nick LeePenn St.141630:58Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Nick VandermeerLake Erie165628:072Nate VandermeerFindlay174521:083Cody LawPitt.-Johnstown157526:394Ryan ApplebyKutztown285527:245Connor CraigWheeling Jesuit157531:126George McGuireGannon157531:457Donald NegusColorado Mesa174415:148Nick BeckerWis.-Parkside174419:079Josh WalkerUpper Iowa141419:2310Nate TrepanierLindenwood (MO)157420:31Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Jimmy DavisLoras1491040:192Cross CannoneWartburg1491045:423Kyle KoserMessiah1971046:314Kyle FankWartburg197936:435Stephen MaloneyMessiah149834:576Ben SwarrMessiah174835:157Trevor CorlLycoming149720:308Darden SchurgWabash174736:349Jay AlbisJohnson & Wales (RI)133737:4210Bradan BirtMillikin149624:35
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