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 17-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 increasing his average to 5.57 team points per match, which leads all divisions. Penn State is in good position to bring home the trophy, regardless, as Retherford leads four Nittany Lions in the top five.
Nick Becker of Wisconsin-Parkside has taken a big lead in Division II after a strong regional performance with an average of 4.95 points at 174 pounds. Pittsburgh-Johnstown 157-pounder Cody Law is second with 4.52 team points per match.
Ithaca 184-pounder Jake Ashcraft maintains his lead in Division III with 5.32 points, .12 ahead of Wartburg 165-pounder Mike Ross with 5.20 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 maintains his hold on the Division I lead with 17 falls, which is one more than Retherford and two more than Penn State’s Jason Nolf.
In Division II, Tiffin 184-pounder Hayden Bronne has ascended to the lead with 15 falls, while Lawrence Phillips of St. Cloud State and Mason Thompson of Central Oklahoma each have 14.
Division III features three wrestlers with 21 falls, led by Wesleyan (Connecticut) 197-pounder Devon Carrillo with an aggregate time of 33:19, while heavyweights Jake Evans (Waynesburg) and Isaiah Bellamy (Wesleyan (Connecticut)) are more than 10 minutes behind.
Kyle Shoop has staked his claim to the award for technical falls in Division I with 12 at 141 pounds for Lock Haven, two more than NC State’s Jamel Morris and North Dakota State’s Cam Sykora.
Nick Vandermeer of Lake Erie and Connor Craig of Wheeling Jesuit each have nine tech falls in Division II. Vandermeer has increased his significant lead in aggregate time to more than 18 minutes.
Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) 125-pounder Jay Albis has taken sole possession of first place in Division III tech falls with 16, while Messiah’s Kyle Koser has 15 followed by Millikin’s Bradan Birt and Messiah’s Ben Swarr with 14.
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Kyle ShoopLock Haven1411253:532Jamel MorrisNC State1331034:273Cam SykoraNorth Dakota St.1331042:194Austin DeSantoDrexel133928:565Ethan LizakMinnesota125942:276Myles MartinOhio St.184946:157Ke-Shawn HayesOhio St.149830:418Isaiah MartinezIllinois165836:449Chance MarstellerLock Haven165837:1710Jacob KasperDuke285846:23Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Nick VandermeerLake Erie165935:522Connor CraigWheeling Jesuit157954:093Cody LawPitt.-Johnstown157842:154George McGuireGannon149842:225Sebastian VidikaAshland125725:136Nolan KistlerCalifornia Baptist174732:267Nick BeckerWis.-Parkside174738:328Ryan ApplebyKutztown285741:249Colton DullMillersville197624:4810Natean VandermeerFindlay174625:23Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightTech FallsTime1Jay AlbisJohnson & Wales (RI)1251670:362Kyle KoserMessiah1971562:213Bradan BirtMillikin1491457:154Ben SwarrMessiah1741457:405Jimmy DavisLoras1491353:296Cross CannoneWartburg1491354:427Kyle FankWartburg1971249:518Stephen MaloneyMessiah1491146:529Nick ManciniMount Union1251043:1510Sunny NierWabash125921:58
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Mike HughesHofstra2851732:112Zain RetherfordPenn St.1491650:363Jason NolfPenn St.1571541:534Bo NickalPenn St.1841420:585Ben DarmstadtCornell1971427:236Shakur RasheedPenn St.1971113:337Matt StencelCentral Mich.2851115:228Mark HallPenn St.1741019:269Bryce MeredithWyoming1411019:4710Chad WalshRider1651043:53Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Hayden BronneTiffin1841526:232Lawrence PhillipsSt. Cloud St.2851427:173Mason ThompsonCentral Okla.1651443:414Jarrod HinrichsNeb.-Kearney2851252:525Natean VandermeerFindlay1741026:126Justin HanekeSouthwest Minn. St.1491027:517Nicholas MasonTiffin197109:038Trenton PiattWestern St.1251042:449Jarred OftedahlSt. Cloud St.141920:0010Colton LooperCentral Okla.197923:33Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightFallsTime1Devon CarrilloWesleyan (CT)1972133:192Jake EvansWaynesburg2852145:063Isaiah BellamyWesleyan (CT)2852146:484Jake AshcraftIthaca1841949:525Michael DiNardoJohnson & Wales (RI)1971839:546Triston EngleBrockport1971840:387Avery JonesThomas More1841866:318Troy BeamanSt. Olaf2851727:439Wade RippleWabash2851733:0510Zachary RiegerAdrian2851742:53
Division IRankNameSchoolWeightAvg. Team Points1Zain RetherfordPenn St.1495.572Bo NickalPenn St.1845.133Jason NolfPenn St.1575.104Daniel LewisMissouri1744.845Mark HallPenn St.1744.836Seth GrossSouth Dakota St.1334.767Zahid ValenciaArizona St.1744.698Ben DarmstadtCornell1974.699Mike HughesHofstra2854.6410Michael KemererIowa1574.63Division IIRankNameSchoolWeightAvg. Team Points1Nick BeckerWis.-Parkside1744.952Cody LawPitt.-Johnstown1574.523Jarrod HinrichsNeb.-Kearney2854.334Jordan MurphyAshland1844.285Elijah HaleCentral Okla.1254.156Matt HalversonWis.-Parkside2854.127Evan RamosShippensburg1974.118Vince DietzSt. Cloud St.1973.979Darren WynnMcKendree1413.7610Chris EddinsPitt.-Johnstown1413.76Division IIIRankNameSchoolWeightAvg. Team Points1Jake AshcraftIthaca1845.322Mike RossWartburg1655.203Troy StanichStevens1334.774Isaiah BellamyWesleyan (CT)2854.765Lance EvansWartburg2854.766Kyle HatchWabash1574.747Jake EvansWaynesburg2854.738Devon CarrilloWesleyan (CT)1974.609Lucas JeskeAugsburg1654.5310Guy PatronLoras1974.52
*17-match minimum in division required to be ranked.
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