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NCAA Div. II Championships
Travis
Eggers of Upper Iowa University became the second NCAA Div. II National
Champion in school history with an 8-3 victory in the title bout at 165
Saturday night in Omaha, Neb.
Eggers' victory caped off an outstanding weekend for the Peacocks,
including a 9-1 record on Saturday. UIU finished tied for third with
Nebraska-Kearney in the team standings behind champion Nebraska-Omaha
and runner-up Augustana.
Finishing second at their weight classes with ties to Iowa were Tyler
Mumbulo of Upper Iowa at 125, Esai Dominguez of UNO at 149, George
Ivanov of UNO at 157 and 197-pounder Ty Copsey of Augustana.
Check out our coverage page for Full Access articles and notebooks from
the action from the weekend in Omaha.
Click here to go to our NCAA Div. II Championships coverage page
Big three weeks coming at The Barn
Veterans
Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines will be jam-packed with youth
wrestling the last two weeks in March and the first weekend in April.
It begins March 20 with the 4th Annual Brute Adidas Corn Cob Nationals. Online registration
closes this Sunday at midnight, so get signed up today by
clicking here.
A week later, the 2010 AAU State Tournament will take over The Barn for
two days. And the following weekend in April, the AAU World's National
Folkstyle Championships will be in Des Moines.
Check out our
youth tourneys calendar for more on these and several other upcoming
youth tournaments.
NCAA Div. I brackets released
The NCAA Div. I National Championship brackets were released Wednesday.
Click here to view the NCAA Div. I brackets
Two years, two NAIA Champions
Grand
View University in Des Moines has only had wrestling for two seasons,
but on Saturday the team
crowned its second NAIA individual champion. Glenn Rhees added the
174-pound title to the NJCAA gold he claimed while wrestling for NIACC.
Grand View finished tied for ninth in the team race and had three
All-Americans. Northwestern had a pair of All-Americans, while
Morningside, William Penn and Briar Cliff each had one wrestler finish
on the award stand.
Click here for results
NCAA Div. III National Championships
The
NCAA Div. III Nationals came to a close Saturday night in Cedar Rapids
and a pair of Iowa Conference wrestlers earned hardware and two league
wrestlers claimed individual gold.
At 197, Byron Tate of Wartburg (pictured) capped off his sophomore
season with the National title. Joining him on the top of the podium was
Coe 125-pound junior Clayton Rush. Evan Brown of Dubuque and John
Helgerson of Wartburg each finished second.
Wartburg finished third in the team race, while Coe was fourth. Augsburg
won the title, followed by UW-LaCrosse.
Check our coverage page for Full Access articles from the first three
sessions and free notebooks from the finals, semifinals and
quarterfinals. Also, photos from the first
day are being uploaded onto DotPhoto.
Click here to go to The Predicament's NCAA Div. III Nationals Coverage
The Big 10, Big 12 and West
Regional Tournaments are also this weekend. Follow them at the links
below.
Big 10 I
Big 12 I
West Regional
Upper Iowa sends six to
Div. II Nationals
Upper Iowa University had six wrestlers finish in the top four Sunday in
South Dakota at the Super Region #3 to advance to the NCAA Div. II
National Championships held March 12-13 in Omaha, Neb.
Click here for the championship brackets
Click here for UIU press release and a link to brackets and team
scores
Also headed to Omaha will be five former Iowa high school standouts who
wrestle for Augustana College.
Click here for that press release.
2010 NJCAA National Championships
The drive for five is complete
Iowa
Central made history Saturday night in Des Moines, as the Tritons
claimed their record fifth consecutive NJCAA National title.
Click here to visit The Predicament's NJCAA Nationals coverage page
For the first time in the five-year run, Iowa Central did not have the
title wrapped up before the finals. A pair of Tritons won gold,
including 125-pound freshman Joe Colon (pictured) of Clear Lake. Colon
won 14-2 in the title bout and defeated every Junior College wrestler he
faced this season by major or worse. Also winning gold for Iowa Central
was Bradley Banks at 165.
Victor DeJesus won the first National title for Iowa Lakes, with a
thrilling overtime win at 149.
There were also titles won Saturday night in Cedar Rapids, as the State
Dual crowns were claimed by Don Bosco in 1A, Denver-Tripoli in 2A and
Waverly-Shell Rock in 3A.
Click here for complete results.
Grade School and Junior
High
State Championships are decided
The
high school wrestlers weren't the only ones battling for State titles
last weekend in Des Moines. Sunday, the action shifted from Wells Fargo
Arena across the street to Veterans Memorial Auditorium for the 2010
Grade School and Junior High State Championships.
Pictured: In Grade School Div. 3 action at 60 pounds, Eric Faught
defeated Klayton Keller in quarterfinal action.
click here to view the complete results
2010 State Tournament
Click here to
go to The Predicament's State Tournament Coverage page
Added on Tuesday to
DotPhoto - Pictures from every championship match in all 3 Classes. We have now uploaded
all of our photos from the State Tournament. There are 29 photo albums
with more nearly 4,000 photos to view and purchase.
Moore
than enough
Nick Moore of Iowa City West embraces head coach Mark Reiland after
winning his fourth State championship Saturday night in Des Moines.
Moore becomes the 19th four-time State champ in Iowa high school
wrestling history.
There was plenty of great action in the finals matches. Check out our
coverage page now for a breakdown of the matches and comments from many of the
winners.
NCAA Div. III National bids decided
Wartburg College won an 18th consecutive Iowa Conference Tournament
title Tuesday night in Storm Lake at Buena Vista University.
Thirty-three wrestlers from the nine-team Iowa Conference also earned
berths for the NCAA Div. III Nationals, held next month in Cedar Rapids.
Wartburg and Coe will each send all 10 of their wrestlers, Luther
qualified five, Cornell and Dubuque grabbed three berths each and host
Buena Vista sent two.
Click here for the official website of the championships
NJCAA postseason action begins
The State Tournament isn't the only big wrestling event in Des Moines
this month. The NJCAA Nationals will be held at Vets Auditorium next
weekend.
Click here to view how the four Iowa Junior College teams did at the
North Central District Tournament this past weekend.
Final 3A Dual Team Rankings
Click
here to view the final Class 3A IWCOA Dual Team Rankings of the
2009-10 season. These rankings will be used to seed the State Duals.
As
the 3A Districts are set for Saturday, a pair of wrestlers are looking
to achieve a rare feat over the next two weeks. Cory Clark of Southeast
Polk and John Meeks of Des Moines
Roosevelt (pictured) went undefeated as freshman and both are currently
perfect in their sophomore seasons. See what both wrestlers and their
coaches have to say about the chase for perfection in The Predicament's
Full
Access article.
1A and 2A Regional Duals
Regional
Dual action took place all across the state Wednesday night one day
after many of them were postponed.
In Truro, Eddyville-Blakesburg qualified for the Class 1A State Duals
for the first time in school history with a tense 39-34 victory over
host Interstate 35. The Roadrunners fell short of their quest of a ninth
State Duals appearance.
The Rockets rode the backs of their big guns to the win, including
Nathan VanZante (pictured) at 135, who recorded one of the team's five
falls in the championship dual.
Click here to read The Predicament's Full Access article from the action in Truro.
Also, photos from the Rockets' semifinal win over Corning and title
match victory over I-35 will be uploaded to DotPhoto in the coming days.
Click here to check out all the Regional results on the IHSAA
website when they are posted.
Action from Grand View Open
The
Predicament's photos from Saturday's Grand View Open in Des Moines have
been uploaded to our
DotPhoto page.
There was plenty of great college action in the tournament, including at
157, where fans got a possible preview of great battles to come in
upcoming years between Derek St. John (red) of Iowa and Iowa State's
Trent Weatherman. St. John won this round and was one of six champions
for the Hawkeyes.
Click here to view the complete brackets from the tournament (PDF
file)
Check back later in the week for more photos from the past weekend,
including plenty of high school action.
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