UD Wrestling Senior Josh Terrell of Dubuque capped his college wrestling career as a four-time NCAA All-American posting a 4-0 record at the NCAA tourney over 3 returning NCAA All-Americans and one former NCAA Champion. Josh won what could be considered on of the toughest brackets at the NCAA tourney with 8 NCAA All-Americans and 2 NCAA Champions. Josh beat returning NCAA All-American Matt Magill of (New York University) in the first round 8-0, then beat returning NCAA All-American Corey Ferguson (UW-LaCrosse) 8-2 in the quarter finals, and returning NCAA Champion Luke Miller (Ohio Northern) 4-2 in the semi-finals. Josh finishes his career as a 4X NCAA Academic All-American and 4X NCAA All-American (a rare feat in NCAA college wrestling). In the NCAA finals match, Josh used a riding time point to win the NCAA championship at 165 pounds over returning NCAA All-American Nick LeClere of Coe College in the finals.
Sam Johnson finished his sophomore as an NCAA All-American posting wins over Alex Fleet of (Trine), Tony Willaert (St. Johns), and William Mulligan (Johnson and Wales) before losing a close 3-0 match to returning NCAA runner-up Ryan Malo of Williams College ad #7 NCAA Seeded Adam Latella of WI Whitewater 6-8. For the 3rd year in row the University of Dubuque wrestling program finished in the top 12 in the nation. UD finished in 11th place only a 1.5 point difference from Elmhurst to just fall short of a top ten NCAA team finish.
A list of the top 15 NCAAA team finishes were:
Team Scores
1. Wartburg 117,
2. Augsburg 88.5,
3. UW-La Crosse 76.5,
4. Ithaca 72.5,
5. Coe 67,
6. St. John’s (Minn.) 64.5,
7. Concordia-Moorhead 52.
8 (tie). Merchant Marine Academy & Mount Union 37,
10. Elmhurst 32,
****11. Dubuque 30.5, ****
12. Ohio Northern 29.5,
13. Centenary 24.5,
14. SUNY-Cortland 23,
15. York College (Pa.) 22.5
The UD Wrestling program sent three wrestlers to the NCAA tourney for the second year in a row and came home with 2 NCAA All-Americans. Ryan Warczynski (SO) fell short of becoming an NCAA All-American after falling to the #2 NCAA seed Orlando Ponce first round and then in the consolation wrestle backs 5-3 to Michael Letcher (Ohio Northern). Ryan is a 2X NCAA Qualifier for the Spartan wrestling program and brings a lot of NCAA tourney experience to the program for the next two years.
In addition the University of Dubuque Wrestling team placed 6th nationally putting them in the NCAA top 10 as an NCAA Academic Scholar Team for the third time for the program. They were 2nd in 2005 and 5th in 2006.
Top 20 NCAA Academic Scholar Team Finishes:
1) Johnson & Wales
2) Williams College
3) Stevens Institute of Technology
4) Weselyn University
5) Augsburg College
6 University of Dubuque ****
7) Thiel College
8) McDaniel College
9) Springfield College
10) Olivet College
11) Cenetery COllege
11) University of Wisconsin Osh Kosh
12) York College
13) Wilkes College
14) Mount Union
15) Rochester Institute of Technology
16) Heidelbeurg College
17) Roger Williams
18) New York University
19) Suny College of Oneonta
20) Wabash College
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