Hofstra finished with a school-record 52.5 points, eclipsing the previous mark of 36.5 set in 2005. Oklahoma State captured its fourth consecutive national championship and its 34th wrestling title overall, finishing with 122.5 points. Minnesota was second with 84 points and host Oklahoma was third with 80.5. Iowa (70) and Cornell (62) completed the top five.The Pride were just one point from being in a three-way tie for ninth with Lehigh and Penn State. The three All-Americans are also a school-record topping the previous mark of two set in 2000, 2001 and 2003.
Senior Mike Patrovich earned his first All-America honor on Friday by advancing to the championship semifinals before losing to eventual national champion Ben Askren from Missouri. In the consolation semifinals Patrovich defeated Penn's Matt Herrington 9-4 before dropping an 11-2 decision to Iowa's third-seeded Mark Perry in the third place match. He finishes the season with a 34-5 record.
Senior Jon Masa, who became Hofstra's first three-time All-American on Friday, lost by fall to Oklahoma's fourth-seeded Matt Storniolo in the consolation semifinals Saturday before posting a major decision win over Michigan's Eric Tannenbaum 9-0 in the fifth-place match. Masa, who went 5-2 in the Championships, ends his season with a 35-7 record and his Hofstra career with a 126-32 mark.
Junior Chris Weidman may have been the biggest surprise of the NCAA Championships, defeating top-seeded Wynn Michelak from Central Michigan and eighth-seeded Ryan Bader from Arizona State in the championship bracket before losing to eventual national champion Jake Rosholt from Oklahoma State in the semifinals. Saturday morning, Weidman suffered a hip injury in his consolation semifinal match against Nebraska's third-seeded B.J. Padden and took a medical default at the 5:04 mark of the match. The injury prevented him from coming out for the fifth place match against Oklahoma's fifth-seeded Joel Flaggert. Weidman ends his season with an 18-13 record.
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