Ohio State won the team title at the Big Ten Championships with 164.5 pointsEAST LANSING, Mich. -- Ohio State grasped the 2018 Big Ten Wrestling title by accumulating the most team points (164.5) at the conference championships in 16 years (Minnesota, 174.0 in 2002). The 10-man lineup captured four individual titles, seven finals appearances and nine top-3 showings. All 10 Buckeyes also earned automatic bids to the 2018 NCAA Championships (March 15-17) in Cleveland.
TOP-5 TEAMS
1st | Ohio State 164.5 points
2nd | Penn State 148.0
3rd | Michigan 118.0
4th | Iowa 90.5
5th | Nebraska 72.5
INDIVIDUAL BUCKEYE CHAMPIONS
Nathan Tomasello | 125 lbs
• One of just 16 wrestlers in the 106-year history of the Big Ten Championships to become a four-time champion)
• Avenged his lone loss of the season, defeating Iowa's Spencer Lee in the Semifinals
• NCAA Championships to be hosted at Quicken Loans in Cleveland, Ohio; less than 10 miles from the house he grew up in)
Joey McKenna | 141 lbs
• Third straight conference title after back-to-back Pac-12 trophies at Stanford in 2016 and 2017
• Did not surrender a single point during the entire tournament
• Closed it out with a 13-0 major decision in the Finals
Kollin Moore | 197 lbs
• Second consecutive Big Ten title, yet to lose a match in his career at the B1G Championships
Kyle Snyder | HWT
• Third straight Big Ten title
• Avenged his only collegiate loss in the last three years by topping Adam Coon in sudden victory period number two
• Weighed in 59 pounds less than Coon Sunday morning (283.6 lbs to 224.6 lbs)
BUCKEYES BITS
• Ohio State registered an overall record of 33-7 for the weekend
• Bonus points came in 14 bouts for Ohio State (four pins, three tech falls and six major decisions)
• This marks Ohio State's fifth Big Ten Wrestling title in school history (1923, 1951, 2015, 2017, 2018).
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