The Augsburg-Wartburg match will begin at 7:30 p.m., with the three championship teams honored on the mat during intermission (after the fifth bout of the evening). 11 Michael Douglas (UWL) 5-2 (AUGSBURG 23-13), No. Continue reading Auggies take third at wrestling championships . As an Augsburg wrestler, Valek had a 136-25 career record, with 87 bonus-point victories (60 pins, six technical falls, 21 major decisions). The Official Website of Augsburg University Athletics. Mar 3-5, 8:00 PM UTC. Individually, Jared Massey placed first at 197 pounds. Feb 20, 2023 by Kyle Klingman. The Augsburg College wrestling program will celebrate the history of three championship teams with a reunion celebration on Friday, Feb. 4 as a part of the teams dual with Wartburg College, a highly anticipated meeting also known as the Battle of the Burgs.. Saint John's 5, Augsburg 4 (Jan. 27) In the quarter-finals, Massey earned a 12-1 major decision victory over seventh-seeded Rob Kramer (Coe). He was not seeded. Flodeen earned his first pin of the tournament at the 1:37 mark of the second period. In the second round, Valek defeated Kevin Donahue (Cornell) by a 17-2 technical fall (with near fall points awarded) at 7:00. Top-ranked Willy Holst competed for Augsburg at 149 and earned the top seed. 2 in the dual-meet rankings, rallied from a 13-10 deficit with wins in its final three bouts to top No. Paul Bjorkstrand, Tony Valek and Orlando Ponce all finished individual runners-up, marking the first since 1989 that a Division III team claimed the overall team title with no individual national titlists. February 19, 2023 NAPERVILLE, Ill. Qualifying eight wrestlers to the national championships with two regional champions, the Augsburg University women's wrestling team finished second at the National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships Region IV Regional on Sunday. 165 #10 Cooper Willis HWT #15 Damari Dancy The winner of the dual will own the Swens-Milboy trophy belt for the next year. Championship. The Auggies opened with three wins to take a 10-0 lead, but UW-La Crosse ranked wrestlers then scored four straight wins to take a 13-10 advantage. He also earned West Region Coach of the Year honors three times, and Upper Midwest Region Co-Coach of the Year honors three times. 141 #5 Sam Stuhl 2 Joseph Zitone J. Zitone. The Auggies semifinal victory over UW-La Crosse was a much tighter affair. Our No. 9 wrestlers going in the Semifinals! Year Champion Coach Points Runner-Up Points Host or Site; 2022: Wartburg: Eric Keller: 79: Wabash: 78: Cedar Rapids, Iowa: 2021: Canceled due to Covid-19-----2020 Wartburg (Iowa) won the national title with 147 points and three national champions, while Wisconsin-La Crosse was second with 100 points and two national titlists. Follow the Knights 12x National Champions. Results/schedules. The NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships for individuals and teams were first officially sponsored in 1974 and have since been held annually.[1]. Holst began the tournament with a 25-0 record against Division III opponents, with his sole loss coming to Division II opponent Esai Dominguez by a 4-2 decision. He was named NWCA Upper Midwest Region Co-Coach of the Year in 2019-20. Wartburg holds the DIII wrestling record with its 15 National Championships and Augsburg is second with 13. Scot Davis 74 Hall of Fame induction reported by Owatonna Peoples Press, article for the Owatonna (Minnesota) Peoples Press, Hibbing Daily Tribune touts Mike Fuenffinger as, Battle of the 'Burgs to include special wrestling reunion, Auggies take third at wrestling championships, George Dierberger Appointed Augsburg Universitys Howe Professor of Entrepreneurship, TPT Almanac Features Professor Michael Lansings History of Policing Project, Augsburg Named a Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars for 202223, NSF Grant Supports Mathematics and Data for Social Justice Summer Seminar, Registration Open for The Forum on Workplace Inclusions 35th Annual Conference, Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship. In the first round, all wrestlers at 125 pounds were given byes. "Brett's 12 minutes older, but Ethan was bigger right away,'' Melissa said. "She was still going to the kids' sports events.''. Feb 25, 2023 by Kyle Klingman. Augsburg and Wartburg have combined to win every NCAA Division III national title since 1995. Augsburg has won 10 NCAA Division III wrestling national titles in the last 17 years, a championship total doubling that of any other Division III school. Jason Adams finished third at 157 pounds, Seth Flodeen fourth at 125 pounds, Willy Holst at 149 pounds, Travis Lang at 133 pounds and Andy Witzel at HWT all finished fifth, and Zach Molitor sixth. Seventh-ranked Zach Molitor competed for Augsburg at 174 pounds and earned the sixth seed. 157 #4 Tyler Shilson Click here for thelive results. The Hibbing Daily Tribune wrote aboutMike Fuenffinger 15, a Hibbing nativewho recently won his second consecutive NCAA Division III national title while wrestling at Augsburg College. McKendree was able to secure three individual champions, Lizette. The Auggies fell behind on a technical fall in the first bout of the championship match against Johnson & Wales, but scored three straight wins, including a technical fall, to take the lead for good at 11-5 after four weight classes. Check out Auggies Wrestling at athletics.augsburg.edu and on Facebook and Twitter. In the semi-finals, Massey defeated Karl Voeck (UW Whitewater) by a 4-1 decision. FloWrestling is streaming the entire . This page was last edited on 26 March 2013, at 10:08. During his tenure as Augsburg's head coach (1981-84, 1987-present), Swenson has coached 149 All-Americans, 36 individual national champions, while his teams have won nine national titles (1991 . LOUISVILLE, Ky. For the eighth time in school history and third time in the last five tournaments, the Augsburg University mens wrestling team claimed the Division III title at the National Wrestling Coaches Association National Duals title, scoring wins over the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Johnson & Wales University on Saturday. In the third round of the wrestlebacks, Witzel defeated Luther's Allyn Plattner, 4-3 the first tie breaker. Witzel was one of only four wrestlers to earn a second round bye, after all heavyweight wrestlers recieved a first-round bye. 3/2 Augsburg 35, No. 14-ranked 197-pounder Parker Venz (SO, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) and No. -Ulaszek has a team-best 11 falls. Marty signed up Jeff to put in numerous hours. Augsburg, ranked No. 5 Sam Stuhl (AUG, 26-2) maj. dec. Sam Lorenz (UWL) 9-1 (AUGSBURG 10-0)149 No. 149 Cole Becker He was a two-time national runner-up at 149 pounds (2010, 2011) and placed third in 2012. Augsburg qualified 9 wrestlers for Nationals, every weight but 184 pounds. When they came to me in the summer of 2018 with this plan, I thought it was a great way to transition Tony to a head coaching role, as Jim still would be involved significantly as the associate head coach, Swenson said. I believe we have a group of student-athletes and coaches that are capable of accomplishing that goal in 2022-23.. Copyright 2023 Augsburg University | Minneapolis, MN | 612-330-1000, Auggies take third at wrestling championships. Flodeen began the tournament with a 20-5 record. She added national collegiate championships in 2021 and 2022, all at 109 pounds. Copyright 2023 Augsburg University. Xcel Energy Center. "They are rated 1 and 2 in the country. All 157 pound wrestlers recieved a bye in the first round. He replaced Grygelko as the head coach in 1981. or Eli Pannell. PAUL, Minn. - The Augsburg University men's and women's track and field teams competed at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Indoor Championships over the weekend, claiming two individual conference titles while placing 10 th (men) and ninth (women). MX23RW : Saturday, February 25 15:28:04| >> :600: . The Official Website of Augsburg University Athletics. 8 Tyler Goebel (UWL) dec. No. The Auggies ran their all-time record at the National Duals to 70-25 with their title-winning performance in Louisville. MINNEAPOLIS The 13-time NCAA Division III national champion Augsburg University men's wrestling team has announced organizational changes in its coaching staff, with three-time Auggie All-American Tony Valek '12 assuming solo head coaching duties, and longtime coach Jim Moulsoff assuming associate head coach duties. Our goal is to be the first team in NCAA Division III wrestling history to win the NCAA team championship and the NWCA academic team championship in the same year. If you want to catch some of your favorite Auggie athletes during the winter break, check out their upcoming schedules below (home games bold). 6-ranked 184-pounder Bentley Schwanebeck-Ostermann (JR, Loyal, Wis./Marshfield HS) scored his second win of the day with a 6-2 win over No. Wartburg owns the series lead at 23-16. In its 81 Division III National Duals meets, Augsburg has outscored its opponents by a 2,241-to-872 margin, an average score of 27.7 to 12.0. In the fifth-place match, Witzel faced Adam Sutter (Lakeland), whom he had beaten in the regional and prevailed again, this time by a 3-2 margin. Lange wins title for Auggies at Grand View, Young Auggies score 29-10 win at Minot State, Auggies dominate in win over Iowa Wesleyan, Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital. Dortmund's Marco Reus, left, and Hoffenheim's Ozan Kabak fight for the ball during a German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Borussia Dortmund in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday . 13 Ryan DeVivo (JWU) 6-2 (AUGSBURG 23-8)197 No. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Top-ranked Wartburg College qualified seven wrestlers to the NCAA Division III wrestling championships Saturday at an NCAA regional. 8-ranked Gabriel Leo. Click here for thefeature story on the rivalry. In the quarter-finals of the wrestle-backs, Flodeen pinned eighth-seeded Tyler Erdman (Elizabethtown). North Central and Augsburg University tied for third place at the championship. 125 #5 James Levy Note: Shaded scores = Closest margin of victory, 14 point in 1979 & widest margin of victory, 82 points in 2003. During his Augsburg tenure, the Auggies have never placed out of the top 10 nationally and have won the NCAA D-III National Championship three times (2010, 2015 & 2019). "They aren't just the Nos. Valek served as associate head coach under Moulsoff from 2015-19. Seventh-ranked Andy Witzel competed for Augsburg at heavyweight and earned the eighth seed. No. The team was coached by Max Mejia. During the three years between 1971-74 that Davis wrestled for Augsburg, the team had a record of49-4-1 and each year the team was ranked in the Top 10 teams nationally. I plan to be with the program as an associate head coach for many years into the future.. Minnesota Duluth 1, St. Including five other appearances in NWCA Division I National Duals competition prior to 2002, when the Division II, Division III and NAIA defending national champions were invited to participate, Augsburg is now 70-25. 3/2 Augsburg 23, No. 15 Seth Goetzinger (AUG, 18-4) 9-5 (UW-LA CROSSE 13-10)184 No. Molitor lost to second-seeded Rocky Mantella (Delaware Valley), 6-4. 1 Joziah Fry (JWU) tech. 15-ranked Seth Goetzinger (SO, Chatfield, Minn./Chatfield HS) scored an incredible defensive pin of JWUs top-ranked Mike Ross with 1:26 left in the third period, giving the Auggies a 20-8 advantage. There are "wrestling towns'' dotted across the state, because Great Grandpa Pete and his seven brothers from the farm in southern Minnesota started wrestling before World War II, and there have been Heimendingers grappling for the local high school since then. March 3, 2007. . Wartburg holds the DIII wrestling record with its 15 National Championships and Augsburg is second with 13. Davis went on to be the head wrestling coach for the Owatonna High School. In the fifth-place match, Holst scored an 8-0 major decision over Andrew Gardella (Case West Reserve). Wisconsin-La Crosse finished in third with 92.5 points, Luther (Iowa) finished fourth with 86.0 points and the College of New Jersey finished fifth with 46.5 . All sports are generational. Todd Hale recently wrote about the impressive wrestling and coaching career of 2015 Augsburg Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Scot Davis 74 in an article for the Owatonna (Minnesota) Peoples Press. He replaced Grygelko as the head coach in 1981. Im also excited about the continued expansion of Justin Koobs role within the program and the passion he brings to the sport of wrestling, Valek said. 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