Takedown Report

Champions crowned in six collegiate divisions at NWCA National Dual Meet Championships

Louisville, Kentucky – Streaks were again the theme as six National Dual Meet champions were crowned on Saturday at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, at the 2020 U.S. Marine Corps NWCA Multi-Division National Dual Meet Championships presented by ARMS Software and Defense Soap hosted by NUWAY.
Grand View (Iowa) won a record ninth straight NAIA championship by shutting out Life (Ga.) 40-0 in the final and extending the school’s dual meet win streak to 85 in a row. St. Cloud State (Minn.) also continued its National Duals winning ways as the Huskies won their fourth straight Division II championship and extended their Division II-record win streak to 58 after edging McKendree (Ill.) 17-16. McKendree (Ill.) needed criteria to top Simon Fraser (B.C.) 20-19 to win the first NCAA Women’s Division championship. The Bearcats came away with a second straight championship after winning the Women’s Division last year.
Traditional powers Wartburg (Iowa) and Augsburg (Minn.) met for the 12^th time in the Division III final, but Wartburg came away with a 24-15 victory to win its 12^th championship overall. Nassau Community College (N.Y.) won its third NJCAA championship, but its first since 2005 with a 23-15 win over Rochester (Minn.). The eight-team NJCAA field featured eight of the nation’s top non-scholarship junior college wrestling teams.
Menlo (Calif.) was the lone school to win a championship for the first time. The Oaks toppled top-seeded Campbellsville (Ky.) 22-19 to win the NAIA Women’s Division. With over 70 schools sponsoring women’s wrestling, this was the first year the NWCA created separate NCAA and NAIA women’s national dual divisions.
Division II Men
Steve Costanzo’s Huskies won their fourth straight Division II National Dual championship and sixth overall, which is most of any team since the inception of the Division II tournament in 2002. After topping Central Oklahoma 22-12 in the semis, St. Cloud State split five of the 10 bouts with McKendree, but Garrett Aldrich’s fall at 141 pounds proved to be the difference maker in the final.  Rest of the story, results and brackets at http://www.nwcaonline.com/champions-crowned-in-six-collegiate-divisions-at-nwca-national-dual-meet-championships/

January 12, 2020 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized