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NCAA Division I News (2021) – # 29 {MAC}

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Most articles of Division I schools in the M.A.C. and a few stories with a more national interest in Division I schools and competition. Keep wrestling On!
Contact us at the Editor’s office at martinkfleming@gmail.com Blog # 2976 (9/04/21)
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1 } – Anything You Can Do …
Wrestling galvanizes deep bonds between Drew and Sarah Hildebrandt
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Drew Hildebrandt has heard the tongue-in-cheek question hundreds of times. Hey man, how come you’re not as good as your sister? A conundrum, of course. Hildebrandt’s response (paraphrasing because, well, mom is likely to read it): I’m better than you, and she’ll kick your behind too. And, he’s right. Of course he’s right. Hildebrandt recently became a two-time All-American wrestler at Central Michigan and to most, such an accomplished athlete would be the family torch-bearer when it comes to athletics. But the Hildebrandt family is somewhat atypical. There’s plenty of wrestling talent to go around. Just 11 days ago, Drew’s older sister, Sarah, finished first at the U.S. Olympic Trials to earn the right to represent the United States this summer in Tokyo. It’s the crowning jewel in an ever-burgeoning wrestling crown for the Hildebrandt family, which hails from Granger, Ind.
And for all the successes and, of course, occasional disappointments, there is no envy, no jealousy, no sibling rivalry. Instead, it’s all genuinely heart-felt positivity for the 23-year-old Drew and 27-year-old Sarah, two of the four Hildebrandt children born to Nancy and Chris Hildebrandt. “I think a lot of times we use each other as inspiration,” said Drew, who has the option because of COVID to return to CMU for one more year in 2021-22. “If you look at how we improved in our accomplishments side by side, people are like, ‘It seems like you guys are competing;’ no, it’s the opposite: I see something she does and I’m like, ‘That is super inspiring.’ … rest of story at https://cmuchippewas.com/news/2021/4/14/wrestling-hildebrandts-feature.aspx?mc_cid=41e05ef71b&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

2 } – 2020-21 Wrestling Academic All-MAC Team Announced 
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference announced Monday the 2020-21 Wrestling Academic All-MAC Team. A total of 84 student-athletes were named to this year’s squad.
Ohio led the way with 11 student-athletes on this year’s squad. Kent State followed with a total of 10 honorees, while Northern Illinois and Cleveland State had nine selections each. 
The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport.
2020-21 MAC Wrestling Academic All-MAC Team
Alex Carida, Bloomsburg, Jr., Supply Chain Management, 3.65 GPA
Christian Gannone, Bloomsburg, So., Media and Journalism, 3.48 GPA
Bronson Garber, Bloomsburg, R-Fr., Supply Chain Management, 3.43 GPA … rest of story at https://getsomemaction.com/news/2021/4/19/2020-21-wrestling-academic-all-mac-team-announced.aspx?mc_cid=5c73249ed8&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

3 } – Cleveland State Wrestling Recruiting Class Headlined by Senior National Champion, State Champion & Nationally Ranked Wrestler
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Head coach Josh Moore of the Cleveland State University wrestling team announced Friday that 11 student-athletes have formally committed to continue their careers with the Vikings.
Daniel Adams (Louisville High School), Ben Aranda (DeKalb High School), Mason Cover (Bay High School), Dylan Dodson (Licking Valley High School), Rager Els (Massillon High School), Shane Heil (Berea-Midpark High School), Joey Lyons (Wooster High School), Hunter Olson (St. Vincent St. Mary’s), Austin Shepard (Norwayne High School), Douglas Terry (Granville High School) and Canyon Wells (Copley High School) have all committed to the program this spring and will join CSU for the 2021-22 academic year.
Adams capped off a successful high school career with a third place showing at the 2021 OHSAA championships, notching his top-three finish at 133 pounds. He was also part of the Louisville high school team that captured the 2021 Division II Dual Meet State Championship. He owns 124 career wins and projects at 125/133 pounds for the Vikings. Aranda placed fourth at the 2020 Illinois state championships – his most recent state championship performance. This season, he will be competing for a state championship on June 26 through IWCOA. He is currently ranked 10th nationally at 113 pounds by Flo Wrestling, and has had a number of impressive performances on the national stage. Most recently he was the 2021 Northern Plains Regional champion, while he was a two-time place winner at Fargo, including a second-place showing in 2019. He took third in FloNationals and fourth in USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals. Aranda owns over 100 career high school wins and projects at 125 pounds for the Vikings. Cover went 48-4 on the season and placed eighth at the OHSAA championships at 220 pounds, while he won the NHSCA Senior National Championships at the same weight. … rest of story at https://csuvikings.prestosports.com/sports/m-wrestl/2020-21/releases/20210611fw5uq7?mc_cid=84503a987c&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

4 } – Bulls Announce 2021-22 Wrestling Schedule
BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo wrestling team announced its schedule for the upcoming 2021-22 campaign and it features a number of prominent programs, including two Big Ten schools and one from the ACC. The season starts on November 1 when the Bulls travel to Wisconsin. It will be UB’s third meeting with the Badgers – the most recent coming in 2019. After competing in the Clarion Open on November 7, the Bulls will host Pittsburgh in their home opener on November 12. It will be Pitt’s first trip to Alumni Arena since 1990. UB will host Michigan on November 21. It will be the fourth meeting between the programs and the first time in 10 years the Bulls will host the Wolverines. After traveling across state to take on Binghamton on November 28, the Bulls return home to host North Dakota State on December 11. … rest of story at https://ubbulls.com/news/2021/7/29/bulls-announce-2021-22-wrestling-schedule.aspx?mc_cid=e223f59fcd&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

5 } – CMU athletics budget claim does not add up
In May of 2020, Central Michigan University eliminated its men’s track & field program citing an annual savings of $628,798 to offset financial challenges resulting from the pandemic (CMU Press Release). A recent case study presented at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference by Andy Schwarz, Chief Innovation Officer at the Professional Collegiate League and partner at the Economic Consulting Firm OSKR, provides a look at the misleading effects of collegiate athletics accounting procedures. These harmful procedures lead to schools like CMU cutting programs because they believe, incorrectly, the programs are losing significant money. Though common at many universities, Schwarz singles out Central Michigan as a school facing chronic under-enrollment to reinforce his point. The Michigan Association of State Universities 2020 enrollment reports, which shows CMU’s declining enrollment trends, to include its minority populations, supports this position. In 2020, 29 DI schools cancelled 85 sports (though some were reinstated). Schwarz’s claim, for chronically under-enrolled schools like CMU, is these cuts can be counterproductive, and will actually lower the schools’ revenue. … rest of story at https://www.themorningsun.com/2021/04/19/cmu-athletics-budget-claim-does-not-add-up/

6 } – Fort Dorchester wrestler Chandler Amaker signs with Central Michigan
Chandler Amaker will join the Central Michigan University wrestling program for the upcoming school year. Amaker, a home-schooled student who wrestled for Fort Dorchester, signed a national letter of intent with Central Michigan on May 27. As a two-time state champion and honors graduate with a 3.9 GPA, Amaker had multiple colleges interested in him. He has a great uncle who coaches at Central Michigan. “I just love the way those guys wrestle up there,” Amaker said. “It’s a different style of wrestling. It looks like I might redshirt my freshman year because that would give me a good shot at starting the next four years, but I’m anxious to get there and start training with those guys and getting used to their caliber of wrestling.”
Fort Dorchester coach Andrew Young, who earned All-American honors as a Newberry College wrestler, said Central Michigan will be a good place for Amaker to continue developing. “With any sport when you pick a college you need a good fit, somewhere you can grow as an athlete and have great teammates,” Young said. “I feel he will be around like-minded teammates there and they have had a lot of success. I think … rest of story at https://www.postandcourier.com/journal-scene/sports/prep_sports/amaker-signs-with-central-michigan-wrestling/article_6388f63a-c648-11eb-ae93-670ca9505200.html?mc_cid=0fb3325f19&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

7 } – {Ohio Univ.} Tommy Hoskins is Transferring from Oklahoma
Courtney Woods from Intermat announced on Tuesday via Twitter that Tommy Hoskins will be transferring back to his home state and Ohio University. Hoskins got some starting time for the Sooners the past few seasons at 125, but was not the postseason starter as Mason Naifeh got the nod at the Big 12 tournament.
… rest of story at https://owrestle.com/tommy-hoskins-transferring-from-oklahoma/

8 } – These 3 Central Michigan Seniors are Returning for Another Year
Chippewa fans have been waiting in anticipation for three seniors to announce whether they would return for another year of eligibility. The patience paid off in a good way, as the official Central Michigan Twitter account announced on Friday that all three seniors will return for “one more go.” They may have missed the deadline to make Fanco’s list of Most Bomb Announcements for Seniors Returning in 2022, but the eye-catching graphics likely would have made the top 10. … rest of story at https://www.fancowrestling.com/these-3-central-michigan-seniors-are-returning-for-another-year/?mc_cid=ce44cea415&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

9} – How colleges got student athletes back on the field during a pandemic
How central Ohio universities got student athletes back on the playing field during Covid-19.
In March 2020, the men’s and women’s swim and dive teams at Denison University were just days away from competing for a title at the NCAA championships. At Otterbein University, Drew Kasper, the No. 1 ranked Division III wrestler in the country in his weight class, was preparing to compete for a national championship, a big deal for a program that at the time was just five years old. And at Ohio Wesleyan University, the men’s lacrosse team was en route to Pikesville, Maryland, to face off against the Mustangs from Stevenson University.
The meet, the match and the game never took place because of Covid-19.
While 2020 was mostly a lost year for sports at those Division III schools, their athletic departments stayed active to get protocols in place so students could compete again when it was considered safe. Today, winter sports—basketball, swimming and diving, track and field and wrestling—are up and running at a smaller scale even though the NCAA has called off championships. Here’s how the schools navigated the pandemic to make sports safe for their students. … rest of story at https://www.columbusceo.com/story/business/briefs/2021/03/02/ohio-colleges-and-universities-pushed-ahead-sports-and-athletics-despite-pandemic/6838078002/?mc_cid=bd28fec561&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

10 } – FERRARI IS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, SENTES ROOKIE COACH OF YEAR AS AMATEUR WRESTLING NEWS RELEASES ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
How appropriate that in a season peppered with so many firsts, our Rookie of the Year underwent on an individual level a multitude of firsts himself, many of them because he was a true freshman with no college experience. All 10 post title-bout interviews of this year’s NCAA champions can be viewed on YouTube. Guess who has the most views? A.J. Ferrari, by a lot. His has close to 50K hits already. Even the Spencer Lee and Gable Steveson interviews don’t come close to the amount of views Ferrari has. But then, nobody in college wrestling is as entertaining off the mat as Oklahoma State’s freshman star. “He talks a big game and he shows a big game,” said Cowboy head coach John Smith about his most recent NCAA champ.
Smith is correct. Ferrari’s entertaining on the mat, too. This past March, he became Oklahoma State’s first NCAA champion since Dean Heil won his second title in 2017. Ferrari is just the third true freshman in Oklahoma State history to win an NCAA title. The other two were Pat Smith (1990) and Dick Hutton (1947), though Hutton’s was post-WWII and he was 23 at the time. A.J. was a high school senior 11 months ago.
What a feat winning a DI national title is for a teenager, though there are a few folks who probably weren’t surprised with Ferrari’s accomplishment. His father Albert, and A.J. himself. Also Cowboy assistant coach Chris Perry. “He’s just in my ear, you know, always telling me ‘you’re gonna do this,’” said Ferrari about Perry. Ferrari won a pair of Texas state titles competing for coach Jerry Best at Allen High School, which is where Bo Nickal wrestled before heading to Penn State. Ferrari later competed in New Jersey, splitting his final two high school years between Bergen Catholic and Blair Academy. He was a Walsh Jesuit Ironman champ while a sophomore at Allen High. … rest of story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2021/May/04/AWN-Rookie-of-Year-awards?mc_cid=f2268a753e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

And Richmond’s Turley brothers both became college wrestling All-Americans this year, but took very different paths
That Alex and Jackson Turley became college wrestling All-Americans isn’t much of a surprise. That they accomplished that feat in the same year is beyond eye-opening, when you consider Alex is six years older than his little brother. Alex set the record for career wins and victories in a season at Thomas Dale High School, finishing fourth and fifth in the state in 2011 and 2012. Jackson got to high school four years later and won four straight state titles at St. Christopher’s. In the years in between, Alex was out of wrestling, taking classes at William & Mary — where he considered walking onto the football team — and enrolling at a few community colleges. He graduated from John Tyler Community College in 2019, the same year Jackson joined Rutgers as a Division I wrestler. In the offseason, during the pandemic, Jackson worked out and wrestled with his older brother, aiming to stay sharp for his return to Rutgers. “We are some competitive dudes,” Jackson said. “We don’t like to be taken down, we don’t like to be put on each other’s backs. … rest of story at https://richmond.com/sports/college/richmonds-turley-brothers-both-became-college-wrestling-all-americans-this-year-but-took-very-different/article_067d4a32-3a96-5b09-ae23-8d9a31ad6cfd.html?mc_cid=44df579129&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

11 } – Robinson Solidifies Personal Identity After Unsteady Roots are Uncovered
Unlike many other sports, wrestling provides an equal opportunity to all youth, high school, collegiate, and elite-level athletes regardless of their age, size, gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, familial structure, and various other factors. Those factors alone do not define an individual’s success. What defines an individual’s success in wrestling is a combination of speed, agility, technical skill, and unmatched physical and mental toughness, all of which are met by an intrinsic motivation within an individual.
Every time an individual steps out onto the mat, they carry with them invisible “baggage.” Although it may not be seen by spectators, coaches, teammates, or opponents, that baggage still contains weight. For many individuals, that weight is significantly heavier than their opponents, affecting their identity on and off the mat. Ideally, that individual is hoping for an opportunity to successfully reach their final destination; obtaining the chance to empty their baggage by reducing the weight those constraints once held on their life.
Marcus Robinson, a redshirt sophomore at Cleveland State University, is no stranger to grappling with life’s challenges and finding his identity in and through wrestling. Robinson was first introduced to the sport by his older cousin and friend; both of whom had a huge influence on him. They wrestled at a small club located in his hometown of Arkansas City, Kansas. Robinson said, “I wasn’t very good at wrestling growing up, but I loved to train, and I wanted to see how far I could push myself.” After years of focused training and pushing his body to unimaginable limits, Robinson told his dad, “I’m going to be the next four-time state champ, just watch.” In response, his dad replied, “Son, let’s just focus on making varsity first.” After Robinson’s four years at Arkansas City High School, he accomplished that once seemingly unattainable feat by becoming a four-time Kansas state champion, winning each title in a different weight class. 
… rest of story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/24748?mc_cid=9d57322631&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

12 } – Over The Edge: Is College Wrestling Ready For A Step-Out Point?
The NCAA Championships stirred up another round of debate about whether college wrestling should ditch its edge rules and adopt a step-out point. From his chair in the Arizona State corner, Zeke Jones saw an aggressive wrestler working to get to his attacks against a backpedaling opponent.  On the Wyoming side, Mark Branch viewed it as a guy getting shoved out of bounds by an adept pummeler whose primary intention was to plow through his adversary for stalling calls.  Jones and Branch, of course, both had a stake in the outcome of the NCAA second-round heavyweight bout between Arizona State’s Cohlton Schultz and Wyoming’s Brian Andrews, so they’re not exactly impartial observers in this instance. But their highly-trained wrestling eyes saw the same action and arrived at different conclusions, which is one of the main issues with the sport’s polarizing edge-of-the-mat, neutral-position stalling rules.  The NCAA Championships stirred up another round of debate about whether college wrestling should ditch its edge rules and follow the Olympic disciplines by adopting a pure step-out point. 
Step-out advocates argue that the current rules are too subjective and there’s little consistency from one call to the next, let alone from one official to another. … rest of story at https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6943217-over-the-edge-is-college-wrestling-ready-for-a-step-out-point?mc_cid=a2abe03ca2&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

And College wrestling: Panel approves rules changes for correcting in-match timing errors
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Tuesday approved wrestling rules changes that allow the referee to correct timing errors when that referee has reasonable knowledge of the correction that needs to be made.   The NCAA Wrestling Committee proposed that competition occurring when the clock is not running is not subject to the dead time rule. The rules change also provides parameters for referees to use when determining the amount of time to add or subtract from the score clock.

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