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Taylor Smith and Hunter Moore earn ODAC Wrestler of the Week honors

FOREST, Va. – The Roanoke College wrestling team swept the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Athlete of the Week awards for the week of December 22. Taylor Smith earned Lighter Weight Wrestler of the Week accolades while Hunter Moore took home Heavier Weight Wrestler of the Week honors.
Smith, a junior from Mifflintown, Pa., went 4-1 on the way to a second-place finish at 149 pounds at the 92nd Wilkes Open Championship Friday. Smith opened with a win by technical fall (18-3 – 2:26) over Brady Quinn from Misericordia University. He then earned a 12-9 decision over Sean O’Donnell, who was competing unattached out of Duke University. In the quarterfinals, Smith registered a win by technical fall (21-5 – 6:54) over Adonis Iparraguirre from Marymount University, who is the fourth-ranked competitor in Region 3. In the semifinals, he registered a 4-1 decision by sudden victory over teammate Jackson Rowling. In the final, Smith dropped a 6-0 decision to Easton Broxterman from the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School. Smith is currently ranked fifth in Division III and first in Region 4 at 149 pounds. Moore, a junior from Boulder City, Nev., posted a 5-0 week at 197 pounds overall that included a win in an ODAC dual with Randolph College and the weight class title at the 92nd Wilkes Open Championship. He opened his week with a tech fall (21-6 – 4:31) over Gabriel Wade in the Maroons 57-0 dual win over Randolph. Moore then went 4-0 to claim the 197-pound crown at Wilkes. … more at … https://roanokemaroons.com/news/2025/12/22/wrestling-taylor-smith-and-hunter-moore-earn-odac-wrestler-of-the-week-honors.aspx

December 27, 2025 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

NCAA D1 Wrestling Week 8 Roundup: 2nd Semester-ers

The world’s finest collection of noteworthy happenings from the 8th week of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 wrestling season.
Merry Christmas from the Caption Hotel in Nashville, where I am currently filling the lobby with the pitter-patter of little fingertips as I type out the latest roundup of noteworthy happenings from the 8th week of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 college wrestling season!
Week 7 Rankings | Week 8 Box Scores
Roundups: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7
I’m going to be totally real with everyone: It’s already 9:00pm on Sunday night, and I’m just now starting the Roundup. As such, it’s going to be a very truncated edition, due in part (although this is not an excuse!) to me leaving for Nashville on Friday and then being enmeshed with the Journeymen Collegiate Duals almost exclusively since then. 
So consider it your Christmas gift to me to not give me a hard time this week for leaving out some noteworthy happening that you, the wise and learned fan, thought should have been included. I’m sure I will agree with you that the omission was regrettable! 
I will make it up to you next Monday, when there will be literally no NCAA D1 wrestling to round up, with something special, the likes of which I will determine in the interim. 
With that housekeeping out of the way, let us turn our attention to…

The Dual of the Century of the Week

Cowboys Spoil the Huskers Record-Setting Crowd

Nebraska hosted North Carolina on Friday and were victorious to the tune of 27 to 9. Sunday, however, was a different story, as most of the 7,094 fans in the Devaney Center left disappointed due to Oklahoma State placing the proverbial lump coal in the stocking by beating the home team 22-12.  Still, that crowd, plus having a raised stage, and a national audience on the Big Ten Network, in addition to all the star power on the mat, is enough to earn the DotCotW this week. 
#2 Sergio Vega pinning #3 Brock Hardy in the first period set the Cowpokes up for the dub. Antrell Taylor, Chris Minto and Silas Allred all got top ten wins for Nebraska, but it would not enough, especially with Nebraska being without the services of AJ Ferrari. … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/15042666-ncaa-d1-wrestling-week-8-roundup-2nd-semester-ers

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NCAA DI Rankings Updated (12/23/2025)

After a record-setting Journeymen Collegiate Duals for Penn State, the Nittany Lions have once against put some distance between themselves and #2 Ohio State. Much of the online chatter around the team rankings focused on the fact that we were conservative regarding true freshman Marcus Blaze and PJ Duke. That was true; however, the main reason Penn State came back to the pack was because top-ranked Josh Barr missed the first month and a half of the season. Barr is back and takes his spot atop the 197 lb weight class. Blaze and Duke also get their first wins over returning All-Americans and have climbed into the top-five at their respective weights. … more at … https://intermatwrestle.com/articles.html/college/ncaa-di-rankings-updated-12232025-r100717/

December 27, 2025 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Men’s College Notebook: Penn State Snaps Dual-Meet Record, Ohio State and Oklahoma State notch top-10 wins

Penn State Breaks 74-Year-Old Record 

Not only did Penn State set a new DI team record, but they also did it in style. With a pair of wins at the Journeymen Collegiate Duals, the Nittany Lions won their 76th and 77th consecutive duals, breaking the record set by Oklahoma State in 1951.
In Nashville, Penn State shut out both North Dakota State (46-0) and then #23 Stanford (42-0). The last Penn State dual loss was January 31, 2020, at Iowa (19-17).
Nittany Lion Freshmen Shine 
There was a lot of discourse this week on social media about ranking true freshmen—predictions versus season results. One thing is for sure, a pair of freshmen in the Penn State starting lineup will be national title threats come March.
Both Marcus Blaze and PJ Duke earned top-10 wins in the Stanford dual. At 133 pounds, Blaze earned a fall over 2025 All-American #6 Tyler Knox (he was up 12-2 at the time). At 157 pounds, Duke downed 2024 All-American Daniel Cardenas, 5-2.
Blaze (10-0) and Duke (9-0) are both undefeated through the first couple of months in their collegiate careers.
Barr’s Season Debut 
Returning NCAA finalist Josh Barr made his season debut for Penn State at 197 pounds. He was a perfect 2-0 on the day, as both of his matches ended in the second period via technical fall. His first bout was a 19-3 tech over North Dakota State’s Devin Wasley. In his second bout of the day, Barr scored a dominant, 19-3, tech fall over #20 Angelo Posada of Stanford. In the bout, Barr reeled in five takedowns and a turn before ending the match early in the second period.
Ohio State Reigns Supreme 
For the fifth time this season, Ohio State racked up a top-10 win. Even more impressive, the Buckeyes 21-13 win over #3 Iowa State was their third top-5 victory in the first two months of the season. Ohio State once again dominated in the first half of the dual, winning four of the first five bouts to take a 15-3 lead midway through the dual after … more at … https://www.themat.com/news/2025/december/22/men-s-college-notebook-penn-state-snaps-dual-meet-record-ohio-state-and-oklahoma-state-notch-top-10-wins

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