Akron’s Ken Dies receives honor from National Wrestling Hall of Fame
By Nate Ulrich, Akron Beacon Journal
When Ken Dies opened a letter at his Highland Square home on June 25, the message caused his wife, Carol, to shed tears of joy.
Dies learned he will have a place in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The letter from the Hall of Fame’s executive director, Lee Roy Smith, states the hall’s Ohio chapter nominated Dies to receive the Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award, and the national HOF’s board selected him for the honor. “It’s just overwhelming,” Dies told the Beacon Journal by phone. “I did not expect this.” More on the Dies family: Akron Public Schools gives wrestling enthusiasts proper recognition
An Akron native, Dies is the face of a wrestling royal family Northeast Ohio has known for decades.
The Dies family started running high school and youth tournaments in the late 1970s. After Bill Dies died in 1987, Ken Dies inherited his father’s role as tournament director. His involvement with Ohio Youth Wrestling, the Walsh Jesuit Ironman tournament and the Bill Dies Memorial Wrestling Tournament held at Firestone CLC made him a popular figure in the sport throughout the state.
Now Dies, 81, is being honored at the national level. “My one brother, Steve, he’s a nut,” Dies said with a laugh. “He’s putting me in the same category as Dan Gable. He said, ‘You’re in the same hall of fame as Dan Gable.'” … more at … https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4075349339325-akron-s-ken-dies-receives-honor-from-national-wrestling-hall-of-fame?_f=app_share&pd=0IMTzHkC&lang=en_US&send_time=1750951613&s=i16&trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A0%2C%22cv%22%3A%2225.25.0.37%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D&sep=ns_foryou_rank_exp_25q2-v7%2Cns_foryou_blend_exp_25q2-v7%2Cns_foryou_recall_exp_25q3-v4%2Cns_foryou_model_exp_25q2_v2-v8
Mike Finn named WIN’s Journalist of the Year
By Tristan Warner
Mike Finn’s journalism career spanned 47 years, with over 21 of those years spent as editor of WIN Magazine.
Finn, who dabbled in the sport of wrestling at Columbus High School in Waterloo, Iowa, admittedly, never found success on the mat, but he fell in love with what wrestling taught him. It challenged him as an individual. He took those life lessons and applied them to his professional career, chasing down stories and truth just as wrestlers chase down takedowns and pins.
Now, after retiring from his post in early February, Finn has been recognized as WIN’s 2024-25 Journalist of the Year. “It is kind, and I am honored,” Finn said. “I would like to start by thanking Mike Chapman, the creator of WIN Magazine. Dan Gable, who was a hero to me as a kid, I got to know professionally, spending two hours a month talking about the sport and life.
“Thanks to Bryan Van Kley, who gave me some independence to do what I felt needed to be done, and so many coaches, athletes, and writers who would help me produce WIN Magazine. You need these people. You cannot do it by yourself.”
WIN publisher Bryan Van Kley said, “We’re excited to name Mike as this year’s Journalist of the Year Award winner, as he was a true professional journalist. He really understood the power of a great story, is a really good writer, and worked extremely hard to promote the sport by getting the most interesting stories of wrestling’s athletes and coaches out to the general public.”
Finn took a lot of pride in his role as WIN editor, and he insisted his primary goal was being able to share people’s stories. He believes everyone has a unique one to tell. He never shied away from challenging athletes and coaches with tough questions that drilled down deeper than the surface level. “Wrestlers and coaches will be candid, but they need to be challenged a little bit more,” Finn explained. “Everybody out there who has an opinion now thinks they’re a journalist. A journalist tries to be fair and look at all angles. An opinion writer is different.
“Coaches and athletes hear more from the opinion makers than the journalists asking fair questions. Journalists have got to come together and build up more and be willing to take risks. If someone is going to subscribe and pay for a publication, they want quality. They want to find the story.”
Finn recalls an era where, not just in wrestling but across the board, athletic programs, coaches and the athletes themselves needed journalists to produce content to market and promote them. The new era of technology, in which programs have the capability to do a great deal of promoting themselves, Finn said, has presented challenges for the old-school journalist. “In the newspaper era, journalism challenged people with stories. … more at … https://www.win-magazine.com/2025/06/06/mike-finn-named-wins-journalist-of-the-year/
Nebraska’s Mark Manning named WIN’s Mike Chapman Impact Award recipient
By Tristan Warner
hen Mark Manning was asked how it felt to be the recipient of WIN’s 2025 Mike Chapman Impact Award, his instinctive reaction was to immediately begin deflecting all credit and attributing his program’s success to everyone other than himself. “It is really nice recognition for my staff, the team, just all the guys that make it happen,” Manning said. “Even though I am the recipient, I feel really blessed and thankful for all the people that invest in our program.
“It starts with the commitment that our guys have to being their very best. I have a great staff around me. (Bryan) Snyder, Tervel (Dlagnev), James (Green), our trainer, our strength coach; it is such a united group.”
In addition to earning his 200th dual-meet victory, Manning’s 2024-25 Huskers claimed a second-place finish at the NCAA Championships after accumulating 117 team points, eight All-Americans and two national champions in Ridge Lovett and Antrell Taylor. Brock Hardy also reached the finals, giving the Huskers three back-to-back-to-back NCAA finalists. The historic finish gave Nebraska two NCAA champions for the first time since 1984, when Jim and Bill Scherr won consecutive titles at 177 and 190, respectively.
As a result, Manning was named the 2025 NWCA NCAA Tournament Coach of the Year. Nebraska also put together an 11-3 dual meet record with a 6-2 mark in Big Ten action this season, which solidified them as a Top-5 program in WIN’s final Top-20 Dual-Team Rankings.
Notably, of the Huskers’ eight AAs, all but one outperformed his seed, with No. 17 Jacob Van Dee, No. 12 Christopher Minto, another No. 12 in Silas Allred, and No. 20 Camden McDanel all landing on the podium.
But as high achieving as Manning’s squad has been on the mats, his impact is more far-reaching for everyone involved in the Husker wrestling program while also sending ripples throughout the collegiate wrestling landscape.
Awarded annually since 1995, in 2008, WIN started to name its Impact Award after WIN founder Mike Chapman, who actually shared the award in 1999 with his wife Bev. Mike has written over 500 columns on wrestling and several books on the sport. “In his long career, Mark has earned many accolades as a competitor, coach and leader, at all levels, and we are delighted to add his name to the long list of Impact winners,” Chapman commented. “This past season marks the high point of a tremendous coaching career and showed the entire wrestling community what dedication and determination are all about.”
Manning always makes it a point of emphasis to take wrestling-related questions and scale his answers to address facets of life that transcend the sport. “Our top goal is to create a high-character person,” Manning said. “We do a lot of investing in developing our student-athletes and our wrestlers from their character standpoint. Your word is important. How you approach your work is important. If you want to max out as a person, you have to develop physically, mentally and spiritually.
“We equip them with a elite-level mindset and an approach to how you treat people. Our team is very respectful to our opponents, they know how to handle themselves and represent the University of Nebraska in a first-class manner. They want to imitate greatness.”
In a new era of NIL deals and seemingly never-ending transfer portal movers and shakers, it is worth noting that just one of Nebraska’s 10 starters from the 2024-25 season, All-American Caleb Smith, did not begin his career in Lincoln (App State).
The loyalty and buy-in from Nebraska’s student-athletes are evident, and Manning believes it starts with the recruiting process that promises to deliver a life-long investment. “We have developed a reputation that we are going to do things the right way,” Manning said. “It is a lifetime commitment. It is not us trying to convince the right kids to come here; it is them choosing us because they know they can do it here. We attract people who want that next level experience.
With the Nebraska Wrestling Training Center already famous for producing the likes of seven-time World and Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs … more at … https://www.win-magazine.com/2025/05/31/nebraskas-mark-manning-named-wins-mike-chapman-impact-award-recipient/
Northern Iowa’s Doug Schwab named WIN’s Dan Gable Coach of the Year
By Tristan Warner
Since 1997, WIN has annually named its Coach of the Year by Dan Gable.
Gable is arguably the greatest coach the sport has ever produced. As a wrestler, the native of Waterloo compiled a 118-1 record and won two NCAA titles (1969 and 1970) before capturing the 1972 Olympic gold medal in freestyle. As a coach, he led the Iowa program for 21 years (1977-97) and produced 15 team championship, 45 individual titlists and 144 All-Americans.
The 2025 Dan Gable Coach of the Year is Northern Iowa’s Doug Schwab, who is making his mark and impacting the lives of student-athletes in Cedar Falls, just eight miles down the road from Gable’s hometown. “Obviously it is a great honor,” Schwab stated. “I appreciate the recognition. I got to be coached by Gable and an award named after him is pretty cool. I am pretty proud of that.
“People have to understand it is beyond you as the head coach. It is the whole staff. I have a high level of responsibility in being the guy leading the charge, but it doesn’t happen without the assistants and the support staff following up behind you and doing so much of the work.”
The 2024-25 season was a historic one for Schwab’s program, as the Panthers’ ninth-place finish at the 2025 NCAA DI Championships in Philadelphia was the highest since 1962. Parker Keckeisen also became the first-ever five-time All-American in UNI history, registering a runner-up finish at 184 pounds.
Named the 2025 NWCA National Coach of the Year, Schwab’s UNI squad was just one of four schools (Penn State, Cornell and Ohio State) to qualify all 10 wrestlers for the national tournament, a feat which had not occurred at UNI since 1986. Northern Iowa’s other All-American, Cael Happel, registered a fifth-place finish at 141 pounds, the highest finish for a Panther at the weight class since Dylan Long reached the finals in 2003.
The Big 12 runner-up Panthers, who were narrowly edged by Oklahoma State in the tournament’s final match, secured the program’s best Big 12 finish with three conference champions and 149.5 team points. The Panthers’ dual-meet season was equally impressive, as the squad posted a 14-1 record with a 7-1 mark in Big 12 action, only falling to Oklahoma State, 22-14. UNI defeated national contender Nebraska, ranked fourth at the time, 24-9, on Jan. 5 and toppled storied Big 12-rival Iowa State, ranked No. 14 at the time, … more at … https://www.win-magazine.com/2025/05/30/northern-iowas-doug-schwab-named-wins-dan-gable-coach-of-the-year/
Iowa leads Division I men’s wrestling in home attendance for 18th straight season
New Brighton, Minnesota – The University of Iowa once again led the nation in NCAA Division I men’s wrestling attendance, averaging 13,640 fans per dual across seven home meets, as the National Wrestling Media Association released its annual attendance report on Thursday.
Iowa drew a capacity crowd of 14,897 twice last season, filling Carver-Hawkeye Arena for duals against rivals Iowa State and Oklahoma State.
Penn State ranked second, drawing an average of 9,007 fans, including a season-high 15,998 for its dual with Iowa. That figure ties the indoor attendance record Penn State set in 2018 and matched in 2023 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Oklahoma State moved up one spot from last season to finish third with an average of 7,597, highlighted by a crowd of 10,740 against Missouri. The David Taylor effect was clearly evident, as this marked the program’s highest home attendance average at Gallagher-Iba Arena since record-keeping began in 2002. The previous high average was in 2019 (5,226.6).
There were 10 duals with over 10,000 fans nationwide, marking the first time in recorded history there were at least 10 duals surpassing five figures. Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena hosted seven duals surpassing 10,000, while Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center hosted two and Oklahoma State’s Gallagher-Iba Arena had one. The previous high for most duals with over 10,000 fans in a season is nine, set in 2023 and tied in 2024.
Of the 127 Division I men’s duals with over 10,000 fans historically, more than half (67) have come in the last 12 college wrestling seasons. There were no attendance records kept for the 2020-21 season.
Iowa State, which ranked third last season, slid to fourth but still drew over 33,000 total fans. The Cyclones averaged 5,533.5, with a high of 9,470 coming against Oklahoma in a co-hosted event with the Iowa State gymnastics team at Hilton Coliseum. Rutgers continued its reputation for lively home duals, jumping from ninth to fifth with an average of 4,228, including 8,097 fans for its home dual against Penn State.
The closure of historic West Gym forced Northern Iowa to move its home duals to the McLeod Center, resulting in an attendance surge that propelled the Panthers into the top 10. UNI leaped from 12th to sixth with a school-record average of 4,222. Ohio State improved slightly from eighth to seventh, averaging 3,975 at the Covelli Center. Nebraska climbed from 11th to eighth, averaging 3,817.5, with a high of 6,661 at the Devaney Center against Iowa.
Note : N.C. State placed 13th with a 2,530 average and North Carolina Univ. placed 21st with an average attendance of 1,652 which is up from being listed 41st the year before. … more at … https://www.nationalwrestlingmedia.com/2025/05/iowa-leads-division-i-mens-wrestling-in-home-attendance-for-18th-straight-season/
T.J. Jaworsky Looks Back At His Storied Career
he three-time NCAA champ will receive a big honor this weekend.
By: Steve Kirschner
Note: T.J. Jaworsky will be inducted into the North Carolina Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame on Sunday May 18.
A three-time NCAA champion in perhaps the most physically grueling individual sport there is. Most Outstanding Wrestler in the NCAA Tournament. National Wrestler of the Year. Undefeated senior season.
Given that lofty list of accomplishments, it is undeniably fair to include T.J. Jaworsky, even 30 years after his final collegiate match, as one of the finest to ever compete in any sport at the University of North Carolina.
The state of Oklahoma doesn’t have much of a pipeline to the Tar Heel State and Carolina athletics, but legendary former wrestling coach Bill Lam, basketball standouts Steve Hale and Brady Manek, two-time national champion assistant basketball coach Joe Holladay and Jaworsky, one of the most successful college wrestlers ever, have made the connection rich in history.
Jaworsky began wrestling at age 5 in Enid, moved to Edmond in the sixth grade, won four state high school titles and eventually competed for two years (one as a red-shirt) at Oklahoma State, one of the sport’s historic programs. But Jaworsky needed a change after suffering an upset loss in the 1992 NCAA Tournament and looked east to find a program where he could fulfill his dream of becoming a multi-time national champion.
“I called NC State but Coach (Bob) Guzzo said he had the ACC champion at my weight coming back, Duke said I was too much of a wrestler for them, and everyone in Oklahoma knows about Coach Lam, so Carolina was a great situation for me,” says Jaworsky, who lives in California now, where he co-owns a stone quarry with his step-father.
“In Oklahoma, wrestling is like basketball is in North Carolina. It’s a big sport. Coach Lam’s reputation followed him to UNC, he had a good recruiting class and I had weekly and monthly goals to win championships. He thought those were lofty goals, and I said, ‘Exactly, that’s what I want to do.'”
Jaworsky not only met those goals, but he also likely exceeded them, winning three ACC championships, earning two ACC Tournament MVPs and a spot on the ACC’s 50th Anniversary team, leading Carolina to a pair of top-10 finishes in the NCAA Championships (sixth in 1994 and eighth in 1995) and winning 110 of 115 matches as a Tar Heel.
Three decades later, Jaworsky remains Carolina’s all-time leader in career winning percentage (.957) and wins by fall (50), single-season pins (24) and the single-season record for most wins in a perfect season (38-0-0 in 1994-95).
For those achievements and others, Jaworsky is being inducted in the North Carolina chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. “T.J. had the three characteristics of what it takes to be a champion – heart, talent and work ethic, with heart being the most important,” says Lam. “T.J. had the most unbelievably competitive heart, … more at … https://goheels.com/news/2025/5/16/wrestling-t-j-jaworsky-looks-back-at-his-storied-career
Olympic medalist Dake leads strong Senior World Team Trials field in men’s freestyle
This weekend, 59 elite athletes will battle in the men’s freestyle division at the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament being held at Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center in Louisville, Ky., May 16-17.
Multiple Olympians, World medalists, Senior World Team members, age-group standouts, college national champions and top high school prospects are in the fold with sights set on securing one of the eight remaining spots at Final X.
Online registration is open through May 15, leaving the door open for more athletes to enter last minute. However, the registration deadline to be eligible for tournament seeding was last Friday, making it unlikely many more entries come in.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
Eight brackets will be contested in the men’s freestyle division at the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament. Each champion in Louisville will face the 2025 U.S. Open champion in a best-of-three series at Final X to determine the Team USA representative at the 2025 Senior World Championships. Final X will take place on June 14 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
There are two Final X matchups already determined in men’s freestyle, 57 kg and 61 kg, which removes those weight classes from the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament field.
ELIGIBLE ATHLETES
Athletes must qualify to enter the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament field. To review the Senior World Team selection process in each discipline, including Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament qualification criteria, visit the Team Selection Criteria page.
A list of qualified athletes for Louisville post-U.S. Open is available on themat.com. A complete list of entries as of May 13 is available below.
13 WRESTLERS TO WATCH
Kyle Dake headlines the group at 86 kg. The two-time Olympic bronze medalist shifted to a new weight class in late April at the U.S. Open. Dake, a four-time Senior World champion, looks to secure the last spot in Final X.
There are six athletes that have competed at a Senior World Championship tournament. Nick Lee, Dake and Chance Marsteller were teammates on the 2023 Senior World Team that competed in Belgrade, Serbia. … more at … https://www.themat.com/news/2025/may/13/olympic-medalist-dake-leads-strong-senior-world-team-trials-field-in-men-s-freestyle
From high school to NCAA, it’s not always by the book
This is one of the columns I’ve had the most fun writing every year. The NCAA Championships are the measuring stick for every college wrestler in America. Everybody remembers what happened those three heart-stopping days in March – words that never rang true more than they did this year.
It’s also, in a sense, an evaluation of how well I do my job. After all, the rankings I do every issue during the season for WIN are more than just the pecking order for the nation’s best high school wrestlers. They also provide the basis for a lot of speculation – by college coaches and by fans – of who we’re most likely to see on the awards stand at future NCAA tournaments. They’re my take on whom you’ll see becoming the champions and All-Americans of the future. And that’s why this brief look back is always so interesting – in a sense, it’s my personal report card. I hope it’s as interesting for all of you.
As we’ve seen over the years, nothing is absolute. The No. 1 wrestler in high school, it stands to reason, is going to be No. 1 in college as well…right? If the tournament everybody in the rankings is shooting for – the NCAA Championships, held most recently at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia this month – is any indication, not necessarily.
While wrestlers ranked No. 1 more than held their own, the 80 All-Americans, including the wrestlers who competed in the championship final matches, ran the gamut in rankings position when they finished their high school careers.
Only three of the 10 champions, led by the first-ever five-time champion, Carter Starocci (184) of Penn State, finished their prep careers with the No. 1 ranking at their weight class. The others were Lucas Byrd (133) of Illinois and two-time champion Jesse Mendez (141) of Ohio State.
Both of Nebraska’s champions, Ridge Lovett (149) and Antrell Taylor (157), finished their prep careers in the No. 12 spot – a ranking almost unheard of for a champion in recent years. Wyatt Hendrickson of Oklahoma State, whose stunning upset of two-time champion Gable Steveson of Minnesota was one of the tournament’s all-time moments, also finished his prep career outside the Top 5 – he was No. 6. … more at … https://www.win-magazine.com/2025/04/18/from-high-school-to-ncaa-its-not-always-by-the-book/
Ramstad: This could be the week the NCAA becomes a professional league
A judge is expected to approve an arrangement for Division I colleges to give 22% of athletic department revenue to student-athletes.
So much is going on with the president, investment markets, Minnesota’s Legislature and the Timberwolves’ playoff run, you can be forgiven if you haven‘t heard a monumental change is about to happen in college sports.
A federal judge this week is expected to ratify a legal settlement that will lead NCAA Division I universities to pay athletes from athletic department revenue. Four years after the Supreme Court said student-athletes could market themselves in name-image-likeness (NIL) deals, now they will get a cut of their teams’ overall revenue. “This is the last point that really solidifies [the NCAA] as a professional league,” said Patrick Campion, co-founder of Fame Sport, a new sports marketing firm in Minneapolis. He is a former marketing chief at Sleep Number and managed its NFL sponsorship for eight years.
The settlement inaugurates an enormous change for the athletes, universities and the business of sports in America. “We’re living through a transformation in college sports that rivals the creation of the NCAA itself,” said Chris Pham, a sports attorney at Fredrikson, a Minneapolis law firm. “Between NIL, athlete empowerment and revenue sharing, we’re seeing the traditional amateur model give way to this new economic reality.”
This step is happening because of a class action lawsuit brought against the NCAA in 2020 on behalf of former athletes who missed out on the chance to make NIL money. Before then, the NCAA prohibited athletes from any compensation beyond their college scholarship and room and board.
The settlement — often called the House settlement for Grant House, a former collegiate swimmer whose name leads the list of litigants in the suit — requires the NCAA to pay past athletes from a nearly $3 billion fund. It also requires Division I schools, like the University of Minnesota and University of St. Thomas, to make direct payments to athletes moving forward.
Athletics departments will have to share 22% of their revenue, or up to about $20 million a year. That will blow a hole in spending and force them to cut costs and perhaps some sports. … more at … https://www.startribune.com/ramstad-this-could-be-the-week-the-ncaa-becomes-a-professional-league/601335749
2025 ACTIVE Coaches – Top 110 w/at least 110 wins
- Roger Crebs (Lycoming College) 465 – III
- Lonnie Morris (Johnson & Wales) 464 – III
- Bruce Haberli (New York Univ./Manhattan Coll.) 408 – III/I
- Ron Beaschler (Ohio Northern Univ.) 407 – III
- Rob Koll (UNC/Stanford/Cornell Univ.) 348 – I
- Steve Costanzo (St. Cloud St. Univ./Dana College) 347- II
- Brian Smith (Missouri/Syracuse) 341– I
- Dave Mitchell (Luther (IA) 340 – III
- Tim Fader (Wisc.-Eau Claire, Whitewater, La Crosse) 336 – III
- Tom Ryan (Ohio State/Hofstra) 335 – I
- Jim Makovsky (Minn. St.-Mankato/Valley City St.) 334 – II
- Martin Nichols (Ithaca College) 329 – III
- Mark Manning (Nebraska/Northern Iowa) 328 – I
- Tom Brands (Iowa, Va. Tech) – 308 – I
- Jon Laudenslager (Wilkes University) – 303 – III
- Jim Zalesky (/Oregon State/Iowa) 293 – NAIA/I
- Paul Keysaw (Fresno City/Moorpark College) 292 – Cal. Jr.Coll.
- Jay Jones (Rhode Island College) – 289 – III
- John Oostendorp (Coe College) 288 – III
- Bryan Brunk (Messiah College) – 279 – III
- Tim Flynn (West Virginia Un./Edinboro Univ.) – 274- I
- Cael Sanderson (Penn State, Iowa State) – 262 – I
- Joel Greenlee (Ohio University) – 260 – I
- Roger Reina (Pennsylvania, Univ. of) 258 – I
- Pat Popolizio (North Carolina State, SUNY-Binghampton) – 256 – I
- Kevin Dresser (Iowa State, Virginia Tech Univ.) 253 – I
- Joe Renfro (Northeastern Oklahoma, Labette Jr. Coll.) 253 – JuCo
- Robert Fisher (Kutztown University) – 252 – II
- Franky James (Georgetown/Campbellsville/Tenn.-Chattanooga) – 251 – NAIA,I
- Dave Malecek (Wisconsin-LaCrosse State) – 243 – III
- Pat Santoro (Lehigh University, Maryland) – 239 – I
- Heath Grimm (Upper Iowa Univ.) – 239 – II
- Drew Black (Wesleyan Univ., Phoenix Coll.) – 236 – III
- Scott Goodale (Rutgers University) – 235 – I
- Sebastian Amato (Trinity College) 235 – III
- Jason Reitmeier (Augustana College, S.D.) – 235 – II
- James Kisgen (McKendree College) – 234 – II/ NAIA
- Jamie Gibbs (Baldwin-Wallace, U.N.C.-Pembroke) – 233 – III/II
- Johnny Johnson (Wisc.-Stevens Point) 224 – III
- Duane Ritter (SUNY Oneonta State) – 223 – III
- Luke Moffitt (Iowa Central Community College) – 216 – JuCo
- Mike Wehler (Mercyhurst, West Liberty State) – 214 – II
- Jon Egan (Roger Williams) 209 – III
- Jim Andrassy (Kent State Univ.) – 204 – I
- Nick Mitchell (Grand View Univ.) 197 – NAIA
- Eric Keller (Wartburg/North Central) 197 – III
- Steve Garland (Virginia University) – 194 – I
- John Stutzman (Buffalo SUNY, Bloomsburg) – 190 – I
- Mike Howard (SUNY-Oswego State) – 192 – III
- Eric Van Kley (Central College, Great Falls Univ.) 188 – III, NAIA
- Jon McGovern (Dubuque University) – 186 – III
- Dan Wirnsberger (Bucknell, Bloomsburg) – 183 – I
- Dan Garriott (Cerritos College) – 183 – Calif. Jr. Coll.
- Craig Thurber (Thiel College) – 173 – III
- Joe Galante (New Jersey, The College of) 172 — III
- Jason Moorman (Georgetown/King University) 172 – Women’s
- Kevin Bratland (U.S. Coast Guard Acad./Nor. Central) 169 — III
- Brian Anderson (Wabash College) – 167 – III
- Corey Ruff (Lindsey-Wilson/Cumberlands) 161 — NAIA
- Chris Bono (Wisconsin/South Dakota/U.Tenn.Chatt.) 158
- Steve Marianetti (Elmhurst College) – 157 – III
- Jason Holder (Springfield College) 157 — III
- John Mark Bentley (Appalachian State) 152
- Brandon Brisette (Olivet College) 151 — III
- R.C. LaHaye (Lander U./Grand Canyon U.) 151 – II
- Jay Weiss (Harvard Univ., Moravian College) – 151 – I/III inc.
- Jason Borelli (American/Stanford Univ.) 150
- Mark Branch (Wyoming Univ.) – 149
- Vince Silva (Santa Ana College) – 146 – Calif. Jr. Coll.
- Othello (O.T.) Johnson (Univ. of N.C.-Pembroke) 142 – II
- Jason Wathan (Indianapolis Univ.) 139 – II
- John Garriques (Centenary College) 137 — III
- Greg Ilaria (U.S. Merchant Marine) 136 — III
- Jason Ramstetter (Adams State College) 134 — II
- Scott Legacy (U. Vermont-Castleton) 134 – III
- Lennie Zalesky (Calif. Baptist Univ., U.C. Davis) – 133 – NAIA/I
- Dock Kelly (Lourdes Un./Anderson Coll.) 132 — II
- Mark Hawald (John Carroll/Casee Western/Mt. Union) 131 – III
- Lee Miracle (Campbellsville University) 129 – W-NAIA
- Zeke Jones (Ariz. St., Univ. Of Penn.) 127
- Doug Schwab (Northern Iowa) – 127
- Al Russomano (Scranton Univ.) 127 – III
- Chuck Kearney (St. Mary U./Oregon U.) 127 – NAIA/I
- Mark Cody (Presbyterian, Oklahoma Univ., American Univ.) – 124
- Tyson Thivierge (Montana State Northern) 124 – NAIA
- Art Castillo (Western Wyoming) 124 inc. – JuCo
- Joe Dansby (Cuesta College) – 123 – Calif. Jr. Coll.
- Joe Favia (Stevens Inst. Of Tech.) 123 – III
- Roger Kish (North Dakota State) – 122
- Dalton Jensen (Kearney State Univ.) 122 — II
- Omi Acosta (Life University) — 120 – NAIA
- Eric Walker (Elizabethtown College) 119 — III
- Nathan Shearer (Washington & Lee/Heideelberg) 118 — III
- Duane Bastress (York College, Pa.) 116 – III
- Todd Steidley (Central Oklahoma) 114 – II
- Dana Vote (Doane Coll./Midland/Concordia) 113 — NAIA/III
- Ryan Ludwig (Northern Illinois) 113
- Matt Azevedo (Drexel Un.) 113
- Chris Ayres (Princeton/Stanford) 113
- Seth Bloomquist (Shippensburg State) 112 – II
- Jake Stevenson (Morningside College) 111 — NAIA
- Jeff Bedard (Reinhardt Univ.) – 111 – NAIA
- Shawn Nelson (Univ. Of Findlay) 111 – II inc.
- Keith Norris (John Hopkins Univ.) 110 – III
- Bill Schindel (Adrian/Mount Union) 109 — III
- Scott Honacker (Williams Coll.) 109 – III
- Scott Moore (Lock Haven) 109
- K.C. Rock (Embry-Riddle College) 108 — NAIA
- Steve Kelly (North Iowa C.C./Waldorf Coll.) 108 – JuCo/III
- Jim Zeigler (Northwest Wyoming C.C.) 108 — JuCo
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