Adrian, Mich.-Nineteen qualified for the NCAA Div. III National Championship with a top-three finish in their weight class at the Central Regional Tournament hosted by Adrian College, February 28-29. The top-eight finishers earned All-Region honors.
Baldwin Wallace finished first of out 18 teams with 154.0 points, followed Mount Union in second with 146.0 points, Ohio Northern in fourth with 107.0 points, John Carroll in fifth with 100. 5 points and Otterbein in eighth place with 73 points to round out the top ten.
BW has won two regional titles in the last three years. Head coach Jamie Gibbs and assistant coach Jason Zastrow were named Regional Coach and Assistant Coach-of-the-Year.
The NCAA Div. III Championship will take place March 13-14 at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
NCAA Qualifiers
125 -1st Jordin James of Mount Union...2nd Jarrod Brezovec of John Carroll
133-1st Seth Transue of Ohio Northern...2nd Charles Nash of Baldwin Wallace...3rd David Massey of Mount Union
141-1st Jordin James of Mount Union...2nd Jarrod Brezovec of John Carroll
149-1st Stanley Bleich of Baldwin Wallace
157-1st Ryan Whitten of Otterbein...2nd Dalton Leightner of Baldwin Wallace...3rd Sam Gross of John Carroll
165-2nd Antwon Pugh of Mount Union....3rd Luke Reicosky of John Carroll
174-3rd Conner Homan of Mount Union
184-1st Dylan Roth of Heidelberg...3rd Doug Byrne of Baldwin Wallace
197-1st Zeckary Lehman of Baldwin Wallace...2nd Cash Thompson of Ohio Northern
285-1st Drew Kasper of Otterbein
