NCAA updates Division I wrestling award standings after conference tournaments

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2022 NCAA Wrestling Awards that will be awarded on March 19 at the conclusion of the Division I Wrestling Championships.

The inaugural NCAA Wrestling Awards were presented at the 2012 wrestling championships. The three awards, given in each division, honor the Most Dominant Wrestler as well as the student-athletes that have accumulated the most falls and the most technical falls throughout the course of the regular and postseasons.

For results to be counted for the awards they must come against opponents in the same division (i.e. Division II vs. Division II). Ties in the falls and tech falls categories are broken based on the aggregate time.

After winning the first Big 12 Conference wrestling championship in school history over the weekend, undefeated heavyweight Wyatt Hendrickson of Air Force leads in the standings for Most Dominant Wrestler with 5.35 team points per match, in addition to leading Division I with 15 falls.

Rutgers 141-pounder Sebastian Rivera is second with 4.92 average team points, while two-time national champion Yianni Diakomihalis of Cornell is third with an average of 4.65. Three additional former national champions are also in the standings heading to Detroit with Penn State’s Carter Starocci in seventh, Iowa State’s David Carr in eighth and Nittany Lion Roman Bravo-Young in 10th.

The Most Dominant Wrestler standings are calculated by adding the total number of team points awarded through match results and dividing that number by the total number of matches wrestled. Wrestlers need a minimum of 17 matches and must qualify for the national tournament to win the award. Points per match are awarded as follows.

* Fall, forfeit, injury default or DQ = 6 points (-6 points for a loss)
* Tech falls = 5 points (-5 points for a loss)
* Major decision = 4 points (-4 points for a loss)
* Decision = 3 points (-3 points for a loss)

King Sandoval of Maryland is second behind Hendrickson with 13 falls this season, while a trio of wrestlers have a dozen led by Tanner Cook of South Dakota State in the least amount of time of 27:41.

Rutgers’ Rivera will head to Detroit with a nearly insurmountable lead in tech falls with 13, which is six more than Cole Urbas of Penn and Austin DeSanto of Iowa with seven.

NCAA Stat Leaders - Most Dominant, Division I

RANK	NAME	SCHOOL	WEIGHT	AVG TEAM POINTS
1	Wyatt Hendrickson	Air Force	285	5.35
2	Sebastian Rivera	Rutgers	141	4.92
3	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	149	4.65
4	Trent Hidlay	NC State	184	4.53
5	Daton Fix	Oklahoma St.	133	4.43
6	Keegan O'Toole	Missouri	165	4.38
7	Carter Starocci	Penn St.	174	4.35
8	David Carr	Iowa St.	157	4.30
9	Michael O'Malley	Drexel	174	4.26
10	Roman Bravo-Young	Penn St.	133	4.18
17-match minimum in division & qualified for NCAAs required to be ranked

NCAA Stat Leaders - Falls, Division I

Rank	Name	School	Weight	Falls	Time
1	Wyatt Hendrickson	Air Force	285	15	37:12
2	King Sandoval	Maryland	133	13	25:09
3	Tanner Cook	South Dakota St.	165	12	27:41
4	Josh Mason	Bloomsburg	141	12	31:30
5	Matt Stencel	Central Mich.	285	12	35:55
6	Owen Pentz	North Dakota St.	197	11	24:12
7	Michael O'Malley	Drexel	174	10	26:27
8	Anthony Sobotker	Binghamton	133	10	38:54
9	Zach Hartman	Bucknell	165	9	19:42
10	Josh Koderhandt	Navy	133	9	37:28

 

NCAA Stat Leaders — Tech Falls, Division I

Rank	Name	School	Weight	Tech Falls	Time
1	Sebastian Rivera	Rutgers	141	13	80:18
2	Cole Urbas	Penn	197	7	32:41
3	Austin DeSanto	Iowa	133	7	34:24
4	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	149	6	23:57
5	Michael McGee	Arizona St.	133	6	25:32
6	Braxton Amos	Wisconsin	197	6	27:55
7	Devin Schroder	Purdue	125	6	31:14
8	Nick Incontrera	Penn	174	6	34:16
9	Dean Hamiti	Wisconsin	165	6	35:01
10	Codi Russell	App State	133	6	35:36