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January 31st, 2008 by NCAA Wrestling Rankings College Wrestling Rankings Videos News Results
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Dustin Fox used to get the strangest looks from other high school wrestlers when he introduced himself. Surely, they thought, this guy wasn't imposing enough to be the same Dustin Fox who was Ohio's top prep heavyweight and one of the nation's best.
Then he began his collegiate career at Northwestern and heard from the hecklers around the Big Ten. They looked at his build and long, dark-blond hair and wondered aloud if Fox had gotten lost on the way to a Chris Farley look-alike contest.
After earning his first NCAA Wrestling All-American honors as a junior, Fox is a perfect 14-0 to start his senior season.
"I used to laugh pretty hard at that. That's pretty funny," Fox said. "I've heard some good ones. Everybody's like, 'For being so fat, you're really quick.' I look bigger than the kids I wrestle, but they look like bodybuilders. I don't know if I look that impressive."
His wrestling résumè certainly does.
Fox, a senior from Galion, Ohio, is 14-0 and ranked No. 1 in the country at heavyweight. He was an All-American last season and has been a pillar in the reconstruction of Northwestern's program.
The Wildcats were the worst team in the Big Ten for four consecutive seasons at the turn of the millennium. They were so far behind the rest of the conference, in fact, that the aggregate point total the Wildcats accumulated in the conference meets from 2001 through 2004 wouldn't have resulted in anything better than sixth-place finish in any of those tournaments.
Northwestern hit rock bottom in 2001 when it hosted the conference meet. The Wildcats scored only six team points -- the fewest for a squad at the Big Ten tournament since 1984 -- and failed to qualify any wrestlers for the NCAA championships.
"We had good kids on the team, it's just that we had a lot of kids get hurt," Northwestern coach Tim Cysewski said. "A lot of guys we were planning on being starters for three or four years got hurt and a lot of them had season-ending or career-ending injuries. That set us back a lot trying to recover from that. We had to depend on kids who weren't starters to begin with, and that's tough on any team, especially a team such as ours. Our depth will always be an issue."
Cysewski has learned how to deal with roster impediments. He coaches a sport that has more starters per team (10) than the NCAA allows scholarships (the NCAA maximum is 9.9). He works at a school that costs students $43,000 annually to attend. Those circumstances have led the Wildcats to disburse their scholarship allotment in larger chunks than most of their competitors.
It's not an ideal situation for constructing a national contender. But Cysewski -- a junior on the 1975 Iowa team that won the first of the school's 20 NCAA titles -- has sold top recruits on the idea of getting a good education while building a tradition for Northwestern wrestling.
The first pieces of the reconstruction process snapped into place in 2003 when the Wildcats landed a pair of blue-chip recruits: four-time Ohio High School Wrestling state champion Ryan Lang and Pennsylvania state champ Jake Herbert. Lang's and Herbert's commitments were instrumental in helping Northwestern lure Fox the following year.
"It was just common sense knowing Jake and Lang were going to do very well at the college level," said Fox, who also considered Stanford, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Princeton and Virginia. "I saw an opportunity to build a team from scratch."
Northwestern surged from a 50th-place finish at the 2004 NCAA meet to 14th the following year when Fox was a freshman. The Wildcats matched a school-best finish last season when they placed fourth, collecting the bulk of their points from Herbert (the NCAA champion at 184), Lang (the runner-up at 141) and Fox (third at heavyweight).
Northwestern, currently ranked 10th, might have been a legitimate national championship threat this season with Herbert in the lineup. But he is taking the year off from college wrestling to train for the Olympic trials in freestyle and will return to the Wildcats in the fall for his senior season.
Nevertheless, Northwestern appears to be set for success after Fox, Lang and third-ranked 197-pounder Mike Tamillow exhaust their eligibility in March. The Wildcats added Mike Benefiel, one of the nation's top prospects last year, and signed Jason Welch, the top-recruit in the country this year.
Much like the program he wrestles for, Fox has made significant improvement since his arrival in Evanston. He went 33-5 as a junior after compiling a 47-23 record during his first two seasons.
"I'm a lot less nervous before matches and I don't waste as much energy on being nervous," he said. "It's not necessarily because I respect my opponents any less, but I realize that all I can do is wrestle as hard as I can and then let the chips fall where they may. I wouldn't say I'm lucky, but I happen to win."
Highly recruited coming out of high school, Fox chose Northwestern over schools like Princeton and Stanford.
Fox's success, however, is hardly an accident. He's better at riding opponents than he was when he got to college. He's stronger and quicker, too. After missing the first month of the season while getting down to the 285-pound weight limit, he's getting into better shape -- Fox said he was "a svelte 335" during the summer before losing 50 pounds -- and he's always been adept at, well, outfoxing his adversaries.
"He's a smart kid with a lot of things going for him," Cysewski said. "It's going to be exciting to see how he develops in the next 10 or 15 years. He might be the next billionaire. Anything he gets himself into and wants to focus in on, he's going to be really successful.
Fox isn't completely sure yet about his career path. He might train for the Olympic trials. He might utilize the Mandarin language classes he has taken at Northwestern to pursue a business career in China. He might use what he has learned in film studies to get into online video distribution.
But for now, Fox's concentration is centered on scripting the right ending to his college wrestling career.
Friday, February 1
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 6 p.m. EST (LIVE)
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 8:30 p.m. EST (LIVE)
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 11 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Saturday, February 2
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 1 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 4 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 6 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 8 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- Noon EST (Repeat)
Sunday, February 3
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 8 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Tuesday, February 5
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 5 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Wednesday, February 6
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 2 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Thursday, February 7
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 9:30 a.m. EST (Repeat)
Friday, February 8
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 7:30 p.m EST (LIVE)
Saturday, February 9
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 3 a.m. EST (Repeat)
Sunday, February 10
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 6 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Monday, February 11
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 10 a.m. EST (Repeat)
Friday, February 15
BTN: Michigan State at Penn State -- 5 p.m. EST (LIVE)
January 29th, 2008 by NCAA Wrestling Rankings College Wrestling Rankings Videos News Results
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In the news for NCAA Wrestling. Mark Schwab seems to be preparing to move towards UNI. NCAA Wrestling Rankings do not have UNI in the top 20, however, the team is solid. Speculation is that Brad Penrith's contact may not be renegotiated and there will be a vacancy.
Schwab was a 4 time high school wrestling champion at Osage High School in Osage, IA.
After guiding the Buena Vista University wrestling program for the past three-plus seasons, Director of Athletics, Jan Travis, has announced that head coach Mark Schwab will step down as coach of the Beavers effective May 31, 2008.
“I would like to thank Coach Schwab for the efforts and leadership he’s shown and put forth while guiding the Beaver wrestling program over these last four years,” Travis said. “We hate to see him go, but want to wish him the best in all of his future endeavors.”
Schwab became just the second coach to lead the Beavers since the start of the 1978-79 season when he was hired in 2004 following the retirement of legendary coach, Al Baxter. To this point, the 2007 Iowa Conference Coach of the Year has seen his squads improve from a pair of seventh-place finishes to last season’s fourth-place finish at the Iowa Conference Championships. The same can also be said at the NCAA Tournament, where his squads placed 30th and 21st, respectively, in his first two seasons, to a seventh-place standing a year ago.
Schwab says he will step down with plenty of good memories from his time guiding the Beavers.
“There were sure a lot of good moments here,” Schwab said. “What I consider best moments are small things overall - like guys breaking thru, winning hard fought matches. I loved it when we could celebrate as a team.”
BVU’s seventh-place team finish at the 2007 National Tournament was the program’s highest since placing fifth back in 2002. BVU’s fourth-place finish during last year’s Iowa Conference Championships was its highest since taking fourth in 2001.
To this point, Schwab has coached one individual conference champion and five All-Americans during his tenure, while also having a pair of wrestlers earn Scholar All-American accolades and one earn Academic All-Conference honors.
“It was a very challenging experience, and there is an awful lot to being a head coach in any sport; much more than most would think,” Schwab added. “With the three recruiting classes we had in, it was interesting to see just how much an individual differs from the next but yet how predicable we can all be. This experience was a hands-on dealing with people in all their stages of highs and lows. It’s personal education for future endeavors.”
“We are very sad to see Coach Schwab step down,” said BVU President Fred Moore. “He has led our wrestling program with tremendous distinction and character. At the same time, I understand his desire to start a new chapter in his life and wish him well. BVU has a proud wrestling tradition, and we will move swiftly to name a new head coach to lead us into the future.”
A search for a replacement will begin immediately.
The Wrestling Classic committee selected the USA All-Star Team for the Dapper Dan High School Wrestling Classic, the most prestigious high school all-star wrestling meet in the United States. The Wrestling Classic will be on Saturday, March 15, 2008, at the University of Pittsburgh’s Fitzgerald Field House.
This year, Wisconsin will challenge the Western Pennsylvania All-Stars in the preliminary dual meet beginning at 5:30 p.m. The feature match, between the Pennsylvania and USA All-Stars is at 7:30 p.m. Representing the USA Team is:
Name High School State Record Champion College Signed with
112 B. J. Futrell Mt. Carmel Illinois 105-18 1 X University of Illinois
119 Andrew Long Creston Iowa 129-13 2 X Iowa State University
125 Brian Owen University Washington 94-5 1 X Boise State University
130 Tyler Graff Loveland Colorado 127-1 3 X University of Wisconsin
135 Mark Weber Goodrich Michigan 162-4 3 X University of Michigan
140 Jason Chamberlain Springville Utah 149-2 3 X Boise State University
145 Tony Jameson Austinfitch Ohio 124-3 3 X Ohio State University
152 Alex Meade Caesar Rodney Delaware 81-4 2 X Oklahoma State University
160 Jason Welch Las Lomas California 143-7 2 X Northwestern University
171 Chris Spangler Neuqua Valley Illinois 111-12 1 X
189 Romero Cotton Hutchinson Kansas 95-11 3 X University of Nebraska
215 Tyrell Fortune Lakeridge Oregon 1 X
285 Eric Thompson Waverly Shell Rock Iowa 132-13 1 X Iowa State University
(Records do not include senior year)
UPMC Health Plan, in coordination with UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, presents this all-star event, which is produced by the Post-Gazette Dapper Dan Charities and local volunteers.
Proceeds from the Wrestling Classic support a youth wrestling program for inner-city children through the Dapper Dan Youth Sports Leagues at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania.
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A new move by some members at TheWrestlingTalk.com has been to host large DVD files of International wrestling competition. These files are hosted in wrestling torrents, (.torrent) is a filename that is associated with torrent downloading software like uTorrent. There are several features planned, including a torrent search and cataloging application.
Dustin Fox used to get the strangest looks from other high school wrestlers when he introduced himself. Surely, they thought, this guy wasn't imposing enough to be the same Dustin Fox who was Ohio's top prep heavyweight and one of the nation's best.
Then he began his collegiate career at Northwestern and heard from the hecklers around the Big Ten. They looked at his build and long, dark-blond hair and wondered aloud if Fox had gotten lost on the way to a Chris Farley look-alike contest.
After earning his first NCAA Wrestling All-American honors as a junior, Fox is a perfect 14-0 to start his senior season.
"I used to laugh pretty hard at that. That's pretty funny," Fox said. "I've heard some good ones. Everybody's like, 'For being so fat, you're really quick.' I look bigger than the kids I wrestle, but they look like bodybuilders. I don't know if I look that impressive."
His wrestling résumè certainly does.
Fox, a senior from Galion, Ohio, is 14-0 and ranked No. 1 in the country at heavyweight. He was an All-American last season and has been a pillar in the reconstruction of Northwestern's program.
The Wildcats were the worst team in the Big Ten for four consecutive seasons at the turn of the millennium. They were so far behind the rest of the conference, in fact, that the aggregate point total the Wildcats accumulated in the conference meets from 2001 through 2004 wouldn't have resulted in anything better than sixth-place finish in any of those tournaments.
Northwestern hit rock bottom in 2001 when it hosted the conference meet. The Wildcats scored only six team points -- the fewest for a squad at the Big Ten tournament since 1984 -- and failed to qualify any wrestlers for the NCAA championships.
"We had good kids on the team, it's just that we had a lot of kids get hurt," Northwestern coach Tim Cysewski said. "A lot of guys we were planning on being starters for three or four years got hurt and a lot of them had season-ending or career-ending injuries. That set us back a lot trying to recover from that. We had to depend on kids who weren't starters to begin with, and that's tough on any team, especially a team such as ours. Our depth will always be an issue."
Cysewski has learned how to deal with roster impediments. He coaches a sport that has more starters per team (10) than the NCAA allows scholarships (the NCAA maximum is 9.9). He works at a school that costs students $43,000 annually to attend. Those circumstances have led the Wildcats to disburse their scholarship allotment in larger chunks than most of their competitors.
It's not an ideal situation for constructing a national contender. But Cysewski -- a junior on the 1975 Iowa team that won the first of the school's 20 NCAA titles -- has sold top recruits on the idea of getting a good education while building a tradition for Northwestern wrestling.
The first pieces of the reconstruction process snapped into place in 2003 when the Wildcats landed a pair of blue-chip recruits: four-time Ohio High School Wrestling state champion Ryan Lang and Pennsylvania state champ Jake Herbert. Lang's and Herbert's commitments were instrumental in helping Northwestern lure Fox the following year.
"It was just common sense knowing Jake and Lang were going to do very well at the college level," said Fox, who also considered Stanford, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Princeton and Virginia. "I saw an opportunity to build a team from scratch."
Northwestern surged from a 50th-place finish at the 2004 NCAA meet to 14th the following year when Fox was a freshman. The Wildcats matched a school-best finish last season when they placed fourth, collecting the bulk of their points from Herbert (the NCAA champion at 184), Lang (the runner-up at 141) and Fox (third at heavyweight).
Northwestern, currently ranked 10th, might have been a legitimate national championship threat this season with Herbert in the lineup. But he is taking the year off from college wrestling to train for the Olympic trials in freestyle and will return to the Wildcats in the fall for his senior season.
Nevertheless, Northwestern appears to be set for success after Fox, Lang and third-ranked 197-pounder Mike Tamillow exhaust their eligibility in March. The Wildcats added Mike Benefiel, one of the nation's top prospects last year, and signed Jason Welch, the top-recruit in the country this year.
Much like the program he wrestles for, Fox has made significant improvement since his arrival in Evanston. He went 33-5 as a junior after compiling a 47-23 record during his first two seasons.
"I'm a lot less nervous before matches and I don't waste as much energy on being nervous," he said. "It's not necessarily because I respect my opponents any less, but I realize that all I can do is wrestle as hard as I can and then let the chips fall where they may. I wouldn't say I'm lucky, but I happen to win."
Highly recruited coming out of high school, Fox chose Northwestern over schools like Princeton and Stanford.
Fox's success, however, is hardly an accident. He's better at riding opponents than he was when he got to college. He's stronger and quicker, too. After missing the first month of the season while getting down to the 285-pound weight limit, he's getting into better shape -- Fox said he was "a svelte 335" during the summer before losing 50 pounds -- and he's always been adept at, well, outfoxing his adversaries.
"He's a smart kid with a lot of things going for him," Cysewski said. "It's going to be exciting to see how he develops in the next 10 or 15 years. He might be the next billionaire. Anything he gets himself into and wants to focus in on, he's going to be really successful.
Fox isn't completely sure yet about his career path. He might train for the Olympic trials. He might utilize the Mandarin language classes he has taken at Northwestern to pursue a business career in China. He might use what he has learned in film studies to get into online video distribution.
But for now, Fox's concentration is centered on scripting the right ending to his college wrestling career.
NCAA Wrestling on TV February '08 - March '08
Friday, February 1
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 6 p.m. EST (LIVE)
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 8:30 p.m. EST (LIVE)
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 11 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Saturday, February 2
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 1 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 4 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 6 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 8 a.m. EST (Repeat)
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- Noon EST (Repeat)
Sunday, February 3
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 8 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Tuesday, February 5
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 5 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Wednesday, February 6
BTN: Illinois at Michigan -- 2 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Thursday, February 7
BTN: Iowa at Minnesota -- 9:30 a.m. EST (Repeat)
Friday, February 8
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 7:30 p.m EST (LIVE)
Saturday, February 9
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 3 a.m. EST (Repeat)
Sunday, February 10
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 6 p.m. EST (Repeat)
Monday, February 11
BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern -- 10 a.m. EST (Repeat)
Friday, February 15
BTN: Michigan State at Penn State -- 5 p.m. EST (LIVE)
Thursday, February 21
IPTV: Iowa Conference Championships -- 7 p.m. CST (LIVE)
Friday, February 22
BTN: Purdue at Illinois -- 6 p.m. EST (LIVE)
Sunday, February 24
BTN: Michigan State at Michigan -- 12 p.m. (LIVE)
IPTV: Nebraska at Iowa State -- 2 p.m. (LIVE)
Sunday, March 9
BTN: Big Ten Championships -- TBA
January 31, 2008
Iowa City, IA (UWIRE) -- When the final buzzer sounded, Charlie Falck once again wore the crown of least-liked person in th
In the news for NCAA Wrestling. Mark Schwab seems to be preparing to move towards UNI. NCAA Wrestling Rankings do not have UNI in the top 20, however, the team is solid. Speculation is that Brad Penrith's contact may not be renegotiated and there will be a vacancy.
Schwab was a 4 time high school wrestling champion at Osage High School in Osage, IA.
After guiding the Buena Vista University wrestling program for the past three-plus seasons, Director of Athletics, Jan Travis, has announced that head coach Mark Schwab will step down as coach of the Beavers effective May 31, 2008.
“I would like to thank Coach Schwab for the efforts and leadership he’s shown and put forth while guiding the Beaver wrestling program over these last four years,” Travis said. “We hate to see him go, but want to wish him the best in all of his future endeavors.”
Schwab became just the second coach to lead the Beavers since the start of the 1978-79 season when he was hired in 2004 following the retirement of legendary coach, Al Baxter. To this point, the 2007 Iowa Conference Coach of the Year has seen his squads improve from a pair of seventh-place finishes to last season’s fourth-place finish at the Iowa Conference Championships. The same can also be said at the NCAA Tournament, where his squads placed 30th and 21st, respectively, in his first two seasons, to a seventh-place standing a year ago.
Schwab says he will step down with plenty of good memories from his time guiding the Beavers.
“There were sure a lot of good moments here,” Schwab said. “What I consider best moments are small things overall - like guys breaking thru, winning hard fought matches. I loved it when we could celebrate as a team.”
BVU’s seventh-place team finish at the 2007 National Tournament was the program’s highest since placing fifth back in 2002. BVU’s fourth-place finish during last year’s Iowa Conference Championships was its highest since taking fourth in 2001.
To this point, Schwab has coached one individual conference champion and five All-Americans during his tenure, while also having a pair of wrestlers earn Scholar All-American accolades and one earn Academic All-Conference honors.
“It was a very challenging experience, and there is an awful lot to being a head coach in any sport; much more than most would think,” Schwab added. “With the three recruiting classes we had in, it was interesting to see just how much an individual differs from the next but yet how predicable we can all be. This experience was a hands-on dealing with people in all their stages of highs and lows. It’s personal education for future endeavors.”
“We are very sad to see Coach Schwab step down,” said BVU President Fred Moore. “He has led our wrestling program with tremendous distinction and character. At the same time, I understand his desire to start a new chapter in his life and wish him well. BVU has a proud wrestling tradition, and we will move swiftly to name a new head coach to lead us into the future.”
A search for a replacement will begin immediately.
U.S. Lineup announced for 34th Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic
By Frank Vulcano
Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic
The Wrestling Classic committee selected the USA All-Star Team for the Dapper Dan High School Wrestling Classic, the most prestigious high school all-star wrestling meet in the United States. The Wrestling Classic will be on Saturday, March 15, 2008, at the University of Pittsburgh’s Fitzgerald Field House.
This year, Wisconsin will challenge the Western Pennsylvania All-Stars in the preliminary dual meet beginning at 5:30 p.m. The feature match, between the Pennsylvania and USA All-Stars is at 7:30 p.m. Representing the USA Team is:
Name High School State Record Champion College Signed with
112 B. J. Futrell Mt. Carmel Illinois 105-18 1 X University of Illinois
119 Andrew Long Creston Iowa 129-13 2 X Iowa State University
125 Brian Owen University Washington 94-5 1 X Boise State University
130 Tyler Graff Loveland Colorado 127-1 3 X University of Wisconsin
135 Mark Weber Goodrich Michigan 162-4 3 X University of Michigan
140 Jason Chamberlain Springville Utah 149-2 3 X Boise State University
145 Tony Jameson Austinfitch Ohio 124-3 3 X Ohio State University
152 Alex Meade Caesar Rodney Delaware 81-4 2 X Oklahoma State University
160 Jason Welch Las Lomas California 143-7 2 X Northwestern University
171 Chris Spangler Neuqua Valley Illinois 111-12 1 X
189 Romero Cotton Hutchinson Kansas 95-11 3 X University of Nebraska
215 Tyrell Fortune Lakeridge Oregon 1 X
285 Eric Thompson Waverly Shell Rock Iowa 132-13 1 X Iowa State University
(Records do not include senior year)
UPMC Health Plan, in coordination with UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, presents this all-star event, which is produced by the Post-Gazette Dapper Dan Charities and local volunteers.
Proceeds from the Wrestling Classic support a youth wrestling program for inner-city children through the Dapper Dan Youth Sports Leagues at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania.
January 29, 2008
Iowa City, IA (UWIRE) -- Dressed comfortably in gray sweatpants and a white American Eagle thermal shirt, he sat atop a blea
January 28, 2008
Iowa City, IA (UWIRE) -- After learning he would take the place of Mark Perry, who has undergone surgery, Iowa freshman Aaro
January 28, 2008
Iowa City, IA (UWIRE) -- After learning he would take the place of Mark Perry, who has undergone surgery, Iowa freshman Aaro
January 28, 2008
Ann Arbor, MI (UWIRE) -- Inconsistency at the lower weight classes has been an issue for the No. 6 Michigan wrestling team all