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According to the release email, Hunter will announce his replacement tomorrow, suggesting the candidate was hand picked or perhaps promoted from within. We’ll know more tomorrow...

The ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America At-Large team has been released. In a previous post, the Academic All-District teams were released, and now the All-America teams are available. In the College Division, six Division III wrestlers made either the first or second team...

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Another highlight video, this time of Wartburg

Muhlenberg impressed with Kocsis’ ‘passion’ from The Morning Ca

Three time NCAA Division I qualifier Mike Kocsis has been named head wrestling coach at Muhlenberg College. He replaces Tom Schleicher, who retired this spring. Please see the Muhlenberg release below...

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved rule changes for the 2009-2010 season. From the NCAA release: Wrestling changes In wrestling, referees will say “set” to the defensive and offensive starting positions before the whistle sounds for the participants to begin competing...

In December of 2008, Norwich University announced that it would be dropping wrestling as a cost-cutting measure after the 2008-2009 season. Since that time, Head Coach Rich Hasenfus has been working with alumni and friends of the program to save the program for 2009-2010 and beyond...

Norwich University has announced that they will be reinstating for 2009-2010 the wrestling and tennis teams that were dropped in December. Not much information more than that is available right now. Norwich reinstating wrestling program

Audio interview with Gruenwald also available at Wrestling411. Wheaton College has a long history of wrestling success and an impressive list of former wrestling alumni...

Olympic wrestler and former USOEC greco coach Jim Gruenwald has accepted the position of head wrestling coach at Wheaton College as of this evening. He was preceded by Dan Weber and takes over a team that had its first All-American since 2003 this year...

The official release will be forthcoming, but d3wrestle.com has learned the names of DIII wrestlers who have been named to the first and second ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District At Large teams...

Waynesburg University head coach Ron Headlee will be inducted into the Washington/Greene Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame this summer. Headlee recently finished his first year at Waynesburg, taking two wrestlers to the NCAA championships...

Terence Haynes wrestled at 285 for Baldwin-Wallace this past season. Not particularly remarkable until you consider the fact that he lost 200 pounds the previous year and is 45 years old. See this link for the story and watch the video segment from E:60 below...

Wrestling411 has caught up with Augsburg Head Coach Mark Matzek since he was named to the permanent head coaching position, dropping the interim tag.

Augsburg head coach Mark Matzek and assistant coach Jared Evans each have been given permanent positions at the school. Each served in an interim capacity this past year as Augsburg placed 2nd in the NCAA, won the National Duals, and crowned seven All-Americans...

Wrestling 411 got in touch with new UW-Eau Claire coach Derek Sikora for an interview. Check it out here.

Derek Sikora has taken over the head coaching position as UW-Eau Claire after long time coach Don Parker announced his retirement. Parker spent 32 seasons at Eau Claire, coaching 15 All-Americans and one national champion...

Listings of current openings for Division III coaching spots can be found by clicking “Job Openings” in the sidebar to the right. Five positions are open right now and divided between full time, part time, and graduate assistant. Please contact me with information about other job openings...

Alec Bonander of Luther College, Andrew Gardella of Case Western Reserve University, and Ben Youel of North Central College were each awarded NCAA Postgraduate scholarships, the NCAA announced today...

MIT announced today that they are dropping eight sports as a cost saving measure. Wrestling was one of the eight. In each of the past two seasons, MIT has had an All-American. This year’s All-American, Joe Silverman, will be a senior next year. A letter to the MIT community on sport reducti

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Heidelberg assistant coach Brandon Brissette has been named as the new head coach at Olivet College, taking the position vacated by outgoing coach Todd Hibbs. Brissette has been at Heidelberg in various capacities for the past four seasons after finishing his wrestling career at Wartburg...

The list of DIII team sites has been updated. All links to Division III teams should be correct as of today. Division III Team Sites

This post will aggregate as many DIII highlight videos as possible. Two are up right now, but as I find out about more, they will be posted here. If you have or know of a DIII Highlight Video from 2008-2009, please let me know...

The NE Regional Senior Freestyle tournament took place this past weekend in Brockport, New York. Several DIII wrestlers participated. See results here. Champs qualify for the world team trials...

Olivet wrestler Greg Jarratt is conducting a survey for use in a paper about Ethical Issues in Wrestling. The survey is for anyone associated with wrestling as a fan, parent, coach, or participant. Please click below to take the survey. Ethical Issues in Wrestling Survey

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Tom Schleicher has announced his retirement as head coach at Muhlenberg College. In his 13 years, the Mules sent 25 wrestlers to the NCAA tournament and came home with six All-American honors, including Rob Kein at 149 lbs. this season. See the release below. Schleicher Retires as Wrestling Coach

Here are the winners of the wrestlilng picks game for 2009. First place wins a t-shirt, while #2 and #3 get recognition here...

Todd Hibbs has stepped down after five years as the head coach at Olivet College. He will remain as an assistant professor in the Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sport department. Olivet was 56-24 during his tenure and had 11 national qualifiers and four All-Americans...

Click below for the listing of NWCA Academic All-Americans and the top 25 team GPAs. To be an Academic All-American, academic and athletic criteria must be met...

Update 3/12 - don’t forget to post your results here by Friday night. I will close down the comments at some arbitrary time on Friday evening, so don’t delay...

Click below to see the d3wrestle.com gallery of the 2009 NCAA Division III Finals. All ten weight classes are represented both with action shots and podium shots, courtesy of Bruce Meminger. If you are interested in having a high quality copy of any photo, please contact me so I can email it to you...

Here are some comments on each of the finals matches from this past weekend. 125 Jake Oster (Elmhurst) dec Mike McInally (RIT) 8-7 A scary moment at the beginning when McInally brought Oster to mat after lifting him up in a single leg...

It was an awesome tournament as usual. Lots of upsets and exciting matches. Congratulations to team champ Wartburg and OW Mike Wilcox. We’ll have more detailed finals analysis later, as well as a ton of action photos from the weekend courtesy of Bruce Meminger...

It was a wild day of wrestling at the US Cellular Center. Two unseeded wrestlers made the semis (Paulish and Miller), while two former finalists were eliminated (Djoumessi and Vanderhyde). Some teams also had a wrestler place for the first time in a while...

Brackets Wrestling411 Coverage - featuring live updates Augsburg took 8 to the quarters and leads after session 1. Biggest news so far is the fact that the top seeds at 174 and 197 failed to make it out of the first session, losing 2 quick matches...

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2008 Champion: Matt Miller, Lycoming Returning All-Americans: Rob Kramer (Coe), Alec Bonander (Luther), Josh Holforty (UW-Eau Claire), Anthony Neumann (Concordia Moorhead) Alec Bonander has gone wire to wire in the top spot in the rankings and comes in as the top seed, one spot higher than last...

d3wrestle.com will be doing its best to provide updates throughout the tournament as it happens. We’ll try to give more than just results, as the brackets can give you that, and we want to give a sense of what is actually happening here at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids...

2008 Champion: Dan Laurent (Lacrosse) Returning All-Americans: Glenn Geesman (MIT), Kyle Bilquist (Delaware Valley), Mark Corsello (Elmhurst) Kyle Bilquist is the top seed, but could be tested early...