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Courtesy of GoCobbers.com, Release: March 8, 2008
Meet Menu:
NCAA Championship Meet Preview
Meet Rewind:
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NCAA National Meet Results:
National Final Team Standings (pdf)
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Meet Recap:
CEDAR RAPID, Iowa (3/08/08)-- Tony Neumann capped his outstanding junior season by finishing eighth at the NCAA National Meet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He went 2-3 in the 197-lb weight class and became the first Cobber to earn All-American honors since Nathan Reiff in 1999.
Concordia freshmen Ben Anderson and Phil Moenkedick ended their seasons by going 0-2 at the meet. The three CC wrestlers were the first athletes to compete at the national meet since the 2001 season.
Neumann started his journey by upsetting No.5-seeded Ryan Fogliano of Heidelberg (Ohio) 7-4. He then lost to Craig Bollig of UW-Stevens Point in the quarterfinals. Bollig would go on to claim third place in the weight class.
On Saturday, in the second round of wrestlebacks, Neumann earned his All-American status by beating Joe West of Delaware Valley 6-1. That win assured Neumann of no worse than eighth place - which is the cutoff for All-American honors. He then faced Rob Kramer of Coe College (Iowa) in the third round of the wrestlebacks and fell 8-4. Neumann then finished off the meet by dropping a 10-2 decision to Fogliano.
Neumann ends the year with a 30-17 overall record. He becomes the fourth member of the team to win 30 matches on the season. That is a program record for most 30-win wrestlers in a single season.
Moenkedick entered the national meet seeded sixth at 174. He was coming off the regional championship and had won 16 straight matches and was 36-4 on the year. Unfortunately his national experience was short-lived as he was upset in the first round 11-7 by Michael Reilly of Kings College. The bigger shock came in the second round of wrestlebacks when Moenkedick was downed 15-4 by Evan Brown of Dubuque.
Anderson also dropped his opening two matches of the meet. He ran into a bit of bad luck along the way. After losing to seventh-seeded Austin Bautista of UW-Whitewater in the opener, he had to face the second-ranked wrestler in his weight class. Bautista went on to earn All-American honors and Anderson fell to Dan Hall from Delaware Valley in the second round of wrestlebacks.
Cobber Results:
Cobber Results at the NCAA National Meet
141- Ben Anderson - 0-2
Lost to Austin Bautista (UW-Whitewater) - fall 3:50
Lost to Dan Hall (Delaware Valley) - fall 2:51
174- Phil Moenkedick - 0-2
Lost to Michael Reilly (Kings College) - 11-7
Lost to Evan Brown (U of Dubuque) - 15-4
197- Tony Neumann - 2-3 - 8th Place
All-American
Beat Ryan Fogliano (Heidelberg) - 7-4
Lost to Craig Bollig (UW-Stevens Pt.) - fall 1:43
Beat Joe West (Delaware Valley) - 6-1
Lost to Rob Kramer (Coe College) - 8-4
Lost to Ryan Fogliano (Heidelberg) - 10-2
Concordia College is a private, four year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. |