Northern State heavyweight Matt Meuleners added another championship to his resume Saturday at the Minnesota State, Moorhead, Tournament on Saturday.
The Wolves' two-time defending national champion defeated Chad Johnson of Augsburg College 3-2 in double overtime. Johnson is the reigning Division III national champion.
"Matt had a great match," said NSU coach Pat Timm. "He has definitely had some great competition during the last month."
The tournament was divided into two divisions. The Red Division was for upper classmen while the White Division featured freshmen. Along with Meuleners in the Red Division, Anthony Bruno (125 pounds) was second and Chad Gibson (184) was fifth. In the White Division, Gavin Larson (149) was third, Cole Scheulke (Hwt.) was fourth and Sean Havlovic (157) was sixth.
"I thought we competed well as a whole, and that's pretty important," Timm said. "That is something we've been missing the past few weeks."
The Wolves will wrestle twice next week, first at Mitchell Wednesday for a dual with Dakota Wesleyan at 7 p.m. and the hosting Chadron State at Wachs Arena on Saturday at 4 p.m.
"Overall (Saturday) was a good day and hopefully we can bring that into next week and thrive on what we did this weekend," Timm said.
|Red Division|
|Upper Class|
125 Pounds: Anthony Bruno pinned Grant Dullinger, North Dakota State, 2:38; def. Hunter Weber, North Dakota State, 5-0; def. Justin Solberg, unattached, 4-1; lost to T.J. North, Augustana, 3-1. SECOND PLACE
141 Pounds: Ian Muirhead lost to Brandon Bigelbach, Minnesota (unattached), 8-3; lost to Mariano Portillo, MSU-Moorhead, 12-4.
157 Pounds: Beau Voegeli lost to Steven Keogh, Minnesota (unattached), 6-5; def. Jaykob Miller, Jamestown, 11-8; lost to Shawn Hatlestad, Augustana, 3-1.
165 Pounds: Blake Lundgren def. Jean Augustin, Minot, 13-2; pinned by Jake Krogstad, Concordia-Moorhead, 6:45; pinned Clark Driz, Newman, 4:20; lost to Michael Nord, Jamestown (unattached), 17-2.
184 Pounds: Chad Gibson lost to Tyler Hasanbank, Newman, 6-5; pinned Josh Vaughan, Rochester CC (unattached), 4:39; def. Travis Peralta, Southwest Minnesota State, 11-5; def. Jeff Nielsen, Augustana, 6-4; def. Christian Harrison, Concordia-Moorhead, 9-4. FIFTH PLACE
197 Pounds: Baker Haar lost to Colt Castlebury, North Dakota State, 6-4; pinned by Martin Hagan, unattached, 4:12.
Heavyweight: Matt Meuleners def. Austin Goergen, St. Cloud State (unattached), 10-4; def. Cody Kasprick, Concordia-Moorhead, 15-1; def. Michael Kroells, Minnesota (unattached), 8-3; def. Chad Johnson, Augsburg, 3-2 (2 OT). FIRST PLACE
Heavyweight: Dustin Caspers lost to Tom Bouressa, Concordia-Moorhead, 5-0; pinned by Gerad Fugleberg, MSU-Moorhead, 2:32.
|White Division|
|Freshmen|
133 Pounds: Tyler Frost pinned Dillon Solberg, Rochester CC, 1:02; lost to Roarke Langer, Augsburg, 7-0; lost to Daniel Polanco, St. Cloud State, 6-3.
149 Pounds: Gavin Larsen pinned T. Schnaubert, Jamestown, 2:45; def. Romar Daniel, Augsburg, 7-0; def. Matt Fuller, unattached, 5-2; lost to Beau Buysse, Southwest Minnesota State, 5-2; def. Mark Akpaka, Augsburg, 8-2. THIRD PLACE
157 Pounds: Weston Resman pinned Jake Slocum, Southwest Minnesota State (unattached), 1:44; pinned by Jordan Chouanard, St. Cloud State, 1:37; lost to Dale Barner, Rochester CC, 7-4.
157 Pounds: Sean Havlovic lost to Blake Meling, St. Cloud State (unattached), 9-3; def. Jaden Evans, Minnesota West, 8-0; def. Ricard Avakovs, Minot State, 9-0; def. Dale Barner, Rochester CC, 5-1; lost to Josh Halicke, MSU-Moorhead (unattached), 11-0. SIXTH PLACE
174 Pounds: Anthony Navarro lost to Trey Griffin, St. Cloud State (unattached), 14-3; def. Eric Swenson, Ridgewater, 13-4; lost to Mike Smith, Minnesota-Duluth, 7-6.
Heavyweight: Cole Schuelke def. Gabe Tudor, St. Cloud State (unattached), 8-4; pinned by Michael Lowman, Augustana (unattached), 2:03; lost to Nicholas Grimley, Augsburg, 1-0. FOURTH PLACE