Glory for Glory. : N.p., March 2002). Ray Stapp (4th, 118 pounds) Jake Rosholt (197 pounds)All-Americans: Learn more about Joe, a Distinguished Member inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1979, at https://t.co/fgqHORWWt6 pic.twitter.com/gCsILkLlVR, Oklahoma A&M's three champs in 1939 represented more than double the number of champs from any opposing team that season, a result that guidedthe Aggies to their tenth title by over twenty points. The only wrestling team with more consecutive championships than Oklahoma State is Iowa with nine. 165. But in 2002, the Cowboys were back in the saddle once again, winning the conference and NCAA titles and sporting a 170 record. John Divine (2nd, 135 pounds) Ralph Rasor and Loyd Ricks became All-Americans for the first time, giving the Aggies an 18-point win over in-state foe Oklahoma. Johny Hendricks (5th, 157 pounds) Muhammed Lawal 3rd, 197 pounds)2004 (see full brackets). OSU concluded the event with 28 points, tied for 18th place. Tactically, we kind of stumbled last time, Stillwater coach Ethan Kyle said. After a 17-year drought, Oklahoma State found its way to the top again with a 20.75 win over second-place Arizona. Bob Taylor (3rd, 115 pounds) The seventh head coach of Oklahoma State had finally added a national title of his own to the trophy case. Jim Rogers (5th, 137 pounds) The other six who recorded falls were Chance Fisher (106), Braden Potts (120), Triston Grounds (126), Beau Hickman (138), Shawn Rounsaville (150) and Ethan Teague (157). Ricky Stewart:43 (1978-82) Johnny Thompson:125 (2001-04) In 1954, Art Griffith once again coached his team to a national championship, this time led by MyronRoderick and Fred Davis. Nathan Morgan (6th, 133 pounds) [3] Also during his time as a 130-pound wrestler for OSU, Uetake won a total of three individual Big 8 and national championships. First, he extended the four consecutive championships Gallagher had left with to seven, finally losing out in 1947 to Cornell. 6. Tom Erikson: 41 (1987) T10. T4. Myron won titles in '54, '55 and '56 and helped @OSUAthletics win 1956 team title. Still, Chesbro managed to pass Gallagher as the winningest coach in school history. Stillwater lost to Edmond North at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dual Classic in December at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater. Nick Purler (7th, 126 pounds) In the finals, seven Tuttle wrestlers pinned their opponents. The team went undefeated in 1954 thoughand finished with three champs, including future three-time NCAA champion and future championship coach Myron Roderick. Elgins other winners were 132-pounder Nino Vidic (decision), 138-pounder Austin Elam (major decision), 144-pounder Dominik Benedetto (decision), 150-pounder Jack Anglley (decision) and 190-pounder Ritson Meyer (decision). Fred Davis (2nd, 167 pounds) Mike Sheets:122 (1981-84), A WINNING PROGRAM: Cowboys honor John Smith for his 400th win, 1. Thats what needs to take place., More:NCAA wrestling championships: OSU's Daton Fix upset in semis, Dustin Plott stays live. Rex Peery (118 pounds) Oklahoma State University Wrestling - wrestlingstats.com Griffith's first national tournament with his team resulted in gold with Alfred Whitehurst, David Arndt, Earl VanBebber and Virgil Smith taking home individual top honors andCalvin Mehlhorn, Dillard Talbutt and Loyd Arms also finishing in the top three as All-Americans. 2023 www.oklahoman.com. Smith currently has 239 wins as coach at OSU, the most ever in school history. He also continued two streaks left by Gallagher. Barnes also earned Outstanding Wrestling honors at the tournament. Head coach Myron Roderick had won another back-to-back title for Oklahoma State and the country once again expected Cowboy dominance at the start of every season. Here are nine of the biggest potential names and matches for college wrestling fans to look for this weekend at this major qualifying event across mens freestyle, womens freestyle and mens Greco events this weekend. JOHN SMITH: The Cowboy coach was honored as part of Oklahoma State's 100 year celebration, National champions: The Cowboys also crowned the first four-time NCAA champion in Pat Smith. NCAA Champions: National champions: Smith felt the arena added something to the event that should be continued at future NCAA Championship sites. Chuck Barbee (5th, 134 pounds) Oklahoma State Profile Oklahoma State Edit Update Ned Blass and Gene Nicks also joined him on top of the podium for their wins at 177 pounds and heavyweight, while three other Aggies earned All-American honors. 1937 was the year ofStanley Henson. Carlson: OSU didn't need more magic. In recent years, Oklahoma has moved its home duals from the Lloyd Noble Center back to its former home, McCasland Field House, in part to prevent Cowboy fans from dominating the atmosphere despite being the visiting team. The Cowboys are tied for sixth in consecutive national titles won across all sports. For a coach that never wrestled, Gallagher's136-5-4 record with Oklahoma A&M, 11 team titles and 22 individual NCAA champions made him into a wrestling figure that the program would never forget. [3] After graduating in Stillwater, Uetake was an assistant coach for the Cowboys for two years before moving back home to Japan, where he now coaches wrestling at the high school he attended. More:Asked about retirement, Oklahoma State wrestling coach John Smith thinks he will return. Rex Peery and Ross Flood won their third titles, while Frank Lewis earned his first following his pin in the finals of the previous year's tournament. ENID The feeling never gets old for Bobby Williams III. National champions: To this day, Uetake holds the title of the only Cowboy wrestler to remain undefeated throughout his entire college career, ending with a record of 58 wins and no losses. National champions: Ultimately, Blackwell came out on top with a 38-32 victory as it ended the dual with three pins. Yoshiro Fujita (126 pounds) OToole was the defending 165-pound champ, while Carr had won the 157-pound title last year before moving up. Stillwater 215-pounder Brayden Thompson, an Oklahoma State signee who recently transferred from Lockport, Illinois, didnt wrestle as the dual was out of reach but had a 2-1 tiebreaker victory against Bixby star and Oklahoma State signee Jersey Robb in the semifinals earlier in the day. More:Oklahoma State football will look to replicate consistency in kicking game. For that task, the Cowboys turned to Art Griffith, longtime coach at Central High School in Tulsa. T3. There was new energy in the Cowboy wrestling room, and that energy wasn't leaving. I think well probably see this setup that they have for the rest of the national tournaments. Robert Wilson (3rd, 147 pounds) Richard Hutton (Heavyweight)All-Americans: Jake Rosholt (3rd, 184 pounds) All team members walked away champions yet again. Dell Shockley (3rd, 115 pounds) His NCAA title win in 1962 made him the second Black NCAA champion as well. Having been to the arena the past several years for the Big 12 Championships, Dresser wondered if the floor area would be big enough to accommodate the eight-mat setup used in the first three sessions. Chris Barnes (177 pounds)All-Americans: The 1934 championship progressed like many of the previous onesfor the Aggies with Gallagher's team winning by ten points over second-place Indiana and four individual wrestlers winning gold. Notre Dame 70. Between the 1979-80 and 1985-86 seasons, Iowa had eight, nine, eight, nine, seven, nine and eight All-Americans, respectively. Dave Anderton: 18 (1999) Ross Flood (126 pounds) One of 11 Cowboys to take Olympic gold #tbt pic.twitter.com/Yhsy6uDJGq, Myron Roderick won his first back-to-back national titles as a coach in 1959 when he guided the Cowboys to a 22-point win over Iowa State at the national championships for gold. Records/Stats; Baseball. WebBeaver wrestlers posted a combined overall record of 88-80 (.524) and 44-46 (.489) in duals. Ralph Rasor (2nd, 135 pounds) T7 Thomas Landrum: 17 (1981), 1. Among which are the new wrestling center and other new training facilities built inside the athletics center, much to the benefit all OSU student-athletes. Dieringer graduated from OSU in 2016, but earned many significant wins during his time in Stillwater. The Aggies edged out a close win by four points in 1938 behind the championship performances from Stanley Henson, Joe McDaniel and Dave Scriven. Walter Young (3rd, 145), The Aggies missed out on taking home the NCAA title in 1932, but they came back fighting in 1933 to push themselves back into first place, tying with Iowa for another national title. No other team in the country put more than one wrestler on top of the podium in 1931, while Robert Pearce, Leroy McGuirk, Jack VanBebber and Conrad Caldwell all took gold back to Stillwater. For the third time in a row, Griffith led his team to a championship, and he did soafter three years of no wrestling given the war. Edmond North 123.5; 3. The arena was formally dedicated on February 3, 1939, during a wrestling dual versus Indiana. JJ McComas extended Stillwaters lead with a 6-0 decision over Brayden Belford at 126 pounds, and the Pioneers 132-pounder, Cael Hughes, defeated Hunter Hollingsworth 4-2. T7 Thomas Landrum: 17 (1980) Former President Donald Trump was at the BOK Center, seated on the front row in the corner of the arena for Saturday night's championship matches. The win earned John Smith NWCA Coach of the Year honors after his team went undefeated during the regular season, won the conferenceand took over the national scene by winning the NCAA tournament by 38.5 points over Minnesota. State wrestling With a crowd of 16,855 for the finals, this weeks attendance totaled 95,245 over six sessions. National champions: National champions: 17 Jordan Oliver: 17(2013) Bill Jernigan (3rd, 121 pounds) WebThe official 2022-23 Cowboy Wrestling Roster for the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and Cowgirls Ronnie Clinton (3rd, 191 pounds) The frustration was evident from coach John Smith, whose team will finish outside the top 10 in back-to-back years for the first time in his tenure. Ross Flood (126 pounds) Bob Drebenstedt (4th, 167 pounds) Austin OConnor of North Carolina finished off an undefeated season, improving to 23-0 with a 6-2 decision over Penn States Levi Haines at 157 for OConnors second title. Win the win, OSU moved to 41-9 and 10-5 in Big 12 play, while Texas Tech moved to 31-21 and 5-13 against conference opposition. The 1961 championship marked Myron Roderick's third national title in four years as a head coach of the Cowboys, and hisseason came on the heels of a successful Olympic performance from two Cowboys in 1960. Fred Fozzard (3rd, 177 pounds), 2001 OK State Chapter honoree, Jay Arneson, who coached at @OHS_Rams & @YukonHighSchool, stopped by. Johnny Thompson (orange) wrestles of Ryan Lewis (gold) in the 2003 NCAA finals. He just kept winning. The Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling team is the most successful NCAA Division I program of all time in any sport. Head coachTommy Chesbro was consistent in putting his team within the top six at the national tournament, but Oklahoma State needed Joe Seay to guide the program to the start of its first back-to-back title run in over thirty years.