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Wrestling: Mountain Hawks head to Iowa for NCAA Championships

Wrestling: Mountain Hawks head to Iowa for NCAA Championships

Mar 19, 2013 by FloWrestling Staff
Wrestling: Mountain Hawks head to Iowa for NCAA Championships
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Mountain Hawks head to Iowa for NCAA Championships

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Posted: 03/19/2013 
DES MOINES, Iowa – Lehigh’s five qualifiers head to Iowa for the 83rd NCAA wrestling championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, as the national tournament returns to Iowa for the first time since 2001. The Mountain Hawks have returned to the national spotlight with back-to-back eighth place finishes at the last two NCAA championships.
 
In the last two years Lehigh has crowned a national champion, placed four wrestlers in the NCAA finals and had seven All-Americans. Senior Robert Hamlin, a 2011 finalist and two-time All-American at 184 leads the Lehigh contingent. Hamlin enters the NCAA Championships in 11th place on the schoolÂ’s career wins list. He will bid to become LehighÂ’s 16th three-time All-American.
 
The Mountain Hawks crowned three individual champions at the EIWA tournament two weeks ago at Rutgers en route to a fourth place team finish.
 
Three of LehighÂ’s five NCAA tournament entrants are seeded, with Hamlin and junior Joey Napoli seeded third at 184 and 157 respectively, and sophomore Nathaniel Brown seeded ninth at 174.
 
Freshman Randy Cruz will be the first Mountain Hawk on the mats Thursday when he meets Brian Owen of Boise State in the round of 32 at 133. Sophomore Anthony Salupo will follow shortly after Cruz when he meets the No. 6 seed at 141, Ugi Khishignyam of the Citadel.
 
EIWA Champion Joey Napoli will be the first seeded Mountain Hawk to compete, as the third-seeded junior will face Taylor Walsh of Indiana at 157 in a rematch of the Midlands semifinals, won by Napoli, 5-3.
 
Sophomore Nathaniel Brown, the EIWA Champion at 174 and No. 9 seed will open with Hunter Gamble of Gardner-Webb, while Hamlin, the No. 3 seed at 184 will open with Casey Newburg of Kent State in a rematch of last yearÂ’s round of 32 won by Hamlin 10-2.
 
Lehigh has the fifth most NCAA Champions (27) and the eighth most All-Americans (135) of all Division I wrestling programs. The Brown and White have never won the NCAA Team Championship, coming as close as second in 1939, third in 1965, 1979 and a tie for third in 2004.
 
Penn State has won the last two team titles and the Nittany Lions will be challenged by Oklahoma State, Iowa and Minnesota among others.
 
The 83rd NCAA Championships get underway Thursday at 11 a.m. CDT from Wells Fargo Arena. The opening round will feature pigtail rounds and preliminaries. Free live audio coverage of all of LehighÂ’s NCAA Tournament action can be heard at Lehighsports.com.
 
Event:
83rd NCAA Championships
Dates:
March 21-23, 2013
Session 1:
Thursday, March 21, 12 p.m. (pigtail round, round of 32)
Session 2:
Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m. (round of 16 and wrestleback prelims)
Session 3:
Friday, March 22, 11 a.m. (quarterfinals and wrestlebacks)
Session 4:
Friday, March 22, 7 p.m. (semifinals and wrestlebacks)
Session 5:
Saturday, March 23, 11 a.m. (consolation semifinals and medal rounds – 3rd-8th)
Session 6:
Saturday, March 23, 8 p.m. (national finals)
All session times listed are Eastern Daylight
Location
Des Moines, Iowa
Arena
Wells Fargo Arena (16,110)
History:
LehighÂ’s best finish was second in 1939. The Mountain Hawks finished eighth last year. Penn State is the two-time defending champion.
Television:
Quarterfinals, semifinals and medal rounds on ESPNU (SE Dial Position 174, DirecTV channel 208). National finals live on ESPN.
Radio:
None
Internet:
FREE live audio of all Lehigh matches at Lehighsports.com.



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