Engelland Records Three Wins At Midlands Championships
UW-Oshkosh's Sam Engelland (So. • Neenah) earned three
victories, including two over NCAA Division I wrestlers, at the
47th Annual Midlands Championships held Tuesday and Wednesday (Dec.
29-30) in Evanston, Ill.
The 174-pound Engelland compiled a 3-2 record after going 1-2 at
the event a year ago. He was the lone UW-Oshkosh participant at
this year's meet.
Engelland opened his activity with a 4-0 loss to Brad Darrington
of NCAA Division I Utah Valley University. He then posted a 10-1
victory over Jordan Bakley of Harper College (Ill.).
Faced with a tough road, Engelland then pinned Spence Patrick of
NCAA Division I Stanford University (Calif.) in 5:14 and tallied an
8-2 win over Derrick Yant of NCAA Division I Northern Illinois
University. Engelland was ousted from the competition with a 16-5
loss to Ethen Lofthouse of NCAA Division I University of Iowa.
The University of Iowa captured the team title with 168.5 points.
Iowa State University finished second with 144.5 points, Central
Michigan University third with 118, University of Missouri fourth
with 103 and University of Wisconsin fifth with 90.5. The
University of Iowa entered the meet ranked first in the NCAA
Division I by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, Iowa
State University second, Central Michigan University fifth,
University of Missouri 17th and University of Wisconsin 18th.
Engelland helped UW-Oshkosh place 36th out of the 47 teams that
scored with 4.5 points.
Winning individual titles at the meet were Matt McDonough (125),
Brent Metcalf (149) and Jay Borschel (174) of the University of
Iowa, Tyler Graff (133) and Andrew Howe (165) of the University of
Wisconsin, Alex Krom (141) of the University of Maryland, Steve
Fittery (157) of American University (Washington, D.C.), John Dergo
(184) of the University of Illinois, Jake Varner (197) of Iowa
State University and Jarod Trice (285) of Central Michigan
University.
UW-Oshkosh is back in action at the Lakeland College Duals on Jan.
9.