Black Knights Travel to St. Louis for NCAAs

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Logan Everett, Russ Parsons, Andrew Mendel and Samson Imonode of the Army West Point wrestling team are traveling to the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo., to compete at the NCAA Championships from Thursday to Saturday.

HOW TO FOLLOW
VIDEO • ESPN3
TELEVISION • ESPN/ESPNU
LIVE STATS • TrackWrestling
TWITTER • ArmyWP_Wres

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
THURSDAY
Session 1 | 12 p.m. ET – Championship First Round
Session 2 | 7 p.m. ET – Championship Consolations
FRIDAY
Session 3 | 11 a.m. ET – Championship Quarterfinals and Consolations
Session 4 | 8 p.m. ET – Championship Semifinals
SATURDAY
Session 5 | 11 a.m. ET – Championship Medal Round
Session 6 | 8 p.m. ET – Championship Finals

ARMY (7-5, 5-3 EIWA)
• Last time out, the Black Knights took fourth at the EIWA Championships for the second year in a row by placing seven wrestlers on the podium.
• It marked the first time since '91-'92 that Army had back-to-back top five finishes at the conference tournament.
• Senior co-captain Russ Parsons earned a berth to his first-career EIWA championship bout, finishing as the runner-up after a hard-fought 4-2 setback against Cornell's Dylan Palacio.
• Parsons leads the team in wins (26), dual wins (nine) and technical falls (seven), while ranking second in bonus-point victories (15) and major decisions (six).
• He is the only Army wrestler seeded in this year's tournament as the 11-seed at 157 pounds.
• Senior Samson Imonode is third in wins for Army with 24, while Andrew Mendel's 23 victories on the season places him tied for fourth.

ARMY AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Army returns three of its five NCAA qualifiers from last season in Logan Everett, Russ Parsons and Samson Imonode, with Parsons being the most veteran member of the group as he is making his third appearance at the big dance.
• Everett and Imonode are both making their second appearance in as many years at the NCAA Championships, while Mendel is making his championship debut.
• The Black Knights have earned 19 All-American honors in program history, most recently Matt Kyler in 2008 when he placed sixth at 141 pounds.
• Army's lone three-time All-American was Phillip Simpson from 2003-05.
• In 2016, Army sent five wrestlers to the national tournament, the most since 2008.
• The program's best team finish came at both the 1965 and '66 championships when the Black Knights finished 10th.

ARMY NCAA PARTICIPANTS
141 lbs.: #17 Logan Everett
157 lbs.: #12 Russ Parsons
165 lbs.: #32 Andrew Mendel
184 lbs.: #21 Samson Imonode

THE FIELD
• Seventh-ranked Cornell and No. 11 Lehigh are the only two ranked teams in the tournament.
• The field is comprised of 51 ranked wrestlers, highlighted by top-ranked Gabe Dean of Cornell at 184 pounds.
• The deepest weight class is 184 pounds, which has 10 ranked wrestlers competing for seven automatic bids to the NCAA Championships in St. Louis.
• The Mountain Hawks have the most ranked wrestlers in the tournament with one at every weight class.
• Six All-Americans from 2016 return to the EIWA Championships: Josh Terao, American (3rd, 125 lbs.); Randy Cruz, Lehigh (8th, 141 lbs.); Dylan Palacio, Cornell (4th, 157 lbs.); Casey Kent, Penn (4th, 174 lbs.); Gabe Dean, Cornell (1st, 184 lbs.); and Brett Harner, Princeton (8th, 197 lbs.).

SEEDINGS BY WEIGHT CLASS
*Rankings from latest NWCA Coaches' Panel (March 5)
141 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Dean Heil (Oklahoma State)
2-seed #2 Kevin Jack (N.C. State)
3-seed #3 Joey McKenna (Stanford)
4-seed #4 Matthew Kolodzik (Princeton)
5-seed #5 Anthony Ashnault (Rutgers)
6-seed #6 George DiCamillo (Virignia)
7-seed #7 Joey Ward (North Carolina)
8-seed #9 Jaydin Eierman (Missouri)
9-seed #10 Colton McCrystal (Nebraska)
10-seed #8 Bryce Meredith (Wyoming)
11-seed #12 Randy Cruz (Lehigh)
12-seed #11 Luke Pletcher (Ohio State)
13-seed #14 Javier Gasca III (Michigan State)
14-seed #13 Thomas Thorn (Minnesota)
15-seed #16 Tyler Smith (Bucknell)
16-seed #14 Jared Prince (Navy)
157 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Jason Nolf (Penn State)
2-seed #2 Michael Kemerer (Iowa)
3-seed #3 Joey Lavallee (Missouri)
4-seed #4 Tyler Berger (Nebraska)
5-seed #5 Joe Smith (Oklahoma State)
6-seed #8 Clayton Ream (North Dakota State)
7-seed #6 Dylan Palacio (Cornell)
8-seed #10 Jake Short (Minnesota)
9-seed #11 Joshua Shields (Arizona State)
10-seed #7 Colin Heffernan (Central Michigan)
11-seed #12 Russ Parsons (Army West Point)
12-seed #13 Clark Glass (Oklahoma)
13-seed #14 John Van Brill (Rutgers)
14-seed #15 Sal Mastriani (Virginia Tech)
15-seed #15 Archie Colgan (Wyoming)
16-seed #17 Victor Lopez (Bucknell)
165 lbs.:
1-seed #1Isaiah Martinez (Illinois)
2-seed #2 Logan Massa (Michigan)
3-seed #3 Vincenzo Joseph (Penn State)
4-seed #4 Isaac Jordan (Wisconsin)
5-seed #5 Chad Walsh (Rider)
6-seed #6 Daniel Lewis (Missouri)
7-seed #7 Anthony Valencia (Arizona State)
8-seed #8 Dylan Cottrell (West Virginia)
9-seed #0 Chandler Rogers (Oklahoma State)
10-seed #10 Te`Shan Campbell (Pittsburgh)
11-seed #11 Bryce Steiert (Northern Iowa)
12-seed #12 Austin Matthews (Edinboro)
13-seed #13 Brandon Womack (Cornell)
14-seed #14 Branson Ashworth (Wyoming)
15-seed #17 Drew Hughes (Michigan State)
16-seed #16 Nicholas Wanzek (Minnes0ta)
184 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Gabe Dean (#7 Cornell)
2-seed #3 Bo Nickal (Penn State)
3-seed #2 Sammy Brooks (Iowa)
4-seed #5 Nolan Boyd (Oklahoma State)
5-seed #7 Zach Zavatsky (Virginia Tech)
6-seed #4 Myles Martin (Ohio State)
7-seed #6 T.J. Dudley (Nebraska)
8-seed #9 Jack Dechow (Old Dominion)
9-seed #8 Nathan Jackson (Indiana)
10-seed #10 Michael Macchiavello (N.C. State)
11-seed #11 Emery Parker (Illinois)
12-seed #12 Drew Foster (Northern Iowa)
13-seed #14 Bryce Carr (UT-Chattanooga)
14-seed #15 Dakota Geer (Edinboro)
15-seed #17 Steven Schneider (Binghamton)
16-seed #13 Jordan Ellingwood (Central Michigan)

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