Army West Point Athletics
Thursday, March 15
Cleveland, OH
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Army West Point
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NCAA Championships
Black Knights Set for NCAA Wrestling Championships
March 14, 2018 | Wrestling
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Lucas Weiland, Ben Harvey and Rocco Caywood of the Army West Point wrestling team are headed to Cleveland ready to compete in the NCAA Championships this weekend.
The three-day tournament runs from Thursday to Saturday at the Quicken Loans Arena. All six sessions will have each mat televised on ESPN for the fourth-consecutive year with the second round, semifinals and finals in prime-time slots. Tim Johnson and Anthony Robles will be covering the event for ESPN, along with Jim Gibbons and Billy Baldwin as a guest analyst.
HOW TO FOLLOW – NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Live Stats | Watch on ESPN
Tournament Central | Army Notes
TWITTER • ArmyWP_Wres
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 15
Session 1 | 12 p.m. – Championship Pigtails and First Round (ESPNU)
Session 2 | 7 p.m. – Championship Second Round (ESPN)
Wrestleback Prelims, First Round Wrestlebacks and Consolation Round (ESPN3)
FRIDAY, MARCH 16
Session 3 | 11 a.m. – Championship Quarterfinals (EPNU)
Wrestleback Second and Third Rounds (ESPN3)
Session 4 | 8 p.m. – Championship Semifinals (ESPN)
Wrestleback Fourth and Fifth Rounds (ESPN3)
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
Session 5 | 11 a.m. – Wrestleback Semifinals; Third, Fifth and Seventh Place Medal Round Matches (ESPN3)
Session 6 | 8 p.m. – Championship Finals (ESPN2)
ARMY (3-6, 2-3 EIWA)
• Last time out, the Black Knights took eighth at the EIWA Championships with six podium finishes.
• Weiland leads the team with 22 wins on the year and is one of four Army wrestlers with double-digit bonus point wins.
• The sophomore 157-pounder owns 10 bonus point victories on two falls, three technical falls and five major decisions.
• Harvey leads the squad with five wins over ranked opponents during the 2017-18 campaign, including top-10 opponents Ethan Ramos of North Carolina (7th) and Jadaen Bernstein of Navy (8th).
ARMY AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• This will be the first time that all of Army's competitors will be making their NCAA debuts since the 2012-13 championships when Connor Hanafee (141 lbs.) Daniel Young (149 lbs.), Paul Hancock (165 lbs.) and Bryce Barnes (197 lbs.) did so.
• Harvey is the fourth cadet-athlete to compete at 174 pounds in the last five years, joining his brother, Brian Harvey, who qualified in 2013-14, '14-15 and '15-16.
• The Black Knights have earned 19 All-America 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.
• The program's best team finish came at both the 1965 and '66 championships when the Black Knights finished 10th.
ARMY NCAA PARTICIPANTS
157 lbs.: #33 Lucas Weiland
174 lbs.: #23 Ben Harvey
197 lbs.: #33 Rocco Caywood
THE FIELD
• There are 46 returning All-Americans from last year's tournament, including eight of the 10 reigning champions.
• The 157 and 174 pound weight classes are the deepest in that regard, each having a tournament-high six returning placewinners from a year ago.
• The 197-pound weight class has the fewest returning All-Americans with three with neither 2017 finalist being in this year's tournament.
• Penn State and Ohio State both return six All-Americans, the most of any team.
SEEDINGS/RANKINGS BY WEIGHT CLASS
*Rankings from latest NWCA Coaches' Panel (March 8)
157 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Hayden Hidlay (N.C. State)
2-seed #3 Joseph Lavallee (Missouri)
3-seed #2 Jason Nolf (Penn State)
4-seed #5 Joshua Shields (Arizona State)
5-seed #4 Alec Pantaleo (Michigan)
6-seed #6 Michael Kemerer (Iowa)
7-seed #7 Micah Jordan (Ohio State)
8-seed #10 Tyler Berger (Nebraska)
9-seed #8 Archie Colgan (Wyoming)
10-seed #14 Markus Scheidel (Columbia)
11-seed #9 Clayton Ream (North Dakota State)
12-seed #11 Mitch Finesilver (Duke)
13-seed #12 Luke Zilverberg (South Dakota State)
14-seed #13 Andrew Crone (Wisconsin)
15-seed #18 John Van Brill (Rutgers)
16-seed #15 Mike D'Angelo (Princeton)
#16 Paul Fox (Stanford)
#16 Jake Short (Minnesota)
#19 Kennedy Monday (North Carolina)
#20 Coleman Hammond (CSU Bakersfield)
#21 Garett Hammond (Drexel)
#21 Colin Heffernan (Central Michigan)
#23 Taleb Rahmani (Pittsburgh)
#24 Ian Brown (Lehigh)
#25 Larry Early (Old Dominion)
#26 Andrew Shomers (Edinboro)
#27 Alex Klucker (Lock Haven)
#30 Tyler Marinelli (Gardner-Webb)
#31 Justin Staudenmayer (Brown)
#33 Casey Sparkman (Kent State)
#33 Lucas Weiland (Army West Point)
174 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Zahid Valencia (Arizona State)
2-seed #2 Mark Hall (Penn State)
3-seed #3 Daniel Lewis (Missouri)
4-seed #4 Jordan Kutler (Lehigh)
5-seed #5 Myles Amine (Michigan)
6-seed #6 Bo Jordan (Ohio State)
7-seed #7 Tyler Lujan (Northern Iowa)
8-seed #8 Jadaen Bernstein (Navy)
9-seed #9 Keaton Subjeck (Stanford)
10-seed #12 Ethan Ramos (North Carolina)
11-seed #10 David Kocer (South Dakota State)
12-seed #18 Forrest Przybysz (Appalachian State)
13-seed #11 Jacobe Smith (Oklahoma State)
14-seed #14 Yoanse Mejias (Oklahoma)
15-seed #13 Dylan Lydy (Purdue)
16-seed #15 Christian Brucki (Central Michigan)
#16 Johnny Sebastian (Northwestern)
#17 Brandon Womack (Cornell)
#19 Hunter Bolen (Virginia Tech)
#20 Daniel Bullard (N.C. State)
#21 Matt Finesilver (Duke)
#22 Joseph Gunther (Iowa)
#23 Ben Harvey (Army West Point)
#24 Josef Johnson (Harvard)
#25 Ryan Christensen (Wisconsin)
#26 Devin Skatzka (Indiana)
#27 Ty Schoffstall (Edinboro)
#28 Kimball Bastian (Utah Valley)
#29 Seldon Wright (Old Dominion)
#31 Will Schany (Virginia)
#32 Dean Sherry (Rider)
#33 Austin Rose (Drexel)
197 lbs.:
1-seed #2 Kollin Moore (Ohio State)
2-seed #3 Ben Darmstadt (Cornell)
3-seed #1 Jared Haught (Virginia Tech)
4-seed #4 Michael Macchiavello (N.C. State)
5-seed #5 Shakur Rasheed (Penn State)
6-seed #6 William Miklus (Missouri)
7-seed #9 Frank Mattiace (Penn)
8-seed #7 Nate Rotert (South Dakota State)
9-seed #8 Preston Weigel (Oklahoma State)
10-seed #10 Scottie Boykin (UT-Chattanooga)
11-seed #12 Corey Griego (Oregon State)
12-seed #19 Stephen Loiseau (Drexel)
13-seed #11 Jeric Kasunic (American)
14-seed #13 Cash Wilcke (Iowa)
15-seed #16 Matt Williams (CSU Bakersfield)
16-seed #23 Christian Brunner (Purdue)
#15 Jacob Holschlag (Northern Iowa)
#17 Daniel Chaid (North Carolina)
#18 Patrick Brucki (Princeton)
#20 Jacob Smith (West Virginia)
#21 Chris Weiler (Lehigh)
#22 Hunter Ritter (Wisconsin)
#24 Nathan Traxler (Stanford)
#25 Kyle Conel (Kent State)
#26 Thomas Lane (Cal Poly)
#27 Jordan Atienza (Central Michigan)
#27 Jacob Seely (Northern Colorado)
#29 Eric Schultz (Nebraska)
#30 Dustin Conti (Clarion)
#31 Randall Diabe (Appalachian State)
#33 Rocco Caywood (Army West Point)
For more information on Army West Point wrestling, visit GoArmyWestPoint.com and follow @ArmyWP_Wres on Twitter.
The three-day tournament runs from Thursday to Saturday at the Quicken Loans Arena. All six sessions will have each mat televised on ESPN for the fourth-consecutive year with the second round, semifinals and finals in prime-time slots. Tim Johnson and Anthony Robles will be covering the event for ESPN, along with Jim Gibbons and Billy Baldwin as a guest analyst.
Live Stats | Watch on ESPN
Tournament Central | Army Notes
TWITTER • ArmyWP_Wres
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 15
Session 1 | 12 p.m. – Championship Pigtails and First Round (ESPNU)
Session 2 | 7 p.m. – Championship Second Round (ESPN)
Wrestleback Prelims, First Round Wrestlebacks and Consolation Round (ESPN3)
FRIDAY, MARCH 16
Session 3 | 11 a.m. – Championship Quarterfinals (EPNU)
Wrestleback Second and Third Rounds (ESPN3)
Session 4 | 8 p.m. – Championship Semifinals (ESPN)
Wrestleback Fourth and Fifth Rounds (ESPN3)
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
Session 5 | 11 a.m. – Wrestleback Semifinals; Third, Fifth and Seventh Place Medal Round Matches (ESPN3)
Session 6 | 8 p.m. – Championship Finals (ESPN2)
ARMY (3-6, 2-3 EIWA)
• Last time out, the Black Knights took eighth at the EIWA Championships with six podium finishes.
• Weiland leads the team with 22 wins on the year and is one of four Army wrestlers with double-digit bonus point wins.
• The sophomore 157-pounder owns 10 bonus point victories on two falls, three technical falls and five major decisions.
• Harvey leads the squad with five wins over ranked opponents during the 2017-18 campaign, including top-10 opponents Ethan Ramos of North Carolina (7th) and Jadaen Bernstein of Navy (8th).
ARMY AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• This will be the first time that all of Army's competitors will be making their NCAA debuts since the 2012-13 championships when Connor Hanafee (141 lbs.) Daniel Young (149 lbs.), Paul Hancock (165 lbs.) and Bryce Barnes (197 lbs.) did so.
• Harvey is the fourth cadet-athlete to compete at 174 pounds in the last five years, joining his brother, Brian Harvey, who qualified in 2013-14, '14-15 and '15-16.
• The Black Knights have earned 19 All-America 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.
• The program's best team finish came at both the 1965 and '66 championships when the Black Knights finished 10th.
ARMY NCAA PARTICIPANTS
157 lbs.: #33 Lucas Weiland
174 lbs.: #23 Ben Harvey
197 lbs.: #33 Rocco Caywood
THE FIELD
• There are 46 returning All-Americans from last year's tournament, including eight of the 10 reigning champions.
• The 157 and 174 pound weight classes are the deepest in that regard, each having a tournament-high six returning placewinners from a year ago.
• The 197-pound weight class has the fewest returning All-Americans with three with neither 2017 finalist being in this year's tournament.
• Penn State and Ohio State both return six All-Americans, the most of any team.
SEEDINGS/RANKINGS BY WEIGHT CLASS
*Rankings from latest NWCA Coaches' Panel (March 8)
157 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Hayden Hidlay (N.C. State)
2-seed #3 Joseph Lavallee (Missouri)
3-seed #2 Jason Nolf (Penn State)
4-seed #5 Joshua Shields (Arizona State)
5-seed #4 Alec Pantaleo (Michigan)
6-seed #6 Michael Kemerer (Iowa)
7-seed #7 Micah Jordan (Ohio State)
8-seed #10 Tyler Berger (Nebraska)
9-seed #8 Archie Colgan (Wyoming)
10-seed #14 Markus Scheidel (Columbia)
11-seed #9 Clayton Ream (North Dakota State)
12-seed #11 Mitch Finesilver (Duke)
13-seed #12 Luke Zilverberg (South Dakota State)
14-seed #13 Andrew Crone (Wisconsin)
15-seed #18 John Van Brill (Rutgers)
16-seed #15 Mike D'Angelo (Princeton)
#16 Paul Fox (Stanford)
#16 Jake Short (Minnesota)
#19 Kennedy Monday (North Carolina)
#20 Coleman Hammond (CSU Bakersfield)
#21 Garett Hammond (Drexel)
#21 Colin Heffernan (Central Michigan)
#23 Taleb Rahmani (Pittsburgh)
#24 Ian Brown (Lehigh)
#25 Larry Early (Old Dominion)
#26 Andrew Shomers (Edinboro)
#27 Alex Klucker (Lock Haven)
#30 Tyler Marinelli (Gardner-Webb)
#31 Justin Staudenmayer (Brown)
#33 Casey Sparkman (Kent State)
#33 Lucas Weiland (Army West Point)
174 lbs.:
1-seed #1 Zahid Valencia (Arizona State)
2-seed #2 Mark Hall (Penn State)
3-seed #3 Daniel Lewis (Missouri)
4-seed #4 Jordan Kutler (Lehigh)
5-seed #5 Myles Amine (Michigan)
6-seed #6 Bo Jordan (Ohio State)
7-seed #7 Tyler Lujan (Northern Iowa)
8-seed #8 Jadaen Bernstein (Navy)
9-seed #9 Keaton Subjeck (Stanford)
10-seed #12 Ethan Ramos (North Carolina)
11-seed #10 David Kocer (South Dakota State)
12-seed #18 Forrest Przybysz (Appalachian State)
13-seed #11 Jacobe Smith (Oklahoma State)
14-seed #14 Yoanse Mejias (Oklahoma)
15-seed #13 Dylan Lydy (Purdue)
16-seed #15 Christian Brucki (Central Michigan)
#16 Johnny Sebastian (Northwestern)
#17 Brandon Womack (Cornell)
#19 Hunter Bolen (Virginia Tech)
#20 Daniel Bullard (N.C. State)
#21 Matt Finesilver (Duke)
#22 Joseph Gunther (Iowa)
#23 Ben Harvey (Army West Point)
#24 Josef Johnson (Harvard)
#25 Ryan Christensen (Wisconsin)
#26 Devin Skatzka (Indiana)
#27 Ty Schoffstall (Edinboro)
#28 Kimball Bastian (Utah Valley)
#29 Seldon Wright (Old Dominion)
#31 Will Schany (Virginia)
#32 Dean Sherry (Rider)
#33 Austin Rose (Drexel)
197 lbs.:
1-seed #2 Kollin Moore (Ohio State)
2-seed #3 Ben Darmstadt (Cornell)
3-seed #1 Jared Haught (Virginia Tech)
4-seed #4 Michael Macchiavello (N.C. State)
5-seed #5 Shakur Rasheed (Penn State)
6-seed #6 William Miklus (Missouri)
7-seed #9 Frank Mattiace (Penn)
8-seed #7 Nate Rotert (South Dakota State)
9-seed #8 Preston Weigel (Oklahoma State)
10-seed #10 Scottie Boykin (UT-Chattanooga)
11-seed #12 Corey Griego (Oregon State)
12-seed #19 Stephen Loiseau (Drexel)
13-seed #11 Jeric Kasunic (American)
14-seed #13 Cash Wilcke (Iowa)
15-seed #16 Matt Williams (CSU Bakersfield)
16-seed #23 Christian Brunner (Purdue)
#15 Jacob Holschlag (Northern Iowa)
#17 Daniel Chaid (North Carolina)
#18 Patrick Brucki (Princeton)
#20 Jacob Smith (West Virginia)
#21 Chris Weiler (Lehigh)
#22 Hunter Ritter (Wisconsin)
#24 Nathan Traxler (Stanford)
#25 Kyle Conel (Kent State)
#26 Thomas Lane (Cal Poly)
#27 Jordan Atienza (Central Michigan)
#27 Jacob Seely (Northern Colorado)
#29 Eric Schultz (Nebraska)
#30 Dustin Conti (Clarion)
#31 Randall Diabe (Appalachian State)
#33 Rocco Caywood (Army West Point)
For more information on Army West Point wrestling, visit GoArmyWestPoint.com and follow @ArmyWP_Wres on Twitter.
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