Kyle Dake Looks To Cap Freshman Season At Cornell With 141 Pound Title

The 2010 NCAA Wrestling Championships get underway on March 18th with three days of terrific wrestling, culminating in the crowning of 10 individual champions and a new team champion.

Iowa University is once again the heavy favorite after a dominating performance at the Big 10 Championships.  Bring their entire squad to the tournament, they look to place strong and put the pressure on everyone else to score.

Iowa State and Cornell look to be the two team most likely to upset the reigning champs.  Iowa State brings 10 competitors as well, giving them equal opportunity to score.  The also feature two top-seeds in Jake Varner and David Zabriskie.  Cornell brings 7 wrestlers to the event, with Troy Nickerson, Kyle Dake and Mack Lewnes favored to bring home titles.

The pressure will clearly been on Iowa this year.

Check back with Benchwarmers United for live result updates and a live video stream as action gets underway.  Let us be your top source for college wrestling news as the season comes to an end.

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Live Results and Brackets

Live Results are available at NWCAOnline.com.  Tournament Brackets below will be updated throughout the day courtesy of CSTV.com:

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The NCAA revealed this evening next week’s seeds and brackets for the 2010 NCAA Wrestling Tournament.   The tournament will be held March 18th to March 20th in Omaha, Nebraska.  330 wrestlers will compete in 10 weight classes to earn the NCAA Championship, with those finishing in the Top 8 earning All-American status.

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Complete brackets are available at NCAA.com.

The following are the top seeds for each weight class heading into the tournament.

125 Pounds

#1    Angel Escobedo (Indiana)   33-0
#2    Troy Nickerson (Cornell)   13-1
#3    Matt McDonough (Iowa)   32-1
#4    Anthony Robles (Ariz St)   28-2
#5    Andrew Long (Iowa St)   23-6
#6    Zachary Sanders (Minn)   23-5
#7    James Nicholson (Old Dom)   30-1
#8    Matt Steintrager (C Mich)   23-3
#9    Jarrod Patterson (Okla)   28-9
#10    Christopher Notte (Okla St)   23-8
#11    Michael Martinez (Wyoming)   30-7
#12    Ben Kjar (Utah Val U)   30-8

133 Pounds

#1    Jayson Ness (Minn)   26-0
#2    Daniel Dennis (Iowa)   18-3
#3    Franklin Gomez (Mich St)   23-2
#4    Jordan Oliver (Okla St)   28-2
#5    Borislav Novachkov (Cal Poly)   24-3
#6    Dan Mitcheff (Kent St)   30-3
#7    Mike Grey (Cornell)   35-6
#8    Tyler Graff (Wisconsin)   26-7
#9    Steve Bell (Maryland)   23-5
#10    Nicholas Fanthorpe (Iowa St)   16-7
#11    Scotti Sentes (C Mich)   20-7
#12    Steve Mytych (Drexel)   33-6

141 Pounds

#1    Kyle Dake (Cornell)   29-2
#2    Jamal Parks (Okla St)   28-5
#3    Michael Thorn (Minn)   24-5
#4    Zack Bailey (Okla)   24-6
#5    Reece Humphrey (Ohio St)   29-3
#6    Montel Marion (Iowa)   23-5
#7    Filip Novachkov (Cal Poly)   23-6
#8    Alex Krom (Maryland)   20-5
#9    Levi Jones (Boise St)   17-8
#10    Tyler Nauman (Pittsburgh)   33-3
#11    Christopher Diaz (VA Tech)   29-4
#12    Adin Duenas (CSU Fuller)   20-8

149 Pounds

#1    Lance Palmer (Ohio St)   27-2
#2    Brent Metcalf (Iowa)   31-1
#3    Kyle Terry (Okla)   26-2
#4    Kyle Ruschell (Wisconsin)   28-3
#5    Frank Molinaro (Penn St)   29-5
#6    Matthew Kyler (Army)   30-3
#7    Mitch Mueller (Iowa St)   25-8
#8    Jason Chamberlain (Boise St)   24-8
#9    Kevin LeValley (Bucknell)   37-6
#10    Barrett Abel (UC Davis)   21-7
#11    Desmond Green (Buffalo)   27-6
#12    Mario Mason (Minn)   19-10

157 Pounds

#1    J.P. O’Connor (Harvard)   30-0
#2    Adam Hall (Boise St)   28-2
#3    Jesse Dong (VA Tech)   34-3
#4    Cyler Sanderson (Penn St)   28-4
#5    Steve Fittery (American)   29-2
#6    Dustin Schlatter (Minn)   14-2
#7    Chase Pami (Cal Poly)   25-6
#8    Bryce Saddoris (Navy)   31-10
#9    Matt Moley (Bloom)   25-3
#10    Shane Vernon (Okla)   20-5
#11    Robert Erisman (Okla St)   27-8
#12    Steven Brown (C Mich)   13-3

165 Pounds

#1    Andrew Howe (Wisconsin)   32-0
#2    Jarrod King (Edinboro)   34-1
#3    Nick Marable (Missouri)   33-3
#4    Jonathan Reader (Iowa St)   22-4
#5    Colt Sponseller (Ohio St)   27-5
#6    Dan Vallimont (Penn St)   27-7
#7    Ryan Morningstar (Iowa)   26-6
#8    Shane Onufer (Wyoming)   27-5
#9    Andrew Rendos (Bucknell)   29-3
#10    Alex Meade (Okla St)   28-8
#11    Rick Schmelyun (Bloom)   28-7
#12    Paul Young (Indiana)   33-8

174 Pounds

#1    Mack Lewnes (Cornell)   36-0
#2    Jay Borschel (Iowa)   32-0
#3    Christopher Henrich (Virginia)   29-2
#4    Stephen Dwyer (Nebraska)   24-3
#5    Scott Glasser (Minn)   30-6
#6    Mike Benefiel (Okla St)   31-4
#7    Ben Bennett (C Mich)   21-5
#8    Colby Covington (Oreg St)   38-5
#9    Luke Manuel (Purdue)   38-4
#10    Jordan Blanton (Illinois)   14-7
#11    Joshua Patterson (Bing)   26-6
#12    Bagna Tovuujav (George Mason)   30-8

184 Pounds

#1    Kirk Smith (Boise St)   25-0
#2    John Dergo (Illinois)   26-2
#3    Dustin Kilgore (Kent St)   33-1
#4    Michael Cannon (American)   25-1
#5    Clayton Foster (Okla St)   19-3
#6    Maxwell Askren (Missouri)   15-2
#7    Joe LeBlanc (Wyoming)   35-4
#8    Louis Caputo (Harvard)   22-3
#9    Philip Keddy (Iowa)   23-7
#10    Mike Pucillo (Ohio St)   20-7
#11    Dave Erwin (Penn St)   29-8
#12    David Craig (Lehigh)   22-5

197 Pounds

#1    Jake Varner (Iowa St)   26-0
#2    Craig Brester (Nebraska)   26-2
#3    Hudson Taylor (Maryland)   38-2
#4    Cam Simaz (Cornell)   37-5
#5    Trevor Brandvold (Wisconsin)   20-3
#6    Eric Lapotsky (Okla)   24-6
#7    Anthony Biondo (Mich)   33-5
#8    Sonny Yohn (Minn)   24-10
#9    Chad Beatty (Iowa)   14-3
#10    Jesse Strawn (Old Dom)   29-5
#11    Patrick Bond (Illinois)   16-11
#12    Brent Haynes (Missouri)   25-13

285 Pounds

#1    David Zabriskie (Iowa St)   21-2
#2    Jared Rosholt (Okla St)   30-2
#3    Zachery Rey (Lehigh)   28-4
#4    Konrad Dudziak (Duke)   14-0
#5    Daniel Erekson (Iowa)   12-0
#6    Nathan Everhart (Indiana)   35-1
#7    Jarod Trice (C Mich)   23-2
#8    Ryan Tomei (Pittsburgh)   32-5
#9    Mark Ellis (Missouri)   18-10
#10    Dominick Russo (Rutgers)   29-6
#11    Mitchell Monteiro (CSU Baker)   16-5
#12    Scott Steele (Navy)   14-3