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Nickal, Mueller and Perez are Top 5 in Most Dominant Categories

3 Texas wrestlers topping the most dominant  categories in the D1 NCAA,  Bo Nickal of Penn State (Allen) and Jack Mueller of Virginia (TCA) are 1 and 3 for most dominate wrestler .
Quentin Perez of Campbell (Arlington) is 4th for most tech falls.

Div. I Awards Standings heading into NCAAs: Nickal tops most dominant, Stencel in falls, Shoop in techs

BY MATTHEW HOLMES, NCAA | MARCH 14, 2019, 6:38 P.M. (ET)

Image of Bo Nickal of Penn State, the leader in the NCAA Most Dominant standings, courtesy of Penn State Athletics.

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2019 NCAA Wrestling Awards that will be awarded March 23 at the Division I Wrestling Championships.

The inaugural NCAA Wrestling Awards were presented at the 2012 wrestling championships. The three awards honor the Most Dominant Wrestler as well as the studentathletes that have accumulated the most falls and the most technical falls throughout the course of the regular and postseasons.

For results to be counted they must come against opponents in the same division (i.e. Division I vs. Division I). Ties in the falls and tech falls categories are broken based on the aggregate time.

Bo Nickal (5.24 average team points) and Jason Nolf (5.15) of Penn State will enter the NCAA Championships ranked as the top two in the race for most dominant. Both wrestlers won Big Ten Championships over the weekend and will be No. 1 seeds at nationals. Virginia 125-pounder Jack Mueller reached the 17-match minimum by winning the ACC championship and has compiled 4.94 team points per match while going 17-0 to rank third. Vincenzo Joseph of Penn State and Daniel Lewis of Missouri round out the top five.

The Most Dominant Wrestler standings are calculated by adding the total number of points awarded through match results and dividing that number by the total number of matches wrestled.
Points per match are awarded as follows:
* Fall, forfeit, injury default or DQ = 6 points (-6 points for a loss)
* Tech falls = 5 points (-5 points for a loss)
* Major decision = 4 points (-4 points for a loss)
* Decision = 3 points (-3 points for a loss)

Central Michigan heavyweight Matt Stencel earned a fall in the semifinals on his way to a Mid-American Conference championship and enters the NCAA Championships leading Division I with 18 falls. George Mason 165-pounder Colston DiBlasi also had a fall at the Eastern Wrestling League Championships to stay within one of Stencel with 17. Missouri 141-pounder Jaydin Eierman tallied falls in the semis and final to win the MAC championship and is third with 16 falls.

Lock Haven 141-pounder Kyle Shoop increased his lead to three in the race for most tech falls with 15 this season, three more than Daton Fix of Oklahoma State with 12, while Nicolas Piccininni of the Cowboys has 11 and Quentin Perez (Campbell) and Ethan Lizak (Minnesota) each have 10.

NCAA Stat Leaders – Most Dominant
Division I
Rank/Name/School/Weight/Avg. Team Points

1 Bo Nickal Penn St. 197 5.24
2 Jason Nolf Penn St. 157 5.15
3 Jack Mueller Virginia 125 4.94
4 Vincenzo Joseph Penn St. 165 4.71
5 Daniel Lewis Missouri 174 4.68
6 Shakur Rasheed Penn St. 184 4.58
7 Alex Marinelli Iowa 165 4.57
Yianni Diakomihalis Cornell 141 4.57
9 Jaydin Eierman Missouri 141 4.38
10 Nicholas Piccininni Oklahoma St. 125 4.35
17-match minimum in division required to be ranked.

NCAA Stat Leaders – Falls
Division I
Rank/Name/School/Weight/Falls/Time

1 Matt Stencel Central Mich. 285 18 42:02
2 Colston DiBlasi George Mason 165 17 65:12
3 Jaydin Eierman Missouri 141 16 65:04
4 Bo Nickal Penn St. 197 15 31:53
5 Daniel Lewis Missouri 174 14 32:35
6 Jason Nolf Penn St. 157 14 48:05
7 Vincenzo Joseph Penn St. 165 13 41:07
8 Andrew McNally Kent St. 184 13 43:17
9 Drew Hughes Michigan St. 174 11 29:46
10 Jacob Schwarm UNI 125 11 33:28

NCAA Stat Leaders – Tech Falls
Division I
Rank/Name/School/Weight/Tech Falls/Time

1 Kyle Shoop Lock Haven 133 15 66:24
2 Daton Fix Oklahoma St. 133 12 59:46
3 Nicholas Piccininni Oklahoma St. 125 11 55:33
4 Quentin Perez Campbell 174 10 41:44
5 Ethan Lizak Minnesota 133 10 44:59
6 RayVon Foley Michigan St. 125 9 48:37
7 Cam Sykora North Dakota St. 133 9 50:53
8 Stephen Loiseau Drexel 197 8 28:18
9 Kevin Parker Princeton 184 8 35:13
10 Branson Ashworth Wyoming 165 8 36:49

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