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Ohio State wins its first ever NCAA Wrestling Championship

By Josh Sanchez

Mar 8, 2015; Columbus, OH, USA; The Ohio State Buckeyes players celebrate the Big Ten Wrestling title as part of the Big Ten Championships at St. John Arena. Mandatory Credit: Joe Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 8, 2015; Columbus, OH, USA; The Ohio State Buckeyes players celebrate the Big Ten Wrestling title as part of the Big Ten Championships at St. John Arena. Mandatory Credit: Joe Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports /
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For the first time in the history of the program, the Ohio State Buckeyes wrestling team has won the national championship. 

The Ohio State Buckeyes are your national champions. Following the lead of the university’s football program, the Ohio State wrestling program rose to the top of the collegiate world at the 2015 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

Ohio State entered the final day of competition with a commanding lead over the rest of the field. The Iowa Hawkeyes were second-place in the overall team standings, but they were never able to close the gap.

In the end, it was the Buckeyes who earned their first ever wrestling national championship in the program’s 94-year history.

One of the first people to congratulate the Ohio State wrestling team was head football coach Urban Meyer.

Now, Ohio State will turn their attention to individual titles.

Nathan Tomasello, Logan Stieber and Kyle Snyder are the three Buckeyes who will be representing Ohio State in tonight’s finals at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. You can see the full list of matchups for the 2015 NCAA Wrestling Championships final below.

125 Pounds: 4-Nathan Tomasello, Ohio State vs. Zeke Moisey, West Virginia
133 Pounds: 13-Cody Brewer, Oklahoma vs. 3-Cory Clark, Iowa
141 Pounds: 1-Logan Stieber, Ohio State vs. 2-Mitchell Port, Edinboro
149 Pounds: 1-Drake Houdashelt, Missouri vs. 3-David Habat, Edinboro
157 Pounds: 1-Isaiah Martinez, Illinois vs. 2-Brian Realbuto, Cornell
165 Pounds: 1-Alex Dieringer, Oklahoma State vs. 6-Taylor Walsh, Indiana
174 Pounds: 2-Matthew Brown, Penn State vs. 8-Tyler Wilps, Pittsburgh
184 Pounds: 1-Gabe Dean, Cornell vs. 7-Nathaniel Brown, Lehigh
197 Pounds: 3-Kyven Gadson, Iowa State  vs. 4-Kyle Snyder, Ohio State
285 Pounds: 1-Nick Gwiazdowski, N.C. State vs. 6-Adam Coon, Michigan

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