Wrestling

Three Bulldog wrestlers placed at the Buena Vista Open on Saturday in the team’s last competition of 2010.

Concordia University freshman Adam Joseph is ranked nationally in the latest NAIA individual ratings. Joseph is sixth in this week’s poll. Jordan Murphy (Briar Cliff) is the only other GPAC wrestler ranked nationally in the 133-pound weight class.

Three Concordia wrestlers are listed in the latest NAIA North Region rankings released on Monday. Adam Joseph, Brandon Starkey and Julian Silva are all ranked in their respective weight classes.

Blake Augustyn, a freshman from Ord, Nebraska, had an excellent performance at the Simpson College Invitational over the weekend. Augustyn qualified for the 2011 NAIA national wrestling championships.

The Concordia University wrestling team will take part in the Simpson College Invitational on Saturday. There will be live video on mat 1 during the tournament, which is also where the finals will be held. Results will also be available on the Simpson College website following the tournament.

The Concordia University wrestling team will compete in their first dual meet of the season against Wheaton College on November 19 at 6 pm in Mequon, Wis. Concordia University (Wis.) will host the dual.

For the second straight weekend, the Concordia University wrestling team posted a winning record in a double elimination tournament. Three Bulldog wrestlers posted five or more wins and placed in the Knox College Invitational, a tournament that lasted just over 11 hours.

The Bulldog wrestling team, fresh off of placing nine wrestlers in the Yellowjacket Open this past weekend, travels to Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) this weekend for a 12-team invitational tournament.

The Bulldog wrestling program opens up the 2010-2011 campaign at the Yellowjacket Open in Rochester, MN hosted by Rochester Community and Technical College on Saturday, November 6.