NCAA Wrestling Data1928–2026

1930 NCAA Championships

125 lb

Champion Laurance Mantooth, Oklahoma.Original bracket sheet ↗

All-Americans

  1. 1Laurance MantoothOU
  2. 2Lyle MorfordCORNC
  3. 3Howard ClineOKST
  4. 4Colby GravesVT

Second place was decided in a separate bout after the final. The runner-up won, so the wrestlers he had beaten wrestled back for 3rd place.

Every wrestler in this weight had an opening-round bye on the printed sheet, so the board starts at the quarterfinals.

Connected 1930 125-pound bracket

Select a name to highlight their path; select it again to open the profile. Select a score for the bout.

How to read this bracket
  • Tap a name to follow that wrestler; tap it again to open their profile.
  • "Cons →" is where the loser continues in the consolation bracket; tap it to go there.
  • "↩" is where a wrestler arrived from the championship bracket.
  • The score opens the bout.
Final →Placements →

Championship

Consolation

Championship

Opening round · 0 bouts

8 byes into the quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal · 4 bouts

    1. Frank Stella, Tufts (MA) over Arthur Klein, Harvard (MA) — Dec TA 5:49 · View bout
    2. George LaFavour, Northwestern (IL) over Hyman 'Henry' Krakowsky, Case-Western Reserve (OH) — Dec TA 4:20 · View bout
    3. Laurance Mantooth, Oklahoma over Howard Cline, Oklahoma State — Dec TA 3:45 · View bout
    4. Lyle Morford, Cornell College (IA) over Colby Graves, Virginia Tech — Fall 4:44 · View bout

    Semifinal · 2 bouts

    1. Laurance Mantooth, Oklahoma over Frank Stella, Tufts (MA) — Dec TA 6:35 · View bout
    2. Lyle Morford, Cornell College (IA) over George LaFavour, Northwestern (IL) — Dec TA 3:56 · View bout

    Final · 1 bout

    1. Laurance Mantooth, Oklahoma over Lyle Morford, Cornell College (IA) — Dec TA 1:49 · View bout

    Consolation

    Consolation round 5 · 0 bouts

    2 byes into the consolation semifinal

      Consolation semifinal · 2 bouts

      1. Colby Graves, Virginia Tech over George LaFavour, Northwestern (IL) — Dec (no score) · View bout
      2. Howard Cline, Oklahoma State over Frank Stella, Tufts (MA) — Not recorded · View bout

      Placement bouts

      2nd-place bout · 1 bout

      1. Lyle Morford, Cornell College (IA) over Howard Cline, Oklahoma State — Dec (no score) · View bout

      3rd-place bout · 1 bout

      1. Howard Cline, Oklahoma State over Colby Graves, Virginia Tech — Dec (no score) · View bout