1948 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and results for all 8 weights.
The 1948 NCAA championships had eight weights and 168 bouts, wrestled in numbered rounds instead of a bracket. Oklahoma State won the team title with 33 points; Michigan State was second with 28. Oklahoma State had two of the eight individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Bill Koll, Northern Iowa · 5 falls in 19:17
Individual champions
In 1948 the championships used numbered rounds instead of a bracket, so there was no final. Champions come from the official placement list.
Team standings
Standings source →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1948
Head coach for the 1948 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma State | Art Griffith | 33 |
| 2 | Michigan State | Fendley Collins | 28 |
| 3 | Illinois | Glenn Law | 23 |
| T4 | Iowa | Mike Howard | 15 |
| T4 | Northern Iowa | Dave McCuskey | 15 |
| T4 | Purdue (IN) | Claude Reeck | 15 |
| 7 | Minnesota | Dave Bartelma | 12 |
| 8 | Waynesburg (PA) | Raymond Murdock | 11 |
| T9 | Colorado State | Julius Wagner | 9 |
| T9 | Iowa State | Hugo Otopalik | 9 |
| T9 | Navy (MD) | Ray Swartz | 9 |
| 12 | Lock Haven (PA) | Hubert Jack | 7 |
| 13 | Nebraska | B.R. Patterson | 5 |
| T14 | Franklin & Marshall (PA) | W. Austin Bishop | 3 |
| T14 | Lehigh (PA) | Billy Sheridan | 3 |
| T16 | Hofstra (NY) | Walter Stone | 2 |
| T16 | Indiana (IN) | Charlie McDaniel | 2 |
| T16 | Penn State | Charlie Speidel | 2 |
| T16 | Rutgers (NJ) | Dick Voliva | 2 |
| T16 | Syracuse (NY) | Joe McDaniel | 2 |
| T21 | Colorado (College) | Bill Goodnight | 1 |
| T21 | Kansas State | Leon Reynard | 1 |
| T21 | Williams (MA) | Not yet established | 1 |
Cite this page: “1948 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1948/