1949 NCAA Championships

Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 8 weights.

The 1949 NCAA championships had eight weights and 152 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 32 points; Northern Iowa was second with 27. Oklahoma State had two of the eight individual champions.

8weights

8individual champions

152bouts

37wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Russ Bush, Northern Iowa · 3 falls in 13:00

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Individual champions

1949 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
121	Arnold Plaza (1) · 2nd titlePurdue (IN)	Purdue (IN)	Dec 3–1 over Grady Peninger (2), Oklahoma State
128	Charles Hetrick (3)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 4–1 over Leo Thomsen (1), Cornell College (IA)
136	Lowell Lange (1) · 2nd titleCornell College (IA)	Cornell College (IA)	Dec 6–0 over Dick Dickenson (2), Michigan State
145	Keith Young (2)Northern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 3–0 over Don Anderson (1), Michigan State
155	Bill Nelson (1) · 2nd titleNorthern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 3–0 over Ken Hunte (3), Syracuse (NY)
165	Bill Smith (1)Northern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 6–1 over Melbourne Flesner (3), Oklahoma State
175	Jim Gregson (2)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 3–1 over Joe Scarpello (1), Iowa
Unlimited	Verne Gagne (2) · 2nd titleMinnesota	Minnesota	Dec 1–1 (tiebreaker) over Dick Hutton (1), Oklahoma State

Team standings

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Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1949

Head coach for the 1949 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1949 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Oklahoma State	Art Griffith	32
2	Northern Iowa	Dave McCuskey	27
3	Cornell College (IA)	Paul K. Scott	22
4	Michigan State	Fendley Collins	13
5	Minnesota	Dave Bartelma	11
6	Purdue (IN)	Claude Reeck	9
T7	Iowa	Mike Howard	5
T7	Nebraska	B.R. Patterson	5
9	Syracuse (NY)	Joe McDaniel	4
T10	Colorado State	Julius Wagner	3
T10	Illinois	Glenn Law	3
T12	Navy (MD)	Ray Swartz	2
T12	Penn State	Charlie Speidel	2
T14	Indiana (IN)	Charlie McDaniel	1
T14	Iowa State	Hugo Otopalik	1
T14	Ithaca (NY)	Clyde E. Cole	1
T14	Kansas State	Leon Reynard	1
T14	Utah State	George Nelson	1
T14	Wheaton (IL)	George Olson	1

15 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1949 scoring rules.

1949 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach
20*	Amherst (MA)	Joseph T. Maras
20*	Auburn (AL)	Arnold W. Umbach
20*	Brigham Young (UT)	Reed Nilsen
20*	California-Berkeley	Henry Stone
20*	California-Poly	Sheldon Harden
20*	Colorado	Ray Jenkins
20*	Colorado Mines	Keith E. Bowen
20*	Denver (CO)	William H. Kerr
20*	Georgia Tech	Bob Miller
20*	Nebraska Omaha	Allie Morrison
20*	Northern Colorado	John Hancock
20*	San Diego State (CA)	Armando Rodriguez
20*	Virginia Military	Sam Barnes
20*	Washington State	William Tomaras
20*	Wyoming	Everett Lantz

Cite this page: “1949 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1949/