1966 NCAA Championships

Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 11 weights.

The 1966 NCAA championships had 11 weights and 317 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 79 points; Iowa State was second with 70. Oklahoma State had three of the 11 individual champions.

11weights

11individual champions

317bouts

45wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Tom Peckham, Iowa State · 3 falls in 10:50

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Individual champions

1966 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
115	Rick Sanders (4)Portland State (OR)	Portland State (OR)	Dec 9–2 over Ernie Gillum (3), Iowa State
123	Mike Caruso (1) · 2nd titleLehigh (PA)	Lehigh (PA)	Dec 9–6 over Bob Fehrs (2), Michigan
130	Yojiro Uetake (1) · 3rd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Fall 4:31 over Joe Peritore (2), Lehigh (PA)
137	Gene Davis (3)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 4–3 over Mike Sager (4), Oklahoma
145	Bill BlacksmithLock Haven (PA)	Lock Haven (PA)	Dec 7–1 over Dale Bahr (3), Iowa State
152	Dick Cook (3)Michigan State	Michigan State	Dec 3–0 over Joe Bavaro (1), Gettysburg (PA)
160	Greg Ruth (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma	Oklahoma	Fall 8:54 over Vic Marcucci (2), Iowa State
167	Dave Reinbolt (4)Ohio State	Ohio State	Dec 13–11 over Roger Mickish (3), Oklahoma
177	Tom Peckham (1) · 2nd titleIowa State	Iowa State	Fall 3:43 over Fred Fozzard (3), Oklahoma State
191	Bill Harlow (1)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 3–2 over Don Buzzard Jr. (2), Iowa State
Unlimited	Dave Porter (2)Michigan	Michigan	Dec 15–4 over Bob Billberg (1), Minnesota-Moorhead

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1966

Head coach for the 1966 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1966 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Oklahoma State	Myron Roderick	79
2	Iowa State	Harold Nichols	70
3	Oklahoma	Tommy Evans	69
4	Lehigh (PA)	Gerry Leeman	48
5	Michigan	Cliff Keen	47
6	Michigan State	Grady Peninger	32
7	Lock Haven (PA)	Gray Simons	22
T8	East Stroudsburg (PA)	Clyde H. Witman	21
T8	Portland State (OR)	Howard Westcott	21
10	Army (NY)	LeRoy Alitz	17
11	Ohio State	Casey Fredericks	16
T12	Gettysburg (PA)	Ray Reider	13
T12	Minnesota-Moorhead	Bill Garland	13
14	Northern Colorado	Jack LaBonde	11
T15	Indiana (IN)	Charlie McDaniel	9
T15	Oregon	Art Keith	9
T15	Utah State	Delwin W. McCrary	9
T15	Wilkes (PA)	John Reese	9
19	Navy (MD)	Ed Peery	8
T20	Kansas State	Fritz Knorr	7
T20	Temple (PA)	John Rogers	7
T20	Wisconsin	George Martin	7

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1966 team standings, continued
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
T23	Albany (NY)	Joseph Garcia	6
T23	Indiana State	Chester Sanders	6
T23	Lycoming (PA)	Budd Whitehill	6
T23	Oregon State	Dale Thomas	6
T23	Penn State	Bill Koll	6
T29	California-Los Angeles	Dave Hollinger	5
T29	Washington State	Roger James	5
T31	Moravian (PA)	Not yet established	4
T31	Western Colorado	Leroy Tracy Borah	4
T31	Wyoming	Joe McDaniel	4
T34	Bloomsburg (PA)	Russ Houk	3
T34	Georgia Tech	Lowell Lange	3
T34	Minnesota-Mankato	Rometo Macias	3
T34	Nebraska	Orval Borgialli	3
T34	North Carolina State	Al Crawford	3
T39	Arizona State	Ted Bredehoft	2
T39	Coast Guard (CT)	Frank S. Kapral	2
T39	Colorado	Linn Long	2
T39	Ohio	Fred Schleicher	2
T39	San Jose State (CA)	Hugh Mumby	2
T39	Southern Illinois Carbondale	James Wilkinson	2
T45	Adams State (CO)	Frank Powell	1
T45	Arizona	William J. Nelson	1
T45	California-Berkeley	Bill Martell	1
T45	Gustavus Adolphus (MN)	Adryn Sponberg	1
T45	Kent State (OH)	Joe Begala	1
T45	Marquette (WI)	Barney Karpfinger	1
T45	Northern Iowa	Chuck Patten	1
T45	Northwestern (IL)	Ken Kraft	1
T45	Pittsburgh (PA)	Dave Johnson	1
T45	Rutgers (NJ)	Dick Voliva	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1966 scoring rules.

1966 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
23*	California-Poly	Vaughan Hitchcock	6*
55*	Air Force (CO)	Karl Kitt	0*
55*	Augustana (IL)	Ted Kessinger	0*
55*	Bowling Green (OH)	Bruce Bellard	0*
55*	Central Missouri	Roger Denker	0*
55*	Colorado State	Don Mullison	0*
55*	Cortland (NY)	Not yet established	0*
55*	Georgia	Avery Harvill	0*
55*	Maryland	Sully Krouse	0*
55*	Massachusetts Tech	Wilfred Chassey	0*
55*	Montana State	Herb Agocs	0*
55*	New Mexico	Not yet established	0*
55*	North Carolina	Sam Barnes	0*
55*	Northern Illinois	Robert Brigham	0*
55*	Purdue (IN)	Claude Reeck	0*
55*	Rochester Tech (NY)	Earl Fuller	0*
55*	Seton Hall (NJ)	Stephen Evanoff	0*
55*	Shippensburg (PA)	Bill Corman	0*
55*	South Dakota State	Warren Williamson	0*
55*	Southeast Missouri State	Not yet established	0*
55*	Toledo (OH)	Joe Scalzo	0*
55*	Utah	Marvin G. Hess	0*
55*	Virginia	Bernard Schwab	0*
55*	Wesleyan (CT)	John Sotir	0*

Cite this page: “1966 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1966/