1982 NCAA Championships

Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.

The 1982 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 491 bouts. Iowa won the team title with 131.75 points; Iowa State was second with 111. Iowa had three of the 10 individual champions.

10weights

10individual champions

491bouts

75wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Gary Albright, Nebraska · 4 falls in 15:51

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Individual champions

1982 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
118	Barry Davis (1)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 7–5 over Kevin Darkus (3), Iowa State
126	Dan Cuestas (1) · 2nd titleCalifornia-Bakersfield	California-Bakersfield	Dec 10–4 over Scott Barrett, Boise State (ID)
134	CD Mock (2)North Carolina	North Carolina	Dec 9–2 over Don Reese (5), Bloomsburg (PA)
142	Andre Metzger (2) · 2nd titleOklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec 9–6 over Lennie Zalesky (1), Iowa
150	Nate Carr Sr. (2) · 2nd titleIowa State	Iowa State	Dec 5–3 over Kenny Monday (1), Oklahoma State
158	Jim Zalesky (2)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 10–3 over Perry Shea (4), California-Bakersfield
167	Dave Schultz (2)Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec 5–5 (tiebreaker) over Mike Sheets (1), Oklahoma State
177	Mark Schultz (2) · 2nd titleOklahoma	Oklahoma	MD 16–8 over Ed Banach (1), Iowa
190	Pete Bush (4)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 5–5 (tiebreaker) over Mike Mann (2), Iowa State
Unlimited	Bruce Baumgartner (1)Indiana State	Indiana State	Dec 4–2 over Steve Williams (3), Oklahoma

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1982

Head coach for the 1982 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1982 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Iowa	Dan Gable	131.75
2	Iowa State	Harold Nichols	111
3	Oklahoma	Stan Abel	109
4	Oklahoma State	Tommy Chesbro	71.75
5	North Carolina	Bill Lam	47
6	Nebraska	Bob Fehrs	40.25
7	Indiana State	Fran McCann	33
8	Lehigh (PA)	Thad Turner	31.75
9	San Jose State (CA)	T.J. Kerr	26.75
10	Northern Iowa	Chuck Patten	26
11	North Carolina State	Bob Guzzo	24.75
12	Missouri	Bob Kopnisky	23.5
13	Bloomsburg (PA)	Roger Sanders	23.25
14	Penn State	Rich Lorenzo	20.25
15	Boise State (ID)	Mike Young	20
16	Minnesota	Wally Johnson	17.75
17	Navy (MD)	Ed Peery	17
18	Oregon	Ron Finley	16.5
19	Eastern Illinois	Ron Clinton	15.75
20	Louisiana State	Larry Sciacchetano	14.5

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1982 team standings, continued
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
21	Clarion (PA)	Bob Bubb	13.5
22	Wisconsin	Duane Kleven	13
23	New Mexico	Bill Dotson	11.25
T24	California-Poly	Vaughan Hitchcock	10.5
T24	Michigan	Dale Bahr	10.5
26	Michigan State	Grady Peninger	10
27	Miami (OH)	Michael Stanley	9.75
28	Syracuse (NY)	Ed Carlin	9.5
29	Ohio State	Chris Ford	7.75
30	Old Dominion (VA)	Thomas Merrill Robinson	7.25
T31	Arizona State	Bobby Douglas	7
T31	Yale (CT)	Bert Waterman	7
33	Tennessee	Gray Simons	6.5
34	Brigham Young (UT)	Fred Davis	6.25
T35	Harvard (MA)	John Lee	6
T35	Wilkes (PA)	John Reese	6
37	Columbia (NY)	Ronald Russo	5.5
38	Tennessee-Chattanooga	Jim Morgan	5
39	Rider (NJ)	Gary Taylor	4.5
T40	Army (NY)	Ed Steers	4
T40	Oregon State	Dale Thomas	4
42	Slippery Rock (PA)	Fred Powell	3.25
43	Kentucky	Not yet established	3
T44	Kent State (OH)	Ron Gray	2.5
T44	Pittsburgh (PA)	Rande Stottlemyer	2.5
T46	Clemson (SC)	Wade Schalles	2
T46	West Chester (PA)	Milton Collier	2
48	Washington State	Phil Parker	1.75
T49	Cleveland State (OH)	Richard Bonacci	1.5
T49	James Madison (VA)	Richard Besnier	1.5
T49	Nevada-Las Vegas	Mark Churella	1.5
T49	Toledo (OH)	Harvey Bowles	1.5
T49	Utah State	Bob Carlson	1.5
T49	William & Mary (VA)	Not yet established	1.5
T55	Boston (MA)	Carl Adams	1
T55	Bucknell (PA)	Bob Ferraro	1
T55	Lock Haven (PA)	Neil Turner	1
T55	Millersville (PA)	Jerry J. Swope	1
T55	Stanford (CA)	Chris Horpel	1
T55	Youngstown State (OH)	Not yet established	1
T61	Ball State (IN)	Bud Palmer	0.5
T61	Colorado State	James Kinyon	0.5
T61	Idaho State	Tom Jewell	0.5
T61	Wyoming	Joe Dowler	0.5

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1982 scoring rules.

1982 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
6*	California-Bakersfield	Joe Seay	46.75*
30*	Brockport (NY)	Not yet established	8.5*
30*	Nebraska Omaha	Mike Denney	8.5*
49*	St. Lawrence (NY)	John Clark	2*
53*	North Dakota State	Arthur Maughan	1.5*
53*	Northern Michigan	Mike Duroe	1.5*
61*	Ashland (OH)	Mark Osgood	1*
61*	Minnesota-Morris	Craig Olson	1*
61*	Morgan State (MD)	James Phillips	1*
61*	Wheaton (IL)	Pete Willson	1*
75*	Air Force (CO)	Wayne Baughman	0*
75*	Appalachian State (NC)	Paul Mance	0*
75*	Augustana (SD)	Paul Wayne Kendle	0*
75*	Boston College (MA)	Sheldon Goldberg	0*
75*	Bowling Green (OH)	Pete Riesen	0*
75*	California-Fullerton	Don Matson	0*
75*	Central Michigan	Charles Sherwood	0*
75*	Central Missouri	Les Gatrel	0*
75*	Citadel (SC)	Ken Shelton	0*
75*	George Mason (VA)	Mike Connor	0*
75*	George Washington (DC)	James V. Rota	0*
75*	Hofstra (NY)	Nick Gallo	0*
75*	Illinois	Greg Johnson	0*
75*	Indiana (IN)	Doug Blubaugh	0*
75*	Jacksonville State (AL)	Guy Foster	0*
75*	John Carroll (OH)	Anthony J. DeCarlo	0*
75*	Lake Superior State (MI)	Jim Fallis	0*
75*	Marquette (WI)	Dan Jones	0*
75*	Massachusetts	Not yet established	0*
75*	Minnesota Duluth	Neil Ladsten	0*
75*	Montana State	Bill Willetts	0*
75*	New Hampshire	James H. Urquhart	0*
75*	New Jersey (TCNJ)	David Icenhower, Sr.	0*
75*	North Dakota	Rob Stiles	0*
75*	Northern Illinois	Don Flavin	0*
75*	Northwestern (IL)	Tom Jarman	0*
75*	Ohio	Harry Houska	0*
75*	Oswego (NY)	James Howard	0*
75*	Pennsylvania	Larry Lauchle	0*
75*	Princeton (NJ)	John Johnston	0*
75*	Southern Illinois Edwardsville	Larry Kristoff	0*
75*	Temple (PA)	Jerry Villecco	0*
75*	Virginia	George Edwards	0*
75*	Virginia Military	Ike Sherlock	0*
75*	Weber State (UT)	John Webb	0*

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