1986 NCAA Championships

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

The 1986 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 583 bouts. Iowa won the team title with 158 points; Oklahoma was second with 84.75. Iowa had five of the 10 individual champions.

10weights

10individual champions

583bouts

69wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Gary Albright, Nebraska · 5 falls in 15:34

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Individual champions

1986 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
118	Ricky Bonomo (1) · 2nd titleBloomsburg (PA)	Bloomsburg (PA)	Dec 9–4 over Al Palacio (6), North Carolina
126	Brad Penrith (3)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 9–4 over Dennis Semmel (9), Army (NY)
134	Jim Jordan (1) · 2nd titleWisconsin	Wisconsin	Dec 6–2 over Greg Randall (2), Iowa
142	Kevin Dresser (1)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 11–6 over Peter Yozzo (2), Lehigh (PA)
150	Jim Heffernan Jr. (2)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 10–3 over Adam Cohen (4), Arizona State
158	Jude Skove (6)Ohio State	Ohio State	Dec 5–2 over Greg Elinsky (1), Penn State
167	Marty Kistler (1) · 2nd titleIowa	Iowa	Sup 15–3 over Mark Van Tine (3), Oklahoma State
177	Melvin Douglas III (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec 9–5 over Wayne Catan (2), Syracuse (NY)
190	Duane Goldman (1)Iowa	Iowa	Dec 5–4 over Dan Chaid (3), Oklahoma
Unlimited	Kirk Trost (3)Michigan	Michigan	Dec 6–3 over John Herepoulos (4), Iowa State

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1986

Head coach for the 1986 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1986 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Iowa	Dan Gable	158
2	Oklahoma	Stan Abel	84.75
3	Oklahoma State	Joe Seay	77.25
4	Iowa State	Jim Gibbons	71
5	Penn State	Rich Lorenzo	47.25
6	North Carolina	Bill Lam	38.75
7	Bloomsburg (PA)	Roger Sanders	37.75
8	Arizona State	Bobby Douglas	36.5
9	Lehigh (PA)	Thad Turner	32.75
10	Michigan	Dale Bahr	32
11	Wisconsin	Russ Hellickson	30.5
12	Nebraska	Tim Neumann	28.25
13	Army (NY)	Ed Steers	27.75
14	Syracuse (NY)	Ed Carlin	26
15	North Carolina State	Bob Guzzo	25.5
16	Ohio State	Chris Ford	22.75
17	Northern Iowa	Don Briggs	20.5
18	Utah State	Bob Carlson	19
19	Northwestern (IL)	Tom Jarman	17
20	Clemson (SC)	Eddie Griffin	15.5

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1986 team standings, continued
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
21	Brigham Young (UT)	Alan Albright	15.25
22	Minnesota	Wally Johnson	14.5
23	Michigan State	Grady Peninger	14.25
24	Oregon State	Dale Thomas	14
25	Pittsburgh (PA)	Rande Stottlemyer	13
T26	Miami (OH)	Chuck Angello	12.25
T26	Toledo (OH)	Harvey Bowles	12.25
28	Clarion (PA)	Bob Bubb	11.25
29	Stanford (CA)	Chris Horpel	10.75
T30	Central Michigan	Charles Sherwood	10.5
T30	Kent State (OH)	Ron Gray	10.5
T32	California-Fullerton	Dan Lewis	10
T32	Indiana State	Ralph Manning	10
T32	Tennessee	Gray Simons	10
T32	Wyoming	Joe Dowler	10
36	Indiana (IN)	Jim Humphrey	9.5
37	Purdue (IN)	Bill Trujillo	9
38	Illinois	Ron Clinton	8.75
T39	Lock Haven (PA)	Neil Turner	8.5
T39	Maryland	John McHugh	8.5
T39	West Virginia	Craig Turnbull	8.5
42	Morgan State (MD)	James Phillips	7.5
T43	Rider (NJ)	Gary Taylor	7
T43	Washington State	Phil Parker	7
T45	Boise State (ID)	Mike Young	6.5
T45	California-Poly	Lennis Cowell	6.5
T45	Delaware	Paul G. Billy	6.5
T45	Fresno State (CA)	Dennis DeLiddo	6.5
T49	Appalachian State (NC)	Paul Mance	5.75
T49	South Carolina State	James M. Ragland	5.75
51	Cleveland State (OH)	Richard Bonacci	5
52	James Madison (VA)	Richard Besnier	4.5
T53	Montana State	Lanny Bryant	4
T53	Navy (MD)	Ed Peery	4
55	Princeton (NJ)	John Johnston	3.75
T56	Idaho State	Not yet established	3.5
T56	New Mexico	Bill Dotson	3.5
58	Wilkes (PA)	John Reese	3.25
T59	Bucknell (PA)	Bob Ferraro	3
T59	East Stroudsburg (PA)	Bob Dalling	3
T59	Northern Illinois	Don Flavin	3
T59	Ohio	Harry Houska	3
T59	Tennessee-Chattanooga	Ethan Reeve	3
T64	Montana	Not yet established	2.5
T64	Shippensburg (PA)	Not yet established	2.5
T64	William & Mary (VA)	Bill Pincus	2.5
T67	Drake (IA)	Lonnie Timmerman	2
T67	Missouri	Bob Kopnisky	2
T67	Rutgers (NJ)	Deane Oliver	2
T67	Temple (PA)	Jerry Villecco	2
T71	Central Florida	Not yet established	1.5
T71	Harvard (MA)	Jim Peckham	1.5
T73	Eastern Illinois	Ralph McCausland	1
T73	George Mason (VA)	Mike Moyer	1
T73	Virginia Tech	Jerry Cheynet	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1986 scoring rules.

1986 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
11*	Edinboro (PA)	Mike DeAnna	31*
17*	California-Bakersfield	T.J. Kerr	25*
24*	Southern Illinois Edwardsville	Larry Kristoff	14.5*
28*	Augustana (SD)	Paul Wayne Kendle	13.25*
56*	Liberty (VA)	Bob Bonheim	4.5*
58*	Buffalo (NY)	Ed Michael	4*
58*	Portland State (OR)	Marlin Grahn	4*
71*	Nebraska Omaha	Mike Denney	2.5*
75*	Delaware Valley (PA)	Robert Marshall	2*
75*	Rowan (NJ)	Jim Ingles	2*
81*	Albany (NY)	Joe DeMeo	1.5*
84*	New Jersey (TCNJ)	David Icenhower, Sr.	1*
88*	Boston (MA)	Carl Adams	0*
88*	Citadel (SC)	Ken Shelton	0*
88*	Columbia (NY)	Ronald Russo	0*
88*	Drexel (PA)	Jack Childs	0*
88*	Eastern Michigan	John Eisley	0*
88*	George Washington (DC)	James V. Rota	0*
88*	Hofstra (NY)	Joe Bavaro	0*
88*	Illinois State	George Girardi	0*
88*	Lafayette (PA)	Not yet established	0*
88*	Maine	Scott D. Carzo	0*
88*	Marquette (WI)	Fred Rideout	0*
88*	Millersville (PA)	Floyd Hitchcock	0*
88*	Montclair State (NJ)	Steve Strellner	0*
88*	New Hampshire	James H. Urquhart	0*
88*	Northern Arizona	Dan Payne	0*
88*	Old Dominion (VA)	Wade Schalles	0*
88*	Oregon	Ron Finley	0*
88*	San Jose State (CA)	Dale Kestel	0*
88*	Seton Hall (NJ)	Al Reinoso	0*
88*	Slippery Rock (PA)	Fred Powell	0*
88*	Virginia Military	John Trudgeon	0*
88*	Weber State (UT)	John Webb	0*
88*	Western Colorado	Greg Waggoner	0*

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