1987 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.
The 1987 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 586 bouts. Iowa State won the team title with 133 points; Iowa was second with 108. Iowa State had four of the 10 individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Lenny Bernstein, North Carolina · 3 falls in 10:31
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | Ricky Bonomo (1) · 3rd titleBloomsburg (PA) | Bloomsburg (PA) | Dec 8–4 over Jim Martin (3), Penn State |
| 126 | Bill Kelly (2)Iowa State | Iowa State | Fall 6:31 over Brad Penrith (1), Iowa |
| 134 | John Smith (1)Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Sup 18–4 over Gil Sanchez (2), Nebraska |
| 142 | Peter Yozzo (1)Lehigh (PA) | Lehigh (PA) | Fall 3:52 over Pat Santoro (3), Pittsburgh (PA) |
| 150 | Tim Krieger (1)Iowa State | Iowa State | Dec 2–2 (tiebreaker) over Jim Heffernan Jr. (2), Iowa |
| 158 | Stewart Carter (4)Iowa State | Iowa State | Dec 6–3 over Ken Haselrig (3), Clarion (PA) |
| 167 | Royce Alger (1)Iowa | Iowa | Dec 10–4 over Kevin Jackson (2), Iowa State |
| 177 | Rico Chiapparelli (2)Iowa | Iowa | Dec 5–2 over Darryl Pope (1), California-Bakersfield |
| 190 | Eric Voelker (2)Iowa State | Iowa State | Dec 4–3 over Dave Dean (8), Minnesota |
| 275 | Carlton Haselrig (2)Pittsburgh-Johnstown (PA) | Pittsburgh-Johnstown (PA) | Dec 4–2 over Dean Hall (5), Edinboro (PA) |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1987
Head coach for the 1987 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iowa State | Jim Gibbons | 133 |
| 2 | Iowa | Dan Gable | 108 |
| 3 | Penn State | Rich Lorenzo | 97.75 |
| 4 | Oklahoma State | Joe Seay | 85.25 |
| 5 | Bloomsburg (PA) | Roger Sanders | 47.25 |
| 6 | Clarion (PA) | Bob Bubb | 46 |
| 7 | North Carolina | Bill Lam | 42.75 |
| 8 | Edinboro (PA) | Mike DeAnna | 38.25 |
| 9 | Arizona State | Bobby Douglas | 35.75 |
| 10 | Lehigh (PA) | Thad Turner | 32.25 |
| 11 | Wisconsin | Andy Rein | 28.5 |
| 12 | Oklahoma | Stan Abel | 28.25 |
| 13 | Northern Iowa | Don Briggs | 25.5 |
| 14 | Nebraska | Tim Neumann | 24.5 |
| 15 | Pittsburgh (PA) | Rande Stottlemyer | 23.5 |
| 16 | Purdue (IN) | Bill Trujillo | 22.5 |
| 17 | Maryland | John McHugh | 22 |
| 18 | Northwestern (IL) | Tom Jarman | 20.5 |
| T19 | Michigan | Dale Bahr | 20 |
| T19 | Minnesota | J Robinson | 20 |
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50 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1987 scoring rules.
Cite this page: “1987 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1987/