1988 NCAA Championships

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

The 1988 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 581 bouts. Arizona State won the team title with 93 points; Iowa was second with 85.5.

10weights

10individual champions

581bouts

61wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Eric Voelker, Iowa State · 3 falls in 5:18

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Individual champions

1988 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
118	Jack Cuvo (1)East Stroudsburg (PA)	East Stroudsburg (PA)	Dec 11–4 over Benjamin 'Keith' Nix (7), Minnesota
126	Jim Martin (2)Penn State	Penn State	Dec 5–4 over Brad Penrith (1), Iowa
134	John Smith (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 9–2 over Joe Melchiore (7), Iowa
142	Pat Santoro (1)Pittsburgh (PA)	Pittsburgh (PA)	Dec 16–11 over Sean O'Day (3), Edinboro (PA)
150	Scott Turner (2)North Carolina State	North Carolina State	Dec 2–1 over Tim Krieger (1), Iowa State
158	Rob Koll (1)North Carolina	North Carolina	Fall 1:14 over Joe Pantaleo (6), Michigan
167	Mike Van Arsdale (2)Iowa State	Iowa State	Dec 8–2 over Mike Amine, Michigan
177	Royce Alger (1) · 2nd titleIowa	Iowa	Dec 6–4 over Dan Mayo (2), Penn State
190	Mark Coleman (1)Ohio State	Ohio State	Dec 5–0 over Mike Davies (3), Arizona State
275	Carlton Haselrig (1) · 2nd titlePittsburgh-Johnstown (PA)	Pittsburgh-Johnstown (PA)	MD 12–2 over Dave Orndorff, Oregon State

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1988

Head coach for the 1988 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1988 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Arizona State	Bobby Douglas	93
2	Iowa	Dan Gable	85.5
3	Iowa State	Jim Gibbons	83.75
4	Oklahoma State	Joe Seay	80.5
5	Penn State	Rich Lorenzo	71.5
6	Michigan	Dale Bahr	62.5
7	Edinboro (PA)	Mike DeAnna	53.5
8	Oklahoma	Stan Abel	45
9	Ohio State	Russ Hellickson	39.75
10	North Carolina State	Bob Guzzo	36
11	Wisconsin	Andy Rein	34.75
12	Lock Haven (PA)	Neil Turner	34
13	Northern Iowa	Don Briggs	31
14	Bloomsburg (PA)	Roger Sanders	29
15	Pittsburgh (PA)	Rande Stottlemyer	26.25
T16	Minnesota	J Robinson	26
T16	North Carolina	Bill Lam	26
18	East Stroudsburg (PA)	Bob Dalling	23.25
T19	Missouri	Wes Roper	19.5
T19	Oregon State	Dale Thomas	19.5

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1988 team standings, continued
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
21	Wyoming	Scott Bliss	17.5
T22	Lehigh (PA)	Thad Turner	16.5
T22	West Virginia	Craig Turnbull	16.5
24	Oregon	Ron Finley	15.75
25	California-Poly	Lennis Cowell	12.75
26	Northwestern (IL)	Tom Jarman	12
T27	Maryland	John McHugh	11.5
T27	Tennessee-Chattanooga	Ethan Reeve	11.5
29	Navy (MD)	Reg Wicks	10.75
30	Central Michigan	Charles Sherwood	10
31	Utah State	Mark Harris	9.5
32	Purdue (IN)	Bill Trujillo	9
33	Illinois	Ron Clinton	8.5
34	Fresno State (CA)	Dennis DeLiddo	8
T35	Cleveland State (OH)	Richard Bonacci	7.5
T35	William & Mary (VA)	Bill Pincus	7.5
T37	Clarion (PA)	Bob Bubb	6.5
T37	Notre Dame (IN)	Fran McCann	6.5
39	Nebraska	Tim Neumann	6.25
40	Eastern Illinois	Ralph McCausland	5.5
T41	Brigham Young (UT)	Alan Albright	5
T41	Indiana (IN)	Jim Humphrey	5
T41	New Mexico	Bill Dotson	5
T41	Virginia	George Edwards	5
45	Eastern Michigan	John Eisley	4
T46	Campbell (NC)	Jerry Hartman	3
T46	Citadel (SC)	Ken Shelton	3
T46	Clemson (SC)	Eddie Griffin	3
T46	Wilkes (PA)	John Reese	3
T50	Hofstra (NY)	Tony Arena	2.5
T50	Ohio	Harry Houska	2.5
T50	Rider (NJ)	Gary Taylor	2.5
T53	Brown (RI)	David Amato	2
T53	Bucknell (PA)	Bob Ferraro	2
T53	California-Bakersfield	T.J. Kerr	2
T53	Franklin & Marshall (PA)	Mark Faller	2
T53	James Madison (VA)	Joel Vedelli	2
T53	Millersville (PA)	Floyd Hitchcock	2
T53	Morgan State (MD)	James Phillips	2
T53	Shippensburg (PA)	Not yet established	2
T53	Slippery Rock (PA)	Fred Powell	2
62	Boston (MA)	Carl Adams	1.5
T63	Army (NY)	Ed Steers	1
T63	George Mason (VA)	Mike Moyer	1
T63	Old Dominion (VA)	Gray Simons	1
T63	Weber State (UT)	John Webb	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1988 scoring rules.

1988 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
18*	Pittsburgh-Johnstown (PA)	Pat Pecora	24*
19*	Montclair State (NJ)	Steve Strellner	23.5*
32*	North Dakota State	Arthur Maughan	10.5*
36*	Nebraska Omaha	Mike Denney	8.75*
45*	North Carolina-Pembroke	P.J. Smith	5*
45*	Portland State (OR)	Marlin Grahn	5*
51*	Lake Superior State (MI)	Tom Borrelli	4.5*
53*	Grand Valley State (MI)	Jim Scott	3.5*
54*	South Dakota State	Mike Engels	3*
71*	Liberty (VA)	Donald Shuler	1.5*
77*	Southern Connecticut	Donald Knauf	0.5*
77*	St. Lawrence (NY)	John Clark	0.5*
79*	Air Force (CO)	Don Mabry	0*
79*	Appalachian State (NC)	Paul Mance	0*
79*	Augsburg (MN)	Jeff Swenson	0*
79*	Binghamton (NY)	Stephen Erber	0*
79*	Boise State (ID)	Mike Young	0*
79*	California (PA)	Bill DePaoli	0*
79*	California-Fullerton	Dan Lewis	0*
79*	Central Connecticut	Ken DeStefanis	0*
79*	Colorado Mines	Jack Hancock	0*
79*	Columbia (NY)	Ronald Russo	0*
79*	Cornell (NY)	Andy Noel	0*
79*	Delaware State	Not yet established	0*
79*	Drake (IA)	Lonnie Timmerman	0*
79*	Drexel (PA)	Jack Childs	0*
79*	Eastern Washington	Craig Foster	0*
79*	Howard (DC)	Paul Cotton	0*
79*	Illinois State	George Girardi	0*
79*	Kent State (OH)	Ron Gray	0*
79*	Lafayette (PA)	Not yet established	0*
79*	Michigan State	Phil Parker	0*
79*	New Hampshire	James H. Urquhart	0*
79*	New Jersey (TCNJ)	David Icenhower, Sr.	0*
79*	North Dakota	Brad Kerr	0*
79*	Northern Illinois	Ed Vatch	0*
79*	Northern Michigan	Robin Ersland	0*
79*	Pennsylvania	Roger Reina	0*
79*	Princeton (NJ)	John Johnston	0*
79*	South Carolina State	Not yet established	0*
79*	Southwest Missouri	Mike McCarty	0*
79*	Stanford (CA)	Chris Horpel	0*
79*	Syracuse (NY)	Ed Carlin	0*
79*	Toledo (OH)	Harvey Bowles	0*
79*	Upper Iowa	Mike McCready	0*
79*	Virginia Military	John Trudgeon	0*

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