1996 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.
The 1996 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 636 bouts. Iowa won the team title with 122.5 points; Iowa State was second with 78.5. Iowa had three of the 10 individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Mike Rogers, Lock Haven (PA) · 3 falls in 8:46
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | Sheldon Thomas (4)Clarion (PA) | Clarion (PA) | Dec 6–2 over Jason Nurre (3), Iowa State |
| 126 | Sanshiro Abe (1)Penn State | Penn State | Dec 6–5 over Dwight Hinson (3), Iowa State |
| 134 | Cary Kolat (2)Lock Haven (PA) | Lock Haven (PA) | Dec 5–2 over Steve St. John (4), Arizona State |
| 142 | Bill Zadick (1)Iowa | Iowa | Dec 4–2 over John Hughes (3), Penn State |
| 150 | Chris Bono (2)Iowa State | Iowa State | Dec 6–3 over Charlie Becks (4), Ohio State |
| 158 | Joe Williams (1)Iowa | Iowa | Dec 9–8 over Ernest Benion Jr. (6), Illinois |
| 167 | Daryl Weber (5)Iowa | Iowa | Default over Mark Branch (2), Oklahoma State |
| 177 | Les Gutches (1) · 2nd titleOregon State | Oregon State | Dec 8–2 over Reese Andy (2), Wyoming |
| 190 | John Kading (1)Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec 7–3 over Paschal Duru (3), California-Bakersfield |
| 275 | Jeff Walter (6)Wisconsin | Wisconsin | Dec 3–2 over Justin Harty (5), North Carolina |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1996
Head coach for the 1996 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iowa | Dan Gable | 122.5 |
| 2 | Iowa State | Bobby Douglas | 78.5 |
| 3 | California-Bakersfield | T.J. Kerr | 66 |
| 4 | Penn State | John Fritz | 65 |
| 5 | Nebraska | Tim Neumann | 61 |
| 6 | Oklahoma State | John Smith | 54.5 |
| 7 | Michigan State | Tom Minkel | 53.5 |
| 8 | Oregon State | Joe Wells | 48.5 |
| 9 | Michigan | Dale Bahr | 47 |
| 10 | Arizona State | Lee Roy Smith | 45 |
| 11 | Lock Haven (PA) | Carl Poff | 43 |
| T12 | Clarion (PA) | Jack Davis | 42.5 |
| T12 | Illinois | Mark Johnson | 42.5 |
| 14 | Ohio State | Russ Hellickson | 38 |
| T15 | Wisconsin | Barry Davis | 37.5 |
| T15 | Wyoming | Steven Suder | 37.5 |
| 17 | Oklahoma | Jack Spates | 36.5 |
| 18 | Northwestern (IL) | Tim Cysewski | 34.5 |
| 19 | Minnesota | J Robinson | 32.5 |
| 20 | Indiana (IN) | Duane Goldman | 32 |
Show all 64 teams
16 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1996 scoring rules.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62* | Howard (DC) | Paul Cotton | 0.5* |
| 66* | Air Force (CO) | Wayne Baughman | 0* |
| 66* | American (DC) | Jim Akerly | 0* |
| 66* | Cleveland State (OH) | Richard Bonacci | 0* |
| 66* | Columbia (NY) | Lou Montano | 0* |
| 66* | Coppin State (MD) | Kenneth Taylor | 0* |
| 66* | Drexel (PA) | Jack Childs | 0* |
| 66* | Duquesne (PA) | Gus DeAugustino | 0* |
| 66* | East Stroudsburg (PA) | Dom DiGioacchino | 0* |
| 66* | James Madison (VA) | Jeffrey Bowyer | 0* |
| 66* | Marquette (WI) | Jim Schmitz | 0* |
| 66* | Morgan State (MD) | Not yet established | 0* |
| 66* | Northern Illinois | Phil Rembert | 0* |
| 66* | Slippery Rock (PA) | Steve Roberts | 0* |
| 66* | Syracuse (NY) | Ed Carlin | 0* |
| 66* | Virginia Tech | Jerry Cheynet | 0* |
Cite this page: “1996 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1996/