1998 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.
The 1998 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 640 bouts. Iowa won the team title with 115 points; Minnesota was second with 102. Iowa had three of the 10 individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Gordon 'Oscar' Wood, Oregon State · 4 falls in 12:52
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | Teague Moore (3)Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Fall 4:50 over David Morgan (1), Michigan State |
| 126 | Eric Guerrero (3) · 2nd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Dec 5–4 over Eric Jetton (1), Wisconsin |
| 134 | Mark Ironside (1) · 2nd titleIowa | Iowa | Dec 9–3 over Shawn Enright (7), Ohio |
| 142 | Jeff McGinness (2) · 2nd titleIowa | Iowa | Dec 3–1 over Casey Cunningham (4), Central Michigan |
| 150 | Eric Siebert (1)Illinois | Illinois | Dec 7–3 over Chad Kraft (3), Minnesota |
| 158 | Dwight Gardner (3)Ohio | Ohio | Dec 7–1 over Hardell Moore (1), Oklahoma State |
| 167 | Joe Williams (1) · 3rd titleIowa | Iowa | Dec 7–4 over Brandon Slay (3), Pennsylvania |
| 177 | Mitch Clark (1)Ohio State | Ohio State | TF 17–0 over Vertus Jones (6), West Virginia |
| 190 | Tim Hartung (2)Minnesota | Minnesota | Dec 6–4 over Jason Robison (1), Edinboro (PA) |
| 275 | Stephen Neal (1)California-Bakersfield | California-Bakersfield | TF 20–5 over Trent Hynek (11), Iowa State |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1998
Head coach for the 1998 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iowa | Jim Zalesky interim | 115 |
| 2 | Minnesota | J Robinson | 102 |
| 3 | Oklahoma State | John Smith | 99.5 |
| 4 | Penn State | John Fritz | 70.5 |
| 5 | Central Michigan | Tom Borrelli | 53 |
| 6 | Iowa State | Bobby Douglas | 49.5 |
| T7 | Illinois | Mark Johnson | 48 |
| T7 | West Virginia | Craig Turnbull | 48 |
| T9 | Ohio | Joel Greenlee interim | 43.5 |
| T9 | Oregon State | Joe Wells | 43.5 |
| 11 | California-Bakersfield | T.J. Kerr | 42.5 |
| 12 | Michigan | Dale Bahr | 39.5 |
| 13 | Michigan State | Tom Minkel | 39 |
| 14 | Fresno State (CA) | Dennis DeLiddo | 37.5 |
| T15 | Edinboro (PA) | Not yet established | 35.5 |
| T15 | Oklahoma | Jack Spates | 35.5 |
| 17 | Arizona State | Lee Roy Smith | 35 |
| 18 | Northwestern (IL) | Tim Cysewski | 34.5 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | Barry Davis | 34 |
| 20 | Pittsburgh (PA) | Rande Stottlemyer | 32 |
Show all 70 teams
14 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1998 scoring rules.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71* | Appalachian State (NC) | Paul Mance | 0* |
| 71* | Buffalo (NY) | Jim Beichner | 0* |
| 71* | Chicago State (IL) | Not yet established | 0* |
| 71* | Columbia (NY) | Lou Montano | 0* |
| 71* | Coppin State (MD) | Kenneth Taylor | 0* |
| 71* | Davidson (NC) | Tom Oddo | 0* |
| 71* | Duke (NC) | Clar Anderson | 0* |
| 71* | Duquesne (PA) | John Hartupee | 0* |
| 71* | Franklin & Marshall (PA) | Fran Presley | 0* |
| 71* | James Madison (VA) | Jeffrey Bowyer | 0* |
| 71* | Millersville (PA) | Floyd Hitchcock | 0* |
| 71* | New Mexico | Bill Dotson | 0* |
| 71* | North Carolina-Greensboro | Dennard Moore | 0* |
| 71* | Seton Hall (NJ) | Not yet established | 0* |
Cite this page: “1998 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1998/