Ridge Lovett
NCAA championship record, 2021–2025. Regular-season results are not included.
Ridge Lovett wrestled for Nebraska at four NCAA championships, 2021–2025, and went 13–6. Lovett won the title at 149 lb in 2025 and placed second at 149 lb in 2022 and sixth at 149 lb in 2024.
NCAA career
Every NCAA bout · 19
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 149 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Sam Cartella · Northwestern (IL) | 2 | 31 | Dec 10–8 |
| Round of 16 | W | Ty Whalen · Princeton (NJ) | 2 | 15 | TF 15–0 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Kannon Webster · Illinois | 2 | 7 | MD 12–0 |
| Semifinal | W | Shayne Van Ness · Penn State | 2 | 3 | Dec 14–8 |
| Final | W | Caleb Henson · Virginia Tech | 2 | 1 | Dec 1–0 |
| 2024 · 149 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Michael Cetta · Rutgers (NJ) | 1 | 33 | Fall 1:30 |
| Round of 16 | W | Graham Rooks · Indiana (IN) | 1 | 17 | Dec 11–4 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Casey Swiderski · Iowa State | 1 | 8 | MD 14–4 |
| Semifinal | L | Caleb Henson · Virginia Tech | 1 | 4 | Dec 0–1 |
| Consolation semifinal | L | Tyler Kasak · Penn State | 1 | 7 | MD 1–10 |
| 5th-place bout | L | Kyle Parco · Arizona State | 1 | 2 | Dec 1–3 |
| 2022 · 149 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Jaden Abas · Stanford (CA) | 10 | 23 | Dec 4–2 |
| Round of 16 | W | Josh Heil · Campbell (NC) | 10 | 7 | Dec 8–1 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Tariq Wilson · North Carolina State | 10 | 2 | Fall 4:16 |
| Semifinal | W | Bryce Andonian · Virginia Tech | 10 | 11 | Dec 5–4 |
| Final | L | John 'Yianni' Diakomihalis · Cornell (NY) | 10 | 1 | Dec 5–11 |
| 2021 · 149 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Peyton Omania · Michigan State | 5 | 28 | Dec 6–4 |
| Round of 16 | L | Max Murin · Iowa | 5 | 12 | Dec 3–5 |
| Consolation round 2 | L | Josh Finesilver · Duke (NC) | 5 | 27 | Fall 2:50 |
Scoring · 2021 to 2025
The sums over the bouts in scope.
| Opponent | Round | Result | Score | Mat time | TD | E | R | NF | Stall | RT | Pts | Sheet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | A | F | A | F | A | F | A | D | C | F | A | F | A | ||||||
| 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sam Cartella · Northwestern (IL) | Round of 32 | W Decision | 10–8 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 8 | Sheet |
| Ty Whalen · Princeton (NJ) | Round of 16 | W Technical fall | 15–0 | 6:09 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | Sheet |
| Kannon Webster · Illinois | Quarterfinal | W Major decision | 12–0 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | Sheet |
| Shayne Van Ness · Penn State | Semifinal | W Decision | 14–8 | 7:00 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 8 | Sheet |
| Caleb Henson · Virginia Tech | Final | W Decision | 1–0 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Sheet |
| 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Michael Cetta · Rutgers (NJ) | Round of 32 | W Fall | – | 1:30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Sheet |
| Graham Rooks · Indiana (IN) | Round of 16 | W Decision | 11–4 | 7:00 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | Sheet |
| Casey Swiderski · Iowa State | Quarterfinal | W Major decision | 14–4 | 7:00 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | Sheet |
| Caleb Henson · Virginia Tech | Semifinal | L Decision | 0–1 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Sheet |
| Tyler Kasak · Penn State | Consolation semifinal | L Major decision | 1–10 | 7:00 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | Sheet |
| Kyle Parco · Arizona State | 5th-place bout | L Decision | 1–3 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Sheet |
| 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jaden Abas · Stanford (CA) | Round of 32 | W Decision | 4–2 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | Sheet |
| Josh Heil · Campbell (NC) | Round of 16 | W Decision | 8–1 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | Sheet |
| Tariq Wilson · North Carolina State | Quarterfinal | W Fall | – | 4:16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Sheet |
| Bryce Andonian · Virginia Tech | Semifinal | W Decision | 5–4 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | Sheet |
| John 'Yianni' Diakomihalis · Cornell (NY) | Final | L Decision | 5–11 | 7:00 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | Sheet |
| 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Peyton Omania · Michigan State | Round of 32 | W Decision | 6–4 | 7:30 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | Sheet |
| Max Murin · Iowa | Round of 16 | L Decision | 3–5 | 7:00 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | Sheet |
| Josh Finesilver · Duke (NC) | Consolation round 2 | L Fall | – | 2:50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | Sheet |
TD takedowns · E escapes · R reversals · NF near-fall points · Stall stalling drawn / called · RT riding-time points · Pts points; F for, A against.
How these are counted
Every figure here is counted from the scoring record, bout by bout, from the counts on each scoring sheet.
A bout counts once for each side: a wrestler's for columns are their own counts and the against columns are the opponent's; a team's are the sums over its qualifiers' bouts that year.
- Takedowns
- For: takedowns scored. Against: takedowns allowed.
- Escapes
- For: escapes. Against: escapes allowed.
- Reversals
- For: reversals. Against: reversals allowed.
- Near-fall points
- For: near-fall points. Against: near-fall points allowed.
- Stalling calls
- For: drawn, the stalling calls against the opponent. Against: called, the stalling calls against this side.
- Riding-time points
- For: riding-time points. Against: riding-time points allowed.
- Points
- For: points scored. Against: points allowed.
Points is the sum of every scoring row credited to that side, penalties and riding time included; points allowed is the opponent's sum. Cautions, penalty points and the tiebreak riding-time rows are carried in the data and shown on the bout page, not in these tables.
Statistics include only bouts whose scoring sheet is reconciled: the sheet's rows add up to every printed period total and to the scoreboard. A sheet that does not reconcile, and a bout with no wrestling, are left out, and the scoring record's hub says how many and why.
The scoring record begins in 2012, the first championship with full bout-level data: every bout's scoring sheet, not only its result. Earlier championships have their brackets and results in the record, but not their scoring sheets.
Totals are the sums over the bouts in scope. Per qualifier divides the totals by the record's qualifier count for that program and year, the same count the program page prints (team rows only). Per bout divides the totals by the bouts in scope. Per 7 min is the totals times 420 divided by the sum of the mat time, in seconds, over the bouts in scope: one pooled rate, never a mean of per-bout rates. A bout with no mat time is left out of both the numerator and the denominator of that unit, and the page says how many are left out.
Rates list wrestlers with three or more bouts; a wrestler with fewer is left out of the per-bout and per-7-minute lists.
Cite this page: “Ridge Lovett”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_34enggvdt6qsccfv/ridge-lovett