TOPEKA, Kan. — Coming into tonight, Campbellsville needed a pair of wins to dethrone rival Lindsey Wilson College from second place in the standings but Chuck Sharon and Adrian Camposano came up just short in their bids at becoming national champions. ­
 
As a team, the Tigers finished in third place – tying the highest finish in program history which came in the 2012 championship in Des Moines, Iowa.

Grand View continues its domination with its sixth-straight NAIA Championship. The Vikings broke the team points record for a second straight year with 234.5. Lindsey Wilson compiled 74.5 points, and the Tigers finished with 64.5.
 
Coming into the evening, all of Campbellsville's national champions have come in the lower weight classes and Sharon was looking to end that streak at 184lbs. But Ben Stroh, from Montana State-Northern, held on in the final seconds to claim the title.

Camposano, a senior transfer from Fresno, Calif., is the first 125-pounder competing for a national title since Johnny Papesh in 2011. He lost to Troy Lakin from Menlo College, 15-6.

Both Sharon (27-2) and Camposano (19-2) finish the season with two losses.
 
Match Recap: Troy Lakin 15, Adrian Camposano 6
Lakin earned the matches first point with a two-point takedown but Camposano cut that deficit in half with an escape at 45 seconds left in the first period.

The second stanza was the difference maker, as Lakin made his moves. Camposano allowed a two-point reversal and two-point takedown with 1:30 left and got behind 6-2. Just a few seconds later, Lakin earned another two-point take down and four nearfall points to lead 13-3.
 
Camposano was able to muster two escape points in the final period but it was too little too late, falling by major decision, 15-6.

Match Recap: Ben Stroh 6, Chuck Sharon 5
Sharon jumped on the board first with a two-point near side cradle just 54 seconds in the first period. But about one minute later, it was Stroh scoring a two-point reversal and allowing Sharon to escape to put Sharon in the lead, 3-2.

Late in the opening period, Stroh earned a two-point takedown to lead 4-3. After going down to start the second period, Stroh picked up an escape point to lead 5-3 going into the third.
 
Sharon then started down in the third period and dug deep for a two-point reversal knotting the match at 5-all. But a few seconds after the reversal, Sharon allowed Stroh to escape giving him what ended up being a 6-5 lead and the win.

Sharon tried to light fireworks inside the Kansas Expocentre with 10 seconds left but a two-point takedown came up just short and was ruled out of bounds with one second on the clock.
 
Zach Flake, Tommy Pretty and Davion Caston remain the three national champions in Campbellsville history. Flake won the first title for CU at 141 in 2007 and was followed by a Pretty (2010) and Caston (2015) titles at 133lbs.

NAIA Individual Champions:
125 - Troy Lakin (Menlo)
133 - Jacob Colon (Grand View)
141 - Josh Wenger (Grand View)
149 - Scottie Bonds (Midland)
157 - Brandon Weber (Montana State-Northern)
165 - Grant Henderson (Grand View)
174 - Lawton Benna (Grand View)
184 - Ben Stroh (Montana State-Northern)
197 - Evan Hansen (Grand View)
285 - Demetrius Thomas (Williams Baptist)


NAIA Championship Notes: For more information on the NAIA Wrestling National Championships, click here.
• Grand View is the first team in NAIA wrestling history to win six-consecutive national titles. Additionally, the Vikings are only the fourth program in collegiate wrestling history (NAIA, NJCAA, NCAA). The other programs to do so are NCAA Division I Iowa (six-straight (1995-2000) and nine-straight (1978-1986)), NCAA Division I Oklahoma State (seven-straight (1937-1949)) and NCAA Division II Cal Poly (seven-straight (1968-1974)).
• Outside of Grand View and Campbellsville, two other programs had multiple national finalist - Lindsey Wilson and Montana State-Northern
• Montana State-Northern (2) and Grand View (5) are the lone programs with multiple national champions.
• Lindsey Wilson finished with 74.5 points to place second - the highest in program history. The Blue Raiders previous-best team finish came in 2015 when they took third place.
• Perennial powerhouse program Southern Oregon pushed its NAIA record number of All-Americans to 227. Overall, the Raiders had four wrestlers place at this year's national championships, including fourth-place finishers Tyler Cowger at 149 pounds and Hunter Hodges at 157 pounds.
• Montana State-Northern boasts the next most all-time All-Americans with 171.