Men's Wrestling 2/20/2020 1:59:00 PM CU Athletics

Men's wrestling holds steady at No. 10; Mid-South Conference earns 56 allocations for the NAIA Championship

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The final NAIA Wrestling Coaches' Regular Season Top 20 Poll was released on Thursday and Campbellsville University remained at No. 10.

The Tigers are one of four programs from the Mid-South Conference in the Top 10 as CU earned 83 voting points from the national raters.

At Nos. 3-5, it's University of the Cumberlands, Life University and Lindsey Wilson, respectively. No other conference has this many in the Top 10.

Grand View continues to hold down the No. 1 spot with 212 voting points and all the first-place votes. The Vikings have earned 57-straight No. 1-rankings dating back to Oct. 17, 2012.

The National Office also announced the NAIA Wrestling National Championship Allocations and the Mid-South Conference had the overwhelming majority of 56 wrestlers.

Each conference tournament was awarded automatic bids per weight class based on the final regular-season poll, which can be seen below. Each conference was awarded automatic berths based on the number of wrestlers ranked in each weight class. Each conference was awarded a minimum of one automatic bid per weight class, which will go to the tournament champions, even if the conference did not have any wrestlers ranked in the final regular-season poll.

After the conference tournaments have concluded, a 14-member committee consisting of conference raters and oversight members will meet to select the remaining 12 national at-large qualifiers, which will be released Tuesday, February 25 by 5 p.m. (CST). The seeding and preliminary brackets will be announced on NAIA.org by 5 p.m. (CST) on Friday, February 28.

The NAIA coaches' poll is voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the seven conferences. The top 20 individuals in each weight class is based on how each voter ranks the best individuals.

The 2020 NAIA Wrestling National Championships will take place at Hartman Arena in Park City, KS March 6-7, 2020. But first, the Mid-South Conference Championship runs Friday-Saturday, Feb. 21-22 at Ephram White Gym in Bowling Green, Ky.

Individually, the Tigers have nine wrestlers ranked in their respective weight classes.

No. 16 Jordan Martinez (125)
No. 10 Marvin Galette (133)
No. 7 Dayton Marvel (141)
No. 13 Michael Diemer (149)
No. 13 Tristan Sellmer (157)
No. 16 Chandler Woenker (165)
No. 14 Mahlic Sallah (174)
No. 7 Zach Linton (197)
No. 10 Ashton Mutuwa (285)

2019-20 NAIA Wrestling Coaches' Top 20 Poll – Final (February 20, 2020)

Rank	Last Week	Team	Points
1	1	Grand View (Iowa)	212
2	2	Reinhardt University (GA)	134
3	6	Cumberlands (Ky.)	123
4	3	Life University	121
5	4	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	117
6	5	Menlo (Calif.)	110
7	7	Southeastern	95
8	8	Baker (Kan.)	94
9	9	Providence (Mont.)	93
10	10	Campbellsville (Ky.)	83
11	11	Oklahoma City	72
12	12	Marian University (IN)	65
13	13	Missouri Valley	61
14	16	Graceland University	52
14	14	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	52
16	19	Concordia (Neb.)	44
17	20	Montana State-Northern	41
17	RV	Life Pacific	41
19	14	Indiana Tech	40
20	17	Thomas More	35

Receiving Votes: Eastern Oregon 33, Cumberland (Tenn.), Morningside (Iowa), 26, Lourdes (Ohio) 25, Northwestern (Iowa) 25, Dickinson State (N.D.) 21, Southern Oregon 20, Warner Pacific 20, Missouri Baptist 19, Doane (Neb.) 18, Calumet (Ind.) 16, Saint Mary (Kan.) 15, Briar Cliff (Iowa) 15, Bluefield (Ga.) 15, Corban (Ore.) 15, Ottawa 14, Williams Baptist 13, Brewton-Parker (Ga.) 12, Cleary 12, Hastings (Neb.) 10, Texas Wesleyan 10, Arizona Christian 9, Midway 8, York (Neb.) 8, Vanguard (Calif.) 8, Lincoln 4, Simpson (Calif.) 2, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) 1, Jamestown (N.D.) 1

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Players Mentioned

Michael Diemer: Senior; Maryville, Tenn.

Marvin Galette: Senior; Rock Hill, S.C.

Jordan Martinez: Junior; Maple Valley, Wash.

Ashton Mutuwa: Senior; Cedar Lake, Ind.

Mahlic Sallah: Sophomore; Roanoke, Va.

Tristan Sellmer: Sophomore; Jeffersonville, Ind.

Chandler Woenker: Sophomore; Ft Wayne, Ind.

Dayton Marvel: Sophomore; Arvada, Colo.

Zach Linton: Senior; Winters, Calif.

Players Mentioned

Michael Diemer
: Senior; Maryville, Tenn.

Marvin Galette
: Senior; Rock Hill, S.C.

Jordan Martinez
: Junior; Maple Valley, Wash.

Ashton Mutuwa
: Senior; Cedar Lake, Ind.

Mahlic Sallah
: Sophomore; Roanoke, Va.

Tristan Sellmer
: Sophomore; Jeffersonville, Ind.

Chandler Woenker
: Sophomore; Ft Wayne, Ind.

Dayton Marvel
: Sophomore; Arvada, Colo.

Zach Linton
: Senior; Winters, Calif.