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26th Annual Wilkes Open Wrestling Tournament

Wrestling Tournament
@ Wilkes College (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
Friday-Saturday, December 27-28, 1957

Outstanding Wrestler

Pitt's Dave Johnson receives his OW award from Cromwell Thomas. SOURCE: Wilkes-Barre Record, December 30, 1957.

Album: General

Varsity (Level: Collegiate, Style: Folkstyle)

Participating Teams

Allentown YMCA [PA], Bloomsburg University [PA], Bucknell University [PA], Buffalo Wrestling Club [NY], Central YMCA of Baltimore [MD], Cornell University [NY], Franklin & Marshall College [PA], Germantown YMCA [PA], Harvard University [MA], Hofstra University [NY], Indiana University of Pennsylvania [PA], Indiana University, Bloomington [IN], Ithaca College [NY], Lehigh University [PA], Lock Haven University [PA], Lycoming College [PA], Muhlenberg College [PA], Panzer College [NJ], Rochester Institute of Technology [NY], Rutgers University [NJ], Second Army [MD], Springfield College [MA], SUNY Oswego [NY], Syracuse University [NY], Temple University [PA], Third Army [SC], Unattached [PA], Union College [NY], University of Maryland, College Park [MD], University of Michigan [MI], University of Notre Dame [IN], University of Pittsburgh [PA], University of Toledo [OH], Waynesburg University [PA], Wesleyan University [CT], West Chester University [PA], West Side YMCA [NY], West Virginia University [WV], Wilkes University [PA], Wilkes-Barre YMCA [PA], Winona State University [MN], Yale University [CT], York YMCA [PA]

Team Final

1.	University of Pittsburgh [PA] 60 points
2.	Cornell University [NY] 58
3.	Second Army [MD] 44
4.	University of Maryland, College Park [MD] 23
5.	University of Michigan [MI] 22
6.	Rochester Institute of Technology [NY] 19
7.	Lock Haven University [PA] 18
8.	Central YMCA of Baltimore [MD] 13
	Franklin & Marshall College [PA] 13
	Third Army [SC] 13
11.	Rutgers University [NJ] 12
	Wilkes University [PA] 12
13.	SUNY Oswego [NY] 10
	West Virginia University [WV] 10
15.	Harvard University [MA] 9
	Indiana University, Bloomington [IN] 9
17.	University of Toledo [OH] 8
	York YMCA [PA] 8
19.	Temple University [PA] 6
20.	Bucknell University [PA] 5
21.	Allentown YMCA [PA] 4
	Buffalo Wrestling Club [NY] 4
	Union College [NY] 4
24.	Bloomsburg University [PA] 3
	Indiana University of Pennsylvania [PA] 3
	Syracuse University [NY] 3
	Wesleyan University [CT] 3
	Wilkes-Barre YMCA [PA] 3
	Winona State University [MN] 3
30.	Ithaca College [NY] 2
	Lehigh University [PA] 2
	Lycoming College [PA] 2
	Muhlenberg College [PA] 2
	Waynesburg University [PA] 2
	Yale University [CT] 2
36.	Germantown YMCA [PA] 1
	Hofstra University [NY] 1
	Panzer College [NJ] 1
	Springfield College [MA] 1
	University of Notre Dame [IN] 1
	West Chester University [PA] 1
	West Side YMCA [NY] 1
43.	Unattached [PA] 0

Award Winners

Outstanding Wrestler Award: Dave Johnson (University of Pittsburgh [PA], 167 lbs)

Championship Final (1st)

115 lbs:	Dick Wilson (University of Toledo [OH]) > Don Carey (Second Army [MD]), DEC 2-1
123 lbs:	Dave Auble (Cornell University [NY]) > Paul Powell (University of Pittsburgh [PA]), DEC 8-3
130 lbs:	Carmon Molino (Cornell University [NY]) > Russ Rohrbach (University of Maryland, College Park [MD]), DEC 11-6
137 lbs:	Vic DeFelice (University of Pittsburgh [PA]) > Tom Grifs (Rutgers University [NJ]), DEC 5-0
147 lbs:	Harry Fornicola (Second Army [MD]) > Jerry Huffman (Rochester Institute of Technology [NY]), DEC 8-6
157 lbs:	Dick Vincent (Cornell University [NY]) > Greg Ruth (Lehigh University [PA]), FALL 1:57
167 lbs:	Dave Johnson (University of Pittsburgh [PA]) > Ed DeWitt (Third Army [SC]), DEC 2-1
177 lbs:	Vince Kelly (Central YMCA of Baltimore [MD]) > Phil Harvey (Second Army [MD]), DEC 6-2
191 lbs:	Dave Dunlop (Cornell University [NY]) > Steve Zervas (University of Michigan [MI]), DEC 4-1
HWT:	Ron Flemming (Unattached [PA]) > J.D. Miller (West Virginia University [WV]), DEC 5-3

Consolation Final (3rd)

157 lbs:

Turner (Lehigh University [PA]) > Ed Nicholson (SUNY Oswego [NY]), NA