2016 Jim Fox Spartan Open Wrestling Results
Feb 6, 2016
Jim Fox (left) celebrated the 10th Annual Jim Fox Spartan Open in 2016 with Spartans head coach Jon McGovern (above right), the current president of NCAA Division III National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).
2016 Jim Fox Spartan Open Wrestling Brackets
2016 Jim Fox Spartan Open Wrestling Place Winners
DUBUQUE, Iowa - The University of Dubuque celebrated their 10th Annual Jim Fox Spartan Open in 2016 with a stellar field of competitors. A field of 95 student-athletes faced one another on the mat on Saturday in a warm-up for the 2016 NCAA Central Regional to be held on Sunday, Feb. 28 at Five Flags Center in Dubuque. Iowa.
UD alumnus Jim Fox, was a 1963 graduate of UD, and won the IIAC title wrestling his senior year for the Spartans. The well-known Fox continued his interest in the sport of wrestling long after he graduated from the university. He would continue after his collegiate days as one of the officials at the NCAA wrestling championships in Iowa City and many other Big Ten wrestling meets around the Midwest. In front of a capacity crowd in Stolz Sports Center in 2005 it was announced this tournament would be officially named the Jim Fox Spartan Open beginning in 2006. Fox lives in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Winners included:
125 - Tanner Terry (Wartburg College)
133 - Dusten Reed (Wartburg College)
141 - Donovan Luckett (University of Dubuque)
149 - Kenny Martin (Wartburg College)
157 - Jeremy Vester (Central College)
165 - Mark Weber (Wartburg College)
174 - Tyler Lutes (Wartburg College)
184 - Brennan Schott (Wartburg College)
197 - Kyle Frank (Wartburg College)
285 - Lance Evens (Wartburg College)
IIAC Wrestling
1. WAR (1) 18-0, 6-0
2. LUT (12) 12-5, 5-1
3. COE (15) 11-5, 4-2
4. DBQ 13-9, 3-3
CEN (23) 8-3, 3-3
6. LOR 1-12, 1-4
7. BVU 2-8, 0-4
8. SIM 2-9, 0-5
National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Team Ranking #6
January 27, 2016
1. Wartburg College (IA)
2. Wabash College (IN)
3. Roger Williams University (RI)
4. Messiah College (PA)
5. University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
6. SUNY Cortland (NY)
7. Augsburg College (MN)
8. Concordia College – Moorhead (MI)
9. Ithaca College (NY)
10. The College of New Jersey
11. Cornell College (IA)
12. Luther College (IA)
13. Johnson & Wales University (RI)
14. University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
15. Coe College (IA)
16. Williams College (MA)
17. Alma College (MI)
18. Wilkes University (PA)
19. Baldwin Wallace College (OH)
20. Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
21. York College (PA)
22. New York University
23. Central College (IA)
24. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
25. Olivet College (MI)
