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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- For the 34th time in school history, the Augsburg University men's wrestling team earned a top-three team national tournament finish, placing third at the NCAA Division III National Championships, completed on Saturday at the Amica Mutual Pavilion.

THE BASICS
TOP 10 TEAM SCORES: 1t. Johnson & Wales (R.I) 83.5; 1t. Wartburg (Iowa) 83.5; 3. Augsburg (Minn.) 74.0; 4. Baldwin Wallace (Ohio) 69.0; 5. Wisconsin-La Crosse 65.0; 6t. Coe (Iowa) 60.0; 6t. North Central (Ill.) 60.0; 8. Alvernia (Pa.) 59.0; 9t. U.S. Coast Guard Academy (N.Y.) 40.5; 9t. Wisconsin-Eau Claire 40.5.
LOCATION: Amica Mutual Pavilion, Providence, R.I.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg finished in third place in the team standings with 74.0 points, behind co-national champions Wartburg (Iowa) and Johnson & Wales (R.I.), which tied with 83.5 points -- the first national title tie in NCAA Division III men's wrestling history.
• Five Auggies earned All-American honors, including two national runners-up -- No. 3-seeded 165-pounder Cooper Willis (JR, Kansasville, Wis./Union Grove HS) and No. 3-seeded 184-pounder Brandt Bombard (JR, North Branch, Minn./North Branch HS). 
• Willis dropped a 6-0 decision to top-seed Matt Lackman of Alvernia (Pa.) in the 165-pound national title match. Lackman recorded a takedown with 49 seconds left in the first period, then scored a reversal with 1:40 left in the second period, and had 2:07 of riding time. 
• Willis reached the finals with a 5-0 victory over No. 7-seed Brayden Peet of Wisconsin-Whitewater in Saturday's semifinals. Willis claimed a takedown 30 seconds into the match, an escape in the second period and had 1:53 of riding time to pick up the victory.
• A three-time All-American with fifth-place finishes each of the last two seasons, Willis finished his junior year at 30-2, and is 98-15 in his collegiate career.
• In the third meeting of the season between the two wrestlers, Bombard was edged 2-1 in sudden-victory overtime by No. 5-seed Marcus Orlandoni of Wisconsin-La Crosse for the 184-pound national title. Orlandoni won two of the three meetings with Bombard this season. Bombard scored an escape early in the second period, and Orlandoni tied the match with an escape in the third period. But with three seconds left in regulation, Bombard was given a stalling warning, and with 33 seconds left in the sudden-victory overtime session, Bombard was called for stalling for the second time following a scramble at the edge of the mat, giving the penalty point and the national title to Orlandoni.
• Bombard reached the finals with an 11-2 major decision win over No. 7-seeded Tyler Withers of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (N.Y.). Bombard scored takedowns in each period and built 2:21 of riding time to reach the finals.
• Competing in his first season as a varsity starter for the Auggies, Bombard finished his junior season at 28-6 and is 54-23 in his career.

THREE PLACEWINNERS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON
• Augsburg claimed three All-American placewinners in Saturday's early session. (CLICK HERE FOR THIRD-SESSION STORY ON PLACEWINNERS)
• Seventh-seeded 174-pounder Seth Goetzinger (SR, Chatfield, Minn./Chatfield HS) capped his three-time All-American career with a third-place finish, finishing his season at 25-5 and his career at 97-26. He had finished seventh at 174 each of the prior two seasons.
• No. 4-seed Matthew Randolph (FY, Jordan, Minn./Jordan HS (Scott West)) ended his rookie season with a fourth-place finish at 149 pounds, finishing his campaign at 31-4.
• Chance Suddeth (SO, Stoughton, Wis./Stoughton HS) ended his second national tournament trip with his first All-American honor, placing seventh at 133 pounds. He finished 29-8 this season and is now 50-16 in his collegiate career.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Augsburg has now claimed top-three national tournament finishes 33 times in NCAA Division III competition (since 1983) and 34 times overall, including a second-place NAIA national finish in 1975.
• Either Augsburg, with 15 national titles, or Wartburg, now with 16 national titles has won or shared every Division III team national title since 1995. 
• Augsburg has had at least one All-American in national competition every year since 1977 -- 49 straight years. Augsburg has now earned 286 men's wrestling All-Americans in school history (235 in NCAA competition. 38 in NAIA, 13 by the NWCA in 2020 and 2021). 
• Augsburg has earned at least two All-Americans every year since 1988 and has had at least five All-Americans in 33 of the last 36 seasons.

AUGSBURG SATURDAY RESULTS
• 133 -- No. 5 Jaden Hinton (Baldwin Wallace) tech. fall Chance Suddeth (Augsburg) 19-4 at 6:21; Seventh-place match: Suddeth pinned Connor Kidd (Luther) 1:50.
• 149 -- No. 1 Hayden Brown (Johnson & Wales) dec. No. 4 Matthew Randolph (Augsburg) 8-1; Randolph dec. No. 3 Colby Frost (Southern Maine) 2-1; Third-place match: No. 6 Kyler Romero (Wartburg) dec. Randolph 3-1.
• 165 -- No. 3 Cooper Willis (Augsburg) dec. No. 7 Brayden Peet (Wisconsin-Whitewater) 5-0; National Championship match: No. 1 Matt Lackman (Alvernia) dec. Willis 6-0..
• 174 -- No. 3 Nathan Lackman (Alvernia) dec. No. 7 Seth Goetzinger (Augsburg) 4-3; Goetzinger maj. dec. No. 5 L.J. Richardson (Coe) 15-6; Third-place match: Goetzinger maj. dec. No. 6 Dejon Glaster (Millikin) 20-9.
• 184 -- No. 3 Brandt Bombard (Augsburg) maj. dec. No. 7 Tyler Withers (U.S. Merchant Marine) 11-2; National Championship match: No. 5 Marcus Orlandoni (Wisconsin-La Crosse) dec. Bombard 2-1 (OT-SV1).