| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | College wrestling |
| Location | Columbus, Ohio |
| Dates | March 29, 1929–March 30, 1929 |
| Host(s) | Ohio State University |
| Venue(s) | Ohio Expo Center Coliseum |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Oklahoma A&M (2nd title) |
| 1st runners-up | Michigan |
| 2nd runners-up | Oklahoma |
The 1929 NCAA Wrestling Championships were the 2nd NCAA Wrestling Championships to be held. Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa hosted the tournament at the Hilton Coliseum.
The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships for wrestling individuals and teams have been held annually since 1928, except for a hiatus in 1943–45 during World War II.
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference. Iowa State is classified as a research university with "highest research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Iowa State is also a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), which consists of 60 leading research universities in North America.
Ames is a city in central Iowa approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Des Moines. It is best known as the home of Iowa State University (ISU), with leading Agriculture, Design, Engineering, and Veterinary Medicine colleges. A United States Department of Energy national laboratory, Ames Laboratory, is located on the ISU campus.
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Oklahoma A&M took home the team championship with 26 points with four individual champions. [1] [2]
The Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling team is a NCAA Division I wrestling program and is one of four Big 12 Conference schools that participates in wrestling. Since the team's first season in 1914–15, it has won thirty-four team national championships, 134 individual NCAA championships, and 213 wrestlers have earned 425 All-American honors. The Cowboys won the first official NCAA Division I Wrestling Team Championship in 1929. The Cowboys have won 47 conference team championships and 234 individual conference titles. The program owns an all-time dual meet record of 1021-113-23. On January 28th 2011, OSU became the second school in NCAA history to record one thousand dual victories, joining Iowa State University.
