| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | College wrestling |
| Location | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
| Dates | March 19, 1948–March 20, 1948 |
| Host(s) | Lehigh |
| Venue(s) | Taylor Gymnasium |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Oklahoma A&M (15th title) |
| 1st runners-up | Michigan State |
| 2nd runners-up | Illinois |
| MVP | Bill Koll (Iowa State Teachers College) |
The 1948 NCAA Wrestling Championships were the 18th NCAA Wrestling Championships to be held. Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hosted the tournament at Taylor Gymnasium.
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.
Lehigh University is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer. Its undergraduate programs have been coeducational since the 1971–72 academic year. As of 2014, the university had 4,904 undergraduate students and 2,165 graduate students.
Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, and Scranton. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County, and 19,343 were in Lehigh County.
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Oklahoma A&M took home the team championship with 33 points and having two individual champions. [1]
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.
Bill Koll of Iowa State Teachers College was named the Outstanding Wrestler. [2]
William H. Koll was an American wrestler at Iowa State Teachers College and wrestling coach, most notably at his alma mater and for the Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling team. As a wrestler Koll was undefeated (72–0) and won three straight NCAA Championships (1946–1948), He was twice voted outstanding wrestler at the national tournament, the first wrestler to achieve this honor. Koll competed for the U.S. at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and place fifth in the freestyle competition. As a professor of Health and Physical Education and coach, Koll led Penn State for 14 seasons (1965–1979), which included unbeaten dual meet campaigns in 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1974.
The Northern Iowa Panthers wrestling team represents University of Northern Iowa and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I. The team is coached by Doug Schwab.