{"id":4703,"date":"2017-03-13T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2017-03-28T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:44:20","slug":"nate-rodriguez-wins-national-wrestling-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/nate-rodriguez-wins-national-wrestling-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion! Rodriguez Wins National Wrestling Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior\u00a0Nate Rodriguez has won the second national championship in Maryville Saints\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryvillesaints.com\/index.aspx?path=wrestling&amp;\">wrestling<\/a>\u00a0history after rallying\u00a0to defeat Darren Wynn of McKendree 6-5 in the 141 finals at the NCAA Division II Wrestling National Championships in Birmingham, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez joins Matt Baker, who won the 197 national title in 2013, as Saints championship\u00a0winners.<\/p>\n<p>For the title, Rodriguez faced the defending champion in Wynn, who he had defeated four times this season. Rodriguez took the early 2-0 lead with a takedown in the first period. He chose\u00a0the down position to start the second and tacked on another point with an escape for a 3-0 advantage. Wynn rallied with a late takedown in the second to cut Rodriguez&#8217;s margin to 3-2 entering the final period. Wynn took a 4-3 edge on a reversal but Rodriguez drew even 4-4 with just over a minute left on an escape. The duo battled down the stretch before Rodriguez surged ahead on a takedown with 26 seconds remaining. Wynn escaped to pull to within 6-5 but Rodriguez kept Wynn at bay\u00a0for the thrilling comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p>In the semifinals, Rodriguez faced Nick Crume of Indianapolis. Neither wrestler scored in the first, but Rodriguez took a 1-0 lead after an escape. In the third, he had a takedown with 1:01 left in the third and held on for a 3-0 decision to reach the finals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryvillesaints.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=1881\">Zeb Wahle<\/a>\u00a0began his day in the 184 class with two takedowns in a 4-2 victory. He then defeated Aero Amo by a 7-3 count to move into the third-place match. Wahle fell behind JaVaughn Perkins 2-0 but earned one point back with an escape. Starting down in the second period, he tied the match 2-2 with another escape. Perkins took bottom to start the third but Wahle turned around a small riding time deficit and rode Perkins out the duration of the final period to earn one point for riding time and the decisive point in a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>In his first match of the day at 149,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryvillesaints.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=1871\">James Krischke<\/a>\u00a0was narrowly edged out in a 4-3 decision. In the seventh-place match he used a strong second period and cruised to a 9-5 win to claim All-America honors.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints finished in seventh place with 42 team points and had three All-Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/video\/wrestling\/2017-03-11\/dii-wrestling-2017-championship-full-replay\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the full event replay from the Championship Finals at the 2017 DII Wrestling Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our Facebook Live interview with Nate and Coach Denney:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.facebook.com%2FMaryvilleUniversity%2Fvideos%2F10155122687478544%2F%3Fbusiness_id%3D529923047211783&#038;width=600&#038;show_text=false&#038;appId=298233168521&#038;height=338\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal post-bottom\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"\" data-rm-love=\"0\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nectar-love\" id=\"nectar-love-4703\" title=\"Love this\"> <i class=\"icon-salient-heart-2\"><\/i><span class=\"love-text\">Love<\/span><span class=\"total_loves\"><span class=\"nectar-love-count\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa icon-salient-x-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='pinterest-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Pin this'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Pin<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Rodriguez won the second national championship in Maryville Saints wrestling history during the 2017 NCAA Division II Wrestling National Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[75,630,657,652,658,629,659,660,206],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-campus-community","tag-athletics","tag-championship","tag-coach-denney","tag-maryville-wrestling","tag-mike-denney","tag-nate-rodriguez","tag-national-championship","tag-national-title","tag-wrestling","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Champion! 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