Wrestling

Morningside will host the nine-week long 2012 Summer Wrestling Academy designed for high school wrestlers.

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Morningside College wrestling head coach Tim Jager has announced the names of 12 recruits who will join the Mustangs for the 2012-13 season.

The recruits include one junior college transfer and 11 high school seniors, of which four were state tournament runner-ups during their prep careers.

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Brian Block, a 184 lb. junior from Sibley, Iowa,and Joe Sievert, a 174 lb. junior from Akron, Iowa, were named Co-Most Valuable Players for the Morningside College wrestling team at the Mustangs’ post-season awards banquet held Sunday.

Block had a 24-5 record with nine falls and earned NAIA All-America honors with a fourth place finish at the NAIA National Championships. Sievert had a 30-2 record with nine falls and also earned All-America honors with a seventh place finish at the national tourney.

Block moved into seventh place on Morningside’s all-time victory list with a career record of 83-23, while Sievert moved into ninth place with a 76-14 career record.

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John Sievert, a junior heavyweight from Akron, Iowa, broke the Morningside College single-season and career pin records during the 2011-12 wrestling season.

Sievert pinned 24 of his opponents to shatter the previous Morningside single-season record of 14 falls in a season set by Ben Knight during the 2008-09 campaign. He raised his career total to 36 falls to break the former Mustang record of 28 falls set by Knight from 2007-11.

Sievert led the Mustangs in victories with a 43-13 record to finish two wins shy of the Mustangs’ single-season standard of 45 triumphs in a season by Jake Stevenson in 2005-06. Aside from leading the team in victories and falls, Sievert also topped the Mustangs with 47 escapes and 12 two-point near falls.

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Morningside College is ranked No. 7 in the nation in the NAIA post-season wrestling poll released on March 9.

The Mustangs, who were also ranked sixth in the final regular season poll, posted a 9-6 record in duals this season, including a perfect 6-0 mark in Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) competition, to repeat as league champions. Morningside finished second at the NAIA North Qualifying Group Tournament and 12th at the NAIA Wrestling National Championships.

Morningside has six wrestlers in the final NAIA individual rankings, led by Cory Kistner, a junior from Sioux City, who is ranked second at 125 lbs. Kistner had a 20-8 record this season and was the 125 lb. runner-up at the NAIA Wrestling National Championships.

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Kory Kistner was a national runner-up with a second place finish in the 125 lb. division at the 2012 NAIA Wrestling National Championships held Thursday through Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

The fourth-ranked Kistner earned NAIA All-America honors with his second place finish. He lost by fall in 1:06 against No. 1-ranked Mitchell Lofstedt of Southern Oregon University in Saturday night’s 125 lb. title bout.

Kistner finished the campaign with a streak of 15 victories in his final 17 matches to finish with a record of 20-8.

The Mustangs had three other wrestlers earn NAIA All-America honors with place winning performances. Brian Block finished fourth at 184 lbs., Joe Sievert was seventh at 174 lbs., and Jared Wildeboer was eighth at 165 lbs.

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Morningside College placed four athletes on the 2012 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Wrestling First-Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.

The Mustangs’ first-team selections are headlined by Joe Sievert, a junior 174 pounder from Akron, Iowa, who was named the 2012 Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Wrestler of the Year. Morningside’s other first-team selections are Kory Kistner, a junior 125 pounder from Sioux City; Jared Wildeboer, a senior 165 pounder from Parkersburg, Iowa; and Brian Block, a junior 184 pounder from Sibley, Iowa.

In addition to their four first-team picks, Morningside’s Tim Jager was named the 2012 Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Wrestling Coach of the Year. Jager led the Mustangs to a second consecutive GPAC championship by posting a perfect 6-0 dual record against their GPAC rivals. Morningside had an overall dual record of 9-6 to put its record at 75-41-2 in eight seasons under Jager.

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Morningside College crowned four champions en route to a second place finish at the 2012 NAIA North Qualifying Group Wrestling Tournament held Saturday in Sioux City.

The Mustangs’ champions were Kory Kistner, a junior from Sioux City at 125 lbs.; Garret Lambrecht, a freshman from Wood River, Neb., at 141 lbs.; Joe Sievert, a junior from Akron, Iowa, at 174 lbs.; and Brian Block, a junior from Sibley, Iowa, at 184 lbs.

Block received the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler Award.

Midland University claimed the team championship with 156.5 points, followed by Morningside, 147; Dickinson State University, 105.5; Dakota Wesleyan University, 100.5; Concordia University, 96; Northwestern College, 64; Jamestown College, 41; Briar Cliff University, 35.5; and Hastings College, 33.5.

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Kory Kistner, a junior 125 pounder from Sioux City, has been named the NAIA National Wrestler of the Week and the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Wrestler of the Week.

Kistner won his only match of the week when he pinned Briar Cliff University’s Nate Garcia in 1:08 to help the Mustangs wrap up the 2011-12 GPAC championship with a 42-3 dual meet victory against the Chargers last Wednesday. Morningside finished unbeaten in the GPAC with a 6-0 record.

Kistner’s pin was the fastest of four falls the Mustangs had in the win against Briar Cliff. Kistner, ranked seventh in the nation in the latest NAIA rankings, improved his record to 13-7.

Morningside wrapped up the 2011-12 GPAC wrestling championship when it routed Briar Cliff 42-3 on Wednesday in the HPER Center.

The victory enabled the sixth-ranked Mustangs to finish their dual season with a 9-6 record, including a perfect 6-0 mark in the GPAC. The Mustangs won their final seven duals of the campaign after they began the season 2-6.

The Mustangs, who were also GPAC kingpins in 2010-11, stormed past the Chargers with wins in nine of the 10 weight divisions, including four by fall.

Three of the Mustangs’ pins came in the first period, including a fall from Kory Kistner, who had the fastest fall of the night when he disposed of Briar Cliff’s Nate Garcia in just 1:08 in the 125 lb. opening bout.

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Joe Sievert, a junior from Akron, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Wrestler of the Week.

Sievert, the nation’s No. 1-ranked wrestler in the NAIA 174 lb. division, went 3-0 in duals last week to remain undefeated for the season at 22-0. Two of his victories were major decisions and the other triumph came by fall. Sievert won major decisions by margins of 11-3 against David Carter of Northwestern College and 19-6 against Casey Paprocki of Buena Vista University. His fall came in 3:44 against David Gerhardus of Hastings College.

Sievert received the award for the second time this season.