Michigan wrestling finishes second at the NCAA Championships
Michigan wrestling always knew it had a special opportunity for team 100.
The Wolverines were hosting the NCAA Championships in Detroit, and they got the postseason off to a great start by winning its first Big Ten title since 1973.
They weren’t able to climb to the top of the team podium at NCAAs, but they got the next-best thing and finished second on the strength of six All-Americans, which tied for the most in the country (with champion Penn State) and also matched the program record, set in 1965.
Michigan has now claimed four straight top-five NCAA finishes for the first time in program history. This is their highest finish since taking second in 2005, and tied for the best placement in history — it is the sixth time they have placed second nationally.
U-M’s effort was led by a national championship from 125-pound graduate student Nick Suriano and a runner-up finish from 184-pound graduate student Myles Amine.
Suriano’s win marked the 23rd NCAA championship in program history, and the first for the Wolverines since Kellen Russell won his second crown in 2012. It is Suriano’s second NCAA title, after he won the 133-pound crown in 2019 while competing for Rutgers. He clinched the victory with a 5-3 victory over Princeton’s Patrick Glory in his third trip to the NCAA finals.
Amine fell 5-3 in the finals to Penn State defending national champion Aaron Brooks. It was the third matchup of the season between the two rivals, with them splitting the first two and Amine coming out on top at the Big Ten Championships. It was Amine’s fifth All-America honor, making him the first and only Wolverine to ever do so. Three others in college wrestling earned their fifth All-America honor this season.
Fourth-year head coach Sean Bormet was also named the National Coach of the Year for the season by the National Wrestling Coaches Associatoin (NWCA). He is the first Wolverine to win that award, and was also named the Big Ten Coach of the Year, after leading U-M to its conference triumph, where they scored a program-record 143 points. Bromet is just the second in U-M history to win the latter award, joining his collegiate coach, Dale Bahr (1988).
Other All-America finishes for Michigan included 157 Will Lewan (fourth), 165 Cameron Amine (fifth), 174 Logan Massa (fifth) and 285 Mason Parris (fifth). Cameron Amine has three years of eligibility remaining for the Wolverines, while Lewan has two years and Parris one from the COVID year though he’s listed on the roster as a senior.
