O-State's Dieringer named WIN Magazine
Dan Hodge Trophy winner
By Mike Finn
WIN Magazine
NEWTON, Iowa — Oklahoma State’s Alex Dieringer, fresh off winning a third NCAA championship, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, presented by ASICS.
The 165-pound Dieringer earned 27 of the 45 first-place votes to becomes the second Oklahoma State wrestler to win the award that was created by WIN founder Mike Chapman in 1995. Steve Mocco, who was the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award winner in 2001, was the first OSU wrestler to receive the Hodge Trophy in 2005.
The Dan Hodge Trophy is named after the former University of Oklahoma wrestler who won three NCAA championships (1955-57) and never allowed a takedown in his college career and pinned 36 of 46 victims. Hodge was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in the Charter Class in 1976.
Criteria for the award includes a wrestler’s record, number of pins, dominance on the mat, past credentials, quality of competition, sportsmanship/citizenship and heart.
“This is the best group of Hodge Trophy finalists we’ve ever had for the award,” said WIN Publisher Bryan Van Kley. “We’re extremely proud to announce Alex as this year’s winner. He obviously won the award over a group of finalists who all were extremely dominant and who could have been worthy Hodge winners on any given year. Wrestling was just blessed this year with several student-athletes who were going for the pin every match and looking to dominate every time they stepped on the mat.”
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NEWTON, Iowa — Oklahoma State’s Alex Dieringer, fresh off winning a third NCAA championship, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, presented by ASICS.
The 165-pound Dieringer earned 27 of the 45 first-place votes to becomes the second Oklahoma State wrestler to win the award that was created by WIN founder Mike Chapman in 1995. Steve Mocco, who was the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award winner in 2001, was the first OSU wrestler to receive the Hodge Trophy in 2005.
The Dan Hodge Trophy is named after the former University of Oklahoma wrestler who won three NCAA championships (1955-57) and never allowed a takedown in his college career and pinned 36 of 46 victims. Hodge was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in the Charter Class in 1976.
Criteria for the award includes a wrestler’s record, number of pins, dominance on the mat, past credentials, quality of competition, sportsmanship/citizenship and heart.
“This is the best group of Hodge Trophy finalists we’ve ever had for the award,” said WIN Publisher Bryan Van Kley. “We’re extremely proud to announce Alex as this year’s winner. He obviously won the award over a group of finalists who all were extremely dominant and who could have been worthy Hodge winners on any given year. Wrestling was just blessed this year with several student-athletes who were going for the pin every match and looking to dominate every time they stepped on the mat.”
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