Princeton University
NCAA Championships
Three Wrestlers Ready for NCAA Championships in Kansas City
March 20, 2024 | Wrestling
March 21st-23rd (Thur.- Sat.) | T-Mobile Center | Kansas City, Mo.
Live Results | Broadcast Info | Meet Info | Tickets | Meet Central | Seeds | Schedule
PRINCETON, NJ - Three Tigers will compete at the 2043 NCAA wrestling championships in Kansas City, Mo., set to begin Thursday. The event will be streamed and televised on the ESPN networks.
At this year's EIWA Championships held by Bucknell, the Princeton wrestling team showcased five Tigers on the podium. This marks the eighth consecutive year, dating back to the 2014-2015 season, that Princeton has had a finalist in the EIWA tournament, with Nate Dugan contending for the 184-pound title. The Tigers finished 8th overall with a team score of 68.5. Princeton secured three spots in the NCAA Championships with automatic bids for wrestlers Luke Stout, Nate Dugan, and Matt Cover.
Live results will be available via TrackWrestling here."Dugan, Stout and Cover are all able, willing, and prepared to win this tournament," said head coach Joe Dubuque. "They must embrace the challenge of it, soak up the energy in the arena, and go out and perform to the best of their ability."
Schedule
Session 1 (Thursday, 12pm) - Championship First Round
Session 2 (Thursday, 7pm) - Championship Second Round + Consolations
Session 3 (Friday, 12pm) - Championships Quarterfinals + Consolations
Session 4 (Friday, 8pm) - Championship Semifinals + Blood Round
Session 5 (Saturday, 11am) - Medal Round
Session 6 (Saturday, 7pm)- Championship Finals
Competitors
Matt Cover (Sr., 285) - Earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships after finishing 4th at the EIWA Championships ... held a 17-9 record competing at 285 ... competed in eight regular season duals with a 5-4 record ... placed 3rd at the Princeton Open ... 5th place at the Navy Classic ... win over ranked Indiana opponent Nick Wilhelm in the first dual of the season
Nate Dugan (Sr., 184) - Earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships after finishing 2nd at the EIWA Championships ... Second Team All-Ivy ... had an 22-6 record all at 184 ... Dugan was ranked in National Media Polls all season and ranked No. 21 in the second 2024 NCAA Coaches Poll ... competed in twelve duals with a 10-2 record ... placed 1st at the Princeton Open ... 3rd at the Navy Classic ... 6th at the Midlands Championships ... two ranked wins
Luke Stout (Jr., 197) - Second-team All-Ivy League, going 5-3 in duals ... finished sixth at the EIWA Championships, earning an automatic NCAA Championships bid ... finished with a 20-5 record on the season, all at 197 ... 2023-24 captain ... during the regular season, placed 1st the Navy Classic, defeating Nebraska's Silas Allred ... placed 6th at the Princeton Open ... grabbed a 2nd place finish at the Midlands going 4-1 in the tournament
More Info
Princeton has qualified a wrestler to the NCAA Championships every year the program has competed since 2014. The longest such stretch of having an NCAA qualifier in program history is 22 years, from 1967-88. The active streak is the second longest. Since 2006, Princeton wrestlers have earned 48 NCAA Championship bids across 11 tournaments, from 2010 through '23 except 2013 (and 2021, when Princeton did not compete). In 2022, Patrick Glory (125) and Quincy Monday (then 157) became Princeton's first NCAA finalists since 2002 and gave Princeton its first two-finalist NCAAs ever. Princeton has had two NCAA individual wrestling titles, from Bradley Glass '53 in 1951 (unlimited weight class) and Patrick Glory '23 (125). At last year's tournament, with a 4-1 win over fourth-seeded Matt Ramos of Purdue in the final at 125 pounds, Glory became Princeton's first NCAA wrestling champion in 72 years.
Princeton wrestlers have won 13 All-American honors all since 2016 and almost half of the 25 All-American honors Princeton wrestlers have earned all-time. Patrick Glory became the second four-time All-American in program history, along with former teammate Matthew Kolodzik '21, and current assistant coach Quincy Monday is the third three-time All-American in program history, along with Kolodzik and Glory.
Head Coach Joe Dubuque won the 2005 and 2006 NCAA title at 125 at Indiana and added those to an eighth-place finish in 2004 for a three-time All-American career. Quincy Monday, a three-time All-American and one of four wrestlers in program history with two top-three NCAA Championships finishes, joined the Princeton wrestling program as an assistant coach in July 2023. From 2010 to 2016, Reece Humphrey was an Olympic Hopeful at The Ohio Olympic Regional Training Center. Transitioning to coaching, he led the Titan Mercury Wrestling Club from 2016 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been instrumental as a coach of the New Jersey Olympic Regional Training Center. He now serves as the Assistant Coach at Princeton.
