White won three straight matches en route to the finals, losing a closely-contested 7-6 decision to Wartburg's Jacob Naig in the 149-pound championship bout. He pinned Dugan O'Connor of Knox College (IL) in 39 seconds to start his day and won his other matches by scores of 7-1 and 10-6.
Moen won five of six matches to earn third place in his weight class. He beat Alex Rizzo of Augustana College (IL) 14-3, defeated Tyler Faust of Augsburg University (MN) 14-4 and edged Niles Mercer of Coe College 4-2 before losing to eventual champion David Greenwood of Iowa Central Community College 10-5 in the semifinals. He regrouped and beat Wartburg's Kalen Lenz 3-1 and nipped Mercer 3-2 in the third-place bout.
Perkins lost to Pat McAuley of Cornell College 11-6 but wrestled back to pin Cowan Brown of North Central College (IL) in 2:48 and beat Iowa Central's Carrington Banks 4-3 for third. He's now 19-5 on the season, the best record of any NIACC wrestler.
NIACC competes next at 6 p.m. Friday in a home dual meet against Ellsworth Community College.
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