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    Stieber voted 2012 InterMat Freshman of the Year

    Expectations have been high for Logan Stieber ever since he stepped foot on campus at Ohio State University. The Buckeye 133-pounder has lived up to those high expectations. This past season as a redshirt freshman he won the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in December, and then added Big Ten and NCAA titles in March. He finished the season with a 33-2 record and 16 pins. For all these reasons, Logan Stieber has been voted 2012 InterMat Freshman of the Year.

    Ohio State's Logan Stieber defeated Oklahoma State's Jordan Oliver to win the NCAA title at 133 pounds (Photo/John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com)
    Each year, this honor is awarded to the nation's top collegiate freshman wrestler, and is determined by a vote of InterMat writers and executives.

    Stieber joins a stellar list of InterMat Freshman of Year honorees. Last year, David Taylor of Penn State received the award. Other past honorees include Cornell's Kyle Dake (2010), Wisconsin's Andrew Howe (2009), Cornell's Mike Grey (2008), Iowa State's Jake Varner (2007), and Minnesota's Dustin Schlatter (2006).

    Stieber won this year's award going away. He received all 10 of the first-place votes, for a total of 90 points. Minnesota's Dylan Ness, an NCAA runner-up at 149 pounds, came in second in the balloting with 52 points. In third place was Nico Megalaudis of Penn State, 125-pound NCAA runner-up, with 39 points. Logan Stieber's brother and Ohio State teammate Hunter Stieber, an All-American at 141 pounds, finished fourth in the balloting with 16 points. Another Buckeye All-American, Cam Tessari, rounded out the top five with 14 points.

    Logan Stieber, Hunter Stieber, and Cam Tessari all attended Monroeville High School in Ohio.

    2012 InterMat Freshman of the Year
    1st-5th-Place Votes: 9-7-5-3-1
    Total Votes/(First-Place Votes)


    1. Logan Stieber, Ohio State, 90 (10)
    2. Dylan Ness, Minnesota, 52
    3. Nico Megaludis, Penn State, 39
    4. Hunter Stieber, Ohio State, 16
    5. Cam Tessari, Ohio State, 14
    6. Jesse Delgado, Illinois, 8
    6. Mike McMullan, Northwestern, 8
    8. Chris Dardanes, Minnesota, 7
    8. Logan Storley, Minnesota, 7
    10. A.J. Schopp, Edinboro, 5
    11. Dylan Alton, Penn State, 2
    12. James Green, Nebraska, 1
    12. Bobby Telford, Iowa, 1
    Of the 13 freshmen who received votes, 12 wrestle in the Big Ten. Edinboro's A.J. Schopp was the lone wrestler from outside the Big Ten who received votes. Both Ohio State and Minnesota had three freshmen who received votes.

    "We knew the day we signed Logan Stieber, the program would move forward in a mighty way," Ohio State coach Tom Ryan said after Stieber claimed the NCAA title on March 17. "It is a tremendous statement for the program that a young person can come in and excel so rapidly at this level. We are so happy."

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