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Pac-12 Wrestling totals seven All-Americans at 2023 NCAA Championships

by Pac-12 Conference
Mar 19, 2023
Logan OKelley

EVENT RESULTS & SCORING

SAN FRANCISCO - Pac-12 Wrestling programs combined for seven All-America performances at the 2023 NCAA Championships.

2023 NCAA All-Americans from Pac-12 Wrestling
Brandon Courtney, ASU - 125 (3rd)****
Michael McGee, ASU - 133 (3rd)***
Kyle Parco, ASU - 149 (4th)***
Shane Griffith, STAN - 165 (5th)****
Trey Munoz, OSU - 184 (6th)*
Bernie Truax, POLY - 197 (4th)***
Cohlton Schultz, ASU - 285 (7th)***
* - Denotes number of career All-America accolades

  • It marks the sixth straight season with five-or-more All-Americans for the Pac-12, with 48 total recipients over that span (2023 - 7, 2022 - 13, 2021 - 8, 2020 - 10, 2019 - 5, 2018 - 5).
  • Seventh consecutive year Arizona State landed multiple All-Americans, the program’s longest such streak since a 19-year stretch ended in 2004.
  • Including the NWCA awards given during the non-NCAA Championship season of 2020, Arizona State’s Brandon Courtney and Stanford’s Shane Griffith both secured their fourth career All-America honors; Courtney is the fifth Sun Devil to accomplish the feat and first since Eric Larkin in 2003, while Griffith is the first Cardinal to achieve the All-American quartet. Among the Pac-12's six current members, Courtney and Griffith are the ninth and 10th to be four-time All-Americans.
  • ASU’s Michael McGee (3rd at 133) and Kyle Parco (4th at 149) both earned their third career All-America nods with career-best national finishes.
  • Cal Poly’s Bernie Truax, who has climbed a weight class each of his first three seasons, is the second three-time All-American in program history joining Boris Novachkov (2010-12).

On the team front, ARIZONA STATE finished seventh overall in the final standings, a third straight top-10 finish for the first time since stretch of four consecutive top 10s from 1992-95.

2023 NCAA Wrestling Championships Team Standings (Champion & Pac-12)
1. Penn State - 137.5
7. ARIZONA STATE - 55.0
26. STANFORD - 18.0
27. CAL POLY - 17.5
29. OREGON STATE - 15.0
T53. CSU BAKERSFIELD - 1.0

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