Alex Cramer Earns Weekly MAC Award

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1/28/2025 12:47:00 PM | Wrestling

By: Andy Sneddon

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. -- Central Michigan's Alex Cramer was named the Mid-American Conference West Division Wrestler of the Week on Tuesday in a vote of league coaches.

Cramer, a graduate student who wrestles at 174 pounds, went a perfect 3-0, scoring bonus points in all three of his matches, in the Chippewa Challenge at American University in Washington, D.C.

Cramer posted a technical fall and two major decision victories in running his win streak to nine matches and improving to 18-3 on the season.

A two-time defending MAC champion at 174 who is ranked No. 1 in the conference, the Grayslake, Ill. native outscored his three opponents by a combined 43-6. His third win of the tournament, a 15-0 tech fall over Chris Neal of Cal State Bakersfield, was the 99^th of his career.

With his next victory, Cramer will become the 28^th wrestler in CMU history to join the program's 100-Win Club. Cramer is ranked seventh nationally by InterMat and eighth by FloWrestling.