Friday, March 21
Philadelphia, Pa.
Noon ET
Central Michigan University
at
NCAA Championships Session 3
CMU redshirt junior Sean Spidle (left) battles Nebraska's Jacob Van Dees in a 133-pound consolation-bracket bout on Friday at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
Chippewa Wrestlers Bow Out at NCAA Championships
3/21/2025 6:03:00 PM | Wrestling
PHILADELPHIA – The Central Michigan wrestlers are out of the 2025 NCAA Championships at Wells Fargo Center.
Five Chippewas qualified for the annual season-ending tournament, and three were still alive on Friday morning. All three were eliminated on Friday in their respective consolation brackets.
CMU's ean Spidle (133 pounds) fell to Jacob Van Dee of Nebraska, 9-3, after Spidle had topped Bucknell's Kurt Phipps, 3-0, earlier in the day. Spidle, a redshirt junior who was seeded 23rd, finished 2-2 in the tournament.
CMU's Johnny Lovett (157) and Chandler Amaker (165) both lost their only match of the day on Friday.
Lovett fell on a 7-2 decision to DJ McGee of George Mason and Amaker fell to Northwestern's Maxx Mayfield, the 18th seed, in the tie-breaker.
Lovett, who was seeded 15th, finished 1-2 in the tournament and closed an outstanding six-year CMU career with 133 victories, tying Matt Stencel for the second most in program history behind Casey Cunningham, who won 134.
Stencel, now a Chippewa assistant coach, wrestled at CMU from 2016-22. Cunningham, the lone Chippewa to win a national title (157 in 1999), wrestled at CMU from 1995-99. Cunningham is in his 15th year as an assistant coach at Penn State.
The Amaker-Mayfield match was tied, 2-2, after regulation and a sudden victory period and then went to the tie-breaker. Mayfield won with a plus-4 second advantage in riding time.
Amaker, a redshirt junior who began the season as a backup at 165, got into the NCAA Championships by placing second two weeks prior in the Mid-American Conference Championships.
He was seeded 33rd (last) in the NCAA tournament and then topped the No. 32 seed, Jared Keslar of Pitt, 8-6 in sudden victory.
After losing on a 16-0 technical fall to top-seeded Mitchell Messenbrink of Penn State, Amaker rebounded to beat Noah Mulvaney of Lehigh, the 17th seed, 8-6 on Thursday night.
He pushed Mayfield, a senior who was wrestling in the NCAAs for the third consecutive season, to the limit before falling.
Five Chippewas qualified for the annual season-ending tournament, and three were still alive on Friday morning. All three were eliminated on Friday in their respective consolation brackets.
CMU's ean Spidle (133 pounds) fell to Jacob Van Dee of Nebraska, 9-3, after Spidle had topped Bucknell's Kurt Phipps, 3-0, earlier in the day. Spidle, a redshirt junior who was seeded 23rd, finished 2-2 in the tournament.
CMU's Johnny Lovett (157) and Chandler Amaker (165) both lost their only match of the day on Friday.
Lovett fell on a 7-2 decision to DJ McGee of George Mason and Amaker fell to Northwestern's Maxx Mayfield, the 18th seed, in the tie-breaker.
Lovett, who was seeded 15th, finished 1-2 in the tournament and closed an outstanding six-year CMU career with 133 victories, tying Matt Stencel for the second most in program history behind Casey Cunningham, who won 134.
Stencel, now a Chippewa assistant coach, wrestled at CMU from 2016-22. Cunningham, the lone Chippewa to win a national title (157 in 1999), wrestled at CMU from 1995-99. Cunningham is in his 15th year as an assistant coach at Penn State.
The Amaker-Mayfield match was tied, 2-2, after regulation and a sudden victory period and then went to the tie-breaker. Mayfield won with a plus-4 second advantage in riding time.
Amaker, a redshirt junior who began the season as a backup at 165, got into the NCAA Championships by placing second two weeks prior in the Mid-American Conference Championships.
He was seeded 33rd (last) in the NCAA tournament and then topped the No. 32 seed, Jared Keslar of Pitt, 8-6 in sudden victory.
After losing on a 16-0 technical fall to top-seeded Mitchell Messenbrink of Penn State, Amaker rebounded to beat Noah Mulvaney of Lehigh, the 17th seed, 8-6 on Thursday night.
He pushed Mayfield, a senior who was wrestling in the NCAAs for the third consecutive season, to the limit before falling.
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