The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) announced its 2025 NCAA Division II men's individual and team scholar awards on Monday (April 7) afternoon, and seven Ashland University grapplers and the team as a whole were among the honorees.
NWCA D-II Men's Scholar All-Americans are based on one of the following criteria – All-American at the 2025 NCAA D-II National Championships and 3.00 grade-point average, national qualifier to the 2025 NCAA D-II National Championships and 3.25 GPA, or competed in four or more events and 3.5 GPA.
Ashland's seven honorees are:
- Junior 165-pounder Nate Barrett (Dietetics major).
- Freshman 141-pounder Brock Durbin (Marketing major).
- Sophomore 149-pounder Zander Graham (Intervention Specialist major).
- Sophomore 149-pounder Hayden Kuhn (Exercise Science major).
- Graduate 197-pounder Kaine Morris (Masters of Business Administration).
- Freshman 157-pounder Lance Overmyer (Business Management major).
- Redshirt freshman 197-pounder Reese Redman (Computer Science major).
Ashland also earned a 2025 D-II Men's Team Scholar award, finishing 19
th with a GPA of 3.277 from among the 10 starters at the Super Regional 3 tournament.
ALL-TIME ASHLAND UNIVERSITY WRESTLING NWCA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS
2025 –
Nate Barrett, Brock Durbin, Zander Graham, Hayden Kuhn, Kaine Morris, Lance Overmyer, Reese Redman.
2024 –
Nate Barrett, Daniel Beemer, Zander Graham, Hayden Kuhn, Drew Wiechers.
2023 –
Nate Barrett, Daniel Beemer, Zander Graham, Drew Wiechers.
2022 –
Cameron Jenkins, Chance Esmont, Drew Wiechers.
2021 –
Drew Wiechers, Peter Abraham, Tristen Weirich.
2020 –
Peter Abraham, Levi Jones, Chandler Minnard, Christian Price, Bret Romanzak, Carson Speelman, Tristen Weirich.
2019 –
Jerry Fenner, Dan Morell, Christian Price, Bret Romanzak.
2018 –
John Diven, Jerry Fenner, Garrett Hall, Dan Morell, Jordan Murphy, Christian Price, Bret Romanzak, Sebastian Vidika, Justin Wilcox.
ALL-TIME ASHLAND UNIVERSITY WRESTLING NWCA TEAM SCHOLAR AWARDS
2025, 2020 and 2019.
