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Joe Gomez

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/2/2016
  • Sport
    Wrestling
  • Bio
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Joe Gomez went a perfect 4-0 for the Wolves wrestling team from the NCAA Super Region III Tournament. Gomez opened the tournament with a 12-4 major decision victory over Ashton Bartlett of Southwest Minnesota State.  The junior moved on to the quarterfinal round against Clayton Wahlstrom of Augustana. Gomez recorded the 3-1 victory over Wahlstrom with a takedown in the opening period and an escape. Gomez opened Sunday action versus VJ Guilio of St. Cloud State. The hard fought dual went to overtime, and Gomez came away with the 5-3 sudden victory. With the victory, Joe punched his ticket to the NCAA National Championships. The finals brought Ryan Beltz of Maryville who defeated Gomez in the seventh place match from the NCAA's a season ago. The two were scoreless in the opening period, however Gomez tallied three takedowns in the second and third to take the 6-3 lead. On his final takedown of the bout, Beltz suffered an injury at 6:09 and was unable to continue.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
3/8/2009 Kelli Bornander Softball
2/9/2009 Bojan Todorovic Men's Basketball
2/9/2009 Jenna Higgins Women's Basketball
2/2/2009 Christine Retzlaff Women's Swimming & Diving
2/2/2009 Josh Schmeichel Men's Track & Field
1/26/2009 Ross Pfeifle Men's Track & Field
1/26/2009 Tanya Vassar Women's Track & Field
1/19/2009 Cody Hunt Men's Track & Field
1/19/2009 Megan Kusler Women's Basketball
1/12/2009 Ryan Larsen Wrestling
1/12/2009 Emily Becken Women's Basketball
12/8/2008 Jodi Reinschmidt Women's Basketball
12/8/2008 Mitch Boeck Men's Basketball
10/20/2008 Stephanie Nygaard Volleyball
10/20/2008 Catherine "Kit" Grace Women's Soccer
10/13/2008 Maggie Fedor Women's Soccer
10/13/2008 Danny Scott Men's Cross Country
10/6/2008 Jill Rasmussen Volleyball
10/6/2008 Nate McGruder Football
9/22/2008 Nick Sipe Men's Golf
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