Cade Sarbacker (Mineral Point/Iowa-Grant) and Adam Latella (Rockton, IL/Hononegah) won individual titles, leading UW-Whitewater to third place (Note:  Change in the official meet scoring were discovered Thursday, March 2) in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship tournament hosted by UW-Platteville Sunday.   Sarbacker and Latella automatically advance to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III, and will be joined by teammates Jake Fredrickson and James Zarate (Waukesha/North), who earned at-large selections.  Special note:  UW-W's Reid Dickerson (Indianapolis, IN/North Central) was chosen to participate in the NCAA III tournament in an announcement at 11:00 a.m. Monday.  Dickerson, who finished second in the WIAC championship, received a national at-large berth to expand UW-W's representation at the NCAA III championship to five wrestlers.  Dickerson is 25-17.

Team scores were UW-La Crosse 132, UW-Stevens Point 123, UW-Whitewater 121.5 , UW-Oshkosh 85, UW-Platteville 82, and UW-Eau Claire 51.5.  UW-Whitewater, ranked seventeenth in the Brute/Adidas Division III poll, has finished third in five of the last six years, with a second place in 2010.  UW-La Crosse is ranked second in the national Division III poll and UW-Stevens Point eighteenth.

Sarbacker, seeded first, had a first round bye.  In the second round he defeated Jose Quintana of Oshkosh 11-2, and in the title match he defeated Ben Strobel of Stevens Point 14-5.  Sarbacker upped his season record to 26-8, the second most wins on the team this season.

Latella, also a number one seed, opened with a 10-2 win over Toni Piechowski of La Crosse.  He followed that with a 13-6 win versus Aaron Erickson of Oshkosh to set up the championship bout, where he topped number two seed Chad Gregory of Stevens Point 3-2.  Latella, 32-5, is ninth in his weight class in the national Division III rankings.  He was the WIAC runner-up at 197 in 2010, when he also qualified for the NCAA III championship, where he went 1-2.

UW-Whitewater wrestlers were in either the first or third place match in nine of ten weight classes.

Jake Fredrickson (Woodstock, IL/Woodstock), seeded second at 133 and ranked eighth by the NWCA, had a first round bye.  In his second round he beat Jordan Kust of Stevens Point 10-2.   He lost to Adam Shelley of La Crosse, ranked fifth by the NWCA, 4-2 in the championship match.  With the WIAC using an additional match to determine a true second place finish, Frederickson beat Allen Fish of host Platteville 8-6 to finish second.  Fredrickson is 21-3 this season.

Warhawks 141- pounder Dylan Schroeder (Mineral Point/Mineral Point) began the tourney with a pin of Steve Fisher at 2:39.  In round two he beat Shane Sweeney of Stevens Point 8-6 to advance to the title match, where he lost to top-seeded Bebeto Yewah of La Crosse by technical fall (25-10, 5:14).  Yewah, ranked number one in Division III, went on to earn the John Peterson Award as the Outstanding Wrestler in the 2011 WIAC Tournament.  Schroeder bounced back from the loss to beat Brett Phillips of Platteville 17-9 in the true second place match, leaving his record at 11-8 for the year.

Two more UW-W wrestlers earned second place, without using the extra (true second) match.  Reid Dickerson (Indianapolis, IN/North Central) had a first round bye, which he followed up with a 5-1 over number two seed Ryan Conat of Stevens Point.  In his 174 pound championship match, Dickerson lost to top seeded Michael Schmitz of La Crosse 12-3.  Schmitz is ranked second by the NWCA.  Dickerson, 25-17, was also named UW-Whitewater's representative on the WIAC Wrestling Sportsmanship Team.

James Zarate (Waukesha/North), the only senior in Whitewater's lineup, earned a first round bye as the number two seed at 285 pounds.  In round two he defeated Steve Wozniak of Stevens Point 6-2.  Zarate lost to the number one seed, William Mayer of La Crosse, who is also ranked ninth by the NWCA, 6-0 in his title match.  Zarate is 23-15.

Two Warhawks earned third place finishes.  Kegan Arthur (Petoskey, MI/Petoskey) waited through a bye in the first round, then lost to Kris Magruder of UW-SP 5-0.  He came back to pin Joshua Baier of Eau Claire in 0:54, and beat Ryan Borman of Platteville 11-3 in the third place match.  Arthur is 24-7.  Cheston Kesselhon (East Troy/East Troy) won 7-0 over Ricardo Gonzales of Eau Claire in round one, lost to Jordan Schulte of Point 4-2 in the second round, but then came back with two more wins.  He edged Jared Hutterer of Platteville 6-4 to get in to the third place match, where he pinned Aaron Konitzer of Oshkosh in 5:44 to bring his season mark to 15-16. 

Andrew Pettit (Hoffman Estates, IL/Hoffman Estates) added points for Whitewater at 184 pounds.  He won by decision, 5-4, over Matt Rieckoff of Eau Claire, then lost to the number one seed, Ben Engelland of Stevens Point by pin at 4:20 of their match.  Engelland is ranked second in Division III by the NWCA.  Pettit rebounded with a 5-0 win over Wesley Mathieu of Platteville, before ending the day with a 7-2 loss to Mitch Artist of La Crosse 7-2 in the third place match.  Pettit ends his season with an 11-20 mark.

The WIAC is allotted eighteen qualifiers for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Championship Tournament, which will be hosted by UW-La Crosse at the La Crosse Center March 11-12.

For additional information:  Tim Fader, UW-W coach