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Baczek, Day Earn All-America honors with top 4 surfaces at the NCAA tournament

Providence, Rhode Island – Wabash College Senior Chase Baczek His wrestling career with a third place in the 197-pound weight class on Saturday at the NCAA Division III National Championship tournament 2025 in the Amica Mutual Pavilion. Wabash junior James Day Fourth place with 133 pounds.

Baczek stood in one of the semi-final fights of the championship with 197 pounds to start the competition on Saturday on Saturday, undefeated and with top seeds. A 15: 0-tech case loss sent Baczek, the fifth seed, to the consolation clip, where he achieved a 12-0 decision about Dylan Harr from the seventh seed by Johnson and Wales. Baczek was in the third game with Baczek with Joseph Petrella from Baldwin Wallace. The Wabash Senior scored a 5-0 win in his last college fight to win third place in his career for the third time and to secure all-America honors. He won 111 games in his four-year career to always evaluate the tenth in the Wabash-Wiegenlist.

Day secured his second All-America Prize in a row with its fourth place at the 2025 event. Day opened the competition on Saturday with a PIN in the last 38 seconds of his consolation game against Connor Kidd from Luther College. The day, the eighth seed in the 133-pound clip, paired against Garrett Totten from the third seed from College of New Jersey and scored a 5-0 win to achieve third place against Jaden Hinton from Baldwin Wallace against the fifth seed. Hinton won his final match with a 17: 1 tech crash, with the total of fourth place.

Wabash sits in 12TH Place 75 teams who take part in the tournament, which will take part in Saturday evening championship fight on Saturday evening.