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http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=150109LeVesseur walks with legend
Augsburg's reborn star wraps an undefeated career
by CLETE CAMPBELL
Augsburg College's Marcus LeVesseur points skyward after winning the 165Lbs NCAA Division III National Wrestling Championships Saturday night, February 3, 2007 in Dubuque Iowa. LeVesseur finished his college wrestling career 155-0, and is the only undefeated, 4 time national champion in NCAA Division III history.
A year ago, Augsburg (Minn.) wrestler Marcus LeVesseur's life was, in his words, "a disaster."
Alcohol and marijuana addictions were burning out the three-time NCAA Division III national champion's once sun-bright future. He was on a fast downward spiral. He dropped out of school in September 2005, faced assault and disorderly conduct charges, and bounced and out of rehab clinics while searching for himself and an escape from addiction.
Saturday night, LeVesseur took another step back from the edge and a giant step into college wrestling history at the NCAA Division III National Championships at Five Flags Center.
LeVesseur became the first four-time Division III national champion and joined former Iowa State star Cael Sanderson as the only wrestlers to finish their careers undefeated.
LeVessuer wrapped up a 155-0 career by turning away the College of New Jersey's scrappy Michael Guenther, 3-0, in the 165-pound championship match. LeVesseur dropped to his knees and pointed skyward after polishing off Guenther in a defense-driven match.
"The one thing that pushed me through everything was my belief in God and my belief in myself that I would be able to overcome my disaster of a personal life," said LeVessuer, who also won three 157-pound championships. "I had to take it one day at a time. It was a tough battle. But one year later, I'm here."
A four-session total crowd of 6,778 this weekend watched Augsburg return to its familiar place of national champion after a one-year drought. With national champions LeVesseur, Quincy Osborn (141) and Jeremy Anderson (157) and two runners-up leading nine All-Americans, the Minneapolis title factory outscored defending national champion and top-ranked Wartburg, 1351/2-991/2 for its record-adding 10th national championship. Wisconsin-La Crosse came home third with 921/2 points.
"On Feb. 1, we got knocked on our butts," LeVesseur said of Augburg's 19-13 dual loss to the Knights. "But these guys tonight showed the resiliency of our program."
"That's No. 10," Osborn said. "The feeling's indescribable."
The night was not without sweet moments for Wartburg. Tyler Miller, the son of Knights coach Jim Miller, started watching Wartburg wrestlers win national championships when he was in kindergarten and long dreamed of adding his name to the list.
The top-seeded Miller (26-0) put his name in Wartburg's book of champions by overpowering Cinderella Ben Strandberg of Buena Vista, 11-3. Strandberg had made an unseeded run to the championship match. Afer the clock hit zero, Jim Miller reversed wrestling's most popular championship celebration by leaping into his son's arms.
"This is what I've always wanted to do: be like him," Tyler Miller said of his father.
The roll call of national champions also included Luther's Nate Hansen (125), David Morgan of Kings, New York (133), Luther's Matt Pyle (149), Wisconsin-La Crosse's Josh Chelf (174), Hunter's (N.Y.) Terrance Madden (184) and Wartburg's Blake Gillis (285).
* At nationals, one takedown can change the story of your season.
A tight 3-2 consolation quarterfinal match loss to New York University's Nick Coleman denied Loras College junior 184-pounder Jay Figgins a chance at third place, but Figgins wouldn't be denied a comeback. He kept Ryan Summers of John Carroll (Ohio) on the defensive while grinding out a 6-2 victory and a seventh-place national medal.
It was a strong rebound for Figgins, who was haunted all weekend by a stunning first-round loss by pin to the unseeded Nicholas Calandrino of Ithaca (N.Y.). Figgins (34-6) became Duhawks coach Randy Steward's 27th All-American.
"My goal (for the seventh-place match) was to be the old me: coming back at him, clubbing him on his head and keeping him on the ropes the whole time," Figgins said.
* Two years after returning from serving in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps, University of Wisconsin-Platteville 141-pounder Zach Chambers finished his career with a fourth-place national finish.
Chambers (who finished the season 28-5) lost a shootout to good friend Jared Creason of Coe, 18-11, in the third-place match.
"You never like to lose your last match. But I lost to a quality kid and I'm still an All-American," said Chambers, who hopes to eventually coach and run his own high school program. "I've been wanting to be an All-American my whole life."
* UW-Platteville sophomore All-American Ryan Higgins placed eighth at 149 pounds, falling 10-4 to Timothy Bohlman of York (Pa.) in the seventh-place match.
