UTC wrestler Daniel Waddell attempts a reversal against Campbell’s Nick Rex in the 157-pound weight class. Waddell won the Southern Conference championship with a last-second takedown.There’s no mystery to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s willingness to host the Southern Conference wrestling tournament.
Six times now the Mocs have hosted the event, and six times they have kept the championship hardware at home.
The Mocs won the program’s 26th league tournament title since obtaining SoCon membership in 1977, actually locking up the crown before the championship finals. They scored 102 points and won by 29.5 points over Appalachian State and The Citadel, which finished in a second-place deadlock with 72.5 points apiece.
First-year member Campbell placed fourth with 65 points.
“It’s huge to me for us to win my senior year,” UTC 157-pounder Dan Waddell said. “We didn’t win the regular season, and then to come in and run away with the tournament title says so much about this team and this program.”