EVANSTON, Ill.—Arizona State wrestling’s freshman Tanner Hall finished as the heavyweight runner-up at the 53rd Ken Kraft Midlands Championships, hosted by Northwestern at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
In the finals, Hall fell, 4-3, to NC State’s Nick Gwiazdowski (NCSU), the defending NCAA Champion who currently posts the nation’s longest active win streak at 71 consecutive bouts.
The Meridian, Idaho native is ASU’s highest placer since 2002, when Dana Holland finished as the runner-up at 141 pounds. He is also ASU’s highest-placing heavyweight wrestler, surpassing Mike Anderson’s 3rd-place finish at that weight class in 1991. All-time, 25 of ASU’s 73 Midlands placers finished second or higher.