MISSOURI'S J'DEN COX WINS SECOND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN WRESTLING
NCAA WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS - Final RESULTS
It was another historic wrestling day for the Mid-American Conference as Missouri junior J'den Cox became the 11th MAC wrestler in Conference history to win a National Championship, including the first two-time National Champion. Cox won the 197 weight class with a 4-2 win over Penn State's Morgan McIntosh Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City at the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
For Cox, he becomes the fourth MAC National Champion in the last six years -- joining Kent State's Dustin Kilgore in 2011 (197 weight class), Cox in 2014 (197 weight class) and Missouri's Drake Houdashelt in 2015 (149 weight class).