Three of the Mountaineers’ preseason picks appear in the preseason national rankings, as Dejournette (10), Kee (16) and Przybysz (17) all earned the distinction from InterMat.Ĭhattanooga, which won at least a share of the regular-season title for the 11th time in 12 years last season, is ranked 23rd in InterMat’s preseason team dual-meet rankings. Kee, the 2015 SoCon Freshman of the Year, is a two-time all-conference pick and won the league title at 174 last season. Enriquez was a SoCon All-Freshman pick last year, while Przybysz was the SoCon tournament runner-up and earned an NCAA at-large bid.
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The Mountaineers were also represented on the preseason All-SoCon squad by Irvin Enriquez (133 pounds), Forrest Przybysz (165) and Nick Kee (174). The redshirt senior from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, went 31-4 last season and topped Chattanooga’s Jared Johnson in the final match at the SoCon tournament to clinch the Mountaineers’ first title since 2003. Mountaineer coach JohnMark Bentley was named the league coach of the year for the second straight season.Īppalachian State, whose 2015-16 regular-season title was its first since 2011-12, put a league-best four student-athletes on the preseason all-conference squad, highlighted by reigning SoCon Wrestler of the Year and two-time defending SoCon champion Denzel Dejournette at heavyweight. Appalachian State topped Chattanooga for the 2016 SoCon tournament title in a tightly contested affair that came down to the final individual bout, stopping the Mocs’ five-year run of dominance in the event. The Mountaineers and Mocs finished with 44 points apiece to share top billing in the preseason prognostications, each earning three first-place votes. The coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams or student-athletes.
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– After a 2015-16 season that saw them earn shares of the regular-season Southern Conference title and finish just a half point apart at the SoCon Wrestling Championship, Appalachian State and Chattanooga tied for the top spot in a preseason poll of the league’s eight head coaches, who also selected a 10-member preseason all-conference team.