1948 NCAA Championships
Individual champions, team standings, and every recorded bout by weight. Placements are shown only where the record supports them.
8weights
8individual champions
168recorded matches
Individual champions
Historical award evidence: this tournament recorded no bout labeled as a championship final. Its individual champions come from an archived placement list, and no final bouts have been manufactured.
Historical tournament format: 1948 recorded numbered rounds instead of a championship bracket — no ladder toward a final and no placement bouts, unlike the ordinary (if shallow) brackets run in the years around it.
| Weight | Champion | Program | Evidence | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | Arnold Plaza | Purdue (IN) all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| 125 | George Lewis | Waynesburg (PA) all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| 136 | Dick Dickenson | Michigan State all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| 147 | Bill Koll | Northern Iowa all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| 160 | John St. Clair | Oklahoma State all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| 174 | Glen Brand | Iowa State all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| 191 | Verne Gagne | Minnesota all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
| Unlimited | Dick Hutton | Oklahoma State all-time | Archived placement list | No final match is recorded or invented. |
Team standings
The archive’s 1948 results cannot be scored, so these are the published standings only.
| Rank | Program | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma State all-time | 33 |
| 2 | Michigan State all-time | 28 |
| 3 | Illinois all-time | 23 |
| T4 | Iowa all-time | 15 |
| T4 | Northern Iowa all-time | 15 |
| T4 | Purdue (IN) all-time | 15 |
| 7 | Minnesota all-time | 12 |
| 8 | Waynesburg (PA) all-time | 11 |
| T9 | Colorado State all-time | 9 |
| T9 | Iowa State all-time | 9 |
| T9 | Navy (MD) all-time | 9 |
| 12 | Lock Haven (PA) all-time | 7 |
| 13 | Nebraska all-time | 5 |
| T14 | Franklin & Marshall (PA) all-time | 3 |
| T14 | Lehigh (PA) all-time | 3 |
| T16 | Hofstra (NY) all-time | 2 |
| T16 | Indiana (IN) all-time | 2 |
| T16 | Penn State all-time | 2 |
| T16 | Rutgers (NJ) all-time | 2 |
| T16 | Syracuse (NY) all-time | 2 |
| T21 | Colorado (College) all-time | 1 |
| T21 | Kansas State all-time | 1 |
| T21 | Williams (MA) all-time | 1 |