NCAA Wrestling Data1928–2025

1941 NCAA Championships

Unlimited lb

Champion Leonard 'Butch' Levy, Minnesota.

Placers

Places 1 to 8 as the record has them.

  1. 1Leonard 'Butch' LevyMINN
  2. 2Larry PickettYale (CT)
  3. 3Loyd ArmsOKST
  4. 4John ThomasLafayette (PA)

Championship

Round of 16 · 5 bouts

  1. Bill Bennett, Wisconsin over Henry 'Hank' Blake, Lock Haven (PA) — Dec 10–2 · View bout
  2. C. 'Larry' Miller, Northern Colorado over Charles Zalonka, Temple (PA) — Dec 6–2 · View bout
  3. John Thomas (3), Lafayette (PA) over Walter Haloupek, Cornell College (IA) — Fall 1:38 · View bout
  4. Larry Pickett (4), Yale (CT) over Thomas Davies, West Virginia — Dec 7–0 · View bout
  5. Walter Porowski, Kent State (OH) over Bill Hitchcock, Lehigh (PA) — Fall 3:23 · View bout

Quarterfinal · 4 bouts

  1. John Thomas (3), Lafayette (PA) over C. 'Larry' Miller, Northern Colorado — n/r · View bout
  2. Larry Pickett (4), Yale (CT) over Bill Bennett, Wisconsin — Fall 2:00 · View bout
  3. Leonard 'Butch' Levy (2), Minnesota over John Kerns, Penn State — Dec 3–2 · View bout
  4. Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State over Walter Porowski, Kent State (OH) — Dec 9–3 · View bout

Semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Larry Pickett (4), Yale (CT) over Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State — Fall 4:55 · View bout
  2. Leonard 'Butch' Levy (2), Minnesota over John Thomas (3), Lafayette (PA) — Dec 4–2 · View bout

Final · 1 bout

  1. Leonard 'Butch' Levy (2), Minnesota over Larry Pickett (4), Yale (CT) — Dec 5–2 · View bout

Consolation

Consolation round 5 · 1 bout

  1. Bill Bennett, Wisconsin over Thomas Davies, West Virginia — Dec 4–2 · View bout

Consolation semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. John Thomas (3), Lafayette (PA) over John Kerns, Penn State — Dec 4–2 · View bout
  2. Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State over Bill Bennett, Wisconsin — Dec 11–0 · View bout

Placement bouts

3rd-place bout · 1 bout

  1. Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State over John Thomas (3), Lafayette (PA) — Dec 4–3 · View bout

Bouts as the source workbook records them, in round order. No bracket positions or byes are inferred.