NCAA Wrestling Data1928–2025

1946 NCAA Championships

145 lb

Champion Bill Koll, Northern Iowa.

Placers

Places 1 to 8 as the record has them.

  1. 1Bill KollUNI
  2. 2Edgar WelchOKST
  3. 3Gale MiklesMSU
  4. 4Tony YamasakiUNCO

Championship

Quarterfinal · 3 bouts

  1. Bill Koll, Northern Iowa over Duane Hague, Kent State (OH) — Fall 1:10 · View bout
  2. Gale Mikles, Michigan State over Sam Kramer, Minnesota — Dec 6–3 · View bout
  3. Tony Yamasaki, Northern Colorado over John 'Jack' Petry, Illinois — Dec 18–17 · View bout

Semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Bill Koll, Northern Iowa over Gale Mikles, Michigan State — Dec 6–4 · View bout
  2. Edgar Welch, Oklahoma State over Tony Yamasaki, Northern Colorado — Dec 5–1 · View bout

Final · 1 bout

  1. Bill Koll, Northern Iowa over Edgar Welch, Oklahoma State — Dec 7–2 · View bout

Consolation

Consolation semifinal · 1 bout

  1. Gale Mikles, Michigan State over Duane Hague, Kent State (OH) — Dec 4–0 · View bout

Placement bouts

3rd-place bout · 1 bout

  1. Gale Mikles, Michigan State over Tony Yamasaki, Northern Colorado — Dec 7–2 · View bout

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