NCAA Wrestling Data1928–2025

1955 NCAA Championships

157 lb

Champion Bill Weick, Northern Iowa.

Placers

Places 1 to 8 as the record has them.

  1. 1Bill WeickUNI
  2. 2Mike RodriguezMICH
  3. 3Ed DeWittPITT
  4. 4Ed RooneySyracuse (NY)

Championship

Round of 32 · 14 bouts

  1. Bill Bock, Springfield (MA) over Sam 'Dick' Downey, Auburn (AL) — Dec 11–9 · View bout
  2. Bill Smoot, Oklahoma State over Ted Lennox, Michigan State — Dec 9–6 · View bout
  3. Bill Weick (1), Northern Iowa over Normal Balot, City College (NY) — Dec 9–1 · View bout
  4. Bob Bormuth, Wyoming over Gerry Chadwick, Duke (NC) — Dec 5–0 · View bout
  5. Brien 'Dale' Ward, Army (NY) over George McGee, North Carolina — Fall 8:17 · View bout
  6. Delbert Lockwood, Colorado State over Don Dykhoff, South Dakota State — Dec 9–3 · View bout
  7. Ed DeWitt (4), Pittsburgh (PA) over Jerry Schroeder, Minnesota-Mankato — Fall 3:33 · View bout
  8. Ed Rooney (2), Syracuse (NY) over Jerry Bross, Oklahoma — Fall 2:40 · View bout
  9. John Winder, Iowa over Don Chadwick, Baldwin Wallace (OH) — Dec 15–4 · View bout
  10. Luther 'Jerry' Seeber, Wisconsin over Henry 'Harry' Scott, Columbia (NY) — Fall 5:45 · View bout
  11. Mike Rodriguez (3), Michigan over Neal Lesher, Rutgers (NJ) — Dec 14–4 · View bout
  12. Peter Damone, Hofstra (NY) over Frank Kastor, Illinois — Fall 4:34 · View bout
  13. Roger Taylor Jr., Lehigh (PA) over Bill Fisher, Millersville (PA) — Dec 5–2 · View bout
  14. Vince Kelly, Loyola (MD) over Ned Tudi, Cornell (NY) — Dec 3–1 · View bout

Round of 16 · 8 bouts

  1. Bill Smoot, Oklahoma State over Bill Bock, Springfield (MA) — Dec 10–5 · View bout
  2. Bill Weick (1), Northern Iowa over Vince Kelly, Loyola (MD) — Dec 6–0 · View bout
  3. Delbert Lockwood, Colorado State over Roger Taylor Jr., Lehigh (PA) — Fall 4:43 · View bout
  4. Ed DeWitt (4), Pittsburgh (PA) over Joe Humphreys, Penn State — Fall 8:25 · View bout
  5. Ed Rooney (2), Syracuse (NY) over Luther 'Jerry' Seeber, Wisconsin — Fall 1:06 · View bout
  6. John Winder, Iowa over Brien 'Dale' Ward, Army (NY) — Fall 5:47 · View bout
  7. Mike Rodriguez (3), Michigan over Ron Teuber, Colorado — Fall 2:34 · View bout
  8. Peter Damone, Hofstra (NY) over Bob Bormuth, Wyoming — Dec 6–2 · View bout

Quarterfinal · 4 bouts

  1. Bill Weick (1), Northern Iowa over Delbert Lockwood, Colorado State — Dec 4–1 · View bout
  2. Ed DeWitt (4), Pittsburgh (PA) over John Winder, Iowa — Dec · View bout
  3. Ed Rooney (2), Syracuse (NY) over Bill Smoot, Oklahoma State — Dec 11–4 · View bout
  4. Mike Rodriguez (3), Michigan over Peter Damone, Hofstra (NY) — Fall 7:00 · View bout

Semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Bill Weick (1), Northern Iowa over Ed DeWitt (4), Pittsburgh (PA) — Dec · View bout
  2. Mike Rodriguez (3), Michigan over Ed Rooney (2), Syracuse (NY) — Dec 13–8 · View bout

Final · 1 bout

  1. Bill Weick (1), Northern Iowa over Mike Rodriguez (3), Michigan — Dec 6–4 · View bout

Consolation

Consolation round 4 · 2 bouts

  1. Ron Teuber, Colorado over Neal Lesher, Rutgers (NJ) — Dec 3–0 · View bout
  2. Vince Kelly, Loyola (MD) over Normal Balot, City College (NY) — MFF · View bout

Consolation round 5 · 2 bouts

  1. Delbert Lockwood, Colorado State over Vince Kelly, Loyola (MD) — Dec 4–1 · View bout
  2. Ron Teuber, Colorado over Peter Damone, Hofstra (NY) — Dec · View bout

Consolation semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Ed DeWitt (4), Pittsburgh (PA) over Delbert Lockwood, Colorado State — Dec 7–4 · View bout
  2. Ed Rooney (2), Syracuse (NY) over Ron Teuber, Colorado — Dec 5–2 · View bout

Placement bouts

3rd-place bout · 1 bout

  1. Ed DeWitt (4), Pittsburgh (PA) over Ed Rooney (2), Syracuse (NY) — Dec 1–0 · View bout

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