ADA, Ohio --- The small town of Ada, Ohio, is well known as the producer NFL footballs since 1955. Now it is the place where the first ODAC team won a regional wrestling championship.

Nationally top-ranked Roanoke College highlighted a banner weekend by ODAC wrestlers at Ohio Northern University's King-Horn Sports Center by claiming the Regional IV team title for the program and conference's first regional championship. A league-record 16 competitors from conference schools qualified for the Division III Wrestling Championships next month. Seven won weight class titles with six runner-up showings and a trio of third-place finishes.

In addition to the team championship trophy, Roanoke brought home two more pieces of hardware. Head coach Nate Yetzer was named the Region IV Coach of the Year, while Maroons associate head coach Blake Rosenbaum and assistant coach Collin Gerardi garnered Region IV Staff of the Year.

To qualify for the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships, which will be hosted this year at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 13-14, wrestlers must finish first, second, or third in their respective weight classes at their regional meets. Six regional events were hosted this weekend at various locations throughout the country. Each weight class advances 18 wrestlers to the final brackets.

With the nationals left to be competed, ODAC wrestling has seen 55 wrestlers qualify for the Division III championships -- 10 in 2023, 15 in 2024, 14 in 2025, and 16 this season.

Listed below we take a look at each weight class and the qualifiers set to travel to Iowa.

• 125 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Mac Cafurello (RC), Adrian Samano (AU)
  • Cafurello went 4-0 on his way to the weight class title, defeating Adrian Samano by decision (8-1) in the title bout. Cafurello won by technical fall in his opening bout and then registered three straight decisions, while Samano sandwiched two wins by technical fall around a pin of his opponent in the quarterfinals.
• 133 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Jude Robson (RC), Vincent Ziccardi (WLU)
  • Robson squared off with Ziccardi for the podium’s top spot and won by decision (7-2). Robson won twice by technical fall and twice by decision. Ziccardi earned two decisions and one major to comprise his three wins.
• 141 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Mark Samuel (RC), Skyler Hickman (WLU)
  • Samuel, the defending Division III champion at 141 pounds, got all he bargained for and more from fellow nationally-ranked Hickman with the Maroons’ star earning a tight 2-0 decision. Samuel won his other four bouts twice by major with one tech fall and a pin of his semifinal opponent. Hickman advanced once by medical forfeit in his first bout, but then claimed a major decision in the quarterfinals before a sudden-victory decision in the semis.
• 149 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Taylor Smith (RC), Evan Lindner (WLU)
  • Smith claimed the title with a 4-2 decision over Ohio Northern’s Jovanni Greco. He went 4-0 overall with a pair of pins in his first two matches and a technical fall. Lindner claimed third place, going 6-1 in seven bouts in a very busy two-day effort. His first win came by fall and then rattled off two technical falls, a major, and two straight sudden-victory decisions to earn his place in the national championships.
• 157 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Liam Flanagan (WLU)
  • Flanagan won twice by fall and via a pair of decisions in a dominating effort to claim the weight-class title. He surrendered just seven points over his four matchups.
• 165 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Cody Parent (RC)
  • Parent finished as the runner-up in this weight class, going 3-1 with a pair of pins and a technical fall before falling by major in the final to Andrew Supers from Baldwin Wallace.
• 174 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Xavier Preston (RC)
  • Preston reached the final in this weight class, but was unable to compete with a medical forfeit to leave him as the weight class runner-up. He won his previous matches by technical fall, major, and decision, respectively.
• 184 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Hunter Moore (RC), Khalil Mitchell (AU)
  • Moore went 5-0 to claim the weight-class championship, scoring three wins by decision, a tech fall, and a pin in his opening match. At the time of his matches’ conclusions, Moore outscored his opponents, 42-5. Mitchell needed just 23-seconds to win his first bout by fall, but then lost by decision in the quarterfinals. He recovered to win by major, technical fall, and then a pair of successive majors including the third-place match.
• 197 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Lorenzo Pellot-Vazquez (RC)
  • Pellot-Vazquez cruised into the weight-class final bout with wins by fall, technical fall, and major. ONU’s Mitchell Johnson, who would later be named regionals MOP, earned a major decision with Pellot-Vazquez finishing as runner-up.
• 285 POUNDS
  • Qualifiers: Carter Stack (WLU), Nicholas Cook (RC)
  • Stack won the weight-class title in pretty dominating fashion, outscoring his opponents, 27-0, in wins by tech fall and major in his first two bouts before winning the championship with a pair of decisions by a combined 15-6 count including a 5-2 win over Andrew Vanscoy from Baldwin Wallace. Cook advanced on medical forfeit before coming up on the wrong side of a sudden-victory decision in the quarterfinals. He recovered with wins by major and decision before advancing to the third-place match by medical forfeit. He claimed third place by tiebreaker-1 (3-2) over Muskingum’s Scotty Edwards.