Pistols Firing · Mar 29, 2016
Alex Dieringer Wins Dan Hodge Trophy
Coming off his third NCAA championship victory, Oklahoma State’s Alex Dieringer has been awarded the 2016 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy.
Since the creation of the Hodge trophy in 1995, only one other Cowboy, Steve Mocco (2005), has ever won the award.
Ironically, the Dan Hodge award is named after the former University of Oklahoma wrestler who won three NCAA national championships and never allowed a takedown in his entire college career.
“The award went to the right guy,” wrestling coach John Smith told WIN. This has been his No. 1 goal all year.”
The Hodge trophy is the most prestigious individual honor in college wrestling, also coined as “The Heisman trophy of wrestling.”