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1988-89 Wrestling Team

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The 1988-89 Central Oklahoma wrestling squad posted the eighth and final NAIA national team championship for the Bronchos, with the team posting a combined 296 wins during the season.
 
Shawn Fleming and Johnny Nimmo both won national titles individually while Jeff Gowens and Marc Hull both registered national runner-up performances. Tony Pacheco, Greg Oplotnik and Howard Moore also earned All-American honors to give Central seven total and enough points to claim the national title.
 
CSU scored 105 team points at the national championships in Jamestown, N.D., outpacing the runners-up by 13 points.
 
Central finished fourth at the Southern California Invitational earlier in the season, with Fleming earning an individual trophy there, and the Bronchos took first at the Southwest Missouri Invitational with Fleming, Gowens, Hull, Nimmo and Oplotnik all earning titles there. The Bronchos also competed in four other non-team scoring tournaments and compiled an impressive 22 top-five finishes at those events.
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