GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Grayston DiBlasi, Anderson Salisbury, and Weston Hunt all wrestled back to win their third-place bouts and punch their tickets to St. Louis as the trio led #21 Colorado School of Mines at the 2022 NCAA Super Region VI Championships.

The Orediggers scored 84.5 team points to take fourth, with Nebraska-Kearney winning the team title at 175.5 points and eight individual champions. 

Hunt made history by joining Hall of Famer Glen Frank as the only other four-time qualifier in program history, while Salisbury heads to NCAAs for the third straight season. DiBlasi, a freshman, will go for the first time as the Orediggers' first rookie to make nationals since John Crowley in 2013. 

The NCAA Division II Championships will take place March 11-12 in St. Louis. 

125 POUNDS
Christian Lopez finished sixth in a 3-3 day, highlighted by a 9-5 decision over Fort Hays' Broderick Green and a 14-6 major against San Francisco State's Antonio Margiotta. Lopez ends a solid season at 14-12 overall.

133 POUNDS
Tyler Krause battled back to take fifth place in a 3-2 day, losing his opener but wrestling back with two wins in consolations to make a placing bout. Krause strung together two decisions before losing the consi semis; he ended his season with a first-period pin of Simon Fraser's Riley Prough to end up 10-8.

141 POUNDS
DiBlasi secured his spot at nationals with a dramatic 4-3 win in the third-place bout decided by riding time. After running to the semifinals but falling to UNK's #9 Nick James, DiBlasi pinned Western's Dean Noble in 38 seconds to go to the win-or-go-home third-place match. There, he squared off against SFSU's #5 Josh Fuentes Norikiyo and won 4-3 on riding time, scoring his second win of the year over a ranked competitor. DiBlasi's 4-1 day makes him 24-5 as he heads to St. Louis.

149 POUNDS
Cody Thompson suffered an early exit in a 1-2 debut at NCAA Super Regionals. Thompson's win came by fall over Brody Lamb of Chadron State. The rookie wraps up the season at 12-10 overall.

157 POUNDS
Carter Noehre finished fifth after a run to the championship semifinals, going 3-2 on the day. Noehre wracked up a tech fall and decision to make it to the semis before being pinned by #2 Josiah Rider of Adams State; he ultimately ended up in the fifth-place bout where he beat Fort Hays State's Anthony Scantlin for a second time, 9-7. Noehre ends the season 15-10.

165 POUNDS
Senior Jack Damenti went 1-2 in his final tournament as an Oredigger. After falling in the quarters, Damenti won 3-2 in a tight decision over Preston Renner of Chadron State. Damenti ends the season 10-9.

174 POUNDS
Ryan Fidel ended his Oredigger career with a sixth-place showing as an injury cut short his tournament. Fidel made a run to the semifinals with a pin over Darwin Hull of Chadron State, but lost there to #1 Austin Eldredge of UNK; in the consolation semis, Fidel withdrew due to a second-period injury and ultimately forfeited the fifth-place bout. Fidel ends the season 10-10 and 32-18 for his career.

184 POUNDS
Salisbury earned his third consecutive nationals trip by wrestling back to take third in a 3-1 day. Salisbury beat ASU's Ben Tonnessen by major decision in the quarters before being upset by #9 Marty Verhaeghe, 5-3, in the semis; that send him to the consolation semis to pin Dominic Robles of CSU Pueblo, and he then beat Nolan Krone of Colorado Mesa 5-2 to keep his season going. Salisbury is now 19-3 this season.

197 POUNDS
Perry Rodenbeck went 0-2 in his regionals debut, suffering two one-point decisions, 5-4 to Porter Fox of Western Colorado and 6-5 to CSU Pueblo's Ben Gould. Rodenbeck went 8-8 this season.

285 POUNDS
Hunt secured his historic fourth consecutive NCAA Championships appearance by wrestling back for third in a hard-fought 5-1 day. Hunt was stunned in overtime by Western Colorado's Sammy Deseriere, 3-1, in the quarterfinals, meaning he had to win four straight matches to keep his career alive. He did just that, pinning ASU's Aiden Butler, tech falling Gavin Nye of CSU Pueblo, and pinning #9 Mason Watt of Chadron State in the consi semis to face Taniela Feliciano-Takafua of Simon Fraser in the third-place match. There, both men had escapes but Hunt earned a last-minute takedown plus riding time in the third to win 4-2. Hunt is now 19-4 this season and 74-25 all-time, becoming the 17th Mines wrestler to reach 70 career victories.