Lelund Weatherspoon

Weatherspoon, Lelund_2015_CentralMichigan

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Weight:
174
Class:
Redshirt Senior
Hometown:
Jackson, Mich.
High School:
Napoleon

Awards and Honors
2017 NCAA Qualifier
2017 Big 12 Championship (Fourth Place)
2016 Midlands Championships runner-up
2016 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Fourth Place)
2016 Harold Nichols Cyclone Open Champion
2016 NCAA All American (Sixth Place)
2016 Big 12 Champion
2016 Midlands Championships (Seventh Place)
2015 Harold Nichols Cyclone Open Champion
Big 12 Wrestler of the Week
Iowa State wrestling Outstanding Wrestler Award
2015 NCAA Qualifier
2015 Big 12 runner-up
2015 Kaye Young Open Champion
2014 NCAA Qualifier
2014 Big 12 Champion
2014 Southern Scuffle (Fifth Place)
2014 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Fifth Place)
2013 Harold Nichols Cyclone Open (Third Place)
2013 FILA Junior National Champion
2013 Kaye Young Open Champion
2012 Harold Nichols Cyclone Open (Third Place)

2016-17
Closed out his Iowa State career with a 23-13 mark while posting a 7-6 dual record… finished his Cyclone tenure with an overall record of 93-44 and 33-19 in dual competition… finished as a two-time Big 12 Champion and All American as a Cyclone… earned his fourth trip to the NCAA Championship… took fourth place at the 2017 Big 12 Championship… earned a runner-up finish at the Midlands Championships… avenged a loss at the Midlands Championships suffered earlier in the season to Alex Meyer, defeating the Hawkeye by 9-7 decision to reach the finals… took fourth place at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational… won the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open with a fall in 2:27 over Jadaen Bernstein of Navy in the finals… closed out the season with three pins, two technical falls and two major decisions.

2015-16
Finished the season 27-13… tallied a 10-6 dual record… earned a sixth-place finish at the 2016 NCAA Championship to earn All-America honors as an unseeded wrestler… all three wins in New York City were over seeded opponents… defeated Cody Walters of Ohio by 5-3 decision to reach the semifinals and clinch an All-America finish… was the only unseeded wrestler to earn a spot in the semifinals at the NCAA Championship… became the first Cyclone since John Thorn in 1983 to reach the semifinals as an unseeded wrestler… knocked off No. 2 Brian Realbuto by 7-4 decision to ignite his run to the podium… qualified for the NCAA Championship by winning the 174-pound Big 12 Championship… Weatherspoon became the 56th grappler in school history to win two or more conference titles… defeated No. 1 Chandler Rogers in the finals by 8-5 decision… led the team in major-decision wins with eight on the year… knocked off then-ranked No. 10 Mike Ottinger of Central Michigan by 8-3 decision to earn Big 12 Wrestler of the Week honors… finished seventh-place at the Midlands Championships… pinned NIU’s Trayce Angeles in 0:18 to close out the tournament, which was the fastest fall of the tournament… won the Cyclone Open with a 5-0 record… was given the Iowa State wrestling Outstanding Wrestler Award.

2014-15
Qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second season in a row... posted an 18-7 record on the year, including a 10-3 dual mark... notched a 3-1 victory in tie-breaker one over Thomas Sleigh of Bucknell at the NCAA Championships... suffered a 2-1 loss at the Big 12 Championships to Oklahoma State's Nolan Boyd to finish runner-up... defeated Brooks Climmons of Oklahoma by 6-3 decision in the Big 12 semifinals... pinned Jakob Scheffl of West Virginia in the first period (2:52) during the ISU-WVU dual... grabbed a 16-4 major-decision victory over Konner Witt of Air Force in the opening round of the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational... put on a dominating performance at the Kaye Young Open en route to a 184-pound title... beat Ben Wallace of NIACC by 22-7 technical fall to advance to the finals where he would win by medical-forfeit... picked up another technical-fall when he dropped Wouvel Cevelon of Iowa Lakes, 17-2... opened the season with by pinning David Frazier of Lincoln College in 4:56.

2013-14
NCAA-qualifier at 184 pounds in first collegiate season… went 1-2 at first NCAA Championships with a 11-4 over Lock Haven’s Fred Garcia… became the first freshman Big 12 champion for the Cyclones since heavyweight David Zabriskie in 2007… knocked off No. 1 seed Nolan Boyd of Oklahoma State 4-3 in the title bout… trailed 3-2 late before scoring a bear hug takedown with 20 seconds left for the win and NCAA-bid… finished the season 25-11 overall and 6-4 in duals wrestling both at 174 and 184 pounds… took fifth-place at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational after going 5-2… dominated All-American Bryce Hammond of CSU-Bakersfield in the fifth-place bout, trouncing him 15-5 with over four minutes of riding time… took fifth again at the Southern Scuffle a few weeks later after going 6-2 with a pin… took third-place at the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open… was undefeated until the semifinals, where he fell to three-time All-American Logan Storley of Minnesota 8-6 in tiebreaker period one… finished the season with three pins, three major decisions and a tech fall.

2012-13
Redshirted initial collegiate season… finished the season with a 13-5 record… started the year with nine-straight wins… Kaye Young Open champion… went 4-0 en route to first place, posting two pins, a decision and a major decision… went 5-0 at the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open with three pins before falling to All-American teammate Michael Moreno in the championship match… went 2-2 at both the UNI Open and Grand View Open… FILA Junior Nationals champion, competing at 79 KG (174 pounds)… went 5-0 en route to the top of the podium and All-America honors… won 10 of the 11 periods he wrestled in Las Vegas… defeated Michigan State’s Jordan Wohlfert 3-0, 2-1 in the championship match.

High School
Holds the record for most career wins at Napoleon High School as he compiled a career prep record of 195-15 … won back to back state titles his junior and senior seasons … named the 2012 Jackson Citizen Patriot Wrestler of the Year … as a junior went 52-0 en route to a state championship at 152 lbs … as a senior went 49-1 en route to a state championship at 160 lbs … went 50-5 as a sophomore finishing seventh in the state … coached by Carl Bunker.

Personal
Born on May 8, 1994 … son of Vincent and Dolletta Weatherspoon … business administration major.