CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Ithaca College junior Alex Gomez placed second at 133 pounds and  junior Kristopher Schimek took fourth at 165 pounds at the 2014 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships. Each finished his season with more than 30 wins. Their all-America finishes give the Ithaca wrestling program a total of 106 all-America honors. Ithaca finished 11th in the team standings with 30.5 points.

133 - GOMEZ

The 133-pound national championship match paired Gomez against the tournament's number-one seed and defending national champion, Kenny Anderson of Wartburg. These two wrestlers met in a dual meet during the 2012-13 season at the Budd Whitehill National Duals, with Anderson getting a 1-0 decision win.

Gomez was in on a couple of close takedown attempts in a scoreless opening period. He started the second with the advantage and rode out the full two minutes. He had choice for the third period and chose down. He got a reversal to lead 2-0, and had a riding-time advantage  of 1:31, but Anderson answered with a reversal and rode out the remainder of the third period. That nullified the riding-time advantage for Gomez and sent the match to sudden-victory. Anderson finished a double-leg takedown 29 seconds into the sudden-victory period for a 4-2 decision win.

Gomez finished his season with a 32-4 record and was champion at the NCAA Northeast Regional, the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference Championships as well as the Ithaca Invitational. He earned all-America status for the second year in a row after placing sixth at the nationals last year.

In his semifinal match Saturday morning, Gomez started an action-filled first period against second-seeded Ryan O'Boyle of McDaniel with an early takedown, but O'Boyle got an escape and takedown for a 3-2 lead before Gomez again escaped to knot the score 3-3. Gomez answered with two more takedowns and near-fall points to build a 9-4 lead after the opening three minutes. He built his lead to 9-5 in the second period and had riding-time potential, then added a third-period takedown for an 11-5 advantage. O'Boyle escaped, but Gomez added the riding time for a 12-6 decision win.

165 - SCHIMEK

In Schimek's semifinal against number two seed Cole Welter of Wartburg, Welter scored a takedown in the opening 20 seconds of the match, but Schimek got a reversal later in the first period to tie the score 2-2. The second period started neutral and neither wrestler scored. Schimek had choice for the third period, and chose down, but Welter was able to maintain control to gain the potential riding-time point. Schimek nearly escaped in the final 30 seconds, and then attempted two reversals but couldn't switch the advantage and lost by 3-2 decision on the riding-time point to Welter.

Schimek's consolation semifinal match was against fourth-seeded Cedric Gibson of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Schimek won by pin at 6:45 to advance to the third-place bout. Gibson scored a first-period takedown and then chose down to start the second. Schimek turned Gibson for three near-fall points before Gibson escaped, and Gibson held a 1:05 riding-time count headed to the third. Schimek took top for the third period and rode Gibson out to nullify the riding-time point, then turned Gibson for three near-fall points and a 6-3 lead. Another turn on Gibson to his back resulted in the winning pin.

Schimek faced Chris Burdge of Centenary, who entered the tournament as the top-seeded wrestler in the third-place match. Burdge scored a takedown in each period and went on to a 9-1 major decision win. Schimek placed fourth in the NCAAs and led Ithaca with a 37-4 record. It's tied for the fourth most single-season wins by a Bomber, also achieved by current assistant coach Marc Israel in 2003-04. It is his first all-America honor at the Division III level, after earning National Junior College Athletic Association honors the last two years.