SUNY University at Buffalo Men's Wrestling

Stutzman enters his fourth season at the helm of the Bulls wrestling program and UB continues to rise under his direction. After eight seasons developing Bloomsburg into a national power, Stutzman was named the 15th coach in the 82-year-history of the UB program prior to the 2013-14 campaign. The 2015-16 campaign was by far his most successful season at UB. Stutzman led the Bulls to a 10-9 record in dual meets. It was UB's most wins since the 2003-04 season and was one more victory than the previous three seasons combined. Buffalo earned a 19-15 win over 21st-ranked Old Dominion for its first win over a ranked opponent since 2010. The Bulls had three wrestlers qualify for the NCAAs, their most since the 2011 campaign. Stutzman's rebuild began to take major strides during the 2014-15 season as the Bulls were able to collect five victories, four more than two seasons prior. The Bulls not only succeded on the mat for Stutzman in season two but also in the classroom as they ranked as the third most improved team on campus, accumulating a 2.877 GPA to give them nine straight semesters earning over a 2.60 GPA. In year one at Buffalo, Stutzman made a huge turnaround in the success of the program not only on the mat but also in the classroom. The Bulls closed out the 2013-14 season with three times as many wins as the previous season and had one wrestler, Nick Flannery, qualify for the national tournament. Stutzman guided the Huskies to a record of 97-56-1 in his eight seasons, putting him third all-time in career wins. The team finished with double-digit wins in six of his eight seasons as head coach. He has coached three NCAA Division I All-Americans, eight Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) champions, 76 EWL place winners and 33 NCAA Division I national qualifiers. Personally, Stutzman has earned the EWL Coach of the Year honors in 2007, 2010, and 2013, as well as producing the 2007 EWL and PSAC Freshman of the Year; the 2009 EWL Championship's Outstanding Wrestler and the 2011 PSAC Freshman of the Year. "We are excited to welcome John back to Buffalo. His impressive career on the mat has been matched by his long history of excellence as a coach," White said. "Given the amount of success that Coach Stutzman has experienced at Bloomsburg, I'm confident with the resources and enhanced facilities we have available, he can build UB into one of the premier wrestling programs in the nation." A 1998 graduate of UB, Stutzman was 95-27 in a three-year career for the Bulls and left as the school's all-time leader in career wins. His best year for the Bulls was the 1996-97 season when he posted a mark of 35-4, the fourth best single-season winning percentage in program history. Statistically, he is tied with recent graduate John-Martin Cannon for fourth in career takedowns, with 135. He also was a three-time East Coast Wrestling Association place winner. In 2012-13, Stutzman's Huskies posted a record of 17-3 claiming the first outright EWL Dual Meet Championships in program history while beating three nationally ranked teams in Maryland, Pittsburgh and Edinboro. The 17 wins are tied for the most in the program's history. As a team, the Huskies finished ranked 15th in the country by the NWCA. At the EWL Championships, Sutzman led the Huskies to a third place finish overall, with two EWL Champions, while qualifying six wrestlers for the NCAA Championships.  In the 2008-09 season Bloomsburg was third at the EWL championships and had the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler in Matt Moley. At the NCAA Championships, Moley earned All-American honors for the second straight year, the first time since the 1988-89 season that a BU wrestler was All-American in consecutive seasons. During the 2006-07 season Stutzman earned EWL Coach of the Year honors, after helping Moley earn the EWL and PSAC Rookie of the Year Award and heavyweight Mike Spaid becoming the school's first All-American since the 1993 season. Prior to becoming Bloomsburg University's head wrestling coach, he was an assistant coach for seven years at the Division I level. During those seven seasons, he worked at UB, and at MAC-rival Northern Illinois University before joining Bloomsburg as an assistant.  In addition to his college coaching duties, Stutzman has coached with the New York Athletic Club at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 USA Olympic Freestyle Trials, as well as the 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Senior World Team Trials where he has coached Six World Team Trials participants, three Olympic Team Trials participants, and one USA National Team Member. He was also an assistant wrestling coach for the 2009 NWCA All-American tour in Seoul, South Korea.  Stutzman is also a member of the USA Wrestling coaching staff since 2009. He has served as the head coach of the University World Team in Warsaw, Poland; the Ziolkowski International in Spala, Poland; the Stephen Sargsyan International in Armenia; the 2011 Fila Junior World Championships; the Dimtry Korkin International in Yakutsk, Russia and the Ramzan Kadirov Cup in Chechnya, Russia. He also served as an assistant wrestling coach for Team USA for the University Team Championships in Poland in 2009. Stutzman, a native of New Castle, DE. He and his wife, Annette, have two daughters, Alexa Bryanna and Torin Valera and one son, Paxton.

Fechko will work with the UB lightweights this upcoming season. "I am extremely excited to add coach Fechko to the UB wrestling family," stated head coach John Stutzman. "As we continue to build our program, it began clear to me that his experiences and his ability to train with our lightweights is exactly what we needed. He is one of the hardest working coaches I have been around in the sport of Wrestling." Fechko joins Stutzman's staff after one season as head coach at Dakota Wesleyan. He guided the Tigers through an injury-filled 2014-15 season, which saw the team finish 1-15 (0-7 GPAC) in duals. The Tigers did qualify two senior wrestlers, Kyle Gerlach and Dusty Paulsen, for the NAIA National Championships in March. Before taking over at Dakota Wesleyan, he served as an assistant wrestling coach for the Brunswick High School wrestling team and worked as a corrective learning center monitor at Willetts Middle School. Fechko served as a volunteer assistant coach at Bloomsburg University during the 2012-13 season under head coach John Stutzman. Prior to serving as volunteer assistant coach at Bloomsburg, the Broadview Heights, Ohio, native served as a graduate assistant wrestling coach at DWU from 2010-2012 under Matt Sedivy and played a key role in both recruiting and day-to-day operations with the program. He wrestled at Heidelberg, but earned NCAA Division II All-American honors at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio, prior to transferring to Heidelberg. While at Heidelberg he qualified for the NCAA Division III national tournament. After graduating, he was the head wrestling coach at Quincy High School in Quincy, Calif., and the assistant coach for the Legends of Gold club team in Quincy. Fechko graduated in 2009 with a degree in business administration from Heidelberg University, an NCAA Division III school in Tiffin, Ohio. He then earned his master's degree in educational policy and administration from Dakota Wesleyan in 2012.

Ben Freeman is in his third season as an assistant coach. He was a two-year letterwinner for the Bulls, wrestling at 141 in 2020-21 and 2021-22. He went 9-8 ...

Grant enters his first season as assistant coach for the University at Buffalo wrestling team. Grant spent the 2014-15 season as a volunteer assistant on John Stutzman's staff. Grant came to Buffalo following a superb three-year wrestling career at Bloomsburg University where he wrestled for Stutzman for two seasons. He graduated with a career record of 55-15 while earning two trips to the NCAA Championships at the 285-pound weight class. Grant is a two-time EWL runner-up along with a 2012 Olympic Trials participant while a member of the Huskies. He also earned two All-American honors following a seventh place finish at the US Open Freestyle Championships and a sixth place finish at the University Freestyle Nationals this season. Grant will continue to train for the 2016 Olympic Trials while assisting the Bulls heavyweights.