NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s Layten Binion won his second College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Wrestler of the Week honor of the 2016-17 season on Tuesday.
 
Binion, a senior from Mishawaka, Indiana and Mishawaka High School (Exercise Science major), won the 141-pound bracket at Wheaton’s Pete Willson Invitational on Saturday, going 5-0 over the two-day event. Competing as the No. 2 seed, he pinned Adrian’s Kyle Briggs, followed by a 4-3 decision over Augustana’s Freddy Terranova. He ended the first day with a 7-4 decision over Chicago’s Grant Morrison, and then dominated John Carroll’s Sal Corrao with a 19-0 technical fall in Saturday’s semifinal. He won the title with a 7-3 decision over No. 5 seed Ronnie Hauser from Elmhurst.
 
2016-17 CCIW Wrestlers of the Week
Layten Binion – North Central (1/31/17)
Devon McCune – MSOE (1/24/17)
Carlos Fuentez – Wheaton (1/17/17)
Ben Williamson – North Central (12/21/16)
Brendan Gould – Augustana (12/13/16)
Mason Baumgartner – Concordia-Wisconsin (12/5/16)
Layten Binion – North Central (11/22/16)
Austin Bellile – MSOE (11/15/16)
Mikey Swider – Wheaton (11/8/16)
 
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2015-16 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,600 academic all-conference recipients, 14 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 36 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and over 100 all-Americans.