St. Louis, Mo. - With the NCAA team title already in the hands of Oklahoma State for the 32nd time, all focus at the Savvis Center on Saturday evening was on the 2004 NCAA finals.    The Cowboys, with three finalists, came away with one champion, 174-pound Chris Pendleton.    Pendleton defeated freshman Ben Askren of Missouri for the fourth time this season. The score in this match was 11-4. Pendleton scored two takedowns and two nearfall points in the first period to take a commanding 6-1 lead.    "It helped motivate me and get me refocused on winning nationals," Pendleton said of his loss to Askren two weeks ago in the Big XII finals. "I knew he was looking for the scrambles, so my goal was to catch him on his back from the scrambles. I wanted that major decision. I wanted it real bad."    The win for Pendleton gave Oklahoma State 123.5 team points, good enough for a 41.5 lead in the team score, its highest margin in the 32 national championship years.    The other two Oklahoma State wrestlers in the finals were Zack Esposito at 149 lbs. and Tyrone Lewis at 165 lbs.    Esposito dropped a 9-3 decision to Jesse Jantzen of Harvard in one of the most anticipated matchups of the evening.    Jantzen wasted no time in taking control, scoring a takedown 16 seconds into the match. At that point, Jantzen was in his favorite position - top. He made it count, scoring three nearfall points with a half nelson, and then riding Esposito out for the remainder of the period in earning the win.    "Any time you get a first takedown on someone who is good on his feet, like Esposito, it is a good way to start a match," stated Jantzen, who was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler. "If I can get that early takedown, I'm really comfortable."    Lewis lost to returning NCAA runner-up Troy Letters of Lehigh, 5-2.    Letters scored first with a single-leg, and then turned Lewis for two nearfall points for a quick 4-0 lead. For the rest of the match, Letters held off Lewis' offensive attack.    "Those were the slowest minutes of my life," Letters said of the last period. "He is so quick off the ankle pick and the doubles, so I was waiting for him to pull the trigger."    Letters' win put Lehigh in a third-place tie with Ohio State, a team that placed all five of its wrestlers in this tournament, the highest being champion Tommy Rowlands at 285 lbs. Both Lehigh and Ohio State tallied 77.5 team points.    Rowlands, a 2002 NCAA champion, defeated Pat Cummins of Penn State 6-2 in the finals.    Rowlands dominated the match, scoring takedowns in the first and second periods in the win.    Placing second as a team was Iowa, which finished with 82 team points after 141-pound Cliff Moore captured his first national title with a 5-2 win over Matt Murray of Nebraska.    Moore scored a double-leg late in the match to pull away from Murray, earning the win.    "He has a square stance so I knew I could double-leg him. A lot of times these days guys have a really staggered stance, so when you shoot, you only get one leg. But when he has a square stance, it's better to shoot straight in and double-leg. I could tell he was fighting my head control and I was shooting doubles off that," Moore said.    The only defending NCAA champion in the finals was Minnesota's Damion Hahn, who pulled out a 7-2 win over Ryan Fulsaas of Iowa at 197 lbs.    Hahn took a 3-0 lead off a double-leg takedown in the first period and an escape in the second period.    Fulssaas, as he has done the entire tournament, battled back, scoring on a duckunder early in the third period to cut the lead to 3-2, but he could not sustain the offensive pressure. Hahn scored another takedown off a double-leg to seal the victory.    "I knew it was going to be more of a streetfight than a wrestling match," Hahn said. "I made history today with becoming a two-time national champ. There are only two other people to do that in Minnesota history."    Also winning his second NCAA title was 184-pound Greg Jones of West Virginia, who also won a title in 2002.    Jones, who finished the season 26-0, dominated Ben Heizer of Northern Illinois, 10-5, scoring five takedowns in the match.    Making history was 157-pound Matt Gentry of Stanford. Gentry, Stanford's first NCAA finalist in the school's 85-year history, also became the school's first national champion with a 4-2 win over Jake Percival of Ohio.    In the first period, Gentry took a quick lead with a takedown. In the second period, Percival narrowed the margin, scoring an escape to cut the lead to 2-1. In the third period, Gentry chose bottom, and Percival appeared to be closing in on a tie score.    Percival rode Gentry, and forced a stall warning, for most of the third period, but Gentry scored a reversal late in the match to gain a 4-1 advantage.    "It's amazing. It's a great experience, quite an honor. Stanford athletics is an amazing program and I feel grateful to be able to wrestle for them," Gentry said. "I love close matches. Those are the ones you look back on and are proud of. If I could, I would wrestle those every day."    Both Gentry and Percival were undefeated entering the match. Gentry ended with a 41-0 record.    At 125 lbs., senior Jason Powell of Nebraska captured the national title after dominating Kyle Ott of Illinois with a 17-2 technical fall.    "I wrestled him last year, but I haven't wrestled him this year. I kind of knew how he wrestled," Powell said after the win.    Also winning a national title in his senior campaign was Iowa State's Zach Roberson, who defeated Josh Moore of Penn State 7-3 at 133 lbs.    Roberson scored two takedowns on snap-downs in the first period, a move he has scored on the entire tournament. In the third period, Roberson sealed the win with a double-leg takedown.    "I thought he was going to be real physical in the beginning," Roberson said. "I said going in that I needed to counter that with a lot of thick shots and getting him off-balanced so he's not charging me."        Notes: Scott Moore of Virginia won the Gorrarian Award for the most falls in the least amount of time. Moore recorded three falls in 4:19… Lehigh coach Greg Strobel was named the NWCA Coach of the Year… The Big Ten and Big XII each had three champions, while the EIWA had two…     2004 NCAA Championships  at St. Louis, Mo., March 18-20  Championship Matchups  125 - Jason Powell (Nebraska) tech. fall Kyle Ott (Illinois), 17-2 in 5:32  133 - Zach Roberson (Iowa State) dec. Josh Moore (Penn State), 7-3  141 - Cliff Moore (Iowa) dec. Matt Murray (Nebraska), 5-2  149 - Jesse Jantzen (Harvard) dec. Zack Esposito (Oklahoma State), 9-3  157 - Mattt Gentry (Stanford) dec. Jake Percival (Ohio), 4-2  165 - Troy Letters (Lehigh) dec. Tyrone Lewis (Oklahoma State), 5-2  174 - Chris Pendleton (Oklahoma State) dec. Ben Askren (Missouri), 11-4  184 - Greg Jones (West Virginia) dec. Ben Heizer (Northern Illinois), 10-5  197 - Damion Hahn (Minnesota) dec. Ryan Fulsaas (Iowa), 7-2  285 - Tommy Rowlands (Ohio State) dec. Pat Cummins (Penn State), 6-2