Penn State Doesn't Lose on Day One and More History at the 2025 NCAA Championships
Round of 16 live! Eight mats! Frontsides in the middle! Consis on the outside. You all know the drill. Lilledahl strikes first in the four frontside matches and leads 3-0 after one. Marc Anthony McGowan with a funky scramble and a 3-0 lead as well. Richie Figs up 4-1. Peterson with a TD, it’s 4-4 and Figs needs an escape for the lead. Seymour up 7-1 on Smith. Man, this is fun!!
Dean Peterson with a reversal, cradle, and a FALL over Figueroa! There will be a new champion at 125. McGowan up 4-0 going into the third. Seymour beats Caleb Smith and Lighting Luke with the TF.
Three new matches and M.A.M. 1 minute from the upset. Ventresca strikes 1st. Stalling McGowan. Caution McGowan. TD VROB at the buzzer. Brick thrown!!! Coaches want to fight each other.
Strickenberger is up big on Rivera. Poulin and Spratley tied with Stevo getting RT. Reversal Spratley. Waiting on VROB TD verdict. Spratley up 2-0 1:34 RT Stevo going into 3rd period. VROB wins at the buzzer challenge denied. Strickenberger up 11-5. Eddie V up 5-1. Ramos match scoreless early.
Poulin down 2-1. 1:22 to go. No RT. Spratley riding tough. Strickenberger wins a major decision. :15 to go for Spratley. Another brick. Challenging a clasp on top.
Braxton Brown vs Davis. Eddie V wins 6-3. Spratley wins.
Lucas Byrd vs Ryan Miller. Ramos up 8-0. TD and four-pt NF breaks it open. Max points this round is three pts/win. Ramos wins by major. Super consistent this year. Just the one loss to LL.
Davis 4-1 lead over BB. 1st period TD and trade escapes. Great scramble, no points! Angelo Rini early lead over Serrano NoCo. BB reversal 4-3 1:30 to go. Rini up 6-2 now. Potential fifth seed loss. Knox/Romney scoreless 1st period.
Byrd in control. Davis is gonna make the one TD hold-up. Rini 6-3 chooses down going into third. Spidle vs Bouzakis. Byrd wins and into the quarters.
Evan Frost vs McGonagle starting. Rini going to get the upset. He’s been a step faster every step of the way. Bouzakis strikes 1st. Romney going to hold on vs Knox. Bouzakis' second TD. McGonagle gets the first TD halfway through the period. Nasir Bailey an almost TD vs Zan the man. Frost down 3-0 chooses neutral. Ayala up early 3-0. Bouzakis 8-3 in control. 0-0 Bailey chooses down and he is out.
The Drake in complete control. Three TDs to 0. McGonagle chooses down, he’s out it’s 4-0. Drake with TD #4. Bouzakis into the quarters with a decision. McGonagle gets the W. Bailey and Fugitt 1 each 3rd period.
Frost vs Alirez. Hardy vs Henson. Zan and Nasir into OT. Ayala in major territory. Hardy up 6-1. Fugitt gets OT TD to beat the three seed. Frost chooses down 0-0. Koderhandt vs Saunders. Hardy up big on Henson. Frost up and out 1-0 in the second.
Happel vs Chappell, say that 3x fast. Frost trying to get RT. Alirez has his head on the mat. Up and out and Frost with the TD. Hardy via TF. BIG TD for Frost he is going to BEAT ALIREZ!
Koderhandt snakes Josh Saunders for the fall. Happel up 4-1 90 seconds to go. Mendez vs Lemley. Bartlett vs Tagg. Vombaur vs Cedeno. Chappell with a TD and Happel E1 to get the W 5-4. Cedeno in early, great upside down D by Vombaur. Mendez up 3-0. Composto vs Jameson. TD Vombaur. Clasping Mendez. TD Jameson. Tagg gets behind Bartlett and Beau hits standing Granby for an awesome TD to take the lead. Cedeno with a good ride. TD Mendez, up 6-2 after 2. Jesse chooses down. Jameson up 4-0. Cedeno chooses down. Bartlett up 3-1 and RT and he gets it done. Mendez by major. Jameson up 4-0 and RT, Composto chooses neutral. Hits Jameson in a Jonesy and he’s up 6-4. Jameson can tie it with an escape before his RT runs out. Vombaur advances. Composto rides him out for the W.
Big hit to OSU trophy chances. Abas vs Henson. Cross W vs JW, Parco vs Stiles, D’Emilio vs Gioffre. Henson up 4-1. Injury time Parco. D’Emilio up 5-4 3rd period. JW 7-2 in control on his feet. Stiles up 1-0. D’Emilio with the W. Henson riding hard. Stiles with a TD up 4-0 on Parco. Webster vs Realbuto. Clark vs SVN. Parco has stopped wrestling, Stiles will advance most likely by major. SVN up early. Alvarez vs Lachlan. Whalen vs Lovett rocking the pink prototypes.
Webster up 6-2. Injury time Alvarez. Ohio State climbing in the team standings to second. They won 125 backside and 133, 141, 149 into the quarters. Ridge all over Whalen 11-0. SVN up six with RT locked 1:15 to go. Webster wins 8-3. Kasak vs Chittum. Quick Merkel for the TD. SVN advances. Blaze vs Askey.
Lachlan up 4-2 60 to go. Team update OK State third. 125 front, 133 not here, 141 upset loss, 149 TT by major. Lovett by TF. McNeil wins 4-2. Hipolito vs Chumbley, Hipolito is a joy to watch. Blaze/Askey scoreless, not surprised.
Cannon vs Fish in the 5/12 matchup. 5-2 Kasak halfway through. Blaze Askey only one escape. Predicting OT now. Kasak opening it up - the kid just keeps grinding. Cannon 4-4 with Fish. Chumbley 1-0. Nebraska up to second now. Caleb L, Van Dee W, Hardy W, Lovett W. OT for Blaze Askey as predicted. Kasak wins 8-3. Swisher vs Trelly Taylor. Chumbley vs Hipolito OT. Crazy scramble Cannon reversed Fish to his back, no backs awarded, brick tOSU. Back points awarded later in different sequences. Very interesting decision here. Blaze wins on RT on OT TB. Hipolito into the rideouts. Trelly WBF! Nebraska is ROLLING.
Mesenbrink vs Mosher. Downey vs Bianchi. Chumbley brick thrown wanting danger call. tOSU brick still going. TD Downey. Mesenbrink up early, shocking. Hipolito called for clasping but gets the rideout. If he gets out we will win on RT. Ohio State loses the brick AND loses the backpoints. Absolutely brutal. 7-6 Cannon, on top 1:18 to go, no RT. Chumbley rides out for the WIN!! Another #4 seed goes down to #20.
Slicedawg vs Lovett, no Teemer here. Fish vs Cannon into OT. Mesenbrink for the TF. MASSIVE bear hug bomb and Tom Ryan throws a brick asap. Sorting out what is being challenged. Huge call in the match and team race. Fish wins. Down goes # five. Lovett up 4-3 early. Caliendo vs Thomsen. Downey up 4-1. Zerban vs Saldate. TD Caliendo.
4-4 Lovett vs Shapiro after one and Shapiro down first. Downey up 4-2 60 to go. 6-1 Mikey C after one. Downey hangs on barely vs Bianchi. Brick Little Rock wanting the TD. Shapiro TD up 8-4. Zerban Saldate scoreless after one. Saldate out. Zerban in on a single. Caliendo 11-3 in the third. Long brick Downey vs Bianchi. Zerban chooses down, on serve going into the third. Bianchi WINS the brick and advances into the quarters, bad for UNI. Caliendo wins by major, Slicedawg wins by decision.
Zerban with a reversal and swipes to go up 4-1. Steed vs Amine in a rematch. Ramirez vs Minto. Zerban in control and will advance to the quarters. Big W for Northern Colorado. Garvin vs Sparks. Will Miller vs Barraclough. Garvin TD. Steed Amine scoreless, quick E1 for Amine. A second stall Steed P1 for Amine. Minto and Ramirez 0-0 after 1. E1 Ramirez. P1 for Amine. 3-0. Steed picks down. E1 Steed. Minto up 7-1; upset brewing. Steed wrestling like he doesn’t know he’s losing. Barraclough up 4-0. Garvin up 7-3. Amine wins 3-1 where no one took a committed leg attack. Minto up 8-1 60 to go. BeauMant vs Scoles. Garvin advances. Minto will major Ramirez the 5 seed 11-1. Sorry peeps had to plug in. Keegan wins an epic 10-8 match vs Norman. BeauMant advances. Devos vs Thompson. Hamiti vs Singleton. Wolak vs Harkins in OT. 24 vs 25. Wolak shows up in March people!! Gets the clutch TD to advance to the quarters.
Ruiz vs Ogunsanya. Casella vs PK. Hamiti cruising 6-1, and Devos up 3-1. On a consolation match note, it is hard to watch Jacori Teemer if you’re a fan of his. He is beat up and struggling. Been an absolute pleasure watching him during his career.
PK up 3-0. Ruiz gets the first E1. Hamiti all over Singleton 13-2. PK chooses down. Devos 5-2 going into the third. Cassella with a tough ride on PK. Hamiti with the major. Casella 2:00 ride. Ruiz up 4-2 30 to go. Devos beats the fourth seed Thompson. Ruiz advances.
SCW vs Starocci, Sax vs Haines. Gaitan vs Wask. PK advances to the quarters. Starocci up 7-0. Levi up 3-0. Penn State has not lost a match, unbelievable.
Jaxon Smith vs Heller. Wask up 3-0 on Gaitan. Starocci 15 rip for the TF. Savage. All timer. Jaxon Smith goes big and gets the fall. Alex Clemsen and Maryland have a quarterfinalist.
Plott up 3-0 on Fine from Columbia. Haines up 4-0. Interesting matchup on three, Gabe Arnold vs Chris Foca. The teams are 1.5 points apart - so trophy implications. Foca's big sweep single stops the dive roll and gets 7 big points. Wask gets a major and Navy has 2 in the quarters!!
McEnelly vs DJ Parker. Berge vs Allred. Foca up 11-1, absolutely cruising. McEnelly up 3-0. The incredibly consistent Dustin Plott gets a major. Foca with 3:00 of RT. McEnelly 3-1 after one. Keckheisen vs Fishback. Foca 12-1 into the quarters. Allred 1-0 vs Berge so far.
McEnelly 3-2 and choice into the 3rd period. Sollars vs Brophy in a match absolutely no one had in their brackets. Pinto wins in OT and somehow Kharchla is out of the tournament. Sollars with a quick TD. Keckheisen 3-0 after one. McEnelly gets the major. Berge 4-1, 60 to go, Allred firing shots. Cardenas now vs Bates. Allred gets a FALL to advance. Huge for Nebraska who move into second place. Sollars with a major to advance, IU with 2 in the quarters. Ruth vs Dean. Keckeisen is so good and so consistent, that we almost take him for granted. He will win by major.
Penn State is two matches away from going 20-0 which we don’t think has EVER happened. Barr vs Munoz. Beard vs Little in R16 AA battle. No TDs on any of the front-side bouts.
Cardenas with the TD to go up 4-0, Nebraska second, OSU third, tOSU fourth, Cornell/Minnesota tied for fifth at 10:07pm EST.
Cardenas wins 4-1, he’s into the quarters. Beard up 1-0 via escape. Ruth and Dean in OT. Ruth TD brick or official review. Barr was holding his head. No injury time. Not sure what happened. Munoz up 2-1 heading into the third.
Mr. 675 lb deadlift vs Andy Smith. Beard up 4-1 30 to go. Munoz on bloodtime. Beard advances. Barr is out it’s 2-2. Ruth out in three seconds in the rideouts. Ferrari TD end of period, clutch. Munoz stalemated trying to come out the backdoor.
Shumate has Zurawski in big trouble. Ruth going to win on RT and advance. Barr and Munoz to OT. Shumate up 6-3. Stout brothers on mat six. What a weird experience. Barr in on Munoz, foot is elevated, will he get the TD, he does!!!!! PSU stays perfect.
Buchanan vs Novak. Buchanan’s muscles have muscles smh. Ferrari will advance. The Stout Bros making history tonight. Great scramble Buchanan and Novak and no points scored. Shumate advances in an absolutely huge win for Ohio State. Two cracks at being an AA now. Buchanan up 5-0 and in control. Mac up 4-1 on Luke. Want to see the hug after the match.
Keuter early TD vs Feldman. This is their 3rd matchup of the year. Gable is up 7-1, 4 stall calls against Yara. Gable wins by stalling DQ in the 1st period - which I would guess is a first.
Mac Stout wins and a nice moment with the brothers. Buchanan gets a TF. Keuter up 6-1. Schultz vs Luffman rematch. Kerkvliet vs Hoffman. Nebraska and OK State with good sessions this evening.
Owen Trephan vs Seth Nevills. Schultz Luffman scoreless after 1. Keuter is a terrible matchup for Feldman. Trephan gets the first TD vs Nevills. Kerk up 3-0. HARD mat return by Greco Olympian Schultz. Three NF Schultz. Trephan 3-1 after 1. Schultz getting full 2:00 ride and stall pt. 4-0 going into the 3rd. Keuter wins 8-2 and advances. Trephan up 7-2 going into the 3rd. Schultz choosing down. Kerk 4:00 of RT. PSU goes 20-0, a good day at the office.
Ten in the quarters. Schultz advances. Trephan into the quarters. Pitzer vs Trumble ACC rematch. Heidselman vs Colbert. Captain America vs Tinker. Trumble TD, Pitzer headhunts for the R2. Hendrickson up 7-0. Heindselman up 11-1. Trumble E1 up 4-2. Heindselman TF advances. Pitzer down 4-2 chooses down to start the Third. Hendrickson WBF to advance. Trumble putting on a great ride. 36 to go up 4-2 plus locked RT. He rides out for the win.
This has been a lot of fun folks. Thank you for the read and the positive feedback. We will be back at Session 3.
