“I wanted to go out there and win,” Kissel said. “It feels good wrestling for these guys and having everyone believe in me and wrestling to my potential. My mindset was to go out there and win. I got the cradle and it felt good to have everyone on our side yelling. I could hear my corner yelling the whole time.”
Kissel struck for a takedown just seconds into his match with Clemons, locked in on a cradle and rolled the Moc from his head flat onto his back for the first fall of his redshirt junior campaign.
The dual came down to the 174-pounders as Purdue and Chattanooga went back-and-forth up until the intermission following the 133 match. No. 15/17 Braden Atwood got the Boilermakers on the board, following a 6-4 sudden victory decision for the Mocs at 184 pounds. The 197-pounder took down Jared Johnson four times and tallied 2:51 riding time en route to a 10-3 decision to improve to 11-4.
A 4:00 fall of Chattanooga’s Byron Smith by Camden Eppert at 125 pounds gave Purdue a 9-6 advantage after four bouts. The redshirt senior built a 7-1 lead after the first period thanks to a takedown, a three-point and a two-point nearfall. With his second fall of the season, Eppert’s record moves to 5-3.
The Boilermakers won back-to-back bouts in sudden victory coming out of the intermission. At 141 pounds, Danny Sabatello trailed by two points heading into the third period, 6-4. He escaped to start the period and took down Austin Sams for a 7-6 lead, but was called for locked hands to even the score at 7-7 and force the match into sudden victory. Midway through, Sabatello got the decisive takedown for his 10th win of his sophomore season, a 9-7 decision.
Brandon Nelsen and Michael Hooker exchanged takedowns in the first and third periods, respectively, but it was Hooker’s riding time from the second period and a locked hands call that forced the 149-pounders into an extra 60 seconds of action. A takedown by Nelsen clinched the eighth win of his redshirt junior campaign, and the second in sudden victory, to give Purdue a 15-9 lead with three bouts remaining. The Mocs responded, taking decisions at 157 and 165, setting up the dual-deciding bout at 174.
Purdue returns to action Dec. 29-30 at the 51st Annual Ken Craft Midlands Championships hosted by Northwestern in Evanston, Ill.
Results:
184: John Lampe (Chattanooga) dec. Tanner Lynde (Purdue), 6-4 (SV1)
197: No. 15/17 Braden Atwood (Purdue) dec. Jared Johnson (Chattanooga), 10-3
285: Kevin Malone (Chattanooga) dec. Alex White (Purdue), 3-0
125: Camden Eppert (Purdue) pin Byron Smith (Chattanooga), 4:00
133: Nick Soto (Chattanooga) dec. Cashé Quiroga (Purdue), 10-8
141: Danny Sabatello (Purdue) dec. Austin Sams (Chattanooga), 9-7 (SV1)
149: Brandon Nelsen (Purdue) dec. Michael Hooker (Chattanooga), 5-3 (SV1)
157: Alex Hudson (Chattanooga) dec. Doug Welch (Purdue), 8-1
165: No. 4/7 Corey Mock (Chattanooga) dec. Chad Welch (Purdue), 6-0
174: Patrick Kissel (Purdue) pin Levi Clemons (Chattanooga), 1:25
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