Navy began the 165-pound bout with a 17-15 lead and DeMichiel was leading Velasquez, 3-2, when the incident occurred. DeMichiel had been warned about the move earlier in the match and Velasquez could not continue after a 2-minute recovery period.
It was a rather anti-climactic end to an exciting back-and-forth match. Navy won three of the four heaviest weights to open a 10-3 lead. Fullerton's Andre Gonzalez pinned Navy's Pat McCaffrey at the horn to end the first period of the 125-pound bout to get Fullerton close and T. J. Dillashaw and Adin Duenas followed with CSF decisions at 133 and 141 pounds, respectively, to put Fullerton ahead, 15-10.
But Navy's Bryce Saddoris scored an 11-3 major decision over Nick Blackshaw at 149 to make it 15-14. Navy regained the lead when Joel Ahern was able to ride out Steven DeLaFuente for all 2 minutes of the third period of the 157-pound match and the resulting riding time gave him a 3-2 decision.
Fullerton is idle until it opens Pac-10 competition on Nov. 21 with its annual afternoon High School Wrestlers match against Stanford at 2:30 p.m.
Navy competes Saturday in Bakersfield against Stanford and Cal State Bakersfield.
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