Junior/sophomore Conor Youtsey set the tone at the opening weight, securing U-M's only bonus win with a second-period fall against Matt Cavallaris at 125 pounds. The Wolverine wrestler dominated the match, scoring on five takedowns to build up a 12-3 advantage before sticking Cavallaris off a crusher late in the middle frame, at the 4:41 mark. It was Youtsey's second pin of the season.
After the Badgers gained back several team points with a technical fall at 133 pounds, Michigan earned three straight decisions to carry a 10-point advantage into the intermission break.
Sophomore/freshman George Fisher, ranked 17th in the latest InterMat poll, scored a pair of takedowns en route to a 6-2 win over Jesse Thielke at 141 pounds. After a couple early flurries produced no points, Fisher struck late in the first period, finishing on a single-leg takedown on the edge in the waning seconds of the frame. He added another single leg off a second-period restart but quickly got to high and gave up a late reversal. He rode out the final period, however, accumulating 1:39 in time advantage.
Freshman Alec Pantaleo, ranked ninth at 149 pounds, used a second-period takedown to defeat Rylan Lubeck, 3-1, at claim his fifth straight dual win. Pantaleo opened scoring with a second-period escape and finished on a single leg, winning the short ensuring scramble, late in the frame. Pantaleo improved to 4-0 in Big Ten duals.
Sophomore Brian Murphy, ranked 15th nationally, picked up his third straight dual win, scoring two takedowns to defeat Jarod Donar, 6-1, at 157 pounds. Murphy finished on single-leg attacks in the first and third periods and rode for 3:10 time advantage.
Wisconsin picked up an extra point at 165 pounds, where fourth-ranked Isaac Jordan earned a 9-0 major decision over 10th-ranked junior/sophomore Taylor Massa, but U-M again responded with three straight wins at the upperweights.
Fifth-year senior Jake Salazar, who bumped up two weight classes to 174 pounds, surged to an 8-3 decision over Frank Cousins, breaking open the bout with three explosive double-leg takedowns in the final three minutes. After just missing on several double-leg attacks in the first period, he finished one with just 12 seconds remaining in the second and appeared to take the gas out of Cousins. He scored two more early in the third and added a stall point but could not finish again late in the frame to settle for the decision.
Sophomore Domenic Abounader, ranked 10th at 184 pounds, needed extra time to defeat the Badgers' Ricky Robertson but gutted out a 2-1 decision with the rideout in the second tiebreaker. The wrestlers traded just one escape apiece and little else through the opening nine minutes of the bout, but Abouander claimed the upperhand with a quick, six-second escape in the first of two 30-second goes in the second tiebreaker. He rode out Robertson in the second 30, putting a cap on it with a hard return in the final five seconds.
Fifth-year senior Max Huntley, ranked eighth at 197 pounds, used a big third-period comeback to defeat ninth-ranked Timmy McCall, 9-6, in the first of back-to-back marquee matches. Huntley trailed by four points midway through the second period after giving up a double leg and two near-fall points when he was returned straight to his back. Huntley cut the gap with a single leg late in the frame then score five points out of a third-period scramble, initiating the situation with a single-leg attack and securing three near fall.
The Badgers' third-ranked Connor Medbery used a comeback of his own to claim the second marquee bout, using a late takedown and near fall to defeat seventh-ranked sophomore Adam Coon, 7-3, in the heavyweight contest. After scoring on a quick first-period single leg, Coon led 3-1 until the final 15 seconds of the match when Medbery finished on a single leg and, just like in Huntley's match, returned the Wolverine wrestler straight to his back.
The Wolverines will close out the weekend on the road, traveling to Bloomington, Ind., to wrestle Indiana at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Jan. 25) at University Gymnasium. The dual will be streamed live on BTN Plus, via BTN2Go.com.
Results:
125 -- Conor Youtsey (U-M) pinned Matt Cavallaris, 4:41 U-M, 6-0
133 -- #10 Ryan Taylor (UW) tech. fall Zebulon Hilyard, 21-6 (6:24) U-M, 6-5
141 -- #17 George Fisher (U-M) dec. Jesse Thielke, 6-2 U-M, 9-5
149 -- #9 Alec Pantaleo (U-M) dec. Rylan Lubeck, 3-1 U-M, 12-5
157 -- #15 Brian Murphy (U-M) dec. Jarod Donar, 6-1 U-M, 15-5
165 -- #4 Isaac Jordan (UW) major dec. #10 Taylor Massa, 9-0 U-M, 15-9
174 -- Jake Salazar (U-M) dec. Frank Cousins, 8-3 U-M, 18-9
184 -- #10 Domenic Abounader (U-M) dec. Ricky Robertson, 2-1 TB2 U-M, 21-9
197 -- #8 Max Huntley (U-M) dec. #9 Timmy McCall, 9-6 U-M, 24-9
Hwt -- #3 Connor Medbery (UW) dec. #7 Adam Coon, 7-3 U-M, 24-12
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