Session 3 started at 10:00 am with the 125 pound quarterfinals. Two of the matches ended with a pin: Top-seeded Nick Simmons of Michigan State pinned ninth-seed Chad Mendes of Cal Poly at 6:44. It was the Spartans' third pin of the tournament. Freshman sensation Troy Nickerson of Cornell, the fifth seed, secured a fall at 3:27 over unseeded Michael Sees of Bloomsburg. Second-seeded Sam Hazewinkel of Oklahoma shut out Paul Donohue, the 10th seed from Nebraska, by the score of 5-0. And third seeded Joe Dubuque got a 6-4 victory over Luke Smith, the 10th seed from Central Michigan. The semifinals promise to be a barnburner, with Simmons vs. Nickerson, and Dubuque vs. Hazewinkel.
At 133, first seeded Shawn Bunch of Edinboro continued his winning ways, dominating No. 8 Tennessee-Chattanooga's Matt Keller 14-9. Oklahoma State's Nathan Morgan, seeded second, topped unseeded Jason Borrelli of Central Michigan 8-4. Matt Valenti, the sixth seed from University of Pennsylvania, 7-2. Rounding out the final four was No. 5 Chris Fleeger of Purdue who was awarded the match on an injury default after being injured by an illegal move by Minnesota's fourth-seeded Matt Reiter, and was unable to continue. In the next round, Bunch will meet up with Fleeger, and Valenti faces Morgan.
In the 141- pound quarterfinals, all the favorites advanced, Top-seeded Nate Gallick of Iowa State shut out Brandon Rader, the ninth seed from West Virginia, 3-0. Second-seeded Teyon Ware of Oklahoma rolled up a 12-4 victory over Iowa's Alex Tsirtsis, who had been seeded seventh. In a battle of the Big Ten schools in the state of Michigan, fourth-seed Andy Simmons of Michigan State secured a 4-2 sudden victory over Michigan's Josh Churella. Third-seeded Cory Cooperman of Lehigh pinned No. 6 Ryan Lang of Northwestern at 6:05. The semifinals will feature Gallick vs. Simmons, and Cooperman vs. Ware.
At 149, another freshman continued to make headlines. Dustin Schlatter of Minnesota, the No. 1 seed, shut out Michigan's No. 8 Eric Tannenbaum, 6-0. Iowa's Ty Eustice, seeded second, earned a 5-3 decision over No. 7 Gregor Gillespie of Edinboro. Fourth-seeded Matt Storniolo of Oklahoma edged Mark DiSalvo of Central Michigan 4-3. The huge contingent of Oklahoma State fans lifted the roof off Ford Center when their third-seeded wrestler Zack Esposito pinned Hofstra's No. 6 Jon Masa at 3:57. New headlines will be written Friday evening as Schlatter meets up with Storniolo, and Esposito wrestles Eustice.
In the 157-pound class, none of the top four seeds advanced to the semifinals. In fact, the quarters featured a couple upsets. Ninth-seeded Joe Johnston of Iowa beat cross-state rival -- and top seed -- Trent Paulson, 6-3. In another upset, No. 3 Alex Tirapelle of Illinois lost in overtime, 3-2, to 11th-seeded Lehigh wrestler Derek Zinck. For two unseeded wrestlers in the weight class, their Cinderella stories came to an end. Missouri's Michael Chandler lost to fifth-seeded Boise State wrestler Ben Cherrington by the score of 8-1 … while Andrew Flanagan of Harvard was shut out by No. 10 Brian Stith of Arizona State 8-0. This means that the semifinals will feature Johnston vs. Cherrington, and Zinck vs. Stith,
At 165, the No. 1 seed Ryan Churella got a 6-4 victory over Travis Paulson, the eighth seed from Iowa State… eliminating the Paulson twins' title dreams. Second-seeded Johny Hendricks of Oklahoma State ended Daniel Thompson's championship ride, beating the unseeded Citadel wrestler 9-6. American's Muzaffar Abdurakmanov, seeded third, got the pin over Deonte Penn, putting the Edinboro man's shoulders to the mat at 1:39. In battle of two unseeded wrestlers, Johnny Galloway of Northern Illinois vs. Joey Bracamonte, the Oregon wrestler came out on top 2-1. In the semis, Churella will wrestle Bracamonte, and Abdurakhmanov takes on Hendricks.
No. one seed at 174, B en Askren of Missouri, dominated No. 8 Travis Frick of Lehigh, securing a 19-3 technical fall at 5:13. Second-seeded Jake Herbert of Northwestern got a 10-5 victory over No. 7 Kenneth Cook of UC Davis. Mark Perry gave Iowa fans something to cheer about. The third-seeded Hawkeye secured a fall over No. 11 Brandon Mason of Oklahoma State at 4:23. Michael Patrovich, the fifth seed from Hofstra, topped Nebraska's Jacob Klein, who had been seeded fourth, by the score of 5-3. Later on Friday, Askren will go up against Patrovich … while Perry will take on Herbert in the semifinals.
American University's Josh Glenn, the top seed at 184, continued his winning ways with a 14-10 win over No. 8 Eric Bradley of Penn State. Second seed Roger Kish of Minnesota got a 7-4 victory over 10th-seeded C.B. Dollaway of Arizona State. In a bit of an upset, sixth-seeded Pete Friedl of Illinois beat No. 3 Ben Wissel of Purdue 3-1… while No. 5 Shane Webster of Oregon State earned a 10-6 win over No. 4 Joe Mazzurco of Cornell. In the semifinals, it'll be Glenn vs. Webster, and Friedl vs. Kish.
Hofstra's unseeded giant-killer at 197 Chris Weidman continues to have a storybook NCAA, scoring a victory over No. 8 Ryan Bader of Arizona State, scoring four takedowns on the Sun Devil. The upsets continued, with Cornell's Jerry Rinaldi -- seeded seventh -- got a 3-1 win over second-seeded Kyle Cerminara of Buffalo… while No. 6 Phil Davis of Penn State edged third-seeded B.J. Padden of Nebraska 6-5 after being behind 4-1 in the first period. Two-time champ -- and fourth seed -- Jake Rosholt of Oklahoma State moved on to the semifinals by shutting out Oklahoma's No. 5 Joel Flaggert, 4-0. This sets the stage for the semifinals, with Rosholt vs. Weidman, and Davis vs. Rinaldi.
In the heavyweight class, all of the top four seeds all advanced. The No. 1 seed, Minnesota's Cole Konrad, got the victory over No. 8 Mike Faust of Virginia Tech 4-0. Second-seed Steve Mocco delighted the Cowboy contingent with a convincing 9-3win over cross-state rival Jake Hager of Oklahoma 9-3. Third-seeded Greg Wagner of Michigan advanced to the semis with a pin of No. 6 Tanner Garrett of Navy at 1:41. The fourth seed, Arizona State's Cain Velasquez, dominated unseeded Kirk Nail of Ohio State 9-1. In the semifinals, Konrad will face Velasquez … while Mocco will meet Wagner.
While you were sleeping … Late Thursday night, after most of Ford Center was empty except for the cleaning crews, the outcome of one Session 2 match was yet to be determined. A protest was filed in the Blake Maurer vs. Gabriel Dretsch match in the 187-pound consolations. Minnesota coach J Robinson protested that a penalty point awarded to Ohio State's Maurer early in the third period for an illegal hold was a misapplication of a rule. Originally, the Buckeye had been awarded the match 2-1 thanks to the penalty point and an escape in the third period. After a long protest/review delay that stretched long into the evening -- long after most fans had headed over to Bricktown to sample the nightlife -- the protest committee, after reviewing the tape, upheld Minnesota's protest and the third period was re-wrestled. It was more a barroom brawl, with only a hundred or so observers, most of them intense Golden Gopher fans. Their man scored a three-point near fall, which was followed by an escape by Maurer, answered by a Dretsch takedown. The final score: 6-1 Dretsch. To add to the bad news for the Buckeyes, Ohio State coach Russ Hellickson was given a warning for Control of Mat Area.
Session 3 Results
Session 2 Recap
Session 1 Recap
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