OSU / PITT

[MPhillips]

OSU at PITT

Birden starts at 174. Rogotzke at 197. Feldman listed at 285.  Excited to see Birden.

[MPhillips]

174: No. 17 Luca Augustine (PITT) dec. over e'Than Birden (OSU) TB1 2-1 | PITT 3, OSU 0 - Birden was fine in his debut.

184: No. 11 Reece Heller (PITT) dec. over Seth Shumate (OSU) 6-5 | PITT 6, OSU 0 - Hope to see Shumate at 84 all season.

197: No. 16 Mac Stout (PITT) dec. over No. 15 Ryder Rogotzke (OSU) 8-2 | PITT 9, OSU 0 - Rogotzke wrestling up a weight class. Hope he RS's.

HWT: No. 14 Dayton Pitzer (PITT) tech fall over Hogan Swenski (OSU) 16-1 | PITT 14, OSU 0 - Swenski gets a start.

125: No. 6 Brendan McCrone (OSU) major dec. over Matt Marlow (PITT) 8-0 | PITT 14, OSU 4 - McCrone has been good. He AA's this year.

133: No. 7 Nic Bouzakis (OSU) major dec. over Vinnie Santaniello (PITT) 14-4 | PITT 14, OSU 8 - I like Bouzakis. Frost, Noto and Byrd coming up.

141: No. 2 Jesse Mendez (OSU) tech fall over No. 21 Anthony Santaniello (PITT) 16-1 | PITT 14, OSU 13 - Mendez keeps rollin'.

149: No. 12 Dylan D'Emilio (OSU) dec. over vs. Finn Solomon (PITT) 7-4 | OSU 16, PITT 14 - D'Emilio gets better as the season moves on.

157: No. 7 Paddy Gallagher (OSU) major dec. over Dylan Evans (PITT) 13-4 | OSU 20, PITT 14 - Paddy needs to stay healthy. 

165: vs. Jared Keslar (PITT) dec. over No. 8 Sammy Sasso (OSU) 13-11 | OSU 20, PITT 17 - Sasso is small at 65. He just needs to find a way.

Ryan's record with challenges isn't good. But to be fair in this match, you throw the brick in the first three matches, confident you don't need them from 125-165. 

Still early with a long season ahead.  Go Bucks!

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Birden is long and tough, and he'll be a problem for years in the B1G. Shumate won that match. Swenski didn't wrestle up to his #43 Wrestlestat.com rating, and that makes him 3-2 on the year. Y'all need Feldman back. Finn Solomon is a good wrestler. That was a nice win for D'Emilio. 

I'll be rooting for Sasso against everybody but the ILLINI. 

[MPhillips]

23 hours ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

Y'all need Feldman back.

I believe we're gonna need a lot of things. I'm feeling like it's a punt year. I say RS Rogotzke and let Shumate have 84...

[MPhillips]

46 minutes ago, MPhillips said:

I believe we're gonna need a lot of things. I'm feeling like it's a punt year. I say RS Rogotzke and let Shumate have 84...

Oops! Can't RS Rogotzke now...