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2 for Lee... and 2 more... half a minute into the second period now 6-2... That's your final.

Thanks. I want to make sure that I don't miss the 57 finals, aka "The Battle of Franklin Regional High School".

When are the Men's Freestyle finals scheduled today? When I searched online I found this (Flo Wrestling Session II: Championship Finals 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM – (1 MAT) Men’s Freestyle (all weights) Women’s Freestyle (62 KG, 68 KG,76 KG) But I also found this (USA Wrestling Events Women’s Freestyle (62 KG, 68 KG,76 KG) Men’s Freestyle (57 KG, 65 KG, 74 KG, 86 KG, 97 KG,125 KG) Championship Finals 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM – (1 MAT) Is it 1pm local time and 2pm Eastern? Or was there a schedule change after one of these was posted?

Megaludis taking it to Cronin...

Amen. I've complained about the antiquated Track user interface for years, only to learn that Track was exempt from criticism on these boards.

But it looks like "Pitt" was the last word out of his mouth...

This is mostly irrelevant to the question asked, but it has the benefit of being current. I watched the PSU-Hofstra match on BTN+. Hofstra was clearly over-matched, and I wonder why this was even scheduled. Half of the PSU wrestlers were the backups -- maybe there were no Opens for them to go to so they got to wrestle in Rec Hall once (as a plug for future recruiting?) But I digress. #1 Brooks does what he should do against an unranked opponent - takes him down, grabs a wrist and a half and turns him and pins him. Sportsmanlike and efficient. #1 Starocci (sp?) takes his opponent down and pulls him arm over his head and has to be stopped by the official twice for potentially dangerous, and ultimately never pins him. It was a bad look, IMHO. But, as I said, this is not an answer to the question the OP asked. But I know who I would vote for in a popularity contest.

I watched the full replay on BTN+. Not the worst student announcers (and the first female side announcer that I've heard on any broadcast), but at least half of the usual inadequacies/mistakes from the guy who did the play by play. If the video on BTN+ is showing the score and time I get tempted by around 149 to mute the volume and just watch.

No worries, glad to hear from the home team.

Accurate summary by MPhillips. Both teams wrestled well. Shane Sparks focused on how many end of period TDs were scored, which I agree was often the key to the matches. 141 tOSU gave up a lead, but then at 149 Pitt did the same, so those two matches were a wash. (However, D'Emilio was named OW, so a better win there.) 157-165 trading majors. Agree that 174 could have easily ended with more points had Kharchla not gotten hurt. (Announcers used the down time to note that PSU announced that Shayne Van Ness is out for the season with his injury. Hope Kharchla's is not as serious.) At 184 RHeller wrestled well, nice to see. 197 looked like two younger guys who were pretty tentative. At that point, with 285 probably locked for Pitt, Stout simply has to not lose by bonus, which also may have influenced his style, but he pulled out the win nonetheless. Finally, Pitzer just cruises to the major. Probably could have gotten the tech or a fall if Pitt had needed the points. All he needed to do was not get pinned. First Pitt dual meet victory over tOSU since 2010, or something like that, when they won in Columbus by one point. Tim Johnson was shilling for this to become a neighboring state rivalry match every year, which would be great to see. Pitt now has beaten Maryland, Illinois, and Ohio State from the Big Ten. Too bad about that loss to Navy earlier in the season. They are a lot more fun to watch this year than in some year's past.

H'weight #8 Dayton Pitzer vs the backup Swenski. Announcers have this one in the bag for Pitt. TD, Esc, TD, SW, SW, makes it 8-1 for Pitzer. Final a 12-2 major. Pitt wins 21-13

197 Stout #14 vs Geog #19, both freshmen standing. Cautious on their feet, not much action. Second period Stout hits a double leg for his TD, escape makes it 3-1. Stout gets a final TD in the third off a desperation shot by Geog. Decision for Stout.

184 R Heller vs Gavin Hoffman Heller ranked #20 and won the Clarion Open. Gets a danger TD after his escape and then holds him there for a 4 point NF, 8-0 lead. Another counter TD after the escape makes it 11-1. Final score 12-2 major. Match blown open by that 8 point sequence. Big win for Pitt.

Yes. I'm posting the other match notes now. Spoiler alert.

174 # 20 Augustine vs #4 Carson Kharchla Quick TD from Augustine, who has a lot of lower body quickness for a big guy. Gets the early lead, but Kharchla shows why he is ranked #4. Kharchla on top but has to take injury time when he tweaks his knee sliding his leg in on top. He grits it out for an 11-7 win, but is limping.

174 # 20 Augustine vs #4 Carson Kharchla

165 H Heller with a cruising win over Wilcox, 10-2 major

157 unranked freshman Keslar vs Paddy Gallagher #13. Gallagher cruising, even locks up a cradle at one point. Mis-match, but give Keslar credit for being tough in the last minute and not getting teched. Final was 17-3, making the match score 10-6 tOSU.

149 freshman Finn Solomon, who was the loser when they met at Clarion. Good action. Solomon with a late TD to take the lead. Lots of scoring back and forth. Looks like Solomon was going to take it this time, but seems like he gasses and gives up multiple late TDs to lose. Match was 6-6 tOSU at this point.

133 was Santaniello #16 freshman vs Bouzakis Santaniello beat him at the Clarion tournament, but Bouzakis tough from a kneeling stance. (Maybe it is just the singlet, but he reminds me there of Pletcher.)

Yes, Mendez looked to be in control of the match (partly because Matthews scores so little), but Matthews finally got motivated in the last 15 seconds.

125 Camacho gets three quick TDs and wins a decision

Well, I know better than to engage in this kind of nonsense, but you've baited me into it. Egregious: outstandingly bad; shocking. It was a ref's judgment call. It went against the Illinois wrestler who then won the match, so it is not like it decided anything. And I would say it was not even a bad call, let alone an outstandingly bad call. But feel free to have the last word if it is important to you.

Well, not wearing my blue & gold glasses, but it was hardly egregious. Essentially it is a guy sitting on a lead who already has one stall call doing nothing but blocking and backing. I agree that refs don't always make that call at the end of the third period to extend the match, but Matthews was relentless with his shots, and got the call. But, as the announcers pointed out, Matthews basically wore himself out doing so, and had no gas left in the tank for the SV period and lost, so no harm, no foul. If that is the worst thing you guys saw then I'd say it was a well-officiated match (despite two reviews for locked hands calls that were missed but corrected in video reviews after each coach threw a brick). Mostly this was the ongoing pattern with Matthews, who tends to have these low-scoring, defensive matches, and sometimes gets burned, as he did today.

Roll and escape for Ill. 12-11 Pitt. Forty seconds left. Solomon tying him up. Stalemate called. Solomon in on a leg and wins. Pitt 22 Illinois 9. Lots of good action. Kudos to the Illini for visiting and wrestling hard.