[OT] Wrestling cruising at NCAAs

[Josh 03]

Wow, how cool to go on Elynah, see this post, turn on the TV, and see Lee and CU Wrestling.

4-3 Lee, 3rd period.

[jkahn]

Travis Lee wins NCAA 133 lb. title, 6-3.

[abmarks]

Lee Wins 6-3!

[KeithK]

I don't know if I've ever watched (real) wrestling on TV before.  What a great first match to watch - individual National Championship for Cornell!

[Al DeFlorio]

Lee had the only two take-downs of the match.  Terrific performance.  Bunch is one tough opponent, too.

[KP '06]

--Bump--

Baier's up soon on ESPN.

[jaybert]

Jones dominated Baier, the score was 5-3, but the points that Baier got, Jones pretty much gave to him.

But still, Baier ranked #7, ends up with 2nd place, behind a now 3 time NCAA champion.

[CrazyLarry]

He loses 5-3.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Jason L Wrote:

 Jones dominated Baier, the score was 5-3, but the points that Baier got, Jones pretty much gave to him.

But still, Baier ranked #7, ends up with 2nd place, behind a now 3 time NCAA champion.[/q]

Jones has never lost at 184.  The run Baier made to get to the finals was very special, knocking off the #2 and #3 wrestlers--both from Big 12 powers--in the quarters and semis.  Don't let the loss to Jones take anything away from that.  Wonderful wrestling by a determined senior.

[RichS]

Can anyone tell me which, if any, of the red's current wrestlers at the NCAAs are from New Jersey high schools?  Thanks.

[DisplacedCornellian]

There are a number of wrestlers from NJ.  This roster lists their highschools and hometown in a pretty convenient format.

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/corn-m-wrestl-mtt.html

[RichS]

Thanks, Rinaldi from Lodi is the one I couldn't remember.

[Luke 05]

Cornell finishes in 4th place, only 1 pt behind Oklahoma

[ugarte]

[Q]Luke 05 Wrote:

 Cornell finishes in 4th place, only 1 pt behind Oklahoma[/q]Led by former Cornell head coach Jack Spates.

And speaking of coaches, congratulations to our own Rob Koll who was named NWCA Division I Coach of the Year.

[ugarte]

[Q]KenP Wrote:
Dustin Manotti won 6th place (All-American) in the 149lb class.[/q]While obviously very impressive, that had to be a disappointment for Manotti. He came in as the #3 seed and, starting with the semifinals lost three straight matches. After losing to Phillip Simpson (Army, 2 seed) in the semifinals (who he was a second from beating in the EIWA conference finals), he fell to Joe Masa (Hofstra, 9 seed) and Ty Eustice (Iowa, 6 seed) in the wrestlebacks. He beat Masa twice this year and Eustice the day before. It probably also hurts a little that if he had won any of those matches, Cornell would have moved up to third in the team standings. He finished higher in 2004 than he did this year and I expect he will be really hungry for a national title next year.

[q]Joe Mazzurco won 5th place (All-American) in the 174lb class.[/q]Fantastic. He came in as the #5 seed and finished in 5th. He lost to the eventual winner Chris Pendleton (Ok. State, 1 seed) and the 3d place finisher Jake Herbert (Northwestern, 4 seed).

Both of the wrestlers Mazzurco lost to were on spectacular runs. Prior to beating Mazzurco*, Pendleton had a pin and another 16-1 technical fall (as well as a 14-10 win over the eventual 8th place finisher). After a surprising loss in the 2d round to an unseeded wrestler, Herbert's run in the wrestlebacks was sick: pin, pin, pin, 15-0 (tf), 6-2 over Mazzurco and then 6-3 over the 3 seed in the 3d place match.


* And I mean beating. At 4:45 the  "mercy rule," called a technical fall, was invoked when Pendleton went up 16-1.