OT: Wrestling

[Al DeFlorio]

Jeff, did you watch the match on ESPN2?  Lee was terrific.  Incredibly quick and well-conditioned.  Fleeger is very strong, but he looked slightly fatigued in the last minute or two and Travis took advantage.  He and Fleeger are gonna be going at this for two more years.

[jkahn]

I caught the last 30 seconds of the match, but as in hockey, it's those final seconds that count

[ugarte]

Travis Lee, seeded #2 at 125 WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP.  Great match.  He worked the #1 wrestler badly.  I think they are both sophs, so if they stay at 125, this will be a competition to watch for a few years.

Dustin Manotti, a freshman seeded #10 at 149 finished at #8 and becomes Cornell's second consecutive frosh All-American.  All of the wrestlers that beat Manotti were ranked higher than he was (# 2, #6 and #7).  Hopefully they are all seniors. ;-)

Clint Wattenberg, ranked #3 at 184 slipped to #5.  He got revenge on Princeton's Greg Parker, who beat him twice.  Parker came in #2 and fell to #8 at the NCAAs.  Revenge was all the rage in this weight class, as Wattenberg's two losses came to #6 Josh Lambrecht and #1 Jessman Smith, both of whom Wattenberg beat during the season.  This weight class was won by the #10 wrestler (I think), which never seems to happen.

Cornell finished #10 in the team standings. Well done.