[Wrestling] NCAA Championships

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Iowa loses at 165 cons round.

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Taylor wins vs PSu in oveer #2 Fittery and PSU is now back on top in the teams..

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Ruth wins at 174 for PSU

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cornell 3 guys left tonight PSU with 2 if Wade goes. down 6.5 pts now.

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lofthouse for Iowa wins. lewnes up now

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Lewnes goes down.. huge loss.

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Maybe next year guys....

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bosak follows with a sudden victory loss.. missed several single leg shoots for no pts..

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All over for Cornell. No maybe next year, Penn State and Iowa will be much better next year. We will be much worse without Lewnes, Grey, Kerber, Meagher, and Mason.

[ugarte]

Well, that was a depressing evening session. Dake and Grey were bright spots as Grey moves up the podium and Dake gets into the finals. The notion of three straight losses by Lewnes, Bosak and Simaz seems impossible. But it happened. And we're still wrestling tomorrow, so... here's the slate.

Tomorrow's matches:

Championship:
149: #4 Dake v #2 Molinaro (PSU)

Consolation Semis
133: #8 Grey v #3 Long (PSU) / #4 Graff (Wisc) v #11 Sentes (CMU)
174: #3 Lewnes v #4 Covington (Or. St.) / #2 Ruth  (PSU) v #5 Hinrich (UVA)
184: #3 Bosak v #1 Honeycutt (Edinboro) / #5 LeBlanc (Wyo.) v #12 Gambrall (Iowa)
194: #1 Simaz v #12 Geisen (Stanford) / #3 Brandvold (Wisc.) v #5 Lofthouse (Iowa)


Other notables with team score implications:

#2 McDonough (Iowa) in the 125 Finals
#1 Oliver (Okl. St.) in the 133 Finals
#5 Marion (Iowa) in the 141 Consy Semis
#5 Parks (Okl. St.) in the 149 Consy Semis
#3 Taylor (PSU) in the 157 Finals
#6 St. John (Iowa) in the 157 Consy Semis
#9 Wright (PSU) in the 185 Finals
#2 Foster (Ok. St.) in the 197 Finals

Apparently Cornell is still mathematically in the running but it seems... unlikely.

Team Scores

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Plc Score School              
                                               
1   92.5   Penn State     3   2
2   75.0   Cornell        1   4
3   69.5   Iowa           1   4
4   65.5   Oklahoma State 2   1

[ugarte]

Well, that was a depressing evening session. Dake and Grey were bright spots as Grey moves up the podium and Dake gets into the finals. The notion of three straight losses by Lewnes, Bosak and Simaz seems impossible. But it happened. And we're still wrestling tomorrow, so... here's the slate.

Tomorrow's matches:

Championship:
149: #4 Dake v #2 Molinaro (PSU)

Consolation Semis
133: #8 Grey v #3 Long (PSU) / #4 Graff (Wisc) v #11 Sentes (CMU)
174: #3 Lewnes v #4 Covington (Or. St.) / #2 Ruth  (PSU) v #5 Hinrich (UVA)
184: #3 Bosak v #1 Honeycutt (Edinboro) / #5 LeBlanc (Wyo.) v #12 Gambrall (Iowa)
194: #1 Simaz v #12 Geisen (Stanford) / #3 Brandvold (Wisc.) v #5 Lofthouse (Iowa)


Other notables with team score implications:

#2 McDonough (Iowa) in the 125 Finals
#1 Oliver (Okl. St.) in the 133 Finals
#5 Marion (Iowa) in the 141 Consy Semis
#5 Parks (Okl. St.) in the 149 Consy Semis
#3 Taylor (PSU) in the 157 Finals
#6 St. John (Iowa) in the 157 Consy Semis
#9 Wright (PSU) in the 185 Finals
#2 Foster (Ok. St.) in the 197 Finals

Winners in bold.

Cornell went 3 for 4, including bonus points from Simaz (WBF) and Bosak (MD) and we are back in second place. With the two PSU wins, I'm pretty sure that PSU locked up the championship.

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Plc Score School          CH CO
1   101.5 Penn State      3  2
2    88.5 Cornell         1  4
3    86.5 Iowa            1  4
4    65.5 Oklahoma State  2  1

[ugarte]

Mike Grey lost his 5th place match and finishes as an All-American in 6th Place. During the tournament, 8th seed Grey lost only to wrestlers ranked in the top 4. This was a hell of a tournament for him after an injury plagued year.
This is his second All-American honor (6th place in 2008, as a freshman) and an upbeat end to an excellent, if disappointing career. In both 2009 and 2010, Grey entered the tournament seeded and lost one match shy of All-American status. Still, it is only disappointing by the high standards he set for himself during the regular season.

Congratulations, Mike.

[ugarte]

In other scoring news, Iowa's Marion and St. John both lost their 3d place matches, so Iowa hasn't been picking up points either. They still have one championship match, a third place match against Cornell and a fifth place match remaining.

I've stopped paying obsessive attention to Penn State because the race for first is over.

Cornell has two additional third place matches to come and Dake's championship match.

[ugarte]

Mack Lewnes lost his 3d place match, 6-2 to #2 Ed Ruth (PSU). Lewnes finishes in 4th Place, the third All-American finish of his career.

A senior, this concludes an amazing - and yet oddly disappointing - career for Lewnes. As a sophomore, undefeated and ranked #1 in the country, he lost his only two NCAA matches (apparently due to a chest injury suffered in practice the week before the tournament). As a Junior, again undefeated and ranked #1 entering the tournament, he was dominated in the final and took second place. This year, he came in a little less touted - ranked #3 after losing 2 bouts - but saw an opportunity to return to the finals slip away when he lost to a lower ranked wrestler in the semifinals before losing to Ruth for the second time in the 3d place match.

That said, he ends his career with the most wins in Cornell history and three All-American honors: 4th in 2008, 2d in 2010 and 4th in 2011.

Congratulations, Mack.

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Steve Bosak loses to Grant Gambrall of Iowa and finishes in 4th place and gets his second All-American finish in two years. Congratulations, Steve.

I have to say, watching the disappointments pile up is rough.