(OT) Nickerson starting out right w/CU wrestling

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Dickey was the victim of a head butt.  He was losing the match at the time it occurred.  No word on what happened to Mazzurco.

Nickerson won the championship, 13-5, over a kid from Kent State.  Nothing posted yet on Manotti, Anceravage, or Rinaldi.[/quote]
Manotti a big win over Minny's C.P. Schlatter.  Rinaldi nips a guy from NC State.  Anceravage loses to Missouri's Matt Pell, but still a really strong tournament for him.  Don't know team scores yet.

[ugarte]

[quote ugarte]125: #1 seed Troy Nickerson ... will face unseeded Chad Sportelli of Kent State [/quote]
Nickerson cruises, 13-5!

[q]157: #1 seed Dustin Mannotti ... will face the #2 seed (and #11 ranked) CP Schlatter of Minnesota in the final.[/q] 4-1 win for Manotti!


[q]197: #1 seed Jerry Rinaldi ... will face the #3 seed (#18 ranked) Ryan Goodman of NC State in the finals.[/q] Rinaldi wins 8-7 in a tiebreak!

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3 Champions (125, 157, 197), 1 second (165), 1 fourth (165), 1 sixth (133), 1 seventh (174). Two other wrestlers (including the top seed at 184) were doing very well until getting injured. This is looking like it might be a very good year for Cornell.

Thanks, Al, for the injury update on Dickey. Still no team results.

Edited to add a reference to Luke Hogle's 7th place finish at 174 and add weight classes to the recap paragraph.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell finished third with 131 points (three champions), behind Minnesota (192 points and three champions) and Missouri (149 and two champions).  The injuries to Dickey and Mazzurco may have cost us second place, although Lehigh also suffered two injuries and had two other wrestlers not able to compete.

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Cornell finished third with 131 points (three champions), behind Minnesota (192 points and three champions) and Missouri (149 and two champions).  The injuries to Dickey and Mazzurco may have cost us second place, although Lehigh also suffered two injuries and had two other wrestlers not able to compete.[/quote]And one of Lehigh's injuries was to #1 seed Troy Letters. I was finally able to find a full team scoreboard here. Our score also doesn't include John Cholish's excellent 4th place finish because only one wrestler per weight class counts in the team score (though I assume other schools had the same issue).

Two final notes: Tyler Shovlin '05, now wrestling for UNCG, finished in 6th place at 174. The Outstanding wrestler award went to Hwt. Cole Konrad of Minnesota: 5 pins in his 6 matches.

[Al DeFlorio]

Ugarte, if you can extricate yourself from the office in time, the dual meet against Michigan is 6pm, Tuesday, at the New York Athletic Club.

[Andy'07]

I had the webcast going for this tournament so I'll comment on how some of the matches went for those who are interested.

Nickerson was winning by a sizeable score in the semis before pinning Devoe who ended up finishing third.  Devoe had a sloppy shot, and Nickerson caught him in a cradle while they were almost still on their feet, and the matched ended within 10 seconds.  In the finals Nickerson took down Sportelli almost at will, but then was caught in a cradle during the second period, but Sportelli couldn't make anything out of it and a stalemate was called, which I thought was somewhat fortunate for Troy.  This was the first time he looked at all close to trouble the entire tournament, or this season I believe.  Not as dominant as in Vegas, but you can't complain about an undefeated freshman whose closest match of the season was 3-0.

Anceravage wrestled Pell tough in the finals for the first period, the score was tied after one.  Then pell took over, scoring back points twice to put the match out of reach.  Ancerevage seemed to have a lot of high scoring matches during this tournament, which seems to indicate he can take his opponent down, but then returns the favor, as was the case with Pell in the 1st.  Still a very strong performance to finish second.

Manotti looked very strong throughout, the final wasn't as close as the 4-1 score.  Schlatter never troubled him the whole match, and Manotti almost looked nonchalant.  This was the same result as last year though so I assume Manotti knew he could win.

Rinaldi is hard to watch.  He never really seems to dominate a match, but his results speak for themself, though he was lucky to win this one.  The final was easily the most exciting match of the night, and it entered OT tied 5-5, but with Rinaldi trailing riding time by :58, so he was 2 seconds from losing in regular time.  There was no action in the first OT, so then each wrestler took turns on bottom.  Rinaldi escaped in the first period to go up 6-5, then needing to hold the NC state kid to win.  However, he allowed a reversal to go down 7-6, only to reverse him back and win 8-7 with just a few seconds left in the match.


Other matches of note:

Konrad, the HWT from Minnesota looked unstoppable, scoring a pin in the finals in the first couple minutes.  I assume a lot of guys in the 285 class don't weigh anywhere near that, and he looked like he had at least 25 pounds on Garrett in the final.

Dustin Schlatter, also from minnesota won at 149 by the score of 1-0 on riding time, after winning 16-0 in the semis, he and nickerson were probably considered the two best recruits in the nation this past year.

Shawn Bunch ,who won at 133, was the guy Travis Lee beat in the NCAA finals last year, avenging a loss earlier in the season.  He looks great this year.


Well thats all, looking forward to seeing some of the duals; on campus next semester, and wishing I could see the one against Michigan on tuesday.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote ugarte]And one of Lehigh's injuries was to #1 seed Troy Letters.[/quote]
Apparently a pinched nerve for Letters.  Said to be "out for some time."  Cornell's dual with Lehigh is January 22.

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Ugarte, if you can extricate yourself from the office in time, the dual meet against Michigan is 6pm, Tuesday, at the New York Athletic Club.[/quote]It is tricky - I may have some airport pickup duty - but I've been thinking about it. Can you figure out how much tickets cost? I've tried searching for the info but no luck. The NYAC doesn't even acknowledge the game.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote ugarte][quote Al DeFlorio]Ugarte, if you can extricate yourself from the office in time, the dual meet against Michigan is 6pm, Tuesday, at the New York Athletic Club.[/quote]It is tricky - I may have some airport pickup duty - but I've been thinking about it. Can you figure out how much tickets cost? I've tried searching for the info but no luck. The NYAC doesn't even acknowledge the game.[/quote]
Don't know about tickets, but the Michigan web site says you have to meet the NYAC dress code:  sports jacket with collared shirt or turtleneck and no jeans or sneakers.

[Chris \'03]

Anyone care to explain why Cornell is sponsoring free audio for the match tomorrow? Or for that matter why the match is at the NY athletic club (sport coat required for admission) and not the state of the art, dual meets only, facility in Ithaca? I hope Cornell isn't paying big money (or any money) to rent the space for this.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Chris '03]Or for that matter why the match is at the NY athletic club (sport coat required for admission) and not the state of the art, dual meets only, facility in Ithaca?.[/quote]
It wouldn't surprise me if the guy whose name is on that "state of the art...facility" is a member of the NYAC.

[Al DeFlorio]

125 Nickerson wins 22-9 over Watts with 11 takedowns; all Michigan points on releases; 4-0
133 Mormile 9-4 over Moos, who is ranked in top 15; 7-0
141 Easter loses by tech fall (16-1) to #5 Josh Churella; 7-5
149 Dickey loses 7-5 in OT to #4 Tannenbaum (Dickey wrestled the OT injured); 7-8
157 Manotti 12-5 over Marsh (just missing bonus point); 10-8
165 Anceravage loses to #1 Ryan Churella,13-3 major decision; 10-12
174 Hogle loses to Roy 9-3; 10-15
184 Miracola loses to Todd 9-3; 10-18
197 Rinaldi 6-3 over White; 13-18
285 Hammond pinned by #3 Wagner, 2:26; 13-24

[ugarte]

Al - are you listening? How? I can't get anything when I click on the Takedown feed.

EDIT: Nevermind. Got it.

[Al DeFlorio]

Miracola wrestling for injured Mazzurco at 184 tonight.

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Miracola wrestling for injured Mazzurco at 184 tonight.[/quote]Ugh.