Wrestling at Nationals

[Chris \'03]

Eight Cornellians are in OK City for Nationals starting today.

Cornell release here: http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-wrestl/spec-rel/031406aaa.html

Live match results here: http://www.ncaasports.com/wrestling/mens/results/2006

TV coverage starts at 11AM tomorrow on ESPNU.

[Al DeFlorio]

Nickerson, Dickey, Mazzurco, and Rinaldi won their first matches.  Mormile, Manotti, Anceravage, and Miracola did not.

[Al DeFlorio]

Troy pinned his QF opponent in the second period and will face the #1 seed in the semis tonight (televised at 7pm on one of the ESPN stations).

Mazzurco loses his QF, but Rinaldi avenges earlier loss by beating Kyle Cerminara of Buffalo to advance to semis.

[Al DeFlorio]

Third period reversal gives #5 Troy Nickerson a berth in the finals against #3 Joe Dubuque of Indiana.

[ugarte]

I flipped back and forth between the Cornell PP and Rinaldi's SF match at 197. Rinaldi was passive and sorta lackluster. Badly outwrestled in the semis. Still, making it to SF guarantees All-American status, so kudos to him.

Manotti won his 5th round wrestleback match as well, so Cornell still has three wrestlers alive, though only one has a chance at a championship.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote ugarte]I flipped back and forth between the Cornell PP and Rinaldi's SF match at 197. Rinaldi was passive and sorta lackluster. Badly outwrestled in the semis. Still, making it to SF guarantees All-American status, so kudos to him.

Manotti won his 5th round wrestleback match as well, so Cornell still has three wrestlers alive, though only one has a chance at a championship.[/quote]
Manotti and Mazzurco both won consolation round 6 matches, and Rinaldi will now go into the consolations.  Along with Nickerson, that makes four still wrestling, all of whom will be All-Americans (I believe).

Someone on Wrestling Report posted team scores after the second day:  Cornell is sixth with 54 points...ahead of Penn State with 53.5 and Michigan with 52, but behind OSU (106), Minnesota (72.5), Oklahoma (64.5), Iowa (61.5), and Arizona State (56).  Haven't calculated the number of wrestlers still alive for the teams just above and below Cornell.

[Al DeFlorio]

I don't know what happened to Manotti when he got crunched in his opening match.  He just finished his rampage through the wrestlebacks by demolishing the #1 seed, Trent Paulson of Iowa State, 8-1, to take third place.

[atb9]

Thanks for the update, Al!

[ugarte]

Cornell All-American finishes:

157: Dustin Manotti (Senior, 7 seed) finished in 3rd - 4 time All-American!
184: Joe Mazzurco (Senior, 4 seed) finished in 6th - 2 time All-American!
197: Jerry Rinaldi (Junior, 7 seed) finished in 4th

Freshman Troy Nickerson wrestles for the Championship at 125 this evening. Good luck, Troy.

Congratulations to all of the Cornell All-Americans and all of Cornell's NCAA qualifiers.

And one more congratulations, to Rob Koll for putting together another excellent squad.

[Jacob '06]

Anyone know what time the finals start?

[bernie]

7:30 est on espn

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Al DeFlorio]I don't know what happened to Manotti when he got crunched in his opening match.  He just finished his rampage through the wrestlebacks by demolishing the #1 seed, Trent Paulson of Iowa State, 8-1, to take third place.[/quote]
In his sojourn through the wrestlebacks, Manotti knocked off the #9, #8, #4, #3, and #1 seeds.  This borders on the unbelievable.  I guess he was just royally pissed. ::pissed::

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Al DeFlorio]I don't know what happened to Manotti when he got crunched in his opening match.  He just finished his rampage through the wrestlebacks by demolishing the #1 seed, Trent Paulson of Iowa State, 8-1, to take third place.[/quote]
In his sojourn through the wrestlebacks, Manotti knocked off the #9, #8, #4, #3, and #1 seeds.  This borders on the unbelievable.  I guess he was just royally pissed. ::pissed::[/quote]I saw that but, due to problems with my wireless, kept losing my connection before I could post it. Pretty frickin' awesome. I still can't believe he lost (badly!) in the first round to an unseeded wrestler that didn't (IIRC) make it through the third round of wrestlebacks.

[ugarte]

Indiana's Joe Dubuque beats Troy Nickerson 8-3 in the championship match. Still, a great effort this tournament by Nickerson.

All told, 1 second place, 1 third, 1 fourth and 1 sixth. And two of those guys are coming back next year.

And the awesome final team standings:

1    Oklahoma St.   122.5    
2    Minnesota   84.0    
3    Oklahoma   80.5    
4    Iowa       70.0    
5   Cornell         62.0

[Jacob '06]

[quote ugarte]Indiana's Joe Dubuque beats Troy Nickerson 8-3 in the championship match. Still, a great effort this tournament by Nickerson.

All told, 1 second place, 1 third, 1 fourth and 1 sixth. And two of those guys are coming back next year.

And the awesome final team standings:

1    Oklahoma St.   122.5    
2    Minnesota   84.0    
3    Oklahoma   80.5    
4    Iowa       70.0    
5   Cornell         62.0

[/quote]

That is Oklahoma State's 4th championship in a row. They are pretty good.