Dec 1, 2018
No cheeky intros. No elaborate song lyrics sprinkled through.
Today, it’s just wrestling. I’m Jason Bryant and this is Short Time
Shots, a sometimes daily rundown of the day’s wrestling scores and
more.
There will be more on the AWL in other episodes, since this show
concentrates on the college levels of the sport. Highlights though
were Jordan Oliver knocking off Zain Retherford, Alex Dieringer
beating Isaiah Martinez, Cory Clark beating Tony Ramos and Kyven
Gadson giving a very short interview after he beat Jacob Kasper to
get to the hospital, where he had a baby on the way - like
literally any minute. All those results on Trackwrestling. Check
the daily newsletter at mattalkonline.com/news or the
@mattalkonline twitter for links to the recaps.
In Las Vegas, as always, there were some solid upsets and
individual wins. Ohio State put six into the semis, so that’s the
short version. All that can be viewed at Flowrestling. But here’s
some of the quarterfinal notables from Friday in Lost Wages.
Notables from each weight:
At 125: North Dakota State’s Brent Fleetwood stormed into the
semifinals with back-to-back wins over Louie Hayes and Zeke Moisey.
He’ll face top-seeded Sebastian Rivera of Northwestern, while down
low, it’s a 2-3 matchup with Minnesota’s Sean Russell facing Oregon
State’s Ronnie Bresser.
At 133: Pittsburgh’s Micky Phillipi upended Minnesota’s Ethan Lizak
4-0 in the quarters to reach Saturday’s semifinals. He’ll face
second-seeded Luke Pletcher of Ohio State, while up top, it’s No. 1
Nick Suriano of Rutgers and No. 4 John Erneste of Mizzou. Erneste
is 3-0 with three first-period falls.
At 141: Second-seeded Jaydin Eierman gave up a reversal and then
outlasted Michigan’s Kanen Storr 3-2 in the tiebreakers. Eierman
will see a familiar foe, Illinois’ Mikey Carr in the semis. Up top,
it’s one vs. four with Joey McKenna of Ohio State meeting Northern
Iowa’s Josh Alber. Storr, by the way, knocked off Chad Red of
Nebraska in the Round of 16. All-American Red was bounced out of
the tournament in the consolations.
At 149: Clarion’s Brock Zacherl upended All-American Grant Leeth
and his neckbrace 3-2 in the quarterfinals courtesy of a
third-period takedown. Zacherl will face Micah Jordan of Ohio State
in the semis, while fifth-seeded Mitch Finesilver of Duke reached
the semis after beating All-American Max Thomsen of Northern Iowa
3-2. Finesilver will face Rutgers’ Anthony Ashnault.
At 157: The on-again, off-again Griffin Parriott is on again. The
Purdue sophomore beat All-American Tyler Berger of Nebraska 4-2 in
the quarters and earned the right to face fifth-seeded Taleb
Rahmani of Pittsburgh. Rahmani beat Eric Barone of Illinois, who
had previously bumped off Ohio State’s Ke-shawn Hayes. Down low,
it’s Kennedy Monday of UNC against Ryan Deakin of Northwestern.
At 165: Michigan’s Logan Massa seems back in his Super Saiyan Level
3 form. He breezed into the semis and will face fourth-seeded
Isaiah White of Nebraska. Just so you know, while looking up the
correct spelling of Saiyan, I got distracted by the Dragon Ball
wiki. Where were you when you first watched the Namek saga? Down
low, Mekhi Lewis of Virginia Tech upended red-hot Branson Ashworth
of Wyoming 3-1. He’ll face Northern Iowa’s Bryce Steiert in the
semis.
In just three short minutes, the Planet Namek … that was the
longest three minutes in television history.
At 174, all top four seeds reached the semis as Michigan’s Myles
Amine will face Nebraska’s Mikey Labriola and Northern Iowa’s
Taylor Lujan will face Missouri’s Daniel Lewis.
At 184, second-seeded Taylor Venz of Nebraska was down 8-4 with
riding time against in the third period when he countered a Nino
Bonaccorsi shot by stepping over a chestlock and earning the fall.
Venz will face sixth-seeded Drew Foster of Northern Iowa, who beat
All-American Zack Zavatsky of Virginia Tech 9-6 in the quarters. Up
top, Myles Martin of Ohio State has been rock solid. He’ll face
All-American Max Dean of Cornell in the semis. Dean majored North
Carolina’s Chip Ness in the quarters.
At 197, unseeded Greg Bulsak of Clarion picked off Virginia Tech’s
Tom Sleigh 8-1 in the quarters to reach his semifinal opponent,
10th-seeded Eric Schultz of Nebraska. Second-seeded Nathan Traxler
of Stanford was upset by Virginia’s Jay Aiello early, then Schultz
edged Aiello 3-2 in the quarterfinals. Up top, Kollin Moore of Ohio
State is back in action after returning from the U23 Worlds. He’ll
face Purdue’s Christian Brunner, the fifth-seed, in the semis
there. Brunner beat Tanner Orndorff of Utah Valley in the quarters.
Orndorff majored Drexel’s No. 4 seed Stephen Loiseau in the Round
of 32.
At 285 pounds, unseeded Chase Singletary of Ohio State pulled two
upsets on his way to the semis. First he beat Northwestern’s Conan
Jennings 6-5 in the Round of 16, then he pinned Central Michigan’s
Matt Stencel in the quarters. Singletary will face Tate Orndorff of
Utah Valley in the semis, while up top, Gable Steveson of Minnesota
is almost to the point of going full heel turn as he bullied his
way into the semis with some powerful bonus victories. Steveson
will face North Carolina’s Cory Daniel in the semis.
Team-wise, it’s Ohio State, Missouri, Nebraska and Northern Iowa
leading the back, with a host of teams bunched between 5-13.
Now to some duals, where we had two historical feats occur in
Pennsylvania. First, unranked Princeton beat Lehigh for the first
time in 50 years and for the first time ever at Lehigh. While the
eighth-ranked Mountain Hawks aren’t even close to full strength,
you wrestle with who you’ve got and on Friday night, Princeton got
them. Patrick Brucki’s win over Jake Jakobsen at 197 sealed the
deal for this one.
Further west in Lewisburg, the first sellout in Bucknell wrestling
history with over 4,200 fans present saw No. 1 Penn State extend
its dual meet win streak to 47 with a 42-3 win over the host
Bison.
No. 7 NC State survived a scare as they went to Norfolk, Virginia
and beat Old Dominion 16-15. This one was supposed to take place on
Thursday, but a bomb threat at ODU forced the school to postpone
women’s basketball and wrestling events. The rest might have served
the host Monarchs well as Larry Early upended second-ranked Hayden
Hidlay at 157 pounds. That offset NC State’s upset at 141, where
Jamal Morris beat Sa’Derian Perry 7-2. Tariq Wilson’s bonus point
at 133 proved to be the difference.
No. 20 Lock Haven had over 2,300 fans at Thomas Fieldhouse watch
the Bald Eagles pick up an EWL win over George Mason 28-10. Other
action in Division I saw Indiana beat Northern Illinois 20-14 and
Ohio beat Appalachian State 25-16.
In the NAIA, Grand View extended its win streak to 66 duals in a
row as they blanked Benedictine 56-0. Out in Great Falls at the
Battle of the Rockies duals, which saw schools from Division II,
the NAIA and the NJCAA, McKendree won three duals, as did
Embry-Riddle.
Colorado School of Mines won a Division II tri over Chadron State
and San Francisco State. Other multiple-dual winners on Friday
included Eastern Oregon, Lindenwood, Northwest Kansas Tech,
Providence (the one in Montana) and Spartanburg Methodist.
Looking at some other tournaments, Johnson & Wales leads the New
Standard Corporation Invitational hosted by York College - the one
in Pennsylvania. The Wildcats lead Ithaca, Baldwin Wallace and
Roger Williams. Quarters kick up tomorrow, so there should be
rowdiness. Couple of national champions meet in the quarters too,
as Division III champ Jay Albis of Johnson & Wales meets Colton
Messick of the Newport News Apprentice School, the returning NCWA
national champion. Messick was coached by my old roommate, Matt
Wright, at Warwick H.S. in Newport News, Virginia. Same one where
Michael Vick - and my brother actually - graduated from.
12.
(Editor’s note: This is always a rough draft of the script of the
show, there may be minor errors sprinkled throughout and no, it’s
not in APA style or anything that resembles a journalistic
published work)
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