Nov 6, 2019
It’s Tuesday, so that means all the rankings in the world are
now available in Division I wrestling. Flowrestling,
Trackwrestling, AWN, WIN, The Open Mat, InterMat, the society for
the reintroduction of feral cats and Nipsey Russell’s House of
Hustle have all released their college rankings. They come out
Monday or Tuesday, you know where to go for them, so I won’t bog
down the show with notes about them here. I will say, I do despise
tournament rankings being used for dual meet promotion. You wrestle
duals, use dual meet rankings. Several of them are also out there –
pick one. Starting off the show with a rant rather than a rub, this
is Short Time Shots, a mostly daily look at the scores and more
from around the world of wrestling. I’m Jason Bryant.
Limited night in duals, so we’ll just throw out what we’ve got
before it gets too late and my kids wake back up. My wife’s still
in China, which means I’m still in survival mode. I love my kids,
but you really do lose all sense of personal time when you’re
watching them solo. Tonight, it was the Little Mermaid Live. Under
the Sea, take it from me … there’s some messed up lyrics in Disney
films.
Minnesota Beer of the Night: And you know the
NCAA Division I Championships are coming to Minneapolis this year.
So with that in mind, when relevant, I’ll give you my Minnesota
beer of the night. Tonight, it’s Pixel Bot, a New England IPA
that’s 7.6% ABV, but a smooth 11 IBUs. If you don’t know what that
means, it means its not bitter and has a bit of a kick. It’s by
Tin Whiskers Brewing Company in
St. Paul.
Dual Meets:
- It was a men’s-women’s Division III doubleheader in Naperville,
Illinois on Tuesday night as North Central College
picked up a pair of wins over MacMurray College.
On the women’s side, the Cardinals won the first dual meet in
school history with a 27-21 win. Of the seven matches contested,
North Central won six. On the men’s side, North Central used four
forfeits to win comfortably 47-6.
- In Little Rock, Division II Ouachita Baptist
won a pair of duals, first topping host Arkansas
Baptist, an NJCAA school, 40-6, then beating NAIA
Central Baptist 36-17. Arkansas Baptist upended
Central Baptist 24-14. That’s the extent of Tuesday’s scores.
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From the DWN:
- The first
NWCA Division I Coaches Poll of the regular season was released
on Tuesday, with the only real movement happening as a result of
Virginia Tech’s 29-10 win over Missouri. The Hokies jumped up five
spots to No. 11, while Missouri slid four spots from No. 9 to No.
13.
- The NJCAA
rankings came out and Western Wyoming comes in as the No. 1
team to start the year. The Mustangs are followed by NIACC,
Clackamas, Harper and Ellsworth. Expect traditional powers
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and Iowa Central to creep up there as
the season moves on.
-
Johnson & Wales swept the New England Wrestling Association
awards this week as Gabriel McDaniel was named Wrestler of the
Week, while Hayden Brown was Rookie of the Week. Both won titles at
the Ithaca Invitational – McDaniel at 141, Brown at 133. McDaniel
was also named com
Wrestler of the Week as well.
- The Air Force Academy’s
Randy Meneweather was named Co-Big 12 Wrestler of the Week
after winning the Cowboy Open going 5-0 with four falls at 165
pounds in the Elite Division. He shares the award with Fresno
State’s
Jacob Wright, who went 3-0 in duals in San Diego, which is
Spanish … nevermind.
- Virginia Tech’s B.C. “I’m seriously named after a headache
powder” LaPrade was
named ACC Wrestler of the Week. He wrestled at New Kent in
Virginia, which is in my home district, the Bay Rivers. One time, I
was walking into a dual at Tabb High School a few days before the
Virginia Duals. B.C.’s dad comes up to me and goes “Didn’t I meet
you in Fargo?” I said you have to be more specific. He said “It was
at the Turf.” I say again, sir, you have to be more specific. Turf
reference #2 this year.
- Ohio State’s Luke Pletcher and Purdue’s Kendall Coleman were
Big Ten Co-Wrestlers of the Week. Both won the Michigan State
Open. Pletcher’s title included a win over No. 1 Dom Demas of
Oklahoma, while Coleman slayed three ranked foes en route to the
title.
- The Predicament released
Inside The Rivalry, Chapter 7, Part 3, which is never confused
with Leonard Part 6 – although I don’t think we can reference films
like that anymore. Anyway, this feature focuses on Mario Galanakis.
It’s been a pretty good series to read.
- com
has broken down the individual schedule for two-time NCAA
champion Spencer Lee. I mean, this might be the first time I’ve
seen something like this posted, ever.
- Keeping with that Iowa theme, Cody Goodwin of the
Des Moines Register checks in with his Week 1 Redshirt Report.
Cody won last year’s NWMA Journalist of the Year Award. I still
have to send him his mug.
- North Carolina made a coaching move,
adding Jordan Oliver to the staff as a volunteer assistant and
also elevating Tony Ramos to Associate Head Coach. Oliver’s move to
Carolina was confirmed a bit ago, but him joining the staff
officially is news to some.
- Transition Wrestling, an outfit aimed at promoting women’s
college wrestling,
released its weekend recap. I’ll be leaning more on what Gabby
Lord-Klein is doing with Transition Wrestling to keep up with the
women’s scores since I won’t be tracking down things for my
now-retired college wrestling scoreboard. Of note there, Texas
Wesleyan earned its first ever women’s college dual win, defeating
Schreiner 24-14. I’ll do a better job at getting the women’s
scores, in the Shots score section as the season moves on.
- The Times of India, which if you don’t know, produces some
pretty wild stories about what’s going on in Indian wrestling,
features the 2020 medal hopes, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia.
The story goes into the backstory of the Phogats, which was
highlighted in the movie Dangal.
- Five Point Move outlines the
rise of Spencer Woods of the Army’s World Class Athlete Program
as he won his first senior-level gold medal in Greco-Roman in
Sweden over the weekend.
-
Yahoo reports Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will portray Mark Kerr
in an upcoming film. Kerr, known widely as a pioneer in MMA, was a
four-time NCAA qualifier at Syracuse and a 1992 NCAA champion. HBO
did a documentary on Kerr in 2002 called The Smashing Machine. Kerr
was 10th at the 1994 World Championships at 100kg in Istanbul in
men’s freestyle.
- Flo also touched on Willie Saylor leaving the company. It’s on
the FRL podcast feed, which is free, however the link to the show
is part of the Flo Pro, and as I said in a previous show, the show
and newsletter doesn’t link to content behind paywalls. I’m an
equal opportunity denier as well.
On The Network
- Episode 55 of the #PackMentality
Pop-Ins Podcast, the only school-hosted team show on the Mat
Talk Podcast Network gets an NC State recap as well as some insight
from Kellen Devlin, who won The Battle at The Citadel over the
weekend.
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On the Docket for November 6:
- West Virginia Tech from the NAIA will take on
Division II West Liberty as the
Danny Irwin era begins at West Liberty. Tangent
Warning: Hopefully the kids who got left stranded by
whatever the hell Wheeling University, formerly Wheeling Jesuit,
all found homes to compete this year. Irwin led Wheeling Jesuit to
a second place finish at last year’s Division II championship
before the wheels on the bus came falling off and the school
slashed tons of academic and athletic programs – but never
officially announced it. Their wrestling room was left in literal
shambles. Sean Doyle and Danny Irwin and staff had a good thing
going there. There’s something to be said about poor leadership at
a school, with a CC: to our friends down at St. Olaf.
- Fontbonne, a new Division III program in
Missouri, will wrestle its first dual in school history as it heads
north to Lincoln, Neb., to take on Nebraska
Wesleyan. Division II Davenport heads across Michigan to
take on Division III Alma.
- Graceland takes on Central
Methodist in the NAIA school’s first dual in school
history, while down in North Carolina, the Nick Soto era begins at
St. Andrews as the NAIA Knights head to
Belmont Abbey to take on the Division II
Crusaders.
- California: Three duals out west as Chabot
hosts Fresno City, Cerritos hosts
Palomar and Santa Ana will host
Rio Hondo, which is one of two Roadrunners that I
know of in college wrestling. The other is at CSU Bakersfield. Meep
Meep!
I’d love to do more with the NJCAA but the schedule compilation
is just too brutal.
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