Div I Championships on the Tube

[Bob H.]

For those who haven't watched and are wondering about possible replays during the day, COVID has caused a change in the wrestling sessions.  They wrestle the first five weights, then take a break and clean the mats before wrestling the last five weights.  That's why ESPN broadcasts wrestling for two hours, takes a one hour break and then broadcasts wrestling for two hours (at least for the two rounds wrestled today).

[RYou]

I was wondering why ESPNU went off the air at 157. I went to the Rutgers twitter feed to find out it was restarting at 2.

Penn State pulled 7 bouts with bonus points.  Lost at 165 and squeezed in an upset over OHSU at 125, 4 TFs and 3 Ms.

[mspart]

I was wondering why ESPNU went off the air at 157. I went to the Rutgers twitter feed to find out it was restarting at 2.

Penn State pulled 7 bouts with bonus points.  Lost at 165 and squeezed in an upset over OHSU at 125, 4 TFs and 3 Ms.

Iowa won all 10 bouts the first round with 4 TFs and 3 M's also. 

Mizzou in third won 7 of 10, with 2 falls and 3 Ms. 

1       Iowa, IA (GET)   IOWA   10   19.0
2       Penn State, PA (GET)   PSU   9   17.0
3       Missouri, MO (GET)   MIZZ   10   14.0

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[mspart]

Second Round

125  All four top seeds won, Lee of Iowa 15-5.    All 8 top seeds won except #8 lost to #9. 

133  Fix pinned his guy and Desanto won with a pin also.  Only through half the bracket so far. 

Getting all this from the brackets, not watching it.

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[mspart]

Second Round

All 133 top 8 seeds won except for for #7 Bird of Illinois.  He was beat out by #10 Hayes of UVA

At 141 Eierman wins 5-3 against #16 Matthews of PITT.   It might be a tough tourney for him if he is having troubles so early on. 

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[mspart]

Second Round

141 is mixing it up a bit. 

#21 Woods of Stanford wins his first two matches and is in the quarters.  That would be an upset I'm thinking.  He just beat #5 Demas of OU. 
#9 Simon of CMU is in the quarters after beating #8 Red of NEB in the second round.
#7 Parker of ISU lost in the first round  to  #26 Valdivies of NW.
#10 Sherman of UNC just beat #26 Valdivies of NW
#2 Nick Lee picked up a Tech Fall and a Major

So the winners bracket is a good mix of folks. 

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[RYou]

Lewallen OSU lucks out with a clock failure.  Campbell gets screwed out an upset.  No way they should have replayed the final 7 secs.

[mspart]

Second Round

And that Boo match was a three round overtime match.  So he's still in. 

#1 Sasso def #17 Park 11-10
#25 Thomas def  #9 Lamer 10-4
#12 Murin def  #5 Lovett 5-3
#4 Lewallin def #20 Heil 7-6 in triple OT
#3 Mauller def #14 Blockhus  4-2
#6 Andonian def #11 Storr 10-7
#7 Milner def #23 Lara 9-8
#2 O'Connor def #15 Parriot  8-3

So #25 and #12 in the quarters is pretty cool.  But there were some really close matches here with big differences in seed including Sasso, Boo, Mauller, and Milner. 

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[RYou]

157 #12 Penn State over #5 Iowa 3-2

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Second Round - 157

#1 Deakin def #17 Vandermeere 4-2
#12 Berge def #5 Young 3-2
#4 Dellavechia def #13 Willits 4-2
#3 Carr def #14 Lewan  10-2
#6 Lee def #11 Teemer 4-3
#2 Hidlay def #18 DeVos 20-3
#8 Franek def #9 Coleman Injury default at 6:30.
#23 Wright def # 26 Lovett  2-1 OT

#23 Wright of WY has done really well, with a very tough second round match.  #12 Berge is also in the Quarters. 

I think we are at the break for mat cleaning.   They probably should have been doing this all along. 

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[mspart]

Second Round - 165

All top 8 seeds  move to Quarters.

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[mspart]

Second Round - 174

All top  8 seeds made it to Quarters except #5 Massa who fell to #12 Truax in OT 3-1. 

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[n9531l]

Lewallen OSU lucks out with a clock failure.  Campbell gets screwed out an upset.  No way they should have replayed the final 7 secs.

If I were ruling that match, I would give Boo the loss. The only excuse for doing those 7 seconds over is that it's what the rule book says to do in case of a clock failure, according to the rules official who gave an explanation after the match. But I have to give Boo some credit for getting a 6-second takedown after getting his second chance. I don't blame the Campbell coaches for being pissed.

[RYou]

Is the Flo acquisition of Track Wrestling blocking it from running the live time scoring it has maintained in the past?

[ViseGrip]

Not a big year for upsets so far.