UM wrestling puts 5 in NCAA semis

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Michigan is in third place going into the semis tonight behind OSU and Penn St. Airing at 8pm on espn if you want a break from basketball. Micic 133#, Pantaleo157# , M Amine 174#, Abounader 184#, Cooooooon 285 Hvwt.

Alton

March 16th, 2018 at 2:23 PM ^

6:  Ohio State

5:  Michigan, Penn State

4:  (none)

3:  NC State, Virginia Tech

2:  Cornell, Iowa, Missouri

1:  Arizona State, Duke, Illinois, Kent, Lehigh, Lock Haven, North Carolina, Oregon State, Princeton, Rutgers, South Dakota State, Wyoming

That's exactly 20 out of the 40 semifinalists from the Big Ten, if you count Rutgers as part of the Big Ten.

The Claw

March 16th, 2018 at 10:52 PM ^

Pantaleo got threw to his back whil leaning in too much when leading 2-1.  Was done after that.  He can come back for 3rd without a doubt. Was wrestling great,  Just got caught.

Amine comes close and loses 7-5. Ref was a jackass and gave Amine 2 stalling calls.  Amine had 2 TDs. Pathetic reffing. Should have went to OT

Abounader takes the loss. Was never in it. 6-3.

Coon takes it 4-2.

 

HWT will be epic tomorrow. Coon Synder III.  Can Coon get it done again?  Hail yes! Go Blue!

 

Michigan sits in 4th overall. Iowa jumped them with consi wins.  The 3 guys that lost will need to win tomorrow to hold off NC STate and hopefully jump Iowa.  About 10 points back. And 6 ahead.

 

 

 

Alton

March 16th, 2018 at 2:43 PM ^

Michigan's semifinal matchups:

133: #2 Stevan Micic (25-2) v #3 Luke Pletcher, Ohio St (29-2)
157: #5 Alec Pantaleo (20-5) v #1 Hayden Hidlay, NC St (25-0)
174: #5 Myles Amine (24-6) v #1 Zahid Valencia, Arizona St (30-0)
184: #5 Domenic Abounader (26-5) v #1 Bo Nickal, Penn St (29-0)
285: #2 Adam Coon (28-1) v #6 Amar Dhesi, Oregon St (23-2)

Note that 3 of our 5 semifinalists are 5-seeds up against undefeated #1 seeds.  Any more than 2 finalists would require a huge upset win by a Michigan wrestler.

Blarvey

March 16th, 2018 at 3:27 PM ^

Good point - winning any of the three matchups against 1 seed undefeated wrestlers would be huge. 184 would be the biggest since it would take points from PSU. Of course, Bo Nickal is probably about as good as it gets in college wrestling. He beat Gabe Dean last year and nearly won the year before.

Amine would probably be my bet if there is an upset.

Alton

March 16th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^

1. Ohio State-80.5
2. Penn State-67
3. Michigan-59.5
4. Iowa-50.5
5. NC State-44
6. Missouri-41
7. Virginia Tech-35.5
8. Cornell-30
9. Rutgers-28.5
10. Arizona State-23
 
Semifinal winners get a minimum of 7 points, with the possibility of up to 2 bonus points for major decisions and falls.

The Claw

March 16th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^

At the Big Ten tournament during the 3-4th place match, Beazley the 197 lber and an AA last year had his arm wrenched by the Indiana wreslter, whom he decked earlier in the tournament.  Beazley definitely would have won matches and been in the fight for a second AA finish. 

This is the second year in a row that a UM wrestler was hurt at the Big Ten tourney and had to sit out the National tournament.  Last was Murphy, who was also a previous AA and would have been seeded in the top 8.

Unfortunately, Logan Massa did not repeat as an AA today.  Last year he was third.  This year he was hurt, his knee, and maybe came back too early and was getting beat.  But was rounding in to much better form.  But got beat for the third ime this year by Wick of Wisconsin whose a long wrestler that uses the legs. Massa was down a riding point and had to go for it but gave up a TD with about 15s to to get beat.  In consolations, he had to face the 8th seed and a returnign AA from OSU.  He was down early but can back to tie it and force overtime.  BUt got hit by a slide by.  Bad luck for Logan.  He'll never use the knee as an excuse but he wasn't the same after that.  Hopefully he'll be back 100% next year and return to form. Such a great wrestler.