Wrestling DIVISION I
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Wrestling DIVISION I Highlights Iowa captures Division I wrestling title in dominating fashion: The Iowa Hawkeyes finished in style, outdistancing the field at the 2010 NCAA Wrestling Championships by 44½ points in winning a third straight national title and 23rd overall since 1975. “It’s a lot more fun and it’s a lot more fun with the gap, the point spread, strings of victories, seniors going out the way they should,” Iowa coach Tom Brands said. “There’s a lot more to be content about as far as feeling good that there was a good job done. There was a good job done over the last three days for sure.” Iowa had five in the finals, crowned a trio of champions - redshirt-freshman Matt McDonough and seniors Brent Metcalf and Jay Borschel - and totaled eight All-Americans in amassing 134½ points. Cornell, led by national champion Kyle Dake at 141, finished a solid second with 90 points. Iowa State (75), Wisconsin (70½), Oklahoma (69) and Oklahoma State (65) rounded out the top six in the three-day tournament, which drew just more than 94,000 fans. The Outstanding Wrestler Award went to Minnesota senior Jayson Ness, a four-time All-American who finished his career with a title at 133 pounds. Ness (30-0) claimed gold with a four-point move in the final 10 seconds to beat Iowa’s Dan Dennis, 6-4. The Gopher, who lost in the 2008 NCAA finals at 125, trailed 4-2 and took an injury timeout right before turning a duck-under into a bear hug that finished with Dennis on his back. “It wasn’t in my mind at all to get back points, but (once) he fell down I was able to get him on his back and it worked out for me,” Ness said. “The Lord helped me out on that one.” The much-anticipated rematch at 149 pounds between Metcalf and Ohio State senior Lance Palmer went in Metcalf’s favor, 3-2. A riding time point earned after an early takedown was the difference. “It feels good, feels like I’m redeeming myself from last year a little bit because this is the national tournament,” said Metcalf, who lost to Palmer in the Big Ten finals and finishes his career as a two-time champion and with a 108-3 career record. Metcalf lost in the 2009 NCAA finals after winning a title in 2008. “You can’t get last year back, but you can feel better about it because you finished it off the way you did.” Borschel finished a perfect 37-0 season with a 6-2 victory over Cornell’s Mack Lewnes in the 174-pound final. Borschel, a four-time state champion from Iowa who entered college with a 163-1 record, built 3:46 of riding time against Lewnes (40-1) and was never challenged. McDonough got the Hawkeyes off to a good start with a 3-1 win over fellow freshman Andrew Long of Iowa State in the 125-pound final. In three previous meetings this season, the two scored a combined 53 points. A second-period takedown by McDonough (37-1) was the difference this time around. Dake, a true freshman who was watching the 2009 NCAA championship from his home in Ithaca, New York, wrestled well beyond his years, giving Cornell the national title at 141 with a solid 7-3 victory over Iowa sophomore Montel Marion. Dake lost just twice in 36 matches this season. Only two wrestlers have won four NCAA titles - Iowa State’s Cael Sanderson and Oklahoma State’s Pat Smith - and Dake got a bit tired of hearing about winning a title as a freshman. “Just because people think it’s such a big deal that I’m a freshman, and it probably is to the common folk,” Dake said. “To me, I’m just another wrestler going out there to wrestle someone else. So it’s not that big a deal to me. I don’t know, it’s just not that huge of a deal for me at least. “I’ve wrestled in big matches my whole life. This was probably the biggest, but I felt like I was just wrestling in another big match.” Iowa State finished off its tournament in style winning both the 197- pound and heavyweight titles. Jake Varner (31-0) capped his career with a tough 5-2 win over Nebraska’s Craig Brester (30-3) in a rematch of the 2009 NCAA final. Varner wrestled in four NCAA finals, was a two-time champ and finished his four years with a 121-10 record. All three of Brester’s losses this season were to the Cyclone. In the final bout of the tournament, Iowa State senior David Zabriskie (26-2) beat Oklahoma State senior Jared Rosholt for the seventh time in 10 career matches between the two. Their final collegiate meeting saw Rosholt lose his balance in the second period and Zabriskie pounce for a takedown. It was the difference in a 3-2 match. The Big Ten and Big 12 also crowned champions at 165 and 184. Wisconsin sophomore Andrew Howe completed a perfect season (37-0) with a 9-3 decision over Penn State’s Dan Vallimont in the 165-pound final. Howe lost in the 2009 final but was never challenged in five matches in Omaha. Missouri senior Max Askren (20-2) joined his brother Ben, a two-time NCAA champ, at the top of the podium with a dominating 10-3 win over top-seeded Kirk Smith of Boise State in the 184-pound final. It was Smith’s first loss in 29 matches this season. Harvard senior J.P. O’Connor picked up his 132nd career win to tie for the top spot in school history with a 6-4 victory over Cal Poly senior Chase Pami in the 157-pound final. Virginia junior 197-pounder Brent Jones earned the Gorrarian Trophy, given to the wrestler with the most pins in the least amount of time in the tournament. Jones had two pins in 1 minute, 33 seconds. 2 DIVISION I WRESTLING—Team Standings 2010 TEAM STANDINGS Langel, Rutgers, def. Christopher Notte, Oklahoma St., 11-6; def. Bailey, 4-3; Scott Clymer, Liberty, def. Adin Duenas, Cal 1. Iowa .....................................................................134½ Fred Santaite, Boston U., def. Nikko Triggas, Ohio St., 8-7; St. Fullerton, 3-2; Michael Mangrum, Oregon St., def. Mike 2. Cornell ......................................................................90 Troy Nickerson, Cornell, def. Allen Bartelli, Boise St., 8-0. Koehnlein, Nebraska, 17-2 (technical fall, 7:00); Michael 3. Iowa St. .....................................................................75 Third round: Escobedo pinned Lomas, 1:46; Pataky def. Mangrum, Oregon St., def. Mike Koehnlein, Nebraska, 17-2 4. Wisconsin ............................................................ 70½ Steintrager, 3-2; Long def. Kjar, 4-0; Robles def. Gravely, 16-0 (technical fall, 7:00); Reece Humphrey, Ohio St., def. Dalton 5. Oklahoma ...............................................................69 (technical fall, 3:15); McDonough def. Zanetta, 10-6; Garnett Jensen, Iowa St., 11-3; Michael Thorn, Minnesota, def. Anwar 6. Oklahoma St. .........................................................65 def. Martinez, 5-2; Quiroga def. Langel, 13-9; Santaite def. Goeres, Binghamton, 14-2; Germane Lindsey, Ohio, def. 7. Minnesota ...............................................................63 Nickerson, 2-1. Quarterfinals: Escobedo def. Pataky, 15-0 Trevor Melde, Rutgers, 14-6; Conor Beebe, Central Mich., def. 8. Ohio St. .....................................................................62 (technical fall, 6:27); Long def. Robles, 5-3; McDonough def. Christopher Diaz, Virginia Tech, 4-0; Montell Marion, Iowa, 9. Penn St. ....................................................................49 Garnett, 9-0; Quiroga def. Santaite, 10-2. Semifinals: Long def. Cole VonOhlen, Air Force, 11-8; Filip Novachkov, Cal 10. Missouri ...................................................................48 def. Escobedo, 7-4; McDonough def. Quiroga, 14-3. Final: Poly, def. Ryan Adams, North Dakota St., 12-4; Tyler Nauman, 11. Boise St. ................................................................ 43½ McDonough def. Long, 3-1. Pittsburgh, def. Cole Schmitt, Wisconsin, 6-2; Derek Valenti, 12. Central Mich. ...................................................... 39½ WRESTLEBACKS Virginia, def. Ivan Lopouchanski, UNC Greensboro, 4-1; Nebraska ............................................................. 39½ First round: Gitomer def. Morrill, 3-1 (sudden victory). Jamal Parks, Oklahoma St., def. Juan Archuleta, Purdue, 7-2. 14. American .................................................................38 Second round: Triggas def. Bartelli, 4-1; Nicholson def. Third round: Dake pinned Nacita, 3:48; Jones def. Krom, 15. Virginia .....................................................................34 Notte, 7-4; Sanders def. Kalil, 11-5; Lara def. Gonzalez, 6-1; Ciasulli def. Clymer, 6-5; Humphrey def. Mangrum, 4-3; 16. Edinboro ..................................................................32 16-5; Gitomer def. Childress, 10-1; Mango pinned Keith, Lindsey def. Thorn, 7-2; Marion def. Beebe, 10-5; Nauman 17. Lehigh ................................................................... 30½ 3:56; Patterson def. Knox, 9-2; Frey def. Young, 5-4. Third def. Novachkov, 6-5; Parks def. Valenti, 3-1. Quarterfinals: 18. Cal Poly .....................................................................30 round: Triggas def. Kjar, 4-0; Nicholson pinned Gravely, 4:19; Dake def. Jones, 11-0; Humphrey def. Ciasulli, 5-3; Marion Michigan St. ...........................................................30 Sanders def. Lomas, 8-5; Lara def. Steintrager, 6-4; Gitomer def. Lindsey, 7-5 (sudden victory); Nauman def. Parks, 5-3. 20. Maryland ............................................................. 29½ def. Langel, 3-2; Nickerson pinned Mango, 3:13; Patterson Semifinals: Dake def. Humphrey, 3-2 (tiebreaker); Marion 21. Binghamton ...........................................................26 def. Zanetta, 5-2; Martinez def.