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tough together Tim Lambert 125 pounds 2014 NCAA Qualifier Year in Review Huskers.com nebraska 69 wrestling 2014-15 Media Guide tough together Green, Kokesh Repeat as All-Americans for Huskers in 2013-14 Juniors James Green (157) and Robert Kokesh (174) each collected 2013-14 Results (12-2, 6-2 Big Ten) All-America honors for the second consecutive season to lead Nebraska Date Opponent NU Rank Opp Rank Result to an 11th-place finish at the 2014 NCAA Championships. The Huskers Nov. 3 Daktronics Open# - - No Team Score earned 43.5 points at the national tournament at Chesapeake Energy Arena Nov. 17 Northwestern 13 19 W, 25-16 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Nov. 24 South Dakota State 11 - W, 36-6 Green picked up his third All-America accolade by taking third place at 157 pounds. He breezed through the first two rounds with major decisions Stanford Duals before being pinned by No. 9 seed Dylan Ness of Minnesota. Green Nov. 30 Utah Valley$ 10 - W, 36-6 responded in the consolation bracket by reeling off four consecutive bonus- Nov. 30 Stanford$ 10 18 W, 28-12 point victories. He finished the 2013-14 campaign with a 35-2 record. Nov. 30 Bakersfield$ 10 - W, 42-0 Kokesh also opened his appearance with a pair of major decisions before a heartbreaker in the quarterfinals to sixth-seeded Logan Storley of Dec. 6-7 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational* 9 - 2nd, 130.5 pts. Minnesota, 6-4. In the consolation bracket, Kokesh defeated Illinois’ Tony Dec. 22 Reno Tournament of Champions^ 8 - 1st, 159 pts. Dallago, 8-2, but suffered a torn ACL in the match. Kokesh won two more Jan. 3 Wyoming 8 - W, 26-12 matches before falling to Storley again in the third-place match by a 3-1 Jan. 10 Indiana 8 - W, 30-10 Jan. 11 Penn 8 - W, 30-9 margin in tiebreaker 1. Kokesh earned his second All-America honor and Jan. 18 Iowa 8 3 L, 9-22 finished the season with a 37-3 mark. Jan. 24 Ohio State 10 11 W, 28-12 Five additional Huskers qualified for the NCAA Championships, but Jan. 26 Purdue 10 21 W, 28-9 fell short of All-America status. Junior Jake Sueflohn went 2-2 at the Feb. 1 Illinois 8 17 W, 22-13 tournament at 149 pounds to finish the season 31-6. He made his third Feb. 7 Michigan 7 11 L, 16-17 NCAA Championships appearance. Feb. 21 Wisconsin 8 15 W, 22-15 Sophomore 165-pounder Austin Wilson made his second showing at the March 8-9 Big Ten Championships@ 8 - 5th, 79 pts. NCAA Championships, going 1-2. His consolation win over Missouri’s Zach March 20-22 NCAA Championships% 8 - 11th, 43.5 pts. Toal was bookended by losses to top-10 seeded opponents. A trio of redshirt freshmen qualified for the NCAA Championships: Home matches in Bold. #-Brookings, S.D., $-Stanford, Calif., *-Las Vegas, Tim Lambert (125), TJ Dudley (184) and Collin Jensen (HWT). Lambert Nev., ^-Reno, Nev., @-Madison, Wis., %-Oklahoma City, Okla. managed a 2-2 record in his first NCAA appearance. Dudley opened with a major decision before suffering back-to-back losses. Jensen fell in both of his matches in Oklahoma City. During the dual season, Nebraska compiled a 12-2 record, going 6-2 in the Big Ten. The Huskers were one win shy of a three-way tie for first in the conference. The two losses on the season tied the fewest by Nebraska in a season under Head Coach Mark Manning, who completed his 14th year. The Huskers opened 2013-14 at the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open on Nov. 3 in Brookings, S.D. Kokesh, Green and Jensen each captured titles to lead the way for Nebraska, while Lambert, Sueflohn and Anthony Abidin (141) took second place in their respective weight classes. On Nov. 17, Nebraska competed in its first dual of the season, hosting No. 19 Northwestern at the newly renovated Bob Devaney Sports Center after years of competing at the NU Coliseum. True freshman Colton McCrystal (133) won a 7-6 overtime decision in his first appearance in the NU lineup. Five additional Huskers posted victories, including Dudley, who pinned the Wildcats’ Jacob Berkowitz in 3:42. Despite losing the final two bouts of the dual, Nebraska posted a 25-16 triumph over Northwestern. The following weekend, Manning picked up his 200th career victory in his home state when the Huskers cruised to a 36-6 win over South Dakota State in Brookings. Fellow South Dakota natives Kokesh and Jensen each earned pins for Nebraska as nine Huskers posted victories. The Huskers swept the Stanford Duals on Nov. 30 in Stanford, Calif., defeating Utah Valley, No. 18 Stanford and Bakersfield by a combined score of 106-18. In the opening dual, the Huskers split the first four matches against Utah Valley before adding bonus points in five of the last six matches for a 36-6 victory. Nebraska also faced a tie after four matches against the Cardinal, but Sueflohn and Green notched major decisions and Kokesh earned a technical fall to help NU take down Stanford, 28-12. Abidin added a pin at 141 pounds. Against Bakersfield, Kokesh and Dudley’s pins led the way for seven Huskers who won by bonus points in a 42-0 shutout of the Roadrunners. After completing November with a perfect 5-0 dual record, the Huskers spent December at a pair of tournaments in Nevada. At the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, Dec. 6-7, Green won the 157-pound title to lead the Huskers to a runner-up finish. Kokesh, Abidin, Sueflohn and Dudley each Junior James Green earned his best NCAA finish in three seasons at Nebraska, advanced to the finals before ultimately falling. For Kokesh, the loss against collecting a third-place finish in 2014. Green took seventh at nationals as a top-ranked Andrew Howe of Oklahoma marked his first of the season after freshman and sophomore. a 14-0 start. Huskers.com nebraska 70 wrestling 2014-15 Media Guide tough together Illini rally. Caleb Kolb (197) and Lambert each battled to extra time in their respective matches before falling. Nebraska returned home for its Feb. 7 Senior Night dual against No. 11 Michigan in front of 2,667 fans at the Devaney Center. Seniors Kolb, Nagel and Adam Joseph were honored before the match. The Huskers and Wolverines split the 10 matches, but Michigan edged NU on technical points, 56-52, to end Nebraska’s chance at a share of the Big Ten regular- season title. Sueflohn, Green and Kokesh helped the Huskers cut the lead to 12-10 after NU dropped the first three bouts. Dudley managed a sudden victory over then-16 Dominic Abounader and Kolb won a 5-4 decision over Chris Heald to give Nebraska a four-point lead before falling at heavyweight. Two weeks later, the Huskers bounced back by knocking off No. 15 Wisconsin, 22-15, in Madison, Wis., in the final dual of the season. Nagel earned a pin to lead five Huskers who posted victories against the Badgers. Sueflohn, Wilson, Kokesh and Dudley also helped propel Nebraska to victory. At 157 pounds, Green suffered his first loss of the season after a 26-0 start. Seventh-ranked Isaac Jordan won in sudden victory 2 over the Tim Lambert went 24-13 and qualified for the NCAA Championships during his top-ranked Husker. first season in the Nebraska lineup at 125 pounds. Green responded at the Big Ten Championships, March 8-9, by taking Kokesh came back two weeks later, along with Green and Sueflohn, to home the title with another win over St. John in the finals. Kokesh also capture weight class titles at the Reno Tournament of Champions on Dec. claimed a conference crown with his victory over Evans as the pair became 22. Nebraska won the tournament with 159 points. Lambert and Wilson the first Huskers to ever win Big Ten titles since NU joined the conference in added second-place finishes at 125 and 165 pounds, respectively. 2011. Kokesh’s victory marked the 100th of his career. The Huskers opened the 2014 slate by hosting four duals, the first of Sueflohn advanced to the finals at 149 pounds, but fell by decision to which came against Wyoming on Jan. 3. Nebraska trailed the Cowboys Northwestern’s Jason Tsirtsis in the title match. Lambert finished fifth at 125 12-9 after five matches before reeling off five consecutive wins to close out pounds, while Wilson took sixth at 165 pounds. The Huskers finished fifth the dual with a 26-12 victory. Ranked wrestlers Sueflohn, Green, Wilson, as a team with 79 points. Kokesh and Dudley earned victories during the closing run. Jensen and Colton McCrystal won in the second and fourth matches, respectively. The following weekend, Indiana and Penn came to Lincoln, but the Huskers won both duals to improve to 8-0 on the season. McCrystal and Dudley each earned pins against the Hoosiers in a 30-10 rout on Jan. 10. Sueflohn, Green, Kokesh and Spencer Johnson (197) won decisions, while Lambert notched a forfeit victory. On Jan. 11, Nebraska topped Penn, 30-9, in front of 2,746 fans in the first-ever “Tumble N Rumble” event, which occurred simultaneously with the women’s gymnastics meet against Northern Illinois. After dropping the first match, Jensen, Lambert and Shawn Nagel (133) produced victories in the next three to build a 10-3 advantage.