Big Ten Wrestling - Day Two
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Today's scheduled matches for Rutgers:
133: DelVecchio versus Sabatello - Purdue (rematch of first round)
141: Ashnault vs Abidin - Nebraska
174: Bakuckas vs Snook - Maryland (both lost to Brunson ILL and Martin OSU yesterday)
184: Hrymack vs McCall - Wisconsin
285: Smith vs Jensen - Nebraska
So we have our work cut out for us.
133: DelVecchio versus Sabatello - Purdue (rematch of first round)
141: Ashnault vs Abidin - Nebraska
174: Bakuckas vs Snook - Maryland (both lost to Brunson ILL and Martin OSU yesterday)
184: Hrymack vs McCall - Wisconsin
285: Smith vs Jensen - Nebraska
So we have our work cut out for us.
I wonder what the odds of having two AAs in a single match. Anthony Ashnault and Anthony Abididn.
2-0 Abidin atm.
2-0 Abidin atm.
Ashnault is a better technical wrestler but Abiden is a better scrambler. I can see why Ash beat him in freestyle bc he is much better on his feet then Abiden but once they get to the Mat Abiden is much better. He has to avoid the scrambles to beat him. He needs clean takedowns to win. Harder said then done but only way he wins.
Who did Perrotti wrestle? Delvecchio was 9th as he pinned Sabatello and Backukas beat Snook 11-1.
Iowa/tOSU tie for the title. Good friends Ryan & Brands share the championship.
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Well..definitely coulda been better results...but first year in I feel the guys competed extremely hard!!! 4 automatics and good shot at 2 wildcards!!! I think 2007 we only got 1 qualifier wrestling in EIWA....still a ways to go, but a good start!!! Now let's put a couple on the podium in 2 weeks
AP lost his matches in tiebreakers. Scott should have won his first match, but made up for it later. Theo got hurt. Other than that, what different results were expected? Do you think Smith should have beaten Myers (I think he's lost to him a couple of times now)? Were you expecting some of the other wrestlers to wrestle closer matches or pull an upset like Hayden?
Just curious.
Just curious.
Phila....I wasn't disappointed by the teams performance...not trying to be critical as i think the team competed very hard!! just saying how u always wanna do better...we had a lot of close matches yesterday that didn't go our way....and if we pulled out a couple of those ... that's all I'm saying...
I would be very happy with an AA (That would make 2 years in a row and sets the tone for a trend to continue)
Rutgers had a few wrestlers make the final 12 in the NCAA but until AP broke though last year, no AA during goodale's reign.
I think there are 6 wrestlers in the Big 10 who could make AA at 141. Hopefully AA does not get a 8 or 9 seed in the NCAA (a 6 or 7 seed would be great).
Dweiza (who Ashnault beat) made it to the finals in the Big10)
Can't think of any "Bad" losses that Ash had all year
2 steiber
2 albidin
1 dardanes
Hopefully it alligns with a good seed in the tourney
Rutgers had a few wrestlers make the final 12 in the NCAA but until AP broke though last year, no AA during goodale's reign.
I think there are 6 wrestlers in the Big 10 who could make AA at 141. Hopefully AA does not get a 8 or 9 seed in the NCAA (a 6 or 7 seed would be great).
Dweiza (who Ashnault beat) made it to the finals in the Big10)
Can't think of any "Bad" losses that Ash had all year
2 steiber
2 albidin
1 dardanes
Hopefully it alligns with a good seed in the tourney
Not that I disagree with the great year that Ash had, but I'd put his one "loss I wish we could get back" as the loss to Rodrigues from ILL, who pretty much got his butt kicked in this tourney (pinned by 5-11 Thielke from WIS, Abidin from NEB, and Fisher from MICH).
I'm really surprised at how well Dwieza did, beating Abidin 3-1 and Dardanes 5-1. (Interestingly enough, Rodrigues beat him too earlier this year, plus the obvious Stieber, Dardanes, and Mayes from Missouri.) That's some pretty impressive wrestling, and you know he gave it his all because that finals match wasn't all that good for him, haha. Remember, Dwieza was seconds away from beating Ash, so he's rank-worthy of his #2 finish in the B1G. I just wasn't a big fan of Dwieza's style in any of the matches I watched of his this year.
This post was edited on 3/8 9:29 PM by PhilaPhans
Dziewa wrestled out of his mind this tourney. Not one person unrelated to him could tell you they saw that coming. Dziewa's style is very similar to a lot of Iowa wrestlers - boring. Fact I stole from the Iowa board...they had one TD in 8 finals matches and it was by their HW. In addition, Evans placed 3rd and didn't score a TD the entire tourney. Let that sink in a while.
You may see it if Anthony Abro from Eastern Michigan (197 lbs) and Abe Ayala from Princeton (197 lbs) had to wrestle each other.
