No. 15 Rutgers Wrestling Hosts Rider (Thursday), No. 6 Ohio State (Sunday) Match Thread

[SCNJ]

Why are those 3 starters sitting out for Ohio State?

 

[ecojew]

So it's at the midway break? Could someone please list the first five matches with who won and lost? There is nothing about this meet on scarletknights.com, which is still showing the victory over Rider.

Thanks from Tucson.

 

[RUTrack94]

Awesome job seeing the team we was told to their potential! Win or lose, want RU to wrestle tough and to the best of their ability. If they lose, make OSU work for it.

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

So it's at the midway break? Could someone please list the first five matches with who won and lost? There is nothing about this meet on scarletknights.com, which is still showing the victory over Rider.

Thanks from Tucson.

Being reported on the wrestling twitter site

 

[SCNJ]

So it's at the midway break? Could someone please list the first five matches with who won and lost? There is nothing about this meet on scarletknights.com, which is still showing the victory over Rider.

Thanks from Tucson.

Shawver lost by deicison
Olivier won by major
Rivera won by major
MVB lost by decision
Kannaird won by decision

11-6 at break with Rutgers favored in 2 of the next 5 matchups

 

[MS-RU]

Why are those 3 starters sitting out for Ohio State?

No idea but they didn’t wrestle against PSU either so it’s not like they are just sitting today. The biggest impact will be with Kharchla as he is a stud and has big bonus point potential especially against Clark.

Hubbard would have still been a tossup with Kanniard and Romero vs. Poz would have been great match to see. Plus they have Rocky Jordan at 184 so it’s not like he’s a scrub/pushover.

 

[RUTrack94]

125 … close 5-3 loss to 10th ranked wrestler
133 … 10-2 MD win
141 … 20-6 MD win
149 … close 6-3 loss to 2nd ranked wrestler
157 … 6-4 decision win
Excellent showing so far!!!!

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

I thought their heavy looked clumsy and off-balance against Kerkvliet. I give Boone a chance.

 

[Clearscreen25]

Nice win by Clark 6-3!

 

[RUTrack94]

Clark wins the toss up 6-3 … great match and up 14-6 with 4 to go!!!!!

 

[MS-RU]

Wow, great win by Clark! RU up 14-6

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

Good for Clark. A long time coming but he'll get a lift from that one.

 

[RUTrack94]

Need to hold to a MD … opponent is an AA ranked 7th … might be TF … could go either way

 

[MS-RU]

O’Neill keeping this to a MD would be huge.

 

[RUTrack94]

As good as a win keeping to a MD!

 

[MS-RU]

Poz does not look very good. Very low energy.

 

[RUTrack94]

Ugh … first bad result of the match as Poz is upset 4-3 on a locked hands call.

 

[SCNJ]

Man what is going on with Poz lately

 

[SCNJ]

Ugh … first bad result of the match as Poz is upset 4-3 on a locked hands call.

Jordan locked too but not called, unfortunately we couldn’t challenge because Goodale threw the brick earlier on something that shouldn’t have been challenged

 

[SCNJ]

This is a repeat of Michigan State. In the drivers seat and our two hammers up top let it slip away.

 

[ecojew]

What is the score and which weight classes remain?

Thanks.

 

[MS-RU]

Once again massive letdowns by Poz and Bulsak in big situations to essentially give away another dual. This can’t happen twice especially against two unranked opponents. That was absolutely awful.

 

[SCNJ]

Absolutely embarrassing from the upper weights again. Can’t believe they just blew this dual.

 

[KidDagger]

Ugh forget about beating Romero.. Poz loses to the backup…he’s not wrestling at the same lvl as last year rn… :/

 

[Luvscarletknights]

Amazing.. .Just like MSU match. Both Poz and Bulsak lose back to back as favorites.

 

[KidDagger]

Once again massive letdowns by Poz and Bulsak in big situations to essentially give away another dual. This can’t happen twice especially against two unranked opponents. That was absolutely awful.

Have a bad feeling both won’t AA this year… too inconsistent..no killer mentality… might get upset at any point in the brackets rn…

 

[RUTrack94]

Damn it … can’t have your two hammers go 0-2 … was a great start, crappy result … thought with 3 starters out that they would cross OSU off the bucket list. Oh well, give credit to OSU. Maybe next year.

 

[MS-RU]

Damn it … can’t have your two hammers go 0-2 … was a great start, crappy result … thought with 3 starters out that they would cross OSU off the bucket list. Oh well, give credit to OSU. Maybe next year.

0% chance. OSU will be a top 5 team next year with their recruiting (3 of the top 5 P4P in the country) and guys like Paddy Gallagher who are redshirting and were top 3 P4P guys coming into the lineup. They don’t lose anyone either.

 

[MS-RU]

What a massive choke job.

No other way to describe it. Some guys just can’t handle the pressure and it shows. Once is a fluke, twice is a pattern.

 

[KidDagger]

Damn it … can’t have your two hammers go 0-2 … was a great start, crappy result … thought with 3 starters out that they would cross OSU off the bucket list. Oh well, give credit to OSU. Maybe next year.

Nah no chance… this was our only chance to beat them anytime soon and we blew it arg!!

 

[ScottRU93]

Very depressing and deflating loss. At point wondering if we need some changes.

yeah, yeah everyone will say how great the coaches are and we are progressing. I’m not seeing it. Not to move into the upper echelon of B10.

this and Michigan st losses are inexcusable

 

[RUTrack94]

It’s OSU … teams like that and PSU will always find a way. Still won 4 bouts and the loss looks good on paper when looking back. Sucks that wrestling in B1G feels like the Big East with Miami, VT, WVU in football … automatic losses.

 

[RobotHunter]

Feel bad for the team. They all stepped up and took care of business and were let down again by Poz and Bulsak, just like against Mich St.

 

[ScottRU93]

It’s OSU … teams like that and PSU will always find a way. Still won 4 bouts and the loss looks good on paper when looking back. Sucks that wrestling in B1G feels like the Big East with Miami, VT, WVU in football … automatic losses.

Nope not this time. That excuse doesn’t fly today and that kind of mentality is a loser mentality like we will or can never beat them. Plays right into the narrative.
You could argue on paper we were favored today.

we choked again at 84 and 97. Why? That’s 2x now.

 

[Luvscarletknights]

Feel bad for the team. They all stepped up and took care of business and were let down again by Poz and Bulsak, just like against Mich St.

Totally agree. They stepped up to put us in the position to win.

 

[bigmatt718]

Total choke job. Poz and Bulsak better buy the team dinner after pissing away their 2nd dual in the last month. We should've beaten MSU and OSU.

 

[nukem]

Very depressing and deflating loss. At point wondering if we need some changes.

yeah, yeah everyone will say how great the coaches are and we are progressing. I’m not seeing it. Not to move into the upper echelon of B10.

this and Michigan st losses are inexcusable

There is a ceiling with this program with the way it's currently constituted. Goodale has done a great job getting this program to the point where it is at. But the chances of climbing much higher is very slim with this staff. Maybe that is ok for Rutgers. I don't know what their aspirations are as a program and for the athletic department.

And this was a massive choke job to not win this match with the way the first 7 bouts went. OSU was ripe for the picking with some of their top guys out.

 

[RUTrack94]

Feel bad for the team. They all stepped up and took care of business and were let down again by Poz and Bulsak, just like against Mich St.

It’s easier to stomach if OSU won with all their starters, but today 3 sat out. The team is still top 20. B1G just too tough with Iowa, PSU and OSU. They are elite. In a great year, RU will be 5th or 6th. Last year winless and this year bottom half.

 

[bigmatt718]

Very depressing and deflating loss. At point wondering if we need some changes.

yeah, yeah everyone will say how great the coaches are and we are progressing. I’m not seeing it. Not to move into the upper echelon of B10.

this and Michigan st losses are inexcusable

Agreed. I'm starting to question how high this team can go as constructed. Are we happy being just a good team every year or do we want to jump into the territory of elite or even on the cusp of elite?

 

[RUJMM78]

There is a clear seperation between the elite wrestling programs in the Big Ten and every other league team.It comes down to recruiting and player development.