RU/Utah Valley Wrestling Preview

[wngarbarini]

UTV brings a 1-2 record into the meet having defeated Michigan State 30-6 and losing to Rider 20-12 and Illinois 32-6. They have two ranked kids right off the bat with Chasen Tolbert at 125 being #12 in the country and Jade Rauser at # 18. Rauser beat Giraldo last year and lost to DelVecchio last year. We wrestle them after we wrestle Oregon State. We get a 2 hour break between meets so that is a little bit of a plus. We should be favored but they will not go down easily as they have a heavily laden senior team.
Projected matchups:

125 MCabe vs Chasen Tolbert
132 Giraldo vs Jade Rauser
141 Ashnault vs Jarod maynes
149 Dippery vs Brayden Humphreys
157 Lewis vs Raider Lofthouse (great name eh?)
165 Perrotti vs Kieffer Taylor
174 Backukas vs Ross Taylor (brothers?)
184 Gravina vs Will Sumner
197 Hrymack vs Derek Thomas
285 Smith vs Dustin Dennison

 

[WhichReligionIsRight]

Beating Michigan State got my attention.

 

[Jaroslav Hasek]

Beating Michigan State got my attention.

Michigan State is pretty terrible this year.

Utah Valley should be a fun match though. I think Rutgers could win at least 7 matches. McCabe is the only major underdog.

 

[obrats]

MSU scored -1 at last years NCAA tournament.

 

[Passe24]

MSU gets a lot of heat from flo and intermit about how down they are and no sign of a turnaround. They been screaming for a coaching change for years.