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ISU in 3rd, five advance in championship bracket
By Chad Purcell -- Omaha World Herald
Date Posted: 2010-03-18
Iowa State's two top seeds on Thursday each did what they wanted to do.
Both 197-pounder Jake Varner and heavyweight David Zabriskie took care of business on Thursday during day one of the NCAA wrestling championships at Qwest Center Omaha.
Varner turned in a pair of convincing wins to improve to 28-0. The senior is trying to defend his 2009 title and become only the 13th wrestler in NCAA Division I history to make the finals four times.
Zabriskie, the country's No. 2-ranked heavyweight, also won twice to move closer to his first national championship. The two-time All-America wrestler finished sixth as a sophomore and fifth as a junior.
"It would be fantastic," Zabriskie said of winning his first title. "It's been my goal. I fell a tiny bit short in 2009, so this is my senior year -- it's all I have left."
In all, five of the Cyclones' six seeded wrestlers went 2-0 Thursday. In addition to Varner and Zabriskie, No. 5 Andrew Long, 10th-seeded Nick Fanthorpe and No. 7 Mitch Mueller all won two matches.
Long, a 125-pound redshirt freshman out of Creston, Iowa, beat Stanford's Ryan Mango 8-2 before working out a hard-fought 4-0 decision over Utah Valley's Benjamin Kjar.
"In the first period, he tried to keep me away and slow down the match," Long said of Kjar. "He didn't want me to get into my offense at all. But I beat him into the tie-ups. So I was never worried about getting takedowns, because I was winning all the tie-ups."
As a team, however, the second-ranked Cyclones opened the tournament with an up-and-down showing during the early session. ISU -- which advanced wrestlers in all 10 weight classes for a fourth straight year -- went just 5-5 Thursday morning.
Three of those losses were decided by a single point, including an unexpected defeat for fourth-ranked and No. 4-seeded Jon Reader. The two-time All-America junior lost his 165-pound opener by a 5-4 score to Old Dominion's Chris Brown on a late takedown.
Reader bounced back to defeat Navy's Robby Neill, and Iowa State came back to take 9 of 10 matches during the second session Thursday night.
"At this time of year, you have to take a win any way you can get it," said Cyclones coach Kevin Jackson. "We'd definitely want to see a little stronger, more dominating performance in those wins -- but for those guys who lost those first-round matches, for them to come back and shrug off those losses was big.
"For us to go 9-1 this evening was important. We'd much rather go 10-0, but we've got nine guys alive, and we'll take it."
The only Iowa State wrestler eliminated Thursday was Andrew Sorenson, an unseeded sophomore at 157.
Other Cyclones who stayed alive after two sessions were former Missouri Valley, Iowa, standout Dalton Jensen at 141, Duke Burk at 174 and 184-pounder Jerome Ward.
With 24 points, the Cyclones sit in third place -- 10 1/2 points behind first-day leader Iowa and two points behind Oklahoma State.
"We've got nine still alive, and tomorrow's a big day," Jackson said. "I think tomorrow's when the tournament's going to be decided. So we have some work to do, and we've got to wrestle a little better. That Jon Reader loss hurt us a lot. We'd feel a lot better if he was on the front side, but he's got to come back on the back end and score some points for us."
Session II Results
Championship Round of 16
Iowa State
125 pounds: No. 5 Andrew Long (ISU) dec. No. 12 Ben Kjar (Utah Valley), 3-0
Next up: Long vs. No. 4 Anthony Robles (Arizona State)
133 pounds: No. 10 Nick Fanthorpe (ISU) dec. No. 7 Mike Grey (Cornell), 5-2
Next up: Fanthorpe vs. No. 2 Daniel Dennis (Iowa)
149 pounds: No. 7 Mitch Mueller dec. Anthony D’Alie (Central Michigan), 8-4
Next up: Mueller vs. No. 2 Brent Metcalf (Iowa)
197 pounds: No. 1 Jake Varner (ISU) major dec. Riley Orozco (Cal State Bakersfield), 10-1
Next up: Varner vs. No. 8 Sonny Yohn (Minnesota)
HWT: No. 1 David Zabriskie (ISU) dec. Eric Nye (Arizona State), 4-2
Next up: Zabriskie vs. No. 9 Mark Ellis (Missouri)
Consolation Round
141 pounds: Dalton Jensen (ISU) dec. Mike Kohnlein (Nebraska), 9-4
Next up: No. 7 Filip Novachkov (Cal Poly)
157 pounds: Joseph Booth (Drexel) major dec. Andrew Sorenson (ISU), 13-1
165 pounds: No. 4 Jon Reader major dec. Robbie Neill (Navy), 12-1
Next up: Reader vs. No. 10 Alex Meade (Oklahoma State)
174 pounds: Duke Burk (ISU) dec. Robert Hamlin (Lehigh), 7-3
Next up: Burk vs. Dorian Henderson (Missouri)
184 pounds: Jerome Ward (ISU) dec. Nathan Schiedel (Binghamton), 3-1
Next up: Ward vs. No. 11 Dave Erwin (Penn State)
Iowa
125 pounds: No. 3 Matt McDonough (Iowa) dec. Anthony Zanetta (Pitt), 10-6
Next up: McDonough vs. Jarrod Garnett (VA Tech)
133 pounds: No. 2 Daniel Dennis (Iowa) dec. Kelly Kubec (Oregon State), 4-0
Next up: Dennis vs. No. 10 Fanthorpe (ISU)
141 pounds: No. 6 Montell Marion (Iowa) dec. Conor Beebe (Central Michigan), 10-5
Next up: Marion vs. Germane Lindsey (Ohio)
149 pounds: No. 2 Brent Metcalf (Iowa) major dec. Kyle Borshoff (American), 20-7
Next up: Metcalf vs. No. 7 Mueller (ISU)
157 pounds: No. 1 J.P. O’Connor (Harvard) dec. Jake Kerr (Iowa), 8-1
Next up: Kerr vs. No. 11 Robert Erisman (Oklahoma State) in consolations
165 pounds: No. 7 Ryan Morningstar (Iowa) dec. Alex Meade (Oklahoma State), 3-1
Next up: Morningstar vs. No. 2 Jarrod King (Edinboro)
174 pounds: No. 2 Jay Borschel (Iowa) major dec. Daniel Rinaldi (Rutgers), 10-0
Next up: Borschel vs. No. 10 Jordan Blanton (Illinois)
184 pounds: No. 9 Phil Keddy (Iowa) dec. No. 8 Louis Caputo (Harvard), 8-2
Next up: Keddy vs. No. 1 Kirk Smith (Boise State)
HWT: Dan Erekson (Iowa) pinned Scott Stelle (Navy), 2:37
Next up: Erekson vs. No. 4 Konrad Dudziak (Duke)
Consolations
197 pounds: No. 9 Chad Beatty (Iowa) dec. Dennis Drury (North Carolina), 5-4
Next up: Beatty vs. Joseph Kennedy (Lehigh)
Northern Iowa
174 pounds: Jarion Beets (UNI) dec. Justin Zeeri (Michigan), 8-6
Next up: Beets vs. No. 4 Stephen Dwyer (Nebraska)
Consolations
149 pounds: Trent Washington (UNI) dec. James Fleming (Clarion), 8-3
Next up: Washington vs. Eric Albright (Pittsburgh)
157 pounds: Tyson Reiner (UNI) dec. Bryan Deutsch (Northern Illinois), 7-4
Next up: Reiner vs. No. 10 Shane Vernon (Oklahoma)
HWT: Christian Brantley (UNI) dec. Dustin Porter (Gardner-Webb),
Next up: Brantley vs. No. 12 Scott Steele (Navy)
Session I Results
Championship Round of 32
Iowa State
125 pounds: Long dec. Ryan Mango (Stanford), 8-2
133 pounds: Fanthorpe (ISU) major dec. Cortlandt Choate (Brown), 14-3
141 pounds: No. 4 Reece Humphrey (Ohio State) major dec. Jensen (ISU), 11-3
149 pounds: Mueller (ISU) dec. Frank Gayeski (Liberty), 11-2
157 pounds: Anthony Jones (Michigan State) dec. Sorenson (ISU), 8-4
165 pounds: Chris Brown (Old Dominion) dec. Reader (ISU), 5-4
174 pounds: No. 10 Jordan Blanton (Illinois) dec. Burk (ISU) , 4-3
184 pounds: No. 1 Kirk Smith (Boise State) dec. Ward (ISU), 4-3
197 pounds: Varner (ISU) major dec. Matt Casperson (Boise State), 17-3
HWT: Zabriskie (ISU) dec. Eric Bugenhagen (Wisconsin), 6-2
Iowa
125 pounds: McDonough (Iowa) tech. fall Jason Lara (Oregon State), 15-0 in 6:31
133 pounds: Dennis (Iowa) dec. Kevin Smith (Buffalo), 6-2
141 pounds: Marion (Iowa) dec. Cole VonOhlen (Air Force), 11-8
149 pounds: Metcalf (Iowa) maj. dec. Trenton Washington (Northern Iowa), 15-6
157 pounds: Jake Kerr (Iowa) dec. Tejovan Edwards (Arizona State), 8-7
165 pounds: Morningstar (Iowa) dec. Donald Jones (West Virginia), 4-2 SV
174 pounds: Borschel (Iowa) dec. Scott Giffin (Pennsylvania), 6-1
184 pounds: Keddy (Iowa) maj. dec. Michael Salopek (Virginia), 11-3
197 pounds: Alan Gelogaev (Oklahoma State) dec. Beatty (Iowa), 4-2 TB-1
HWT: Erekson (Iowa) dec. Clayton Jack (Oregon State), 11-6
Northern Iowa
149 pounds: Metcalf (Iowa) major dec. Washington (UNI), 15-6
157 pounds: Dan Gonsor (Virgina) dec. Reiner (UNI), 9-4
174 pounds: Beets (UNI) dec. Jeff James (Oklahoma), 5-3
Beets dec. No. 5 Scott Glasser (Minnesota), 14-7
285: Christopher Birchler (Edinboro) dec. Brantley, 3-2
By Chad Purcell -- Omaha World Herald
Date Posted: 2010-03-18
Iowa State’s Jake Varner defeats Riley Orozco in the 197-pound match Thursday in session II of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb.
Iowa State's two top seeds on Thursday each did what they wanted to do.
Both 197-pounder Jake Varner and heavyweight David Zabriskie took care of business on Thursday during day one of the NCAA wrestling championships at Qwest Center Omaha.
Varner turned in a pair of convincing wins to improve to 28-0. The senior is trying to defend his 2009 title and become only the 13th wrestler in NCAA Division I history to make the finals four times.
Zabriskie, the country's No. 2-ranked heavyweight, also won twice to move closer to his first national championship. The two-time All-America wrestler finished sixth as a sophomore and fifth as a junior.
"It would be fantastic," Zabriskie said of winning his first title. "It's been my goal. I fell a tiny bit short in 2009, so this is my senior year -- it's all I have left."
In all, five of the Cyclones' six seeded wrestlers went 2-0 Thursday. In addition to Varner and Zabriskie, No. 5 Andrew Long, 10th-seeded Nick Fanthorpe and No. 7 Mitch Mueller all won two matches.
Long, a 125-pound redshirt freshman out of Creston, Iowa, beat Stanford's Ryan Mango 8-2 before working out a hard-fought 4-0 decision over Utah Valley's Benjamin Kjar.
"In the first period, he tried to keep me away and slow down the match," Long said of Kjar. "He didn't want me to get into my offense at all. But I beat him into the tie-ups. So I was never worried about getting takedowns, because I was winning all the tie-ups."
As a team, however, the second-ranked Cyclones opened the tournament with an up-and-down showing during the early session. ISU -- which advanced wrestlers in all 10 weight classes for a fourth straight year -- went just 5-5 Thursday morning.
Three of those losses were decided by a single point, including an unexpected defeat for fourth-ranked and No. 4-seeded Jon Reader. The two-time All-America junior lost his 165-pound opener by a 5-4 score to Old Dominion's Chris Brown on a late takedown.
Reader bounced back to defeat Navy's Robby Neill, and Iowa State came back to take 9 of 10 matches during the second session Thursday night.
"At this time of year, you have to take a win any way you can get it," said Cyclones coach Kevin Jackson. "We'd definitely want to see a little stronger, more dominating performance in those wins -- but for those guys who lost those first-round matches, for them to come back and shrug off those losses was big.
"For us to go 9-1 this evening was important. We'd much rather go 10-0, but we've got nine guys alive, and we'll take it."
The only Iowa State wrestler eliminated Thursday was Andrew Sorenson, an unseeded sophomore at 157.
Other Cyclones who stayed alive after two sessions were former Missouri Valley, Iowa, standout Dalton Jensen at 141, Duke Burk at 174 and 184-pounder Jerome Ward.
With 24 points, the Cyclones sit in third place -- 10 1/2 points behind first-day leader Iowa and two points behind Oklahoma State.
"We've got nine still alive, and tomorrow's a big day," Jackson said. "I think tomorrow's when the tournament's going to be decided. So we have some work to do, and we've got to wrestle a little better. That Jon Reader loss hurt us a lot. We'd feel a lot better if he was on the front side, but he's got to come back on the back end and score some points for us."
Session II Results
Championship Round of 16
Iowa State
125 pounds: No. 5 Andrew Long (ISU) dec. No. 12 Ben Kjar (Utah Valley), 3-0
Next up: Long vs. No. 4 Anthony Robles (Arizona State)
133 pounds: No. 10 Nick Fanthorpe (ISU) dec. No. 7 Mike Grey (Cornell), 5-2
Next up: Fanthorpe vs. No. 2 Daniel Dennis (Iowa)
149 pounds: No. 7 Mitch Mueller dec. Anthony D’Alie (Central Michigan), 8-4
Next up: Mueller vs. No. 2 Brent Metcalf (Iowa)
197 pounds: No. 1 Jake Varner (ISU) major dec. Riley Orozco (Cal State Bakersfield), 10-1
Next up: Varner vs. No. 8 Sonny Yohn (Minnesota)
HWT: No. 1 David Zabriskie (ISU) dec. Eric Nye (Arizona State), 4-2
Next up: Zabriskie vs. No. 9 Mark Ellis (Missouri)
Consolation Round
141 pounds: Dalton Jensen (ISU) dec. Mike Kohnlein (Nebraska), 9-4
Next up: No. 7 Filip Novachkov (Cal Poly)
157 pounds: Joseph Booth (Drexel) major dec. Andrew Sorenson (ISU), 13-1
165 pounds: No. 4 Jon Reader major dec. Robbie Neill (Navy), 12-1
Next up: Reader vs. No. 10 Alex Meade (Oklahoma State)
174 pounds: Duke Burk (ISU) dec. Robert Hamlin (Lehigh), 7-3
Next up: Burk vs. Dorian Henderson (Missouri)
184 pounds: Jerome Ward (ISU) dec. Nathan Schiedel (Binghamton), 3-1
Next up: Ward vs. No. 11 Dave Erwin (Penn State)
Iowa
125 pounds: No. 3 Matt McDonough (Iowa) dec. Anthony Zanetta (Pitt), 10-6
Next up: McDonough vs. Jarrod Garnett (VA Tech)
133 pounds: No. 2 Daniel Dennis (Iowa) dec. Kelly Kubec (Oregon State), 4-0
Next up: Dennis vs. No. 10 Fanthorpe (ISU)
141 pounds: No. 6 Montell Marion (Iowa) dec. Conor Beebe (Central Michigan), 10-5
Next up: Marion vs. Germane Lindsey (Ohio)
149 pounds: No. 2 Brent Metcalf (Iowa) major dec. Kyle Borshoff (American), 20-7
Next up: Metcalf vs. No. 7 Mueller (ISU)
157 pounds: No. 1 J.P. O’Connor (Harvard) dec. Jake Kerr (Iowa), 8-1
Next up: Kerr vs. No. 11 Robert Erisman (Oklahoma State) in consolations
165 pounds: No. 7 Ryan Morningstar (Iowa) dec. Alex Meade (Oklahoma State), 3-1
Next up: Morningstar vs. No. 2 Jarrod King (Edinboro)
174 pounds: No. 2 Jay Borschel (Iowa) major dec. Daniel Rinaldi (Rutgers), 10-0
Next up: Borschel vs. No. 10 Jordan Blanton (Illinois)
184 pounds: No. 9 Phil Keddy (Iowa) dec. No. 8 Louis Caputo (Harvard), 8-2
Next up: Keddy vs. No. 1 Kirk Smith (Boise State)
HWT: Dan Erekson (Iowa) pinned Scott Stelle (Navy), 2:37
Next up: Erekson vs. No. 4 Konrad Dudziak (Duke)
Consolations
197 pounds: No. 9 Chad Beatty (Iowa) dec. Dennis Drury (North Carolina), 5-4
Next up: Beatty vs. Joseph Kennedy (Lehigh)
Northern Iowa
174 pounds: Jarion Beets (UNI) dec. Justin Zeeri (Michigan), 8-6
Next up: Beets vs. No. 4 Stephen Dwyer (Nebraska)
Consolations
149 pounds: Trent Washington (UNI) dec. James Fleming (Clarion), 8-3
Next up: Washington vs. Eric Albright (Pittsburgh)
157 pounds: Tyson Reiner (UNI) dec. Bryan Deutsch (Northern Illinois), 7-4
Next up: Reiner vs. No. 10 Shane Vernon (Oklahoma)
HWT: Christian Brantley (UNI) dec. Dustin Porter (Gardner-Webb),
Next up: Brantley vs. No. 12 Scott Steele (Navy)
Session I Results
Championship Round of 32
Iowa State
125 pounds: Long dec. Ryan Mango (Stanford), 8-2
133 pounds: Fanthorpe (ISU) major dec. Cortlandt Choate (Brown), 14-3
141 pounds: No. 4 Reece Humphrey (Ohio State) major dec. Jensen (ISU), 11-3
149 pounds: Mueller (ISU) dec. Frank Gayeski (Liberty), 11-2
157 pounds: Anthony Jones (Michigan State) dec. Sorenson (ISU), 8-4
165 pounds: Chris Brown (Old Dominion) dec. Reader (ISU), 5-4
174 pounds: No. 10 Jordan Blanton (Illinois) dec. Burk (ISU) , 4-3
184 pounds: No. 1 Kirk Smith (Boise State) dec. Ward (ISU), 4-3
197 pounds: Varner (ISU) major dec. Matt Casperson (Boise State), 17-3
HWT: Zabriskie (ISU) dec. Eric Bugenhagen (Wisconsin), 6-2
Iowa
125 pounds: McDonough (Iowa) tech. fall Jason Lara (Oregon State), 15-0 in 6:31
133 pounds: Dennis (Iowa) dec. Kevin Smith (Buffalo), 6-2
141 pounds: Marion (Iowa) dec. Cole VonOhlen (Air Force), 11-8
149 pounds: Metcalf (Iowa) maj. dec. Trenton Washington (Northern Iowa), 15-6
157 pounds: Jake Kerr (Iowa) dec. Tejovan Edwards (Arizona State), 8-7
165 pounds: Morningstar (Iowa) dec. Donald Jones (West Virginia), 4-2 SV
174 pounds: Borschel (Iowa) dec. Scott Giffin (Pennsylvania), 6-1
184 pounds: Keddy (Iowa) maj. dec. Michael Salopek (Virginia), 11-3
197 pounds: Alan Gelogaev (Oklahoma State) dec. Beatty (Iowa), 4-2 TB-1
HWT: Erekson (Iowa) dec. Clayton Jack (Oregon State), 11-6
Northern Iowa
149 pounds: Metcalf (Iowa) major dec. Washington (UNI), 15-6
157 pounds: Dan Gonsor (Virgina) dec. Reiner (UNI), 9-4
174 pounds: Beets (UNI) dec. Jeff James (Oklahoma), 5-3
Beets dec. No. 5 Scott Glasser (Minnesota), 14-7
285: Christopher Birchler (Edinboro) dec. Brantley, 3-2
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