Ohio Wrestling Dominates Wisconsin in Season Opener, 25-14
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LA CROSSE, Wis. – The Ohio wrestling team (1-0) opened the 2024-25 season Friday evening (Nov. 1) at the Wisconsin Wrestling Showcase hosted by UW La Crosse. The Bobcats defeated Big Ten opponent Wisconsin (0-1), 25-14.
Redshirt freshman Kaden Jett (Broadview Heights, Ohio) and redshirt junior Peyten Kellar (Cutler, Ohio) both secured hard-fought overtime victories. Jett claimed a 5-2 decision at 141 pounds, while Kellar followed with a close 8-7 decision at 157 pounds.
The Bobcats were neck and neck with the Badgers until redshirt sophomore Austin Starr (Indian Creek, Ohio) delivered a commanding 15-1 major decision at 197 pounds, putting Ohio in the lead. Redshirt senior Jordan Greer (Avon, Ohio) then sealed the team’s victory with a 13-4 major decision over Wisconsin’s Gannon Rosenfeld at 285 pounds. … more at …. https://ohiobobcats.com/news/2024/11/1/wrestling-wisconsin-dual-meet.aspx
Breaking down the fireworks, upsets and epic matches from first weekend of college wrestling
College wrestling season is officially back, and the first weekend of the season brought plenty of fireworks, upsets and epic matches. Here are some of the most notable results and takeaways from the opening few days of the year:
Wyoming and Campbell raise the bar for elite college duals
As mentioned in my weekend preview, one of the biggest stories heading into the first weekend of college wrestling was the Wyoming vs. Campbell dual in a rodeo venue. This match delivered.
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Not only did Wyoming and Campbell put forward an incredible evening that highlighted the ‘fun’ of college wrestling, but they also created ten stellar matches, highlighted elite sportsmanship and a vision for what the future of college wrestling could look like. These are two teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the sport and making headlines doing it.
From a wrestling standpoint, Stockton O’Brien of Wyoming earned “Wrestler of the Dual” honors for his pin against Campbell’s No. 18 Domenic Zaccone, but the entire dual featured great action. … more at … https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2024-11-04/breaking-down-first-weekend-college-wrestling
What we learned from the 2024 senior world wrestling championships
The 2024 senior world championships in Albania marked the end of a three-month world championship event series for Team USA that included the Olympics in August to the U20 world championships in September to the U23 world championships in late October to the senior world championships.
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The U23 and U20 world championships featured 10 weight classes for men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle and Greco, while the Olympics featured six, and the senior world championships included four weights, the four remaining non-Olympic weights. The U.S. brought home a total of 35 medals across these events, with Oklahoma State head coach David Taylor’s senior world bronze medal and his formal retirement serving as an emotional capper to the freestyle championship season.
Here’s what we learned about Team USA in this final event of the freestyle year and what kind of impact the athletes on this senior world championship team could have on their teammates and their programs moving forward.
Taylor’s bronze medal models success, perseverance for young Oklahoma State squad
One of the biggest storylines heading into the 2024 senior world championships was Oklahoma State head coach David Taylor. Despite being on a stacked team with Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs, 2023 senior world champion Vito Arujau and two-time world medalist James Green, much of the focus centered on how Taylor would compete in what he declared to be the final competition of his career. DAVID TAYLOR: History, college records set by the Olympic gold medalist
The hype wasn’t forced either. Taylor entered a bracket with one of the best Russian athletes in the sport — Abdulrashid Bulachevich Sadulaev — and two-time World champion Iranian wrestler Kardos … more at … https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2024-11-04/what-we-learned-2024-senior-world-wrestling-championships
Purdue Opens Season Strong With Win at Gardner-Webb
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – Purdue Wrestling took a decisive 34-10 victory in its season-opening dual at Gardner-Webb on Friday night. Thanks to six bonus point wins, the Boilermakers (1-0, 0-0 B1G) got the year started on the right foot. No. 5 Matt Ramos, No. 31 Brody Baumann and James Rowley all earned their first pins of the 2024-25 season.
Now in his redshirt-senior season, Ramos kicked off the night by scoring his 15th career fall 4:51 into the match against Gardner-Webb’s (0-1, 0-0 SoCon) Tyson Lane. He notched four takedowns and a 4-point nearfall to have a 16-3 advantage before landing the pin. Isaac Ruble picked up where Ramos left off after the Runnin’ Bulldogs scored back-to-back match wins over Dustin Norris and No. 23 Greyson Clark. Ruble trailed Joseph Giordano late into the third period, but ultimately took his opponent down with less than 20 seconds remaining to take the 7-6 comeback win. A lengthy review process that took nearly 10 minutes ultimately confirmed his match-altering takedown, thanks to a challenge from head coach Tony Ersland. No. 15 Joey Blaze scored the only technical fall of the evening by notching a dominant 20-4 win in the 157-pound bout. He set the tone early by slamming Drew Pepin to the mat just 22 seconds into the match.
Blaze’s six takedowns matched his career high, which he first set against Lindenwood’s Luke Kemper last year. On the latter half of the card, Stoney Buell (15-5) and Hayden Filipovich (10-0) capitalized with major decisions, the eighth and second of their careers, respectively.
Baumann scored the fastest fall of the night, defeating Andrew Wilson at 4:17. Baumann had a 12-3 lead prior to the pin. … more at … https://purduesports.com/news/2024/11/1/wrestling-purdue-opens-season-strong-with-win-at-gardner-webb
Wolverines defeat #23 CSUB, fall to #12 Stanford in season-opening duals
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Utah Valley wrestling started the Adam Hall era with a 25-15 victory over No. 23 CSU Bakersfield, but fell later to No. 12 Stanford, 29-19. UVU (1-1) ranked wrestlers No. 7 Terrell Barraclough and No. 32 Haiden Drury both picked up two wins on the night in their season debuts. First-year head coach Adam Hall earned his first dual victory at UVU. “I’m really encouraged about the future of our team. Although we lost our last dual against Stanford, we showed heart and fight. I’m excited for Terrell to get a top three nationally-ranked win! I wanted to see effort and urgency, and it helped us win a few matches. We have a group of fighters, and it will be demonstrated each week that we are blessed to compete. Our staff is very dedicated to making this team better, and it will show as the season goes on,” said UVU head coach Adam Hall.
The Wolverines fell in the first two bouts of the evening but got on the board and took the lead with back-to-back technical falls, first from Kase Mauger at 133, who scored 12 first-period points to set the tone for his first victory of the season. No. 32 Drury followed up with a takedown in the first period and then poured it on in the second and third periods, outscoring CSUB’s Hayden Zinkin 13-1.
The Wolverines led 10-7 when freshman Ryker Fullmer took the mat and picked up UVU’s third bonus point win of the night and his first collegiate victory with a 9-1 major decision, as they won four straight bouts. No. 7 Barraclough scored three takedowns over Guillermo Escobedo to pick up an 11-1 major. They continue to add on with 174-pounder Mark Takara and 184-pounder Caleb Uhlenhopp, each picking up wins on the night.
In the nightcap against Stanford, Eli Stafford made his regular season debut and led after the first period after scoring on a takedown and an escape. The match was tied at six heading to the third period when Jackson Mankowski pulled away for a 13-9 decision. … more at … https://gouvu.com/news/2024/11/1/wrestling-wolverines-defeat-23-csub-fall-to-12-stanford-in-season-opening-duals.aspx
Legendary Wrestling Head Coach Grady Peninger Passes Away at 97
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Legendary Michigan State head wrestling coach Grady Peninger passed away on Thursday, October 31 at 97 years old (1927-2024).
Peninger’s name will forever be linked with greatness, becoming the first coach in Big Ten history to win seven consecutive conference titles in any sport (1966-72) and the first Big Ten wrestling program to win a national title in 1967. His 1967 Spartans were the only team outside the states of Oklahoma or Iowa to win a national championship in wrestling over a 33-year span from 1954 to 1987. Additionally, Peninger was the first coach to take a team to Oklahoma, wrestle both the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Oklahoma Sooners, and go home undefeated. “Grady Peninger is one of the all-time great coaches in our sport,” said Michigan State head wrestling coach Roger Chandler. “The impact he had on Michigan State and Michigan State wrestling is second to none and he will forever be etched in our history books.”
MSU won the 1967 National Championship with 74 team points, 11 ahead of runner-up Michigan.
“Before this year no team except one of the big three ever dreamed of winning the National Championship, but now it doesn’t look as impossible as it used to,” said Peninger to SI.
During his tenure from 1963-1986, Michigan State was a mainstay on the national scene placing in the top five at the NCAA Championships on six occasions. As head coach, his wrestlers earned 10 NCAA titles, 40 Big Ten titles and All-America honors 54 times. Peninger was inducted in the U.S. Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1987, the State of Michigan Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Michigan State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007. He also served as President of the National Wrestling Coaches Association and while a member of the NCAA rules committee, was instrumental in expanding the tournament consolation format in 1986 to include more wrestlers.
Peninger coached a slew of Michigan State wrestlers … more at … https://msuspartans.com/news/2024/11/1/legendary-wrestling-head-coach-grady-peninger-passes-away-at-97.aspx and …
Peninger and the 1967 Spartans were the subjects of an article published in the April 3, 1967 issue of Sports Illustrated.
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