Midway Wrestling picks up first-ever victory at Smokey Mountain Duals
TDR Editor – great to see a new program in action.
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PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — History was made on Sunday afternoon in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. when the Midway University wrestling team picked up the first dual victory in program history when they competed in the talent stuffed field at the Smokey Mountain Duals.
The program’s first-ever victory came against Bluefield College (Va.) in Midway’s opening match of what was a busy day for Jake Brumbelow‘s squad. The Eagles (1-3, 0-3 MSC) picked up the 30-25 victory over the Rams for the program’s first victory. Midway’s final three matches were against Mid-South Conference foes – all of which were either ranked or receiving votes in the NAIA Men’s Wrestling Coaches’ Top 20 Poll.
Unfortunately for the Eagles, they came up short in their final three matches suffering a 48-3 loss to No. 14 Campbellsville University (Ky.), a 42-6 loss to (RV) Cumberland University (Tenn.), and a 46-3 loss to No. 7 Life University (Ga.). Rest of the story at http://www.gomidwayeagles.com/article/1358.php?mc_cid=fe6a0178fe&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Crebs wins 400th as Warriors sweep Lycoming Duals
TDR Editor’s Notes ; Good to see coaching milestones recognized. Our congratulations to Coach Crebs. Before this season Crebs ranked 32nd in All-Time wins and 13th among Division III coaches. In comparision to active coaches he ranks 5th over all divisions and 2nd among active D-III coaches. He has moved into the top 30 all time for now. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – There was little doubt in the first opportunity that 26th-year Lycoming College head coach Roger Crebs went for his 400th career win. The Warriors put together 10 bonus-point wins, cruising to a 59-0 win over King’s after the team posted had notched a 34-11 win over Muhlenberg and a 46-6 win against Pitt-Bradford. The team wrapped up the Lycoming Duals with a 50-0 win over Penn College at Lamade Gym on Monday, Dec. 17. Crebs improved to 401-135-2 (.747) in his career at Lycoming, as the Warriors moved to 8-2 on the season with the sweep of the four bouts.
Freshman Ryan Bohringer (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Memorial) led the Warriors with four pins in as many bouts at 174 pounds, while sophomore 125-pounder Shane Casey (Catawissa, Pa./Southern Columbia), freshman 133-pounder Seth Andrus (Mill Hall, Pa./Central Mountain), junior 141-pounder Joe Santomarco (Manalapan, N.J./Manalapan), junior 10th-ranked 157-pounder Trevor Corl (Howard, Pa./Bellefonte Area), junior 165-pounder Hadyn Swartwood (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore Area), junior 197-pounder Travis Ogden (Clearfield, Pa./Clearfield Area) and fifth-ranked senior heavyweight Garrett Wesneski (Canton, Pa./Canton Area) also all notched four wins. Rest of the story at https://athletics.lycoming.edu/news/2018/12/17/wrestling-crebs-wins-400th-as-warriors-sweep-lycoming-duals.aspx?mc_cid=fe6a0178fe&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
High school wrestling: Area champs revel in victories at Bill Dies Memorial Tournament
TDR Editor’s Notes ; This tournament news is from another state yet in a well written article by the ABJ it explains how meaningful this large, competitive local tournament is for the competitors. I knew Bill Dies and wrestled with his sons, and even coached against one. It mentions Bill as being a co-founder of the Ohio Youth Wrestling Association. Yet it does not mention how this organization grew from being a small local group of clubs to a massive structure that has developed many successful wrestlers and has supported the improvement in teams in northeast Ohio. When the group started I was skeptical that it would have much impact. Later I coached one of the clubs and gained experience while working as an official for the weekly Ohio Youth matches. The Association emphasizes instruction, growth and learning for students in grades 4-6. The Dies family of sons, daughters, grandchildren and many others are tremendous. Whenever I ran a tournament my goal was to do as well as they do each week. Once retired I will be at the next Memorial Tournament.
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Some tournaments mean a bit more to a high school wrestler.
The ultimate is the state tournament in Columbus, but the ones in your backyard have just as much meaning. For those in Summit County, the Bill Dies Memorial Tournament holds such status, and many of the champions didn’t hesitate to say as much after winning the 32nd annual event Saturday at Firestone Community Learning Center. The tournament was named after the co-founder of the Ohio Youth Wrestling Association, and many of the wrestlers of today worked the event when they were younger or came to the invitational as a kid imagining one day having their hand raised at the end. “This has been my dream since I started working this tournament in fourth grade,” Barberton 182-pound champion Gary Wokojance said. “I remember working it and watching all these wrestlers come through. To finally win it feels really good.
“I know how this tournament is, so to be in the finals and tech fall in the finals, it feels awesome. It’s really sweet. This is one step of plenty more to come. I’ve watched awesome guys wrestle this. I always thought to myself, one of these days I’m going to win this tournament. I’ve got to. It’s been a really big dream of mine. It’s awesome to be able to sign my name on the championship banner.” Rest of the story and pictures at https://www.ohio.com/sports/20190119/high-school-wrestling-area-champs-revel-in-victories-at-bill-dies-memorial-tournament
NC State fends off Drexel
RALEIGH, N.C. — The No. 8 NC State Wrestling team used four bonus point wins to secure a 25-16 win over visiting Drexel in the final non-conference dual of the year Saturday night in Reynolds Coliseum. The dual started at 125 pounds, and the two teams split a pair of decisions to open the dual. R-Fr. Zurich Storm secured the ride time point and came away with a 4-3 win for the Pack at 125 pounds.
R-Sr. Jamel Morris scored the Pack’s first bonus point win of the day, 11-0 at 141 pounds. After an early takedown, Morris had a two-point, then a four-point near fall to take a commanding 8-0 lead after the first period. No. 7 Justin Oliver used a pair of third period takedowns and scored an 11-5 win at 149 pounds. No. 4 Hayden Hidlay made it three straight wins going into the break, as he posted a 17-0 tech fall win at 157 pounds. The Pack was up 15-3 at intermission.
In the lone matchup of ranked wrestlers, No. 16 Ebed Jarrell of Drexel caught No. 17 Thomas Bullard in a cradle and scored the first period pin. The Dragons pulled to within 15-9. The Pack once again scored a bonus point win, as No. 20 Daniel Bullard used a late four-point near fall in the third period to secure the bonus points in his 14-2 win at 174 pounds. The Dragons scored their second bonus win of the night, 14-6 at 184 pounds and made the team score 19-13 with a pair of bouts left. Rest of the story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/21205
Nebraska tramples Maryland to improve to 8-2
College Park, M.D. — The #7 Nebraska Cornhuskers won eight out of the ten matches against the Maryland Terrapins to take a 37-6 victory on Friday night at the Xfinity Center. NU won five of those eight matches by bonus points, not including a forfeit by Maryland at 174 pounds. “The team competed well tonight,” Nebraska Head Coach Mark Manning said. “I thought we came out with a purpose and put a lot of points on the board. It’s not about who we wrestle, but how we compete to our potential.”
#13 Zeke Moisey (125) got NU off to a terrific start with a dominating performance over Brandon Cray, taking a 16-4 major decision. True freshman Jevon Parrish, who burned his redshirt last weekend against Northern Iowa, won his first career dual tonight (he’s 13-5 overall). Parrish earned two first period takedowns to go up 4-2 and never trailed from there, riding out a 9-5 decision. “Jevon wrestled well once again tonight and he will gain a lot of confidence from his performance, ” Manning said.
#19 Chad Red Jr. had perhaps his best dual performance of the year in a 15-2 major decision against Michael Doetsch. He went up 12-0 in the third period before Doetsch got on the board with an escape. With the win, Red Jr. moves to 12-6 (5-4 in duals) on the season. Rest of the story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/21187
Wrestling museum: Becoming more than a museum
Kyle Klingman, National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum director, stands next to one of the museums murals during its renovation process Monday. THOMAS NELSON, COURIER STAFF WRITER
WATERLOO — The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum is getting a $1.4 million renovation. The museum’s been a staple of Waterloo since it moved here from Newton in 2007. This is the museum’s first renovation since coming to the Cedar Valley. “We are viewing our future through the lens of diversity,” said Kyle Klingman, museum director. “I think that’s an important part of what we do here. We can no longer be just a museum. We need to be more than a museum.”
Over the years the museum has expanded in what it does, acting as a learning and training center. “We have things we can offer beyond just a museum,” Klingman said. “We had to evolve with the times.” The renovations will expand the museum’s wrestling room and add new technology. The wrestling room will be a multi-use space and is the size of two and half wrestling mats, Klingman said. “It’s a pretty good-sized wrestling room.” Rest of the story at https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/wrestling-museum-becoming-more-than-a-museum/article_a0bfe1d7-c496-5f62-9b88-b01898cd17c3.html?fbclid=IwAR0fbnLXqEqlsHrVOxbXSLx1P2yuU1PbVbmVe7EbykZJoMXRJ4uhWammJjs
Penn Wrestling Bedeviled By Duke, 25-18
DURHAM, N.C. – The University of Pennsylvania wrestling team was done in by a furious Duke comeback as the Blue Devils won four matches in a row out of intermission to turn a 15-7 Penn lead into an eventual 25-18 defeat in Card Gym. Penn had staked itself to an 11-0 lead after just two bouts on the strength of a dominant tech fall from Carmen Ferrante at 125 and a forfeit by Duke at 133. Ferrante had built a 14-0 first period lead based off a takedown and three sets of four-point nearfall before earning the tech.
Duke began to creep back into the dual meet with back-to-back wins from Josh Finesilver and No. 6 Mitch Finesilver. At 141, Penn’s Grant Aronoff scored the first takedown, but Josh Finesilver rallied with a takedown and two nearfall before adding a late reversal following injury time by Aronoff. In the second period, Aronoff again scored the first takedown, but a reversal and two backpoints built an 11-4 lead. In the third, the two wrestler exchanged reversals but a late stall call on Aronoff as he tried to hold Finesilver down was the deciding point in the major.
Rest of the story at https://pennathletics.com/news/2019/1/6/wrestling-bedeviled-by-duke-25-18.aspx?mc_cid=bdafb32076&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
So I Went To My First Penn State Wrestling Dual Meet, Or Is It Match?
TDR Editor’s Notes ; Interesting article and a fun read. Would like to attend a match or meet at State College sometime. E-mail your vote or view in that is it a Match or a Meet?
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It’s something I had never thought about until I was waiting in line outside Rec Hall on Friday night. How come there aren’t more kids in Beaver Stadium? In reality I know the answer to that. Tickets are too expensive to take an eight-year-old so he/she can get lost in the crowd when you were waiting RIGHT HERE outside the bathroom 10 minutes before kickoff. But they’re all over the place at Rec Hall. Sons holding their dad’s hand as they eagerly find their seats. There was a little girl enthusiastically cheering on Penn State wrestlers by name. It felt like a family affair, young and old, rich and not so rich. All there to watch some of the most talented wrestlers on the planet.
It’s ironic in a world that puts such an emphasis on having the best facilities possible that Rec Hall exists largely unchanged while housing maybe the most successful wrestling program ever. One of the main apparel shops may as well have been a broom closet cut into the wall. There are no flashy lights, no over-saturation of brands. It’s pretty much just wrestling and if you want a shirt well Sharon has them over there. That’s fitting in a way though, wrestling is one of the oldest sports humans have played, and like soccer it requires next to no equipment to actually do. There is something primal and very natural about nothing more than a test of physical strength. It’s a reminder that we are not in fact all that different from the rest of the animals roaming the Earth.
I’m burying the lede here a little bit. Until Friday night I had never been to a Penn State wrestling dual. I’ve watched plenty on TV, it’s hard to cover Penn State athletics and just not pay attention to the most successful team in town, but I had never made my way into Rec Hall to see it in person. So, since I had the time and the urge, I fired up StubHub and got myself a ticket. The other thing here is that I don’t know that much about wrestling. I understand the scoring -sort of- and I’ve watched enough MMA in my life to grasp the basics of a ground game. I know what riding time is and I sort of understand takedowns.
Rest of the story at http://www.statecollege.com/news/psu-sports/so-i-went-to-my-first-penn-state-wrestling-dual-meet-or-is-it-match,1478774/?mc_cid=3c5d796fba&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
More Bonus Point Wins Lead to 26-10 Win over West Virginia
RALEIGH, N.C. – The #9 NC State wrestling team got four bonus point wins and cruised past visiting West Virginia, 26-10, Sunday afternoon at Reynolds Coliseum. R-So. Hayden Hidlay scored a pin at 157 pounds, and R-Sr. Jamel Morris (141) and R-So. Daniel Bullard (174) both scored 16-0 tech fall wins.
R-So. Thomas Bullard went 2-for-2 this weekend in bouts against ranked foes. Yesterday he scored a major decision over #15, and today he scored win over #19 at 165 pounds. The bout started at 197 pounds. The score was tied 7-7 after the first four bouts, but NC State won four of the final five matches (there was no 184 pound match). After a scoreless first period, #19 Malik McDonald used a six-point move early in the second period and held the lead throughout in his 12-6 win. WVU picked up a decision at 285 pounds with a late takedown in the third period.
The first bonus point win of the night for NC State came at 125 pounds, as Zurich Storm scored a 13-3 major decision to put the Pack up 7-3.
Rest of the story at https://gopack.com/news/2019/1/13/wrestling-more-bonus-point-wins-lead-to-26-10-win-over-west-virginia.aspx?mc_cid=baa320ed67&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Gwiazdowski completes German pro league with 4-0 record but his KSV Ispringen team loses semifinals
By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | Jan. 12, 2019,
Photo of Nick Gwiazdowski competing in German professional league courtesy of the KSV Ispringen Facebook page.
Two-time World bronze medalist Nick Gwiazdowski (Raleigh, N.C./Titan Mercury WC/Wolfpack RTC) extended his unbeaten record to 4-0 in the Deutsche Ringerliga (DRL), a Gerrman professional wrestling league, with a victory at 130 kg on Saturday night.
Gwiazdowski, competing for his KSV Ispringen team, defeated a Russian, Magomedgadzi Nurasulov of the Germania Weingarten team, 5-4. Nurasulov was a 2012 Junior World champion and 2011 Junior World bronze medalist for Russia. Nurasulov scored an early four-point move on Gwiazdowski to take a lead, but the American battled back to score a pair of takedowns and earn a point on the shot clock for a hard-fought win.
This was a semifinal match in the league, and Gwiazdowski’s team, KSV Ispringen, was defeated by Germania Weingarten, 9-5. KSV Ispringen did not advance to the finals, meaning Gwiazdowski’s season with the DRL is now completed. KSV Ispringen had four wins in the 10-match dual meet. Among the winners was 2018 Greco-Roman World champion Peter Bacsi of Hungary, who won his Greco 87 kg bout. The other winners for KSV Ispringen were Arsen Harutyunyan of Armenia (freestyle 63 kg) and Maksim Safarian of Russia (Greco-Roman 97 kg).
Gwiazdowski won four matches against talented wrestlers from across the world in this popular professional league, which attracts some of the top athletes in wrestling each year. It has been a number of years since an American has competed in the German professional league, and was a very positive experience for Gwiazdowski.
Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/January/12/Gwiazdowski-finishes-German-pro-league-undefeated?mc_cid=8c24e9c486&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
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