Cornell Tops #24 North Carolina For Ninth Straight Win
TDR Editor’s Note; At a time when many of the end of the season dual meets are rivalries of neighboring school there are other special matches. The coach at Cornell was a National Champion for UNC a while back. His oldest son now wrestles for The Big Red which adds something more to the competition.
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ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell wrestling team won all the close matches early and added some bonus points late to earn a 32-6 win over No. 24 North Carolina on Friday evening at a sold-out Friedman Wrestling Center. The Big Red closed out dual season with a 13-2 record, while the Tar Heels fell to 9-11. Cornell won three one-point decisions in the first four contested bouts after the home team gained a forfeit to begin the match at 125. The early lead wasn’t necessary in the end, as the home team won seven of the nine contests and earned bonus points in the final two to earn its ninth straight win. The Big Red won consecutive decisions at 133 and 141 to set the tone, with Chaz Tucker coming out of a battle with Zach Sherman for a 4-3 win, and fourth-ranked Yianni Diakomihalis used riding time for the difference in a 7-6 triumph over No. 19 A.C. Headlee. Rest of the story at http://cornellbigred.com/news/2018/2/16/wrestling-tops-24-north-carolina-for-ninth-straight-win.aspx?mc_cid=de47f1993b&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Headlines
NWCA ANNOUNCES MENLO COLLEGE’S MARTINEZ, THE THERAWORX NWCA COACH OF THE YEAR FOR THE NAIA — Story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/nwca-announces-menlo-colleges-martinez-theraworx-nwca-coach-year-naia/?mc_cid=019dff15b4&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
NCAA DII Coaches Wrestling Association release latest Top 25 and individual rankings of 2018
https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2018-03-02/ncaa-dii-coaches-wrestling-association-release-latest-top-25-and?mc_cid=b4a4fc83ee&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
ACC Finals
TDR Editor’s Note; The finals start at 7:00. All finalists have qualified for the Nationals in Cleveland in two weeks yet all want to go there as an ACC champion. Fourteen other wrestlers will also be going. Zach Sherman of UNC took the last spot as he topped Finesilver of Duke for 5th place at 133. The team race has Virginia Teach with only a 4 point lead over North Carolina State but they will have 6 finalists while State only has 5. The TV coverage on the ACC channels sounds pretty good. Check them out.
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BERTOLONE TABBED TO LEAD INAUGURAL WRESTLING PROGRAM IN 2019
TDR Editor’s Notes; OK, the answer is Keiser University is in West Palm Beach, Florida. Will admit that we were not familiar Keiser and had to look that up. Great to see more wrestling coming to Florida. They will compete in the NAIA. Wrestling is growing in wrestling with 58 school currently offering the sport. There has been a 50% growth in teams competing in the NAIA in the last 8 years.
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Director of Athletics, Kris Swogger announced that Keiser University will add wrestling to its slate of varsity athletic programs, with intercollegiate action beginning during the 2019-20 academic year. “There are a lot of great high school wrestling programs in Florida, and we are excited to provide those student-athletes the opportunity to stay home and compete in the sport they love,” stated Swogger.
Swogger also announced the hiring of Joe Bertolone as the first Head Coach of the Keiser University Wrestling program. Bertolone has over 40 years of experience at the high school level coaching at Archbishop McCarthy High School, Miramar High School, Cardinal Gibbons High School, Monsignor Pace High School, and Chaminade High School. In addition to his coaching resume, Bertolone was also a successful student-athlete winning back-to-back NCAA DIII titles during his collegiate wrestling career at John Carroll University. Rest of the story at http://kuseahawks.com/news/2018/2/28/general-bertolone-tabbed-to-lead-inaugural-wrestling-program-in-2019.aspx?mc_cid=b4a4fc83ee&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Division II and III regionals set award standings for nationals
TDR Editor Notes; Good step up in recognizing wrestlers and wrestling in the post season.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2018 NCAA Wrestling Awards that will be awarded in March at the respective Division I, II and III Wrestling Championships. The inaugural NCAA Wrestling Awards were presented at the 2012 wrestling championships. The three awards, given in each division, honor the Most Dominant Wrestler as well as the student-athletes that have accumulated the most falls and the most technical falls throughout the course of the regular and postseasons. For falls and tech falls to be counted they must come against opponents in the same division. Ties in the two categories are broken based on the aggregate time.
Rest of the story at https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2018-02-28/college-wrestling-division-ii-and-iii-regionals-set-award?mc_cid=49fc4188d1&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Wolfpack Heads to ACC Championship in Chapel Hill on Saturday
TDR Editor Notes; The is the preview of the ACC Championships from the N.C.S.U. perspective. After the Semifinal round they are in 2nd place behind Va. Tech.
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ACC Regular Season Champions look for second ACC title in last three years
2018 ACC Brackets | 2018 NCAA Allocations
NC State Notes | Rankings Roundup | ACC Breakdown
LISTEN: #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast: Ep. 15 – ACC Championship Preview
RALEIGH, N.C. – After claiming the ACC regular season title with a perfect 5-0 dual record, the NC State Wrestling team heads to Chapel Hill for Saturday’s 2018 ACC Championship. The Wolfpack has an ACC-best seven of its 10 participants seeded No. 1 or No. 2 at their weights, which will result in a bye into the semifinals.
2018 ACC Championship
Date Saturday, March 3
Time Starts 11 AM – Finals 7 PM
Location Chapel Hill, N.C.
Venue Carmichael Arena
Tickets $10 adults, college students & 18 & under Free
Streaming ACC Network Extra:
Mat 1 & Finals
Mat 2
Live Scoring TrackWrestling
Social Media @PackWrestle
About the ACC Championship
The ACC will hold the 64th annual ACC Championship March 4 in Chapel Hill at Carmichael Arena. Wrestling begins at 11 a.m. and all of the action will be broadcast live on ACC Network Extra. Here is a tentative schedule:
• First Round – 11 a.m.
• Semifinals – 1 p.m.
• Consolation Semifinals – 3:30 p.m.
• Consolation Finals – 5 p.m.
• Finals – 7 p.m.
Rest of the story at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#label/INBOX%2FaaResponseNeeded%2FaTDRWrestling/161e7468f91c16a3
PREVIEW: NC State seeks to knock off reigning champ Virginia Tech at ACC Championships, March 3 at North Carolina
TDR Notes; Here is one look at the tournament from before the action started.
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BY TAYLOR MILLER, USA WRESTLING | FEB. 27, 2018, 2:51 P.M. (ET)
The Atlantic Coast Conference Wrestling Championships are set to take place this Saturday, March 3, at Carmichael Arena on the University of North Carolina’s campus in Chapel Hill, N.C. Of the 60 wrestlers expected to compete, 34 will receive automatic bids to the 2017 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, based on the allocations set by the NCAA last week. This is the fourth highest among the conferences, behind Big Ten (80), EIWA (47) and Big 12 (45). Three of the six schools enter the tournament with NWCA /USA Today Coaches’ rankings, including No. 6 North Carolina State, No. 10 Virginia Tech and No. 25 North Carolina. Other schools competing this weekend are Duke, Pitt and Virginia. Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2018/February/27/ACC-Championships-preview?mc_cid=49195452e5&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
ACC Championships
TDR Editor’s Notes; In the semifinals of a smaller (6 teams) conference tournament with the big consequence of who becomes eligible to continue on this season to the national championships in two weeks at Cleveland. The impressive scoreboard in the center of Carmichael arena displays the team scores which are updated after every match. That makes clear the meaning of every match. Action on two mats may seem quiet for fans used to the 8 – 10 mats at a high school state championship but the wrestling is intense. At every moment when there is at least one match in action it is hard to turn away as one can miss a fast blaze of action and change in scoring. It is definitely better than seeing a dual match. It is also impressive hearing so many Virginia Tech fans traveling to support their team. More details later.
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Colorado Mesa Adds Women’s Wrestling
TDR Notes; Great to see another school adding wrestling. One of 12 new Women’s programs starting in the fall. Yet this announcement focuses on “being the only one in the conference and the sport has less than 50 Women’s teams.” I think they should have focused on the growth of the sport.
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CMU IS FIRST IN RMAC AND ONE OF FEWER THAN 50 IN THE COUNTRY TO OFFER VARSITY-LEVEL PROGRAM
Grand Junction, Colo. — Colorado Mesa University today announced the addition of women’s wrestling to its portfolio of 28 varsity teams that compete at the Division II level. The Mavericks will field an all-female team beginning fall 2018. CMU is the first university in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to institute a varsity women’s wrestling program, one of only 15 in the West and fewer than 50 who offer the program in the U.S. Rest of the story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/colorado-mesa-adds-womens-wrestling/
College Championships
TDR Editor’s Notes; Last weekend the Junior colleges had their national championships tournament. This weekend the ACC will be held at UNC in Chapel Hill with matches to start at 11:00. Other Division I conferences and Regional tournaments for Divisions II and III will be held to determine the qualifiers for their National Championships. Divsion II will be in Cedar Falls on the 8th & 9th while Division III will be in Cleveland on the same days. The Division I Nationals will also be in Cleveland but a week later. These events are well covered and fans will easily seek out information about these events. With that said we explain why we direct our efforts towards other wrestling stories that get less notice yet are significant to the growth of our sport.
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National Junior College Championship Results from last weekend at http://njcaa.org/sports/wrest/2017-18/national_championship/index
NAIA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa at https://www.catchdesmoines.com/2018-naia-wrestling-championship/
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After 20 seasons of publicizing wrestling The TakeDown Report’s (TDR) focus has changed to the collecting of college coaching records from North America since 1903. We will continue to recognize and reward successful wrestlers in eastern North Carolina (east of Raleigh & Fayetteville), assist with schools in starting or re-starting a team and this blog. Join us on our FaceBook Page – “The TakeDown Report” for photos and news. Please send results, stories, links and news to pass along. E-mail us at takedownreport@gmail.com
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