Oklahoma State beats Iowa, 17-16, on tiebreaker #3 - most points scored in individual bouts

By Roger Moore Special to TheMat.com

01/07/2012

IOWA CITY – The storied rivalry between Oklahoma State and Iowa has provided plenty of memorable dual meets.

Saturday night, in front of a standing-room only Carver-Hawkeye crowd of 15,400, added yet another chapter.

Iowa entered the dual ranked No. 1 and unbeaten in its last 84 duals after beating Indiana on Friday night. The Hawkeyes' last loss came to Oklahoma State, also owner of an 84 match unbeaten streak from 1959-66 and who entered the 46th all-time meeting ranked second.

It was the first time the two rivals met in a dual ranked 1 and 2 since 2003.

How close was it? After 10 bouts, each winning five, officials went to criteria No. 3 to determine the winner. It was the Cowboys this time around, winning 17-16.

"Just tough matches, all the way through," said Oklahoma State head coach John Smith, whose squad improved to 6-0. "We lost some close ones and won some close ones. In the end it's about scoring points and we outscored them to get the win.

"It was a wild night."

That's an understatement. Read the rest of the article at TheMat.com

Midlands top contenders announced & Souther Scuffle Brackets Released

12/23/2011
Northwestern University Sports Information

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern hosts the 49th annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships Dec. 29-30 at Welsh-Ryan Arena and today the tournament committee announced the top contenders for this year's event. Although the final seeding for Midlands may extend beyond the top eight at each weight class, the pre-tournament contenders are subject to change. Final brackets for the event will be released the morning of Thursday, Dec. 29.

A complete list of tournament contenders is as follows... click here.

The brackets were released for the 2012 Southern Scuffle, which takes place Jan. 1-2. Minnesota, Penn State, and Cornell all have three No. 1 seeds.

View Southern Scuffle Brackets

USA Wrestling Weekly’s December 9 broadcast posted for viewing

By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling
12/09/2011

The USA Wrestling Weekly broadcast for Friday, December 9 has been posted for fans to enjoy.

USA Wrestling Weekly is a new half-hour news broadcast which will be produced on a weekly basis. Presented in a news format, it provides updated information on USA Wrestling activities, as well as a variety of feature segments.

This week's show included the following feature segments:
• Coverage of the Men's Freestyle Olympic Trials Qualifier in Las Vegas, Nev.
• U.S. Olympic Team Trials update, with 21 more men's freestyle qualifiers
• U.S. Women's Team training week at the University of Iowa, to including training sessions, public appearances, visit to Dan Gable's home and a visit to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum
• Speeches from Tom Brands, Dan Gable, Terry Steiner
• Coverage of Iowa vs. Illinois Dual meet
• Coverage of Las Vegas Cliff Keen Collegiate Invitational in Las Vegas
• Preview of U.S. Open in Greco-Roman and women's freestyle in Arlington, Texas
• U.S. freestyle team headed to London, England for Olympic Test Event
• And More

Watch This Weeks Episode Now!

Shamrocks and Bulldogs set to battle in HCC Dual

This Wednesday the Shamrocks travel to HCC rival Brownsburg for a HCC Conference Dual meet.  The varsity and jv team will both be in action on Wednesday night.  This will be the JV squad's first dual meet after competing in the Yorktown invitational and the JV Round Robin.  Brownsburg's varsity wrestling team comes into this week's dual meet with a dual meet record of 5-5 on the season while Westfield will come in with a dual meet record of 7-0.  The dual meet begins at 6:30 p.m. and should be an exciting one!  Best of luck Shamrocks.

Holiday gift ideas for wrestlers and wrestling fans

InterMatWrestle.com senior writer Mark Palmer has put together a list of ideas for presents sure to score big points with the mat fanatics on your holiday gift list. Books, DVD's and other great gift ideas! Check it out!

Milton is 170 lb. champion at Yorktown!

The freshmen of the WHS wrestling team traveled to Yorktown on Saturday and were led by Daryn Milton's championship at 170 lbs.  Freshman 285 lb. wrestler, Tyler  Conner, also made it to the finals and brought home a 2nd place finish for the Shamrocks.  At 106, Jake Eller finished 4th, also at 170 Austin Mazura finished 4th, and at 126 Nolan Jaffe finished  in 6th.  These young wrestlers will be back on the mat Tuesday night in the JV Round Robin at Westfield High School.  Come out and see the 'Rocks on Tuesday night!

Varsity Team Opens Up 7-0!

The WHS varsity wrestling team traveled to New Castle this weekend and kicked off the season in style, winning all seven duals.  The team wrestled very well all weekend.  The team is in action again on Nov. 30th at Brownsburg. Going undefeated in New Castle for the Rocks were:

113-AJ Belden 7-0

120-Jacob Sanburn 5-0

132-Danny Wohlschlaeger 2-0

138-Drake Gunning 6-0

160-Logan Floor 7-0

182-Lukas Schaeffer 7-0

195-Taylor DeLong 7-0

Team Scores:

WHS 49 Jay County 17

WHS 78 Milan 6

WHS 38 Connersville 36

WHS 61 New Castle 13

WHS 56 Columbus East 18

WHS 46 Harrison (WL) 18

WHS 76 Cambridge City Lincoln 6