NCAA Wrestling Championships

We will provide occasional results from the first session of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. Enjoy. Just refresh the page and most updates will filter in. I'll try to keep up on comments but you can always email me at kj.pilcher@gazcomm.com

The only pigtail match is between UNI's Jarion Beets and Oklahoma's Jeff James. Beets win, 5-3, scoring a takedown in the first and second periods for the win. Beets faces #5 Scott Glasser (Minnesota)

Iowa State's Andtrew Long is up 2-1 on Stanford's Ryan Mango with almost two minutes of riding time. Andrew Long wins 8-2.

McDonough will be delayed slightly, because his first-round opponent, Jason Lara of oregon State, won a pigtail match. I'm sure Lara will be given 45-minute recovery time to get ready for the match. Lara pinned Eric Morrill of Edinboro.

Former Des MOines Roosevelt state champion James Nicholson is wrestling Purdue's Cashe Quiroga, Nicholson is the No. 7 seed and a key member of the Waterloo Courier's Jim Nelson's fantasy team (ha ha). Nicholson gave up a late takedown and Quiroga won, 4-3.

ISU's Nick Fanthorpe is up now against Cortlandt Choate of Brown. Iowa's Dan Dennis is on deck against Buffalo's Kevin Smith.

Fanthorpe and Dennis are both up 2-0 in the first. Fanthorpe up 4-1 after first. Fanthorpe up, 7-2, with 25 secs to go in second. Fanthorpe up 9-2 and has RT locked up. Fanthorpe wins, 14-3.

Dennis up 2-1 after first. Dennis escapes for 3-1 lead. Dennis adds Takedown and rides out Smith for 5-1 and 1:27 of RT to start third. Smith escape. 5-2 Dennis with 39 seconds to go. Dennis wins, 6-2.

At 141, OSU's #4 Reece Humphrey is handling Dalton Jernsen of ISU, 6-2, with a minute to go in first. Humphrey wins, 11-3.

McDonough up soon against Lara of Ore. St. McD/Lara is a go. McD with T2 at 2:21 mark. 2-0 lead and turns lara with chicken wing 5-0 lead and cinching up cradle right now. McD takedown in second period to go up, 9-0, and almost three minutes of RT. McDonough wins by tech fall, 16-0.

Marion is up now against Cole VonOhlen (AF). Iowa fans hope he's more like Von kaiser from the video game Punch-Out. Video gamers will know what I mean. Marion T2 at the 2:26 mark, rides him for 15 secs and releases. Marion up, 2-1. Marion almost gets headlocked but fights it off and comes out with takedown for 4-1 lead. Von Ohlen released. 4-2. Marion gets takedown with 5 secs to go and is up 6-3 after one. Marion scores takedown between two VonOhlen escapes. Marion up 8-5. Marion up, 10-5, and has RT. Von Ohlen with E1 and T2 but Marion wins, 11-8.

At 149, ISU's Mitch Mueller scores a big 11-2 win over Frank Gayeski of Liberty.

Right now, Iowa's Brent Metcalf is controlling UNI's Trent Washington, 9-4, with 1:48 RT after the second period. Metcalf wins, 15-6.

At 157, Jake Kerr trails Tejovan Edwards of Arizona St., 7-6, after an escape to open the third period. Kerr gets a takedown, going around behind Edwards with 1:02 left. Kerr rode out Edwards, coming out on top of a couple scrambles late to preserve the win. That's a big one for Iowa.

Andrew Sorenson of ISU is down 2-1 after the first to Michigan State's Anthony Jones. Sorenson scores a takedown late ion the second to take 4-2 lead after two. Jones in the final minute gets a 5-point move to go up 8-4 and eventually win it.

Virginia's Dan Gonsor up big on UNI's Tyson Reiner, leading 7-0 after the second and owning 4:15 of RT. Gonsor won, 9-4.

At 165, Justin Kerber, a two-time state champion for Emmetsburg, is now up 2-1 on Minnesota's Cody Yohn, scoring a reversal to start the third. Kerber ends up winning 4-1.

Ryan Morningstar reminds me of an old saying my coach at Buena Vista, Al Baxter, who coached Morningstar's dad, Scott, to his first two state titles at Lisbon, about tough guys. But, this is a family website and I can't share it if children are reading. ANYWAY, Morningstar scores a HUGE win for the Hawkeyes, beating Donald Jones of West Virginia, 4-2, in OT. Mstar scored a third-period escape to tie it 2-2. He fought off a winning takedown attempt to force a stalemate late in regulation. He sucked it up and scored off his own shot in OT.

Questions surrounded Morningstar, wondering if he'd be good for any points given the severity of the knee injury suffered in his last match at the Big Ten tournament. Questuions answered with a gutsy, gritty performance.

Old Dominion's Chris Brown upset ISU's #4 Jon reader, 5-4, with a last-second takedown.

At 174, Jarion Beets won his second match of the session, beating fifth-seeded Scott Glasser of Minnesota, 14-7, scoring six takedowns. He faces Justin Zeerip of Michigan.

jay Borschel of Iowa beat Penn's Scott Griffin, 7-1. he faces Dan Rinaldi of Rutgers.

Illinois' Jordan Blanton beat ISU's Duke Burk, 4-3, with the decisive point coming on riding time.

At 184, Jerome Ward of ISU dropped a close battle to top-seeded Kirk Smith of Boise State, 4-3.

Iowa's Phil Keddy scored bonus points with an 11-3 major decision over Virginia's Michael Salopek. He has Harvard's Louis Caputo in the second round.

At 197, ISU's defending national champ and three-time finalist and top-seeded Jake Varner won big over Boise State's Matt Casperson.

Iowa's Chad Beatty lost a tough overtime decision to Okie State's Alan Gelogaev, 4-2, in the second tiebreaker. The pair tied 1-1with a scoreless sudden death minute. Gelogaev escaped to go up 2-1 then in a scramble scored a takedown in the last two seconds. beatty escaped in the second 30-second period but couldn't finish the multiple shot attempts in the final frame.

At Hwt, ISU's top-seeded David Zabriskie beat Eric Bugenhagen of Wisconsin.

Iowa's Dan Erekson concluded Iowa's 9-1 round with an 11-6 win over Oregon State's Clayton Jack.

UNI's Christian Brantley is up now against Edinboro's Christopher Birchler. Brantley in on a couple shots in the last moments of the match but can't finish. Birchler wins, 3-2.

Iowa goes 9-1 (Beatty alive in consis), Iowa State went 5-5 (Big hit at 165 with Reader being upset) and UNI went 2-3 (Both wins coming from Jarion Beets).

1. Iowa 21.5

2. Okie State 16

t3.

6. Cornell

t7. ISU and Ohio State 13

9. Ore St.