Weekend starts Friday at 1PM CT with dual at Air Force. Two ranked wrestlers for Air Force at 133 with Jared VanVleet and at 285 with Kayne Hutchison. Hutchison is interesting as he has wrestled at 197 this year but is ranked #12 at 285. So he is no bigger than Luke Surber but is a more experienced and strong heavy-weight. Luke will be hard pressed to beat him but it is a match where two smaller but talented wrestlers meet. Reluctantly, I say this will be our only loss of the dual as Daton should dec. VanVleet handily. At 7:30 on Friday evening we wrestle Wyoming in a much closer dual. At 125 #7 Mastro should dec. Svihel of Wyoming. 133 Fix will win easily over Job Greenwood, Carter young at 141 will prevail over Chase Zollman, Gfeller will defeat Jaron Jensen at 149. However, matches beginning at 157 will be much more competitive. Jacob Wright who is ranked #11 will face Sheets at 157 who is now ranked #16. Both have close wins over Justin Thomas of OU and this match could be a toss-up. At 165 Witlake will likely wrestle Cole Moody #23 and should gain a decision. In maybe the match of the dual Dustin Plott #14 will wrestle Hayden Hastings #13. Hastings has a win over Plott last year when he was wrestling hurt and this should be a close one. Tate Samuelson of Wyoming ranked #15 at 184 will wrestle #6 Dakota Geer in a good match. Stephen Buchanan ranked #6 at 197 will wrestle AJ #1 and although IMO Buchanan is the best wrestler on Wyoming's team will suffer a defeat at the hands of AJ but may be a low scoring close match. At Heavy Brian Andrews ranked #10 is just too big and strong for Surber at this point but Andrews has been injured.
Utah Valley is the final opponent on Saturday for OK STATE and will feature one match at 125 when Tayor Lamont ranked #5 by Flo will wrestle Mastro #7 ranked by Flo. We should win the rest of the matches as Romero ranked #5 is out for the season with a knee injury ( this would have been the other featured Match of the dual) against Travis Witlake. Even though I am predicting losses by Luke Surber in two of his matches, now would be a good time for him to gain confidence and ranking by winning either or both. I just feel that Luke is a very good wrestler that just needs more strength and confidence to start winning some big matches for us.
Utah Valley is the final opponent on Saturday for OK STATE and will feature one match at 125 when Tayor Lamont ranked #5 by Flo will wrestle Mastro #7 ranked by Flo. We should win the rest of the matches as Romero ranked #5 is out for the season with a knee injury ( this would have been the other featured Match of the dual) against Travis Witlake. Even though I am predicting losses by Luke Surber in two of his matches, now would be a good time for him to gain confidence and ranking by winning either or both. I just feel that Luke is a very good wrestler that just needs more strength and confidence to start winning some big matches for us.
