Originally posted by MiccoMacey:
26-6, OSU.
Micco, you were close-final score 25-11 and OU had two good wins and then got an unexplainable win at 174. I nominate Jordan Rogers as the nicest wrestler I have ever met. He is a great kid and so friendly and personable. Maybe he is too nice and that is his problem in wrestling. He has much more talent than he shows. Granted Matt Reed ran for two periods after scoring a takedown and back points but Jordan has to be more aggressive and he just has not shown it. Third year at OSU and based on his highschool career he should be doing much better than he is and separating from wrestlers like Reed. This was the low light of the dual today. The first minute of the Nolan Boyd match was the highlight. Talk about a wrestler that came to wrestle and you would have to show a picture of Nolan. Sorry the OU wrestler got injured but he had chance before the injury. We need more Nolan Boyd attitudes on this team.
Eddie looked good and much bigger than Milhof who will be a good wrestler for OU in the future. I am fearful of Brian Crutchmer's psych after his last several matches where he has been totally over-matched. He gives his all but just does not have the skill and horse power of his opponents and in particular Dardanes and Brewer. Dean Heil had two takedowns in the first period, One TD in the second period and one in the third period along with over a minute of riding time to win 10-5 and although he looked tired he was able to suck it up for that third period takedown which should have made John happy.
Josh Kindig dominated Shayne Tucker with four takedowns and riding time for a10-2 win.
Anthony Collica came out aggressive but could not finish his shots on DeAngelis. First Period was scoreless and Collica escaped in the 2nd for a 1-0 lead. However, in the third DeAngelis escaped and got two takedowns forf the5-2 win. I think Anthony can beat DeAngelis in the future but he will have to wrestle 3 periods. Alex Dieringer was dominant in his 8-1 win over Clark Glass with a takedown and a ride out in the first, escape and takedown in the 2nd but looked to be somewhat gassed in the third but managed to get a takedown for 8-1 win.
Austin Schafer gave way too much respect to his former Edmond North team-mate. He managed one takedown in the match and an escape. That one takedown was one more than the number of takedown attempts made by Andrew Dixon who as Abe Lemon would have said, " he had the same number of takedown attempts that a dead man would have had"
Austin Marsden made the only attempts for a takedown in his match with Ross Larson and managed to turn two of these attempts into takedowns. He should have had two other takedowns and again looked strong in all three periods to win 5-2 in a match that was not that close.
Most fans came away from the dual feeling that with the exception of 1-2 weights we did not wrestle well and did not have much fire in our bellies. The OU wrestlers appeared to love the black lines enclosing the wrestling area and should have been called for stalling more often PARTICULARLY at 174 but nobody expected OU to be good and they did not disappoint.
