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2025 Big Ten Tournament thread

165 SF - Mitchell Mesenbrink VS Beau Mantanona (MICH)

Period 1:
Mantanona shoots & gets a quick TD, 3-0. Mesenbrink gets the escape, 3-1. Mitch presses forward. Mantanona drops to both knees. Mitch shoots & gets a leg. Mantanona locks through the crotch. Mitch keeps working, but it's a stalemate. Neutral restart. Mitch presses forward & tries a throw by, but no luck. Mitch shoots, but misses, 90-sec left. Mitch shoots, gets a leg & takes Mantanona to neutral danger, but no points. They're head to feet now. Mantanona keeps working, but Mitch comes behind for the TD, 4-3, 42-sec left. Mitch is looking for a cradle, but they go out of bounds, restart. Mantanona is still down, 29-sec left. Mitch is putting on a hard ride & has Mantanona bellied out. Mitch has a chicken wing & is trying to run it over, but the ref blows it dead for PD, restart. Mantanona is still down. Mitch rides out the 1st.

Period 2:
Mitch takes down, gets to his feet, then gets a leg & works for the escape, 5-3. Mitch picks an ankle, then it's blown dead for something. Why? Neutral start. Mitch with a lightning fast TD, 8-3. Mitch cuts Mantanona, 8-4. Mitch immediately hits another TD, 11-4. Mitch cuts Mantanona, 11-5. Out of bounds & restart. Mantanona gets a stall call. Mantanona shoots. Mesenbrink counters & it's stopped for something, PD maybe? Mitch presses forward, shoots & gets a leg. He keeps working & finishes off the TD, 14-5. Mitch goes over 1-min RT & rides out the period.

Period 3:
Mantanona takes down. Mitch gets Mantanona bellied out. Mitch with a hard ride. There's a goofy roll & Mantanona gets the escape. 14-6. Mitch shoots, Mantanona shoots, but nobody scores. Mitch presses forward & Mantanona gets another stall call, point Mitch, 15-6. Out of bounds & restart, 1:08 left. Mitch hits a TD off the whistle, then cuts Mantanona, 18-7. Mitch keeps coming & gets another TD, 21-7. Mitch cuts Mantanona, 21-8. Stall call #3 on Mantanona, point Mitch, 22-8. Mitch hits a double leg TD to finish off the 25-8 TECH!

Mitchell Mesenbrink TECH Beau Mantanona 25-8 (6:29)

Cael knows wrestling!!

Jinx - Bartlett loses
Double Jinx - Van Ness loses

Neither one got a takedown
Both seemed stymied by the length of their opponents.

We've been spoiled recently with the super high rate of PSU success in the Semi's. Hope they get back to that high rate in the NCAA's....

(5) 6 of 9 to the finals (67%) not too shabby! Looks like a shoe in for the team title with a decent lead on Nebraska, but Nebraska has 4 in the finals. If Lillidhal beats the Nebraska kid at 125 to begin the night it would pretty much be over. Gotta believe they will save the Kirkvliet/Stevenson match for last, with 125 the start.
Lillidhal (125)
Kasak (157
Mitchell Mesenbrink (165)
Levi Haines (174)
Carter Starocci (184)
Greg Kerkvliet (285)

I'm going with 4 PSU winners, with Kerkvliet losing to Stevenson and one of Lilidhal or Kasak or Haines also losing. 4 PSU NC's wouldn't be the record but would still be a dominating performance!
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