Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational
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Zack Zavatsky upends Myles Martin, 6-4, in a 184 semi.
He'll face Gabe Dean in the finals (Dean had a pin in his semi).
He'll face Gabe Dean in the finals (Dean had a pin in his semi).
agreed. Zavatsky was on bottom for the 2nd, and got ridden by Martin for about 1:30. Martin had trouble getting out from bottom in the 3rd, and Zavatsky ended up with a 10 sec RT advantage, despite what happened to him in the 2nd.
Yeah, I typed that with time left. Martin escaped but couldn't get the TD to tie.
Match featured a tactical blunder by Zavatsky that he was able to fix with some timely back points. Up 4-2 and with a lot of riding time to erase, he stayed on top and erased it, but then held on to Martin's legs twice to get hit with a stall warning and then a stall point, respectively, making it 4-3. At that point an escape by Martin sends it to OT if nothing else happens. He should've just let Martin go once he erased the riding time, forcing Martin to get a TD to tie. The backpoints made that moot, but it was still a mistake.
I believe Martin is the 1st returning champ to lose a match this season. (NWCA All-Star matches don't count.)
Noticed in team scores Wis was leading with 100 that is a surprise to me.
Ohio State and VT at 99 looks like Ohio State and Vt for the title team wise.
VT got a blow in semis with a injury so not sure if the guy will wrestle back
so Ohio State should win it.
Minnesota did much better than I thought they would .
Ohio State and VT at 99 looks like Ohio State and Vt for the title team wise.
VT got a blow in semis with a injury so not sure if the guy will wrestle back
so Ohio State should win it.
Minnesota did much better than I thought they would .
Also going on today is UNI Open (on Flo Pro), where Illinois and Mizzou are going. Jaydin Eierman won his 133 bracket, and IMar and Daniel Lewis face off shortly, mat 5.
Interesting scores from IMar today:
Fall 2:54 [A Anaya]
TF 25-10 [M. McDaniel]
TF 30-14 [J Moody]
MD 14-6 [C Flynn]
For Eierman, his win against Brancale was probably more impressive than the finals win over Dylan Duncan, at least on paper. Only saw the latter.
Interesting scores from IMar today:
Fall 2:54 [A Anaya]
TF 25-10 [M. McDaniel]
TF 30-14 [J Moody]
MD 14-6 [C Flynn]
For Eierman, his win against Brancale was probably more impressive than the finals win over Dylan Duncan, at least on paper. Only saw the latter.
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Also it looked like Lewis was going to ride IMar tough like he usually does, and then all of a sudden IMar powerfully turned in and got the reversal.
I should add that in the first period Lewis was countering an IMar shot and almost had him pinned. Indeed he might have if the ref hadn't called a stalemate. The other official seemed to disagree with calling the stalemate at that time--IMar was really close to giving up a fall from neutral like he did to Nolf last year.
I should add that in the first period Lewis was countering an IMar shot and almost had him pinned. Indeed he might have if the ref hadn't called a stalemate. The other official seemed to disagree with calling the stalemate at that time--IMar was really close to giving up a fall from neutral like he did to Nolf last year.
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Don't think so.
Here are the other finals
125 Lizak TF Piotrowski
141 Thorn DEC Storr
149 Thomsen DEC Ervin
157 Lavallee DEC Fortuna
174 Lujan DEC Brunson
184 Parker FALL Foster
197 Cox FALL Hoffman
285 Black DEC Striefel
I am shocked that Lugo chose down in the third period against Micah with the match tied 3-3 and having over 1 minute in riding time. He was ridden like a pony for two minutes (Lugo is at least six inches shorter) and was almost pinned with a cradle. Lost 7-3. I would have loved to see how he would have done on his feet in the third.
Results, so far:
125: Dance (VT) dec over Rodriguez (tOSU), 4-3
133: Tomasello (tOSU) dec over Micic (Michigan), 3-2
141: McKenna (Stanford) dec over Meredith (Wyoming), 3-1
149: Micah Jordan (tOSU) dec over Lugo (EUP), 7-3
125: Dance (VT) dec over Rodriguez (tOSU), 4-3
133: Tomasello (tOSU) dec over Micic (Michigan), 3-2
141: McKenna (Stanford) dec over Meredith (Wyoming), 3-1
149: Micah Jordan (tOSU) dec over Lugo (EUP), 7-3
Joey Dance needed a late TD and rideout to tOSU's Rodriguez; maybe that's better news for the Buckeyes than VT that it was that close. Nato edged out Micic but I don't think Nato was ever in trouble.
Micah Jordan has looked great every time I've seen him. I think he has a better chance of holding Zain to a decision than Sorensen.
Micah Jordan has looked great every time I've seen him. I think he has a better chance of holding Zain to a decision than Sorensen.
Myles Martin was so flippin' fortunate last year. CANNOT WAIT til Bo gets his hands on him this year!
Maybe, but beating 2 guys by 5 and 4 respectively (Oliver and Lugo) that Zain absolutely destroyed leads me to believe that the Micah is in for some pain. Sorensen keeps it close because he plays it safe - if Micah wants to mix it up, he could be playing with fire, plus Sorenson is better on bottom.
really thought this would be the end for me in the LMS contest. Very impressive, Logan!
then again, I may have only bought a short amount of time. Still need Zavatsky to get past Dean.
No way Micah keeps Zain to just a decision. Lugo out wrestled him till he took bottom in third and got caught in a cradle. Zain will be able to turn Micah multiple times.
... but nice last minute and nice finish by Zahid. He's really separated himself from his brother.
He's always been much better in my eyes, Anthony had some good wins for a short period of time but wrestled all of those same guys a second time and lost
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