Found my seat atop MSG for the NCAA Wrestling Championships which are set to begin now with pigtail matchups. Penn State will have 125-pound Nico Megaludis up first in the prelim.
I've got a bird's eye view for this one, which is nice because I can see all the mats clearly, but it's also going to make reporting and talking to the wrestlers/coaches much more difficult. I'll figure it out, though. But as I said in my thread yesterday, just an overall different feel here in NYC than previous tournaments for many different reasons.
Here's a quick look at PSU's first round matchups:
125: No. 3 Nico Megaludis vs. Pigtail winner of Brandon Jeske of Central Michigan vs. Chasen Tolbert of Utah Valley
133: No. 5 Jordan Conaway vs. Central Michigan’s Corey Keener
141: Jimmy Gulibon vs. Missouri's Matt Manley
149: No. 1 Zain Retherford vs. pigtail winner of Chris Vassar of GW/Cole Hammond of CSUB
157: No. 3 Jason Nolf vs. Kamaal Shakur of Chattanooga
165: Geno Morelli vs. No. 11 John Staduenmayer of UNC
174: No. 1 Bo Nickal vs. Josef Johnson of Harvard
184: No. 16 Matt McCutcheon vs. Tom Sleigh of Bucknell
197: No. 1 Morgan McIntosh vs. Ryan Wolfe of Rider
I've got a bird's eye view for this one, which is nice because I can see all the mats clearly, but it's also going to make reporting and talking to the wrestlers/coaches much more difficult. I'll figure it out, though. But as I said in my thread yesterday, just an overall different feel here in NYC than previous tournaments for many different reasons.
Here's a quick look at PSU's first round matchups:
125: No. 3 Nico Megaludis vs. Pigtail winner of Brandon Jeske of Central Michigan vs. Chasen Tolbert of Utah Valley
133: No. 5 Jordan Conaway vs. Central Michigan’s Corey Keener
141: Jimmy Gulibon vs. Missouri's Matt Manley
149: No. 1 Zain Retherford vs. pigtail winner of Chris Vassar of GW/Cole Hammond of CSUB
157: No. 3 Jason Nolf vs. Kamaal Shakur of Chattanooga
165: Geno Morelli vs. No. 11 John Staduenmayer of UNC
174: No. 1 Bo Nickal vs. Josef Johnson of Harvard
184: No. 16 Matt McCutcheon vs. Tom Sleigh of Bucknell
197: No. 1 Morgan McIntosh vs. Ryan Wolfe of Rider
