College wrestling: Penn State tops Michigan and other headlines from last weekend
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Fireworks. That’s the only word to describe the college wrestling matches from this past weekend. The Penn State Nittany Lions returned to the mat and looked as close to championship form as this team has looked all season, Michigan pulled out a narrow, rivalry win against the Buckeyes and Navy topped Army 20-13 in another historic dual.
Add the fact that one top-ranked wrestler was taken down by a conference opponent, another top-ranked wrestler made his season debut and a third top-ranked wrestler is out temporarily because of a COVID-19 shutdown, and the intrigue only increases.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – In a match between two Top 10 teams as well as two bitter rivals, No. 2 Michigan edged No. 8 Ohio State 18-16 in a thrilling dual Friday night in Ann Arbor.
The team dual came down to the 10
th and final match and fittingly, the 157-pound match went the distance. Michigan won the match on riding time after the conclusion of the second set of tiebreaker periods. The Buckeyes are now 5-3 on the season while Michigan returned from a more than two-week break and is now 4-0.
Ethan Smith started the night with a big tone-setting win over No. 23 Cameron Amine in the 165-pound match. Smith had a nice takedown with under 40 seconds left in the third to claim a 4-3 lead and he rode out the remaining seconds for his seventh win of the season.
For the first time versus Ohio State since 2007, Michigan wrestling fans could hail the victors valiant on their home mat. The No. 2 Wolverines split five of 10 matches with the No. 8 Buckeyes Friday night in the Crisler Center, with Mason Parris tech fall over heavyweight Tate Orndorff the deciding factor. Parris bonus-point victory came just before intermission, but the meet came down to the very last minute of the meet, when 157-pounder WIll Lewan was awarded the victory and the dual by dint of having more riding time after all six sudden victory and tiebreaker periods. Lewan held off Elijah Cleary, who set the pace early but wasn t able to finish on a pair of first-period takedown attempts, to give his team the 18-16 victory.
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