Bison vs Wyoming

[Portlandbison]

Projected starters from the NDSU press release, which included how to watch Fridays dual vs Minnesota?? Don't know how accurate it is but should be a good matchup. Wyoming has 3 wrestlers in the coaches poll (125 Volk, 157 Wright, 174 Hastings).

125 Henningson vs Volk
133 Midkiff vs Ricks
141 Droegemueller vs Greenwood
149 March vs Zollman
157 Franek vs Wright
165 Caliendo vs Moody
174 Sax vs McIntosh (no mention of hastings?)
184 Parker vs Short
197 Pentz vs Raddon
285 Mora vs Swartz

[CrazyJoeDavola]

Projected starters from the NDSU press release, which included how to watch Fridays dual vs Minnesota?? Don't know how accurate it is but should be a good matchup. Wyoming has 3 wrestlers in the coaches poll (125 Volk, 157 Wright, 174 Hastings).

125 Henningson vs Volk
133 Midkiff vs Ricks
141 Droegemueller vs Greenwood
149 March vs Zollman
157 Franek vs Wright
165 Caliendo vs Moody
174 Sax vs McIntosh (no mention of hastings?)
184 Parker vs Short
197 Pentz vs Raddon
285 Mora vs Swartz


Hastings had a shoulder injury a week or so ago. May be out for the season from what I have heard.

[Portlandbison]

Henningson lost 4-2. Couldn't quite finish to get a reversal in the 2nd or a takedown late in the 3rd.

[Portlandbison]

Midkiff with a 10-3 decision. He looked gassed the 3rd but getting 3 there was nice to see

[Portlandbison]

Dylan with a 7-3 decision, glad to see him on the mat and get a nice win.

[Big Bird]

Wright is a high quality opponent and has stalled his ass off, but Franek has to push the pace more

[Big Bird]

Franek is fortunate to walk away with a win there and that gameplan won't get it done at nationals and that has been his gameplan against Lee and Coleman. Need more aggression

[Big Bird]

Really good controlled win for Caliendo

[Big Bird]

Big match for Parker here

[Portlandbison]

Very nice showing for parker, at least the 1st period

[Big Bird]

DJ raced to a 12-0 first period lead and wins 13-2. really good win

[Big Bird]

32-3 win over Wyoming

[RadioBison]

Solid night

[Portlandbison]

Really nice night for the Bison. I thought Henningson looked good in the only loss of the dual. Hopefully Jack Maughan was right when he said Negrete will be back in a week or so.

[PaBizon]

Very nice night for the BiZon. Decent crowd too.
Henningson wrestled a good match but Volk was just too strong
Midkiff looked strong for two periods. Should have secured bonus points but laid an egg in the third.
Droegemueller was solid across the board
March is definitely strong enough for 149. Wrestled aggressively
Wright never took a shot against franek until SV. We know why because he didn’t finish and franek won the match of a counter
Caliendo is so strong. Wrestled a kid that was quicker than him and at times got a little sloppy. Still and 8-4 win though.
Sax with a ice win. You can see him slowly becoming more of an offensive wrestler
DJ came out on fire. Thought he could have kept the pressure on for a TF. Has come so far from where he was the first month of the season
Pentz is just a beast right now. Pin city
Mora continues to learn and scraps out another close win.

Should be very similar results on Sunday.

[RadioBison]

Franek is fortunate to walk away with a win there and that gameplan won't get it done at nationals and that has been his gameplan against Lee and Coleman. Need more aggression

This seems like a delicate balancing act. Jared seems to be confident in winning close matches in ride-outs if necessary, and if he can run the table with a couple more close matches along the way, he will get a very high seed at NCAAs. But he is also running out of opportunities to show that he can score points when he really needs them. It's hard to string together a bunch of wins at nationals if you don't leave a little margin for error. At this point, I would guess the game plan will stay mostly the same, and hopefully he finds a way to keep coming out on top when it comes to the critical matches.

[RadioBison]

Henningson lost 4-2. Couldn't quite finish to get a reversal in the 2nd or a takedown late in the 3rd.

Two weeks in a row Henningson clearly had an escape, but then attacked before the ref awarded it, and ended up staying down. I know the three point escape / takedown sequence is cool when you can get them, but you have to wait until the ref gives the points before diving back in. The same kind of situation worked in our favor earlier in the year with Franek vs. Jacques.

[Big Bird]

This seems like a delicate balancing act. Jared seems to be confident in winning close matches in ride-outs if necessary, and if he can run the table with a couple more close matches along the way, he will get a very high seed at NCAAs. But he is also running out of opportunities to show that he can score points when he really needs them. It's hard to string together a bunch of wins at nationals if you don't leave a little margin for error. At this point, I would guess the game plan will stay mostly the same, and hopefully he finds a way to keep coming out on top when it comes to the critical matches.

You're absolutely right. My worry is that it'll be hard for him to "flip the switch" when it comes to NCAAs. I think the more aggressive he is, the higher his margin for error becomes. Come NCAA time, he's going to have very good opponents from round 2 on that are of Wright's caliber or better and as we've seen with him at NCAAs, he'll need all the margin he can get.