Oklahoma Dual 11/20

[Big Bird]

Don't forget, 200pm Central time on FSN. TLLJr said thats channel 27 on Midco and it's channel 668 on Direct TV

[RadioBison]

Is Josh fun to watch, or what?

[Mr Meaty]

I never wrestled in high school or was a wrestling fan. I am watching today. See if you gain a new fan.

[Bison"FANatic"]

I never wrestled in high school or was a wrestling fan. I am watching today. See if you gain a new fan.

I tried today also lasted a minute and a half. If there was a sport at NDSU that I could care less if they cut this is it.

[El_Chapo]

fanatic. why post that?

ndsu Wrestling is the ONLY sport at NDSU with the balls to "Bring on the competition" and move up into a big time conference !
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good Wrestling. need ream to win this

[Big Bird]

Man, Friedman was right there with Jeffries...controlled the ties all match and had a great chance to take the lead late, but wound up on his back instead

[HerdBoy]

I never wrestled in high school or was a wrestling fan. I am watching today. See if you gain a new fan.

Me too. Great watching this on FSN.

[Big Bird]

Glad to see McNutt pull that one out...but I imagine he's going to hear it from the staff. You cannot give up an escape and takedown in the last 11 seconds of a period.

Big Test for Eaton here

[Big Bird]

Decent performance today. It was a winnable dual, but things had to go about really well.
HWT- Just not a good matchup for Tynan.
125- Rodriguez looked great. 125 is super deep, but Josh is in the mix for an AA spot
133- The performance at 133 has been really bad so far. 2nd semester should be much better with Sykora in there
141- I thought Nein wrestled pretty well. He just needs more experience in scramble situations. It is a HUUUUUGE jump from ND HS wrestling to D1, and I thought he handled it well. If he finishes that first period td, which he should have, that is a very different match. It'll be very interesting to see how he progresses this year.
149- Friedman had a shot to win this one in the last minute of the match, which I'm positive nobody thought could happen. Nice effort
157- Clay wrestled great. Barnes is really tough and has some great shots, but it didn't matter.
165- Would've liked to see more urgency from Fogarty. In the end, he lost a close match and didn't look overwhelmed and Glass is a borderline top 10 guy.
174- Nielson looked good. Would've liked to see him open up more, as I think he was significantly better than his opponent.
184- Good job to get the win, just need to clean up some minor things and pick his spots better. It's a good sign when you can still win when not wrestling your best.
197- He competed decently with a top 20 guy. Once he committed to his offense in the third, he was in on Johnson's legs quite a bit. Needs to work on finishing those and committing to full attacks earlier.

Overall, a loss sucks, but it was expected. I saw more positives than negatives for going forward. One concern, bottom wrestling still wasn't very good. It's been an issue for a while (it may have been a little better today, but still not an acceptable level). Shot defense was much better today in my book, which is encouraging.

[RadioBison]

I am very encouraged by today. Ream got a solid win over a good opponent. Rigo looked like he's a top five contender. We did better at a lot of weights where I think we would have struggled last year. This team is moving in the right direction, although I think the conference is doing the same thing as a whole.