Southern Scuffle

[RadioBison]

Semifinals
133 Cam Sykora (#20, 6-1) vs Devan Turner, Oregon State (#21, 15-4)
157 Luke Weber (#75, 10-4) vs Jesse Dellavecchia, Rider (#5, 16-1)

Consolation Round of 8 #2
149 Jaden Van Maanen (#104, 6-7) vs AJ Leitten, North Carolina State (#65, 14-7)
157 Jared Franek (#35, 13-5) vs Tyler Eischens, Stanford (#45, 15-5)
174 Lorenzo De La Riva (#42, 3-4) vs Jake Logan, Lehigh (#75, 9-4)
184 Noah Cressell (#153, 8-4) vs David Key, Navy Prep School (NA, 7-1)
197 Cordell Eaton (#43, 7-4) vs Nick Reenan, North Carolina State (#6, 3-1)
285 Brandon Metz (#30, 13-3) vs Michael McAleavey, Citadel (#123, 11-10)
285 Dan Stibral (#76, 7-3) vs Owen Trephan, North Carolina State (#60, 12-7)

I'll be working while all this is happening.

[Big Bird]

I think it was a good day by just about everyone. We're in 2nd place just behind OK St., and that is with Mac getting hurt and Fogarty sitting out.

Yeah, really encouraging day. Guys like Cordell and JVM getting a bunch of wins with Cordell reversing an earlier loss against a quality guy in Ducharme.

Throw in Weber's run, De La Riva beating Smith, and everyone contributing and today really was really good.

[RadioBison]

Really good day for NDSU. Lots of guys still in it and two in the semi finals.

Nice to see JVM get going and rattle off a bunch of wins. Same for Eaton.

Encouraging to see Cressell get a bunch of wins.

Huge win for De La Riva today too.

Only real bummers today are no Fogarty and Midkiff getting injured. I thought Midkiff would place and was definitely among the top 8 in the tournament. Hopefully he's back in short order, but if not, I'm all for burning Gamet's redshirt.

I don't know how we ended up here instead of at South Beach, but I'm glad it worked out that way.

[Big Bird]

JVM gets a medical forfeit and will place. He has Van Der Mere next, who is the top seed and beat him handily earlier in the tournament.

[Big Bird]

Franek with a really nice win to advance to placement rounds.

Cressell battled back from a big hole and then got headlocked and pinned.

De La Riva up now

[Big Bird]

De La Riva loses 8-7, Eaton loses big.

Stibral wins and will place.

Metz coming up

[Big Bird]

Wow, Metz was damn near pinned, and rolls the guy through to get his own fall with 1 sec left in the first, erasing an 8-2 deficit.

Couple forced throws that backfired, but he advances anyway.

[Big Bird]

Sykora looking great early with two first period takedowns, a 4 point tilt, and leads 8-1 after 1 with almost 2 minutes of RT in tow.

[Big Bird]

Cam moves to the finals with a second period tech fall

[Big Bird]

Weber scrambled well to avoid a couple takedowns to get to the second period scoreless.

In the 2nd, Weber rides really tough for 1:45 before giving up the escape. Weber very nearly gets a td at the end of the second that they are reviewing. Weber trails 1-0 heading to the third and will have 46 seconds to escape to tie it and hold the rt advantage