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Ohio State Wrestling (2015/2017/2018 B1G Champs, 2015 National Champs, 2019 National Runners-up)

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Saw on twitter that there will be at least one wrestle-off Thursday night for the right to wrestle in the B10s next weekend. I'm guessing Orndorff and Gas Tank due to I don't think anyone has regressed as much as Tate during this disappointing season. Would also be interested in another match between D'Emilio and Ech if he is fully healthy.
 
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Akron Rick said:
Saw on twitter that there will be at least one wrestle-off Thursday night for the right to wrestle in the B10s next weekend. I'm guessing Orndorff and Gas Tank due to I don't think anyone has regressed as much as Tate during this disappointing season. Would also be interested in another match between D'Emilio and Ech if he is fully healthy.
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Hell, I'm open to wrestle offs at 133, 141, 157, 184, 197 and Heavy at this point haha. But realistically probably 197 and heavy.
 
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Pre-Seeds and Allocations are out for the B10 tournament

125- (7 allocations) 1 seed is Spencer Lee (Iowa) Malik Heinselman is seeded 3rd.
133-(7) 1 seed is Bravo-Young (PSU) Jordan Decatur is seeded 8th
141-(7) 1 seed is Eierman (Iowa) Dylan D'Emilio is seeded 7th
149-(6) 1 seed is Sammy Sasso 2 seed is Max Murin
157-(7) 1 seed is Deakin (NW) Cleary is seeded 9th.
165-(7) 1 seed is Marinelli (Iowa) Ethan Smith is seeded 3rd.
174-(7) 1 seed is Kemmerer (Iowa) Kaleb Romero is seeded 6th.
184-(7) 1 seed is Brooks (PSU) Rocky Jordan is seeded 10th.
197-(5) 1 seed is Schultz (Neb) Gavin Hoffman is seeded 9th.
285-(8) 1 seed is Steveson (Minn) Tate Orndorff is seeded 8th.

Looks like a good shot at qualifying at 125,149,165,174, and possibly 184. I say 184 because Rocky has picked it up somewhat his last few matches and quite frankly he seems to have a really good draw. We'll see. Also Malik has a clear path to Lee if he wrestles to his capabilities (be careful what you ask for,though). Good luck to all the Bucks!
 
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Throughout a college wrestling season, the sport reminds its athletes of the physicality needed to compete at a high level.

College wrestlers need to be at peak condition to sustain the brutality of a seven-minute match, especially at a program like Ohio State who competes in a Big Ten Conference that features nine ranked teams.

After a lengthy offseason that lasted eight months, Ohio State wrestlers have fought to remain in shape. Still, the team’s most significant weakness this season has been its conditioning, which proves true in its inability to win close matches.

In a 28-12 loss to Penn State in the regular-season finale, Ohio State redshirt senior Elijah Cleary and redshirt juniors Kaleb Romero and Tate Orndorff dropped matches in the closing seconds.

“As bad as the final score was, we can flip a lot of those matches,” Ohio State head coach Tom Ryan said. “They all came down to one takedown, and we can overturn those.”

Losing by close margins did not start against Penn State. The Buckeyes have struggled all season with claiming highly contested matches and leaving points on the mat against their competition.

Ohio State wrestlers have lost 38 individual matches across all weight classes, with 18 resulting in final scores within two points or less of their opponents.

Ryan noticed the beginning of the trend when the team faced Illinois in their season-opening dual meet. The Buckeyes dropped six matches to the Illini, losing six by two points or less.

Ryan said the close losses indicated the team’s lack of conditioning and pointed to the pandemic’s significant role in each wrestler’s ability to train in the offseason.

“The people that were in quarantine, this six- or seven-month period, that were in a good setting to improve look a lot better than those that weren’t,” Ryan said.
 
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Wow..not to denigrate Coach Ryan at all because his record at OSU speaks for itself, but this article in the Lantern reads like "woe is us, the pandemic hurt us twice as bad as anyone else and we couldn't cope". On second thought, maybe the editors got this copy mixed up with a scUM football article because it sounds more like Harbaugh moaning than Ryan.
 
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The Big Ten Network, Fox Sports App, and BTN Plus will provide live, linear coverage of the tournament’s four sessions from the Bryce Jordan Center beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. The tournament will continue at 7:30 p.m. with the semifinals and wrestlebacks.

On Sunday, the consolation semifinals and seventh-place matches will begin at noon. The championship and third-place matches will take place in the evening.
 
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Akron Rick said:
Pre-Seeds and Allocations are out for the B10 tournament

125- (7 allocations) 1 seed is Spencer Lee (Iowa) Malik Heinselman is seeded 3rd.
133-(7) 1 seed is Bravo-Young (PSU) Jordan Decatur is seeded 8th
141-(7) 1 seed is Eierman (Iowa) Dylan D'Emilio is seeded 7th
149-(6) 1 seed is Sammy Sasso 2 seed is Max Murin
157-(7) 1 seed is Deakin (NW) Cleary is seeded 9th.
165-(7) 1 seed is Marinelli (Iowa) Ethan Smith is seeded 3rd.
174-(7) 1 seed is Kemmerer (Iowa) Kaleb Romero is seeded 6th.
184-(7) 1 seed is Brooks (PSU) Rocky Jordan is seeded 10th.
197-(5) 1 seed is Schultz (Neb) Gavin Hoffman is seeded 9th.
285-(8) 1 seed is Steveson (Minn) Tate Orndorff is seeded 8th.

Looks like a good shot at qualifying at 125,149,165,174, and possibly 184. I say 184 because Rocky has picked it up somewhat his last few matches and quite frankly he seems to have a really good draw. We'll see. Also Malik has a clear path to Lee if he wrestles to his capabilities (be careful what you ask for,though). Good luck to all the Bucks!
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Here are the brackets: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bigten.org...en_Wrestling_Championship_Brackets_3_5_21.pdf

buckeyeintn said:
Malik Heinselman opens the tournament with a first period fall. Unfortuanately Jordan Decatur out with a medical forfeit.
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