Nelson Brands looked great with the TF win. Controlled the whole match.
I expect Happel to take this one since Degen won't be able to put on a long ride.Happel gets Degen next round. Hopefully he can get a little revenge for their last match at carver. If he wins there he is rewarded with future Penn state rival Nick Lee.
I expect Happel to take this one since Degen won't be able to put on a long ride.
Gfeller InjDef out it looks like. I was looking forward to seeing Rudy Yates take him out back to the woodshed. Anyone know what happened to him?
Nelson is getting better and better. I think he's a year away from being very good(placing here).
I expect Happel to take this one since Degen won't be able to put on a long ride.
Yates over gfeller? I don't think so. I think it would have been a gfeller McKee finals. Yates looks tiny at 38.
Yates doesn't get the credit he deserves. Ask Mitch McKee about him.
Nick Lee can't wait
McKee has lots of head scratching losses. He's not in rare company by having a win over McKee.
Not head scratchers when he's done it multiple times. I see what you are saying though. McKee does drop the occasional match here and there.
Anybody see Wag's match? Hey Omaha, I reverse my earlier ruling...Courtney ain't too damn bad. Vega and him are close but Vega needs a few more cheeseburgers.
Quarterfinal - Kanen Storr (Michigan) won by decision over Rudy Yates (Illinois) (Dec 11-8)True. Yates may make the finals now with Gfeller out. I'd much rather be on the bottom side of the bracket. He'll have a good one with Storr here soon.
I missed this one, was watching Yates/Storr. What happened?C'Mon Lee....get up.
Edit: Sweet...at least he's on his feet
True. Yates may make the finals now with Gfeller out. I'd much rather be on the bottom side of the bracket. He'll have a good one with Storr here soon.
Yates loses to Storr 11-8. You can tell he isn't much of a freestyle guy. Gave up a lot of points in positions he put himself in that he had no business being in outside of Folkstyle type scrambles.
No excuses though, Omaha you were right. I may have been a little homerish in predicting him beating up on Gfeller.
I missed this one, was watching Yates/Storr. What happened?
Just going to say...I Heart Rudy Yates. Yea, he lost but damn that kid is so game.
I do it all the time. Yates is good no denying that. He honestly just looks to little for the weight class. Not to mention that Storr is very good.
I agree Chief. I coached him at the kids level for a few years and he was on our Schoolboy duals team one of the years I coached it. I'm close with his family as well and my first education related job was actually at the middle school he attended. I try to avoid being a homer with IL kids on this board but with some I can't help it. He is truly a great kid and I root for him 100% of the time when he is on the mat.
I just wish he were going to Iowa and not UNI, but I can understand why from both sides of the coin.
Clingenpeel over Van Anrooy...wow what a match. Both guys dead at the end
In agreement all around. His style of wrestling does not translate as well to freestyle either. It's probably why this is the first time seeing him at Fargo. I will have to ask why he entered at 138 though. He can make 132 without much trouble and I would not be surprised one bit to see him at 125 for UNI at some point.
Is this the little dude that walked on to the Notre Dame Football team?I will too except against Iowa. The world needs more Rudy Yates
Of the many conversations I've had with Rudy's dad some have been about the kid not wrestling freestyle (actually urging him to give it a go). Before high school he got freestyle tech'd (a bunch of exposures while trying to secure a td) by a guy he would probably return the favor to in folkstyle and decided he didn't like the rules so that was it for him. I'm glad he gave it a go this year even though you can tell he's a novice at the style and got out freestyle'd in his loss. Kid is a dynamo on his feet.
*During one of his kids level state finals match he was the underdog and we did do the "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy..." chant.