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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]2009 Midlands — First Day Highlights[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Iowa (with seven semifinalists) leads Iowa State (with six semifinalists) by 7.5 points (100-92.5) in team race prior to the start of Wednesday’s semifinals. Each team also has three in wrestlebacks.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Among the semifinals, featuring an Iowa-ISU matchup, will be at 165 pounds (Cyclone Jon Reader vs. Hawkeye Ryan Morningstar), 174 (Jay Borschel vs. Duke Burk) and 197 (Jake Varner vs. Chad Beatty).[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] The other semifinalists per school are: (for Iowa) Matt McDonough (125), Nate Moore (133, who is subbing for 2008 Midlands champ Daniel Dennis), Joe Slaton (141), Brent Metcalf (149) and Phil Keddy (184): (for Iowa State) Andrew Long (125), Nick Fanthorpe (133).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Iowa had three wrestlers seeded at 141 pounds — No. 2 Dan LeClere, No. 4 Joe Slaton and No. 9 Montell Marion — in hopes of determining a permanent starter at this weight. Only one — Slaton, the 2008 NCAA finalist at 133 pounds who sat out last year — has reached the semifinals. Slaton, who competed unattached until the Midlands, will meet No. 1 seed James Kennedy (Illinois) in a semifinal.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Central Michigan saw three of its higher-ranked wrestlers get upset:[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]— 133-pound Scott Sentes (ranked 7th by WIN and seeded No. 2) lost to Iowa’s Nate Moore, 2-1, in the second round;[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]— at 149 pounds, Steve Brown (seeded No. 3 and ranked No. 6 by WIN) lost in the second round to Northern Iowa’s Tyson Reiner;[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]— Mike Miller (the 2008 Midlands and 2009 NCAA runner-up at 174 pounds) lost in a pigtail match to Maryland’s Corey Peltier, 10-5.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Meanwhile, redshirt freshman Ben Bennett (who switched weights with Miller), reached the semifinals at 174 pounds.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]The following are weight-by-weight highlights heading into the semifinal round:[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]125 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Northwestern’s Brandon Precin, who is redshirting as a senior, was seeded No. 1 and reached the semifinals, where he will face Iowa State’s Andrew Long.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Jarrod Garnett, the No. 2 seed from Virginia Tech, also reached the semis and will face Iowa’s McDonough.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • No. 8 seed Jasen Borshoff lost in the first round to Northern Iowa’s Caleb Flores, 6-4, in sudden victory.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]133 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • All but one of the top four seeds reached the semifinals, where No. 1 Fanthorpe of Iowa State will meet No. 4 Tyler Graff of Wisconsin. Meanwhile, No. 3 Steve Bell of Maryland will take on Iowa’s Moore, who upset No. 2 seed Scott Sentes in a second-round bout. Moore then beat No. 7 seed Matt Fisk (Lehigh), 3-2, in a quarterfinal.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]141 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Illinois is one round away from seeing two of its wrestlers in the finals. No. 1 James Kennedy of Illinois must face Iowa’s Joe Slaton, while the other Illini, 7th-seed Ryan Prater, will take on Maryland’s Alex Krom in the other semi.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Kennedy advance to the semis with an 9-3 victory over Hofstra’s Lou Ruggirello, who is redshirting his senior year. Prater defeated Iowa’s LeClere in another quarterfinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • No. 6 seed Seth Ciasulli (Lehigh) lost a second-round bouth to No. 11 Trevor Melde (Rutgers), 8-6.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]149 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Seeds No. 4 (Kevin LeValley of Bucknell) and No. 5 (Minnesota’s Mario Mason) were upset, allowing Pitt’s Eric Albright the opportunity to reach the semis. Albright defeated LeValley, 9-6, in a quarterfinal. One match earlier, Albright beat Clarion’s Greg Lewis, who beat Mason 6-3 in a first-round bout.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Michigan State’s David Cheza reached the quarterfinals (where he lost to Iowa’s Metcalf, 12-3) after the Spartan upset two seeded wrestlers: No. 9 Mike Kessler (Rider), 5-0, in a pigtail bout, and No. 8 R.J. Pena (Oregon State) in a second-round match.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]157 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Minnesota’s Jake Deitchler, 2008 Greco-Roman Olympian who returned to folkstyle this winter but did not compete until the Midlands, reached the semifinals as the No. 6 seed. Along the way, Deitchler only had to beat one other seeded wrestler: No. 11 Daryl Cocozzo (Rutgers), in a second-round match.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Northern Iowa’s Tyson Reiner upset No. 3 seed Steve Brown (Central Michigan) in a second-round match, then lost to Deitchler in the quarterfinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Deitchler will face former Purdue wrestler Jake Patacsil in the semifinal.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]165 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • The top four seeds all advanced, including No. 1 Andrew Howe (the defending national runner-up from Wisconsin) and No. 4 Nick Marable (Missouri). It’s ISU’s No. 2 Reader vs. Iowa’s No. 3 Morningstar in the other semi.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]174 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Purdue’s Luke Manuel, seeded No. 3, lost in the second round to Oregon State’s Colby Covington, 3-1, in sudden victory. Covington then lost to No. 6 Dorian Henderson of Missouri, 3-1, in a quarterfinal. Henderson will meet CMU’s Bennett.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]184 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • American University’s two-time All-American Mike Cannon, who won the 2008 Midlands at 174 pounds, will meet Iowa’s Phil Keddy in a semifinal. Cannon, seeded No. 2, did not face one seeded wrestler after his quarterfinal victim — Boaz Beard, unattached from Iowa State — upset two seeded foes: No. 10 Josh Patterson (Binghamton), 7-4, in the first round; and Lehigh’s David Craig, 10-3, in a second-round match.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]197 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • The No. 4 seed Trevor Brandvold of Wisconsin lost in the first round to Lehigh’s Joe Kennedy, 3-0. Kennedy reached the quarters but lost to Iowa’s Beatty, 3-2.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Heavyweight[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Central Michigan sophomore Jarod Trice reached the semifinals as a No. 8 seed when he knocked off former Penn State All-American Aaron Anspach, 8-1, in a quarterfinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • There will be no meeting between Missouri heavyweights Dom Bradley (the Junior World champ) and Mark Ellis (2008 champ). Bradley will meet Trice after beating Pitt’s Ryan Tomei in a quarterfinal, while Ellis lost to Iowa State’s David Zabriskie, 6-4.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Iowa (with seven semifinalists) leads Iowa State (with six semifinalists) by 7.5 points (100-92.5) in team race prior to the start of Wednesday’s semifinals. Each team also has three in wrestlebacks.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Among the semifinals, featuring an Iowa-ISU matchup, will be at 165 pounds (Cyclone Jon Reader vs. Hawkeye Ryan Morningstar), 174 (Jay Borschel vs. Duke Burk) and 197 (Jake Varner vs. Chad Beatty).[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] The other semifinalists per school are: (for Iowa) Matt McDonough (125), Nate Moore (133, who is subbing for 2008 Midlands champ Daniel Dennis), Joe Slaton (141), Brent Metcalf (149) and Phil Keddy (184): (for Iowa State) Andrew Long (125), Nick Fanthorpe (133).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Iowa had three wrestlers seeded at 141 pounds — No. 2 Dan LeClere, No. 4 Joe Slaton and No. 9 Montell Marion — in hopes of determining a permanent starter at this weight. Only one — Slaton, the 2008 NCAA finalist at 133 pounds who sat out last year — has reached the semifinals. Slaton, who competed unattached until the Midlands, will meet No. 1 seed James Kennedy (Illinois) in a semifinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Central Michigan saw three of its higher-ranked wrestlers get upset:[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]— 133-pound Scott Sentes (ranked 7th by WIN and seeded No. 2) lost to Iowa’s Nate Moore, 2-1, in the second round;[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]— at 149 pounds, Steve Brown (seeded No. 3 and ranked No. 6 by WIN) lost in the second round to Northern Iowa’s Tyson Reiner;[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]— Mike Miller (the 2008 Midlands and 2009 NCAA runner-up at 174 pounds) lost in a pigtail match to Maryland’s Corey Peltier, 10-5.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Meanwhile, redshirt freshman Ben Bennett (who switched weights with Miller), reached the semifinals at 174 pounds.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]The following are weight-by-weight highlights heading into the semifinal round:[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]125 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Northwestern’s Brandon Precin, who is redshirting as a senior, was seeded No. 1 and reached the semifinals, where he will face Iowa State’s Andrew Long.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Jarrod Garnett, the No. 2 seed from Virginia Tech, also reached the semis and will face Iowa’s McDonough.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • No. 8 seed Jasen Borshoff lost in the first round to Northern Iowa’s Caleb Flores, 6-4, in sudden victory.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]133 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • All but one of the top four seeds reached the semifinals, where No. 1 Fanthorpe of Iowa State will meet No. 4 Tyler Graff of Wisconsin. Meanwhile, No. 3 Steve Bell of Maryland will take on Iowa’s Moore, who upset No. 2 seed Scott Sentes in a second-round bout. Moore then beat No. 7 seed Matt Fisk (Lehigh), 3-2, in a quarterfinal.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]141 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Illinois is one round away from seeing two of its wrestlers in the finals. No. 1 James Kennedy of Illinois must face Iowa’s Joe Slaton, while the other Illini, 7th-seed Ryan Prater, will take on Maryland’s Alex Krom in the other semi.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Kennedy advance to the semis with an 9-3 victory over Hofstra’s Lou Ruggirello, who is redshirting his senior year. Prater defeated Iowa’s LeClere in another quarterfinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • No. 6 seed Seth Ciasulli (Lehigh) lost a second-round bouth to No. 11 Trevor Melde (Rutgers), 8-6.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]149 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Seeds No. 4 (Kevin LeValley of Bucknell) and No. 5 (Minnesota’s Mario Mason) were upset, allowing Pitt’s Eric Albright the opportunity to reach the semis. Albright defeated LeValley, 9-6, in a quarterfinal. One match earlier, Albright beat Clarion’s Greg Lewis, who beat Mason 6-3 in a first-round bout.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Michigan State’s David Cheza reached the quarterfinals (where he lost to Iowa’s Metcalf, 12-3) after the Spartan upset two seeded wrestlers: No. 9 Mike Kessler (Rider), 5-0, in a pigtail bout, and No. 8 R.J. Pena (Oregon State) in a second-round match.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]157 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Minnesota’s Jake Deitchler, 2008 Greco-Roman Olympian who returned to folkstyle this winter but did not compete until the Midlands, reached the semifinals as the No. 6 seed. Along the way, Deitchler only had to beat one other seeded wrestler: No. 11 Daryl Cocozzo (Rutgers), in a second-round match.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Northern Iowa’s Tyson Reiner upset No. 3 seed Steve Brown (Central Michigan) in a second-round match, then lost to Deitchler in the quarterfinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Deitchler will face former Purdue wrestler Jake Patacsil in the semifinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]165 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • The top four seeds all advanced, including No. 1 Andrew Howe (the defending national runner-up from Wisconsin) and No. 4 Nick Marable (Missouri). It’s ISU’s No. 2 Reader vs. Iowa’s No. 3 Morningstar in the other semi.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]174 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Purdue’s Luke Manuel, seeded No. 3, lost in the second round to Oregon State’s Colby Covington, 3-1, in sudden victory. Covington then lost to No. 6 Dorian Henderson of Missouri, 3-1, in a quarterfinal. Henderson will meet CMU’s Bennett.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]184 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • American University’s two-time All-American Mike Cannon, who won the 2008 Midlands at 174 pounds, will meet Iowa’s Phil Keddy in a semifinal. Cannon, seeded No. 2, did not face one seeded wrestler after his quarterfinal victim — Boaz Beard, unattached from Iowa State — upset two seeded foes: No. 10 Josh Patterson (Binghamton), 7-4, in the first round; and Lehigh’s David Craig, 10-3, in a second-round match.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]197 pounds[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • The No. 4 seed Trevor Brandvold of Wisconsin lost in the first round to Lehigh’s Joe Kennedy, 3-0. Kennedy reached the quarters but lost to Iowa’s Beatty, 3-2.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Heavyweight[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • Central Michigan sophomore Jarod Trice reached the semifinals as a No. 8 seed when he knocked off former Penn State All-American Aaron Anspach, 8-1, in a quarterfinal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] • There will be no meeting between Missouri heavyweights Dom Bradley (the Junior World champ) and Mark Ellis (2008 champ). Bradley will meet Trice after beating Pitt’s Ryan Tomei in a quarterfinal, while Ellis lost to Iowa State’s David Zabriskie, 6-4.[/FONT]
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