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Big Ten 2009 Tourney Results and Highlights

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So imagine how mad and frustrated I was when I go to create this post yesterday and the servers are down. Awesome. As soon as I get home, they’re working. Better. Best part is, I didn’t email the post to myself, so I couldn’t get it posted once I got home. It’s the best! – Nacho Libre plug. Anyways, here is the post that SHOULD have been up last night. Sorry for the delay.

Here is the transcript of the video. I’ve probably butchered a bunch of the names; sorry if yours is one of them and you’re reading it! Contact us and let us know and we’ll correct it!

Welcome back again wrestling at the 2009 big ten championships at 141 lbs Michigan sophomore Kellen Russell had a late take down to knock off top ranked Zach Tenelli 6-4 for his first individual title.
Brent Metcalf at 149 lbs continued his dominating performance. Metcalf pinned Bubba Jenkins to notch his 65th consecutive match win, breaking into Iowa’s top ten for pins in a season with 18.
At 157 lbs, defending big ten champion Mike Poeta defeated North Western’s Jason Welsh 8-2 for his second title
At 165 lbs Wisconsin true freshman Andrew Howell lived up to his top seed beating Ryan Morningstar in overtime giving the badgers their first big ten championship since 2006
174 lbs Michigan Steve Luke captured his third straight big ten title. The 12-5 decision over Quinton Right leaves Luke undefeated this season
At 184 lbs top ranked Jake Herbert became the first wildcat ever to capture 3 big ten championships with a win over Phil Petty. Herbert extended his college winning streak to 60.
At 197 lbs Tyron Todd of Michigan gathered riding time to beat Wisconsin’s Dallas Hurbst with a 5-4 decision this is Todd’s first title, helping Michigan to a third place finish while Iowa captured it’s second consecutive title.
6 wrestlers repeat as big 10 champs, including the winners from each of the first 5 weight classes. Defending NCAA champion Brent Metcalf who captured the 149 lb title was named The wrestler of the championships for the second straight season.
As for the final team standings behind their two individual winners, the Hawkeyes repeat as big ten champs, recording their 33rd title in program history. Pretty impressive. Iowa finished with 141 pts and Illinois was second with 113.5 and Michigan third with 92.5. The hawks will send 9 wrestlers to the NCAA championships beginning March 19th in St. Louis and will be looking to repeat as the title holders in this event as well.

Tournament results:

School Score Individual Champs Weight
Iowa 141 A. Escobedo 125 125
Illinois 113.5 E. Gomez 133 133
Michigan 92.5 K. Russell 141 141
Wisconsin 88 B. Metcalf 149 149
Minnesota 86 M. Poeta 157 157
Ohio State 80 A. Howe 165 165
Penn State 79.5 S. Luke 174 174
Northwestern 73.5 J. Herbert 197 197
Indiana 67.5 D. Erekson HVY HVY
Purdue 52
Michigan State 45.5

Iowa Shutdowns Indiana

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Just as a super quick note: earlier this week, we did put up a video of Metcalf in an interview. We said that he had 59 wins. We would like to correct that; he now has 60 straight wins.

Senior 125-pounder Charlie Falck upset defending NCAA champion Angel Escobedo Friday night in Bloomington.

Senior 125-pounder Charlie Falck upset defending NCAA champion Angel Escobedo

Indiana took on Iowa Friday night. And lost. Big surprise. That makes 37 straight dual victories for Iowa and they are 7-0 in the Big Ten this season. I’m pretty sure I can call this one and say they are going to stay number one and take the NCAA title this year as well. The final score of this match was Iowa 24, Indiana 12. They opened the match at the 125 lb mark with Iowa’s Charlie Falk, ranked fifth, going up against third-ranked Angel Escobedo. Falk took it 3-1, improving his record 19-2. After the 125 came the 133 pounders. Again, Iowa took the mat with Daniel Dennis, who gained a major decision over Matt Ortega, putting the Hawks ahead 7-0 and putting up his own ninth straight win.

Metcalf was able to get a tech fall over Nick Walpole at 149, scoring 19-4. This brought the Hawkeye’s up to an 11-3 lead for the night. He is now 28-0 this season alone but has, as we’ve said before, won 60 consecutive matches.

Other wins of the night came from Ryan Morningstar, Jay Borschel, Phillip Keddy and Chad Beatty.

College Wrestling Network

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I was reading in WIN magazine – literally 5 seconds ago – and found a very interesting link on their site to the new CollegeWrestlingNetwork site. This looks like it’s going to be big news! They have authors and writers coming from Buckeye Wrestling.com; InterMat, Michigan Grappler.com, RevWrestling.com, Takedown Radio, Tech-Fall, TheMat.com, The Wrestling Mall, WIN Magazine and Wrestling411, with more coming. Seriously it’s going to be sick. It’s basically a lot of links from a bunch of different websites, giving you the up to date things across the nation in News, Features, Results, Rankings, Photos, and Audio/Video, all with links pointing back to the original sites.

They will be covering live matches it sounds like it early December. They will have the Iowa vs Iowa State match, as well as the Oklahoma vs Oklahoma St. match. They will start the live coverage, though, with the the Las Vegas invitational. Should be interesting to see how they cover such a large event live!

I checked out the site at CollegeWrestlingNetwork, which is up and running. However, it seems pretty basic at the moment. They are planning, however, to make a widget so that other designers and web sites, like WrestleFattie, will be able to have that content show up easily on their pages and in their content. So keep tuned and you will soon see that widget here on our pages! Or, you might just see WrestleFattie on their pages!