Thanks.

Cats had 5 place below their seed and 2 finished above their seed and one placed where he was forecast. They have 5 automatic NCAA qualifiers and could get more when the wild cards are announced later in the week. Finished 3rd as a team behind Missouri and CMU which is where I expected them to finish. They did nose out Kent which was ranked ahead of them by half a point. If they had wrestled to their seeds they could have given CMU a run for second but if Kent hadn't lost their best wrestler to injury OU would have finished fourth.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-wrestl/recaps/030616a...

Just got word that Laney 125 and Romanchik 184 received invites as well to the big grapple in NYC. That makes a school record 7 wrestlers going forward.

Cody Walters is into the quarterfinals. One more win would secure him All-American honors.

Cameron Kelly and Andrew Romanchik went 1-1 to stay in contention. Chino Spartak was 2-1.

Shakur Laney and Austin Reese both were eliminated with two losses. Phil Wellington was eliminated with a 1-2 record.

NCAAs today:
125 - Ohio's Shakur Laney lost 8-2 to UNI #9 seed Dylan Peters, then was eliminated with a 9-7 OT loss to Wyoming's Drew Templeman.
133 - Ohio's #13 Cameron Kelly won 14-0 over Buffalo's Bryan Lantry, then lost 14-4 to Oklahoma's #4 Cody Brewer.
157 - Ohio's Chino Spartak lost 7-2 to UNI's Bryce Steiert, then won 2-1 over Virginia's Andrew Atkinson and by pin in 28 seconds against Army's Russell Parsons.
165 - Ohio's Austin Reese lost 7-3 to Rider's #12 Connor Brennan, then lost 2-0 to Duke's Jake Faust.
174 - Ohio's #7 Cody Walters won 7-3 over SDSU's David Kocer, then won 3-2 over Central Michigan's #10 Michael Ottinger to reach quarterfinals. Will face Iowa State's unseeded Lelund Weatherspoon.
184 - Ohio's Andrew Romanchik lost to NDSU's #12 Hayden Zillmer, then won 3-2 over Iowa State's Dane Pestano.
197 - Ohio's #11 Phil Wellington lost 3-1 in OT to Iowa State's Patrick Downey and then beat Lehigh's John Bolich 4-2 and lost 6-1 to Sam Wheeler.

All four wrestlers lost their first matches today, but Walters just took a 4-2 victory in overtime against MAC rival and #3 seed Blaise Butler of Missouri. Butler went in at Walters' legs and got him over his shoulders, but Walters held on to his legs and eventually worked his way free and on top for a takedown. Walters will be an All-American for the second time in his career and still can work his way up to as high as third place.

Was disappointed by O.U.'s showing in the NCAA's.
But overall the MAC didn't pretty well, including 1 National Champion.

Also,the NCAA's at the Garden was an "event".

Living 20 minutes from the City, my wife and I got to go the Friday and Saturday Sessions (No way we were going into the City on St. Patty's Day).

Ran into a number of Bobcats and Bobcat fans.

Wrestling at this level is so competitive that a one second lapse in concentration can cost you significantly. On paper Walters beats the Iowa State kid in the quarterfinals 7 out of 10 times. That match propelled the ISU wrestler who was unseeded to 5th place and Walters placed 7th which is where he was seeded. The Ohio State wrestler was seeded 11th and wins the weight class over the number 1 seed who had beaten him 3 times previously.