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Houdashelt Leads Darkhorses in Des Moines

Houdashelt Leads Darkhorses in Des Moines

Mar 21, 2013 by Willie Saylor
Houdashelt Leads Darkhorses in Des Moines
Upset City
 Willie Saylor, Editor

There were upsets all over the place on the opening day of wrestling at the NCAA DI Champioships on Thursday. Enough for us to dub Des Moines 'Upset City.'

Twenty seeded wrestlers went down in Round 1. In Round 2, there were sixteen instances were guys lost to lower seeded (or unseeded) wrestlers.

No one shocked Wells Fargo Arena quite like Missouri's 149lber, Drake Houdashelt. First he edged Penn State's Andrew Alton 3-1. Then he rallied to beat returning NCAA finalist, Dylan Ness of Minnesota.

Here's a complete list of the upsets from Day I. 


Round 2
 125lbs
Dom Parisi, App State over #12-Tyler Cox, WYO

133lbs
None - Top 8 Seeds All Advanced

141lbs
 Ricky Durso, F&M over #8-Nick Dardanes, MINN

149lbs
#9-Jake Sueflohn, Nebraska over #8-Nick Brascetta, VT
Drake Houdashelt, Missouri over #6-Dylan Ness, MINN

157lbs
Josh Demas, Ohio St. over #7-Jesse Dong, VT

165lbs
#12-Taylor Massa, MICH over #5-Steven Monk, NDSU
#11-Cody Yohn, MINN over #6-Bubby Graham, OU

174lbs
Tanner Weatherman, Iowa St. over #7-Jordan Blanton, Illinois

184lbs
Max Thomousseit, PITT over #8-Josh Ihnn, NEB
#12-Ethan Lofthouse, Iowa over #5-Kevin Steinhaus, MINN

197lbs
#11-Blake Rosholt, OK St. over #6-Kyven Gadsen, Iowa St.
#10-Scott Schiller, MINN over #7-Nate Scheidel, BING

HWT
#9-Zac Thomousseit, PITT over #8-Mike McClure, MSU
#11-JT Felix, BSU over #6-Bobby Telford, Iowa
#10-Jarrod Trice, CMU over #7-Connor Medbery, WISC


Round 1
 125:
Dom Parisi, App St. over #5-Jarrod Garnett, VTech
Evan Silver, Stanford over #11-Nikko Triggas, Ohio St.
Steve Bonnano, Hofstra over #10-Josh Martinez, Air Force

133:
Vinny Dellafave, Rutgers over #12-Jordan Conaway, Penn St.
Dane Harlowe, Boston over #11-George DiCamillo, Virginia

141:
Zach Neibert, VTech over #11-Mike Nevinger, Cornell

149:
Kevin Tao, American over #3-Donnie Vinson, Binghamton
Drake Houdashelt, Missouri over #11-Andrew Alton, Penn State

157:
Round 1
Taylor Walsh, Indiana over #3-Joey Napoli, Lehigh
Kyle Bradley, Missouri over #4-James Green, Nebraska
Zac Cibula, Rider over #9-Frank Hickman, Bloomsburg
Josh Demas, Ohio State over #10-RJ Pena, Oregon State
Spartak Chino, Ohio over #12-Walter Peppelman, Harvard

165:
Mike Moreno, Iowa State over #10-Nick Moore, Iowa

174:
Hunter Gamble, Gardner-Webb over #9-Nate Brown, Lehigh
Tanner Weatherman, Iowa State over #10-Dan Yates, Michigan
Matt Mougin, No. Illinois over #11-Blake Stauffer, ASU
John Martin Cannon, Buffalo over #12-Matt Miller, Navy

184:
Max Thomousseit, Pitt over #9-Chris Chionuma, OK State

197:
Jackson Hein, Wisconsin over #12-Brent Haynes, Missouri

HWT:
None

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