Three Tigers Guaranteed All-American Honors
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NEWS
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Three
Tigers Guaranteed All-American Honors
Six
Tigers remain alive and will compete in Session IV Friday night.
DES
MOINES, Iowa –
Three Tigershave already claimed All-American status by winning quarterfinal matches inFridayÂ’s morning session at Wells Fargo Arena. Top-seeded Alan Waters and Dom Bradley both defeated their counterparts, and sophomore Drake Houdashelt continued his magic
through the 2013 field with a tiebreaker victory over Kevin Tao of American. The Tigers sit in fifth place with 38.5 team points halfway through the tournament.
Waters claimed his first All-American honor after defeating No. 8 Matthew Snyder
of Virginia. Waters hit a takedown early in the first and then capped off the contest with another one with a little over 30 seconds left to win by decision, 4-0. The win marked the 100th of his career, a milestone the Mizzou junior reached in just
111 matches.
Redshirt senior Dom Bradley advances to FridayÂ’s semifinal round after a win
against No. 9 Zac Thomusseit (Pittsburgh). The quarterfinal match went into tiebreaker 1, where Bradley escaped and then kept a hold of Thomusseit for the second 30-secondperiod. After the 2-1 victory, Dom will now meet up with Michael McMullan of Northwestern.
The two met prior to this yearÂ’s season at the NWCA All-Star Classic, where the Tiger-heavyweight came out on top, 3-2.
This is the second time Bradley has earned All-American honors after claiming
third place in 2011.
Houdashelt is the third Tiger to reach the Semifinals this year. In a quarterfinal
battle of unranked opponents, the sophomore squeaked by Kevin Tao to advance to the final four at 149 pounds. Houdashelt had a 1-0 lead late in the third with a locked-in ride time point, however Tao was able to role over the top and cash in on a two-point
reversal. The contest went to tiebreakers, where Tao had a near escape but the officials waved off their initial call. Houdashelt thenescaped just five seconds in to the final tiebreaker period to emerge victorious, 3-2.
Houdashelt looks to avenge a loss from earlier this season against No. 2-seed
Jason Chamberlain of Boise State. The two faced off in Las Vegas at the Cliff Keen Invitational in December, with Chamberlain taking the match 6-4 in overtime.
Senior NathanMcCormick dropped his quarterfinal match to three-seed Tyler Graff
of Wisconsin. In what was a close match, McCormick couldnÂ’t finish off a late leg attack and fell, 5-3. He will face No. 9 Levi Wolfensperger Friday night, with the winner claiming All-American status.
Seniors Mike Larson and Todd Porter are also still alive in this yearÂ’s Championships.
Should they win their first match tonight, they too will become All-Americans. Larson will meet up with Max Thomusseit of Pittsburgh, and Porter will rematch No. 3 Mike Evans of Iowa.
Larson defeated Daniel Rinaldi of Rutgers, 5-2, to advance to Session IV this
year in Des Moines. The win was also his 100th career win while donning a Black and Gold singlet. He joins Bradley, senior Brent Haynes, and most recently,Waters, as Tigers who have reached that milestone this season.
The Semifinalround will begin at 6 p.m. CT and can be seen live on ESPNU or
ESPN3.com. Fans can also follow all the action on Twitter, @MizzouWrestling.
TEAM SCORES
1.
Penn State – 77.5 pts.
2.
Oklahoma State – 66.5 pts.
3.
Minnesota – 49.5 pts.
4.
Iowa – 39 pts.
5.
Missouri – 38.5 pts.
6.
Cornell – 37 pts.
7.
Ohio State – 30.5 pts.
8.
Edinboro – 27 pts.
8.
Nebraska – 27 pts.
RESULTS AND SCHEDULE
125 – No. 1 Alan Waters – GUARANTEED
ALL-AMERICAN
Champ. Round 1 - Alan Waters (Missouri) won by decision over David Thorn (Minnesota)
(Dec 5-2)
Champ. Round 2 - Alan Waters (Missouri) won by decision over Sean Boyle (Michigan)
(Dec 4-2)
Quarterfinal - Alan Waters (Missouri) won by decision over No. 8 Matthew Snyder
(Virginia) (Dec 4-0)
Semifinal – Alan Waters (Missouri) vs. No. 4 Nicholas Megaludis (Penn State)
133 – No. 6 Nathan McCormick
Champ. Round 1 - Nathan McCormick (Missouri) won by decision over Erik Spjut
(Virginia Tech)(Dec 3-0)
Champ. Round 2 - Nathan McCormick (Missouri) won by major decision over Dane
Harlowe (Boston U.) (MD 11-1)
Quarterfinal - Tyler Graff (Wisconsin) won by decision over Nathan McCormick
(Missouri) (Dec 5-3)
Cons. Round 4 – Nathan McCormick vs. Nick Wilcox (Bloomsburg)
141 – Nicholas Hucke -
Champ. Round 1 – No. 3 Michael Mangrum (Oregon St.) won in sudden victory 1
over Nicholas Hucke (Missouri) (SV-1 6-4)
Cons. Round 1 - Nicholas Hucke (Missouri) won by decision over Dean Pavlou
(Chattanooga) (Dec 6-1)
Cons. Round 2 - Nicholas Hucke (Missouri) won by decision over Luke Vaith (Hofstra)
(Dec 6-2)
Cons. Round 3 - Michael Nevinger (Cornell) won by decision over Nicholas Hucke
(Missouri) (Dec 7-2)
149 – Drake Houdashelt – GUARANTEED
ALL-AMERICAN
Champ. Round 1 - Drake Houdashelt (Missouri) won by decision over No. 11 Andrew
Alton (Penn State) (Dec 4-1)
Champ. Round 2 - Drake Houdashelt (Missouri) won by decision over No. 6 Dylan
Ness (Minnesota) (Dec 5-2)
Quarterfinal - Drake Houdashelt (Missouri) won in tie breaker 1 over Kevin
Tao (American) (TB-1 3-2)
Semifinal – Drake Houdashelt (Missouri) vs. No. 2 Jason Chamberlain (Boise
State)
157 – Kyle Bradley
Champ. Round 1 - Kyle Bradley (Missouri) won in tie breaker 2 over No. 4 James
Green (Nebraska) (TB-2 6-5)
Champ. Round 2 – David Bonin (Northern Iowa) won by decision over Kyle Bradley
(Missouri) (Dec 4-0)
Cons. Round 2 - Daniel Zilverberg (Minnesota) won by decision over Kyle Bradley
(Missouri) (Dec 6-0)
165 – Zach Toal
Champ. Round 1 - Zach Toal (Missouri) won by decision over Austin Wilson (Nebraska)
(Dec 6-2)
Champ. Round 2 – No. 3 Peter Yates (Virginia Tech) won by decision over Zach
Toal (Missouri) (Dec 7-0)
Cons. Round 2 - Zach Toal (Missouri) won by decision over Pierce Harger (Northwestern)
(Dec4-2)
Cons. Round 3 – No. 6 Patrick Graham (Oklahoma) won by decision over Zach Toal
(Missouri) (Dec 5-4)
174 – Todd Porter
Champ. Round 1 – No. 2 Mathew Brown (Penn State) won by major decision over
Todd Porter (Missouri) (MD 10-1)
Cons. Round 1 - Todd Porter (Missouri) won by decision over Billy Curling (Old
Dominion) (Dec 8-1)
Cons. Round 2 - Todd Porter (Missouri) won by decision over Jonathan Fausey
(Virginia) (Dec8-7)
Cons. Round 3 - Todd Porter (Missouri) won by decision over No. 10 Daniel Yates
(Michigan) (Dec 6-2)
Cons. Round 4 – Todd Porter (Missouri) vs. No. 3 Mike Evans (Iowa)
184 – No. 11 Mike Larson
Champ. Round 1 - Mike Larson (Missouri) won by decision over Ophir Bernstein
(Brown) (Dec 8-5)
Champ. Round 2 – No. 6 Ryan Loder (Northern Iowa) won by decision over Mike
Larson (Missouri) (Dec 2-0)
Cons. Round 2 - Mike Larson (Missouri) won by decision over Boaz Beard (Iowa
St.) (Dec 2-1)
Cons. Round 3 - Mike Larson (Missouri) won by decision over Daniel Rinaldi
(Rutgers) (Dec 5-2)
Cons. Round 4 – Mike Larson (Missouri) vs. Max Thomusseit (Pittsburgh)
197 – No. 12 Brent Haynes
Champ. Round 1 - Jackson Hein (Wisconsin) won in sudden victory 3 over Brent
Haynes (Missouri) (SV-3 5-3)
Cons. Round 1 - Brent Haynes (Missouri) won by decision over Maxwell Huntley
(Michigan) (Dec 9-4)
Cons. Round 2 – No. 6 Kyven Gadson (Iowa St.) won by decision over Brent Haynes
(Missouri) (Dec7-3)
HWT – No. 1 Dom Bradley – GUARANTEED
ALL-AMERICAN
Champ. Round 1 – Dom Bradley (Missouri) won by major decision over Stryker
Lane (Cornell) (MD 10-1)
Champ. Round 2 – Dom Bradley (Missouri) won by decision over Matthew Gibson
(Iowa St.) (Dec 4-2)
Quarterfinal – Dom Bradley (Missouri) won in tie breaker 1 over No. 9 Zac Thomusseit
(Pittsburgh) (TB-1 2-1)
Semifinal – Dom Bradley (Missouri) vs. Michael McMullan (Northwestern)
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