2025 NCAA Championship Session V Thread

[razpsu]

174 3rd Place Match: #2 seed Levi Haines vs. #11 seed Patrick Kennedy (Iowa)

I'll use PK for Kennedy

Picking this up in the 2nd period, with the score 7-2. (Haines with a 1st period TD, PK an esc, then Haines took bottom and escaped, then Haines with a TD, and PK with an esc). End

Per 3
PK takes bottom. PK sits out, Haines nearly pulls him back to the mat for points; eventually he flattens him. PK works up to his base. Haines throws in a boot. RT goes over 1 min for Haines. He needs a tilt for bonus points. 1 min left. Stalemate with 57 sec. PK turns and is away, 7-3. PK shoots and gets a leg, Haines with a body lock, they scramble, and Haines gets the TD, 10-3. End. With RT, it's a 11-3 MAJor for Levi Haines!!!!

He finishes in 3rd Place!!!!

I don’t understand why he didn’t wrestle Hamiti like this the way he did in the 3rd against Kennedy. Good for him to come back for 3rd. Hope he learned not to change his style. Burroughs was saying you have to ride to be great. So many kids these days don’t know how to do it. Haines knows how to do it but changed his tactic. Damn.

 

[Bob78]

174 3rd Place Match: #2 seed Levi Haines vs. #11 seed Patrick Kennedy (Iowa)

I'll use PK for Kennedy

Picking this up in the 2nd period, with the score 7-2. (Haines with a 1st period TD, PK an esc, then Haines took bottom and escaped, then Haines with a TD, and PK with an esc). End

Per 3
PK takes bottom. PK sits out, Haines nearly pulls him back to the mat for points; eventually he flattens him. PK works up to his base. Haines throws in a boot. RT goes over 1 min for Haines. He needs a tilt for bonus points. 1 min left. Stalemate with 57 sec. PK turns and is away, 7-3. PK shoots and gets a leg, Haines with a body lock, they scramble, and Haines gets the TD, 10-3. End. With RT, it's a 11-3 MAJor for Levi Haines!!!!

He finishes in 3rd Place!!!!

Tom - Thanks for all the hard scrambling to get the match reports to us for this session. Much appreciated.

 

[lionlover]

Points are coming like crazy today!

Let's hope that carries over to the evening.

 

[KJB32812]

Jeff Byers just said 1

Culture is culture. This is so awesome.to watch as a fan. Didn't we get bonus in 5/6...including Beau?

I mean, that's crazy.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Appears PSU has 169.0 points heading into the Finals

 

[KJB32812]

The team would have it with Kirk getting 3rd.

 

[ElDuce]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

PSU goes 11-1 in the consolation rounds!!!

 

[LifeLongLion]

Tom - Thanks for all the hard scrambling to get the match reports to us for this session. Much appreciated.

Yeah - bravo @Tom McAndrew

 

[DRoot4PSU]

the sales pitches don't waste time getting out there. smh

Why is this a bad thing?

 

[KJB32812]

Appears PSU has 169.0 points heading into the Finals

So they need to win two?

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Beachwineguy]

PSU goes 11-1 in the consolation rounds!!!

Isn’t it technically 11-3 with Kerk’s forfeits?

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[NittPicker]

So they need to win two?

Just one to get the record. But they may as well go ahead and just win all three.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

So they need to win two?

No, 1 win will do it. A win is worth 4 points, plus any bonus points you earn in the win.

 

[OhioLion]

PSU goes 11-1 in the consolation rounds!!!

Serious possibility they get the points record with Greg in the lineup?

 

[LifeLongLion]

No, 1 win will do it. A win is worth 4 points, plus any bonus points you earn in the win.

And if Star is first on the mat, we should have that wrapped up by 7:15... Yeah, I'm going there.

 

[Jeff-Loz]

PSU goes 11-1 in the consolation rounds!!!

Thanks for all your efforts, Tom. You've made the entire championships much more enjoyable !!

 

[KJB32812]

Serious possibility they get the points record with Greg in the lineup?

He'd have finished third.

 

[EDHOLLAPSU]

I was thinking the same thing. They need to keep eating whatever they had for breakfast

 

[Sloepoke20]

PSU goes 11-1 in the consolation rounds!!!

The guys looked awesome today! Even in Davis’ loss he really scraped till the end. I couldn’t have envisioned a better round. If the ref would have called the fall for Bartlett like he should have and if D’emillo didn’t run the entire last minute to avoid getting teched.

 

[lionlover]

Last year in the team score PSU was the points hog with second place Cornell being 100 points behind. This year PSU will likely break last year's record but there will be three other teams within 100 points. Not that it means anything. Just an observation.

Don't sell yourself short; it was a solid observation.

 

[lionlover]

Tom - Thanks for all the hard scrambling to get the match reports to us for this session. Much appreciated.

For Xrist sakes please refrain from giving him any praise. It will go to his head and he will get lazy @ssed on us!!!

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[SRATH]

Pinned Him.

I thought this was for Beau. At least from TV, it looked like Beau had it 3 or 4 times and ref kept moving in a different direction.

 

[Mstan85]

Not sure I have the math right, but just counting our freshman and sophomores, we have 107.5 points. They alone would win or be a very close second, depending on tonight. .

 

[LifeLongLion]

He'd have finished third.

I'll make the argument that if he wasn't injured, he'd have finished 2nd and would be wrestling tonight.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[GregPickel]

Sorry for leaving you all and especially you @Tom McAndrew hanging but, videos coming soon from Bartlett, Kasak, and Lilledahl.

Front page recap here:

Recap: Penn State wrestling has five third place finishers out of seven in medal round of the NCAA Championships

Penn State wrestling could clinch the team title at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in the medal round. Follow live updates here.

www.on3.com

 

[NoSoup4U]

Pinned Him.

I thought this was for Beau. At least from TV, it looked like Beau had it 3 or 4 times and ref kept moving in a different direction.

Yeah not sure how these refs decide what to look at he at least circled twice away from where the shoulders were going....and secondarily what is the 2nd ref watching for if he gets a view if anything the other guy doesn't see---does he get a chance to make the call? else why have a 2nd ref

 

[Bob78]

Sorry for leaving you all and especially you @Tom McAndrew hanging but, videos coming soon from Bartlett, Kasak, and Lilledahl.

Front page recap here:

Recap: Penn State wrestling has five third place finishers out of seven in medal round of the NCAA Championships

Penn State wrestling could clinch the team title at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in the medal round. Follow live updates here.

www.on3.com

Great job, Greg.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Isn’t it technically 11-3 with Kerk’s forfeits?

Could be. I don't know how med forfeits are counted.

I probably should have phrased it as they went 11-1 in matches they wrestled in Session V

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Yeah not sure how these refs decide what to look at he at least circled twice away from where the shoulders were going....and secondarily what is the 2nd ref watching for if he gets a view if anything the other guy doesn't see---does he get a chance to make the call? else why have a 2nd ref

I missed almost all of the match covering other matches, so I can't speak to whether I thought he was pinned or not.

I've mentioned before that it's not nearly as easy as you might think to anticipate where shoulders are going. And a lot of the time you are on the other side, checking for locked hands or other issues.

As for the 2nd ref, they absolutely can not make any calls. They offer verbal input (time left, if they go OOB when the main ref is looking at a potential pin, etc.), but can't blow their whistle, or make any calls. The closest they get to making a call is they can visually signal locked hands, but it's up to the main ref to actually call the illegal hold and award the point.

 

[lionlover]

Sorry for leaving you all and especially you @Tom McAndrew hanging but, videos coming soon from Bartlett, Kasak, and Lilledahl.

Front page recap here:

Recap: Penn State wrestling has five third place finishers out of seven in medal round of the NCAA Championships

Penn State wrestling could clinch the team title at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in the medal round. Follow live updates here.

www.on3.com

 

[LifeLongLion]

Ferrari. Wow. What an interview.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Why is this a bad thing?

I don't think I indicated if it was good or if it was bad -- just an observation about the speed at which marketing pitches appear on social media.

 

[GregPickel]

Sorry for leaving you all and especially you @Tom McAndrew hanging but, videos coming soon from Bartlett, Kasak, and Lilledahl.

Front page recap here:

Recap: Penn State wrestling has five third place finishers out of seven in medal round of the NCAA Championships

Penn State wrestling could clinch the team title at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in the medal round. Follow live updates here.

www.on3.com

I broke these out into a separate thread, so you all can easily find them. Click the link below to see it:

Penn State wrestling videos: Lilledahl, Bartlett, Kasak talk NCAA Championships + story

Breaking this out so it's easy to find.

www.on3.com

 

[lionlover]

I've mentioned before that it's not nearly as easy as you might think to anticipate where shoulders are going. And a lot of the time you are on the other side, checking for locked hands or other issues.

As for the 2nd ref, they absolutely can not make any calls. They offer verbal input (time left, if they go OOB when the main ref is looking at a potential pin, etc.), can't blow their whistle, or make any calls. The closest they get to making a call is they can visually signal locked hands, but it's up to the main ref to actually call the illegal hold and award the point.