Robideau won by a point but really wrestled without focus and almost gave up a takedown at the end. Score was like 7 to 6, Landon defense wasn't there.
U.S. Open Championships April 23rd-27th
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Dee wins 5 to 2 with a 4 point move at the end. He really seemed to struggle and seemed very tired but like winners he made the move when he needed to ( double leg for 4 points at the edge of the mat). Tough, gutty win.
Cody and Dreshaun, I think both will be wrestling a Mirasola brother (Penn. St.)
Dee is an elite talent. Having said that, it's always been his gas tank that could present him with issues, as in this match. A collegiate match would have taxed his tank even more.
Sealey is very strong and physical, always staying in a low defensive stance and very physical with his ties and hands making Lockett exert a lot of energy.
I feel like that’s one way a redshirt could benefit him. It’d give him a whole year to work on his cardio.
That's really the only weakness I see in his game. He's very quick and fundamentally sound from every position, flexible, great mat awareness and strategy, all kinds of different attacks. I hope he can increase his endurance.
If has any chance of hanging with Messenbrink he better focus heavily on his cardio.
Poor strategy by Merrill the entire match. Mirosola was the stronger wrestler, controlling the collar tie and Merrills head the whole match. Merrill kept collar tying with him over and over which played right into Mirosolas hands. Merrill will need to vary his set ups, attacks and strategy to win a title in college.
Merrill losing and not really close makes me question our development. A year ago, Cody beat both Mirasola's soundly the fact he wrestled so poorly is a negative in wrestlers' development. A year ago Cody wrestled with strength and quickness, not tonight. Truth, is I don't like how most of our wrestlers, wrestled tonight. Merrill's balance appeared bad tonight also.
Amazing what Jax did at the Senior level.Also cool that he is not scared to bump up!
Kid loses one match in the finals to another awesome wrestler and our whole development is questioned.
Being a fan seems like a miserable experience for you.
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A year ago he was way better than both Mirasole's. My memory indicates he beat both brothers soundly.
Did you not watch any other guys get better this whole year ?
The first period Ross looked like a 17 year old high school kid wrestling a man who had been in the PSU college room training all year. The second period, Ross found another gear somehow and made it a close match. If Ross had two more years of growth and development he would tech Mirasola.
Ross was impressive for sure. The match was much closer than last time Ross faced him. The potential for Ross is amazing.
Overall this was a great tournament for our seniors, u20s and u17s. The future looks very bright!
I see your point, but for some reason, Merrill has tank was not there. And Mirasolas last year been training at PSU, that made a difference.
But one thing is for sure. Merrill has to grow and get things right. Since he looked tiny compared to Mirasola.
U20 placers:
- 1st place Ladarion Lockett, 74kg
- 2nd place Cody Merrill 92kg
- 2nd place Dreshaun Ross, 125kg
- 3rd place Landon Robideau, 70kg
- 4th place Ronnie Ramirez, 57kg
- 3rd place Rocklin Zinkin, 55kg
- 4th place Villasenor, 55kg
One wrestler who underperformed in your opinion makes you question the development of our entire wrestling program? As a whole, our seniors, u20s and u17s performed great in this tournament.
I wish Vega would have wrestled. I feel he can be something very special.
I’m pretty sure he’s only ever wrestled the bigger one, who he beat pretty soundly two different times. The smaller Mirasola, who he wrestled today, is generally considered the better one. He was the only one besides Zahid to takedown Aaron Brooks at the team trials last year.
OSU’s college program and RTC program hasn’t been healthier or on a steeper upward trajectory ever.
This weekend was another data point to back that up.
Nice to see some new posters meeting Harley.
If Mirasola took down Brooks, that is quite a feat!
Not sure why you're getting crucified for this take. Huge 180 with his performance. Absolutely concerning. Not the end of the world of course. But nothing positive going from a win to a butt-whupin year over year.
I think as a whole, we did really good. Cody did get beat, the Mirasolas looked good. Ross did great. He’s a top flight athlete with a lot of room to grow. Same can be said about most of this crops recruits. I would say, it’s a good thing, specially since most our recruits and RTC athletes were competitive with, and out performed most the best athletes from Penn State, Iowa and across the nation. I did see some gas tank problems, and a bit rough and unpolished athletes. It’s not season yet and many of these athletes are still training with their club teams. The weight issue wasn’t good. He probably will never do that again
Our senior RTC was a HUGE brute spot. It’s good to be a cowboy. Go pokesHe isn’t getting “crucified” because he is disappointed in Cody. It’s the fact that he is now questioning our development ability as a program because of that match.
Also to my knowledge he has never faced this Mirasola so I’m not sure where the 180 comes from. Maybe they have wrestled and I missed it.
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I did not know that you were so knowledgeable that you could decide I am way off base. I have said this many times that our staff is proving to be great recruiters and I have seen some good development with some of our wrestlers but there are still lots of questions. Great development with Hendrickson, Hamiti and Spratley but I am not impressed with any other wrestler's development (based on more than 1 match) that were in the room. Our RTC guys did very good at the Open and Jax was fantastic. I hope Jax, Lockett, Robideau, Vega and the others experience great development, but time will tell. Also, Merrill is very important and my picture was he was better than Mirasola and I was stunned how bad he wrestled. Everyone has a bad night, but it was concerning. Also I did not like how any of our wrestlers wrestled tonight. Also I based this on memory and maybe he wrestled the bigger Mirasola twice. This is my opinion, if you don't like it, I'm okay with that.
It does seem he could have beefed up. He looks small compared to his competition. Time will tell. I don’t think you have to worry about him players NT the clock or stalling though. Bro gets after it and I love his attitude
On future OSU vs PSU guys.
Cody Merrill was disappointing, but I'm 100% sure DT will get to work with him and prepare him better for the season. Merrill seemed to have gas tank issue with confusion on how to attack, bigger longer Connor.
With a year scrambling with Doucet and Wyatt, I'm taking ross over almost anyone including Cole Mirasola. Ross was impressive, and therr is no pushouts in folk style. Cole is not impressive at all with winning over Mocco by 6 push outs and a review point.
Anytime Dee lockett faces Sealey, I see Dee winning, even if its close. That will go only one way.
Jax vs Blaze will be interesting battle to come in future for 61kg. Both winning one and Jax seems to be ever improving. I will take offensive Jax over defensive Marcus.
Duke vs Robideau is interesting, Duke is a stud, But Robideau doesnt back down, I see Landon improving in Stillwater, wrestling with studs in the ctraining center.
Not to mention, all Ross, Dee, Jax and Robideau are all younger than their PSU counterpart (Some by 2 years) . I see OSU doing well in future against PSU.
Beau vs Young is irrelevant since Young wont start mostly for us at same weight as Beau.
Cody Merrill was disappointing, but I'm 100% sure DT will get to work with him and prepare him better for the season. Merrill seemed to have gas tank issue with confusion on how to attack, bigger longer Connor.
With a year scrambling with Doucet and Wyatt, I'm taking ross over almost anyone including Cole Mirasola. Ross was impressive, and therr is no pushouts in folk style. Cole is not impressive at all with winning over Mocco by 6 push outs and a review point.
Anytime Dee lockett faces Sealey, I see Dee winning, even if its close. That will go only one way.
Jax vs Blaze will be interesting battle to come in future for 61kg. Both winning one and Jax seems to be ever improving. I will take offensive Jax over defensive Marcus.
Duke vs Robideau is interesting, Duke is a stud, But Robideau doesnt back down, I see Landon improving in Stillwater, wrestling with studs in the ctraining center.
Not to mention, all Ross, Dee, Jax and Robideau are all younger than their PSU counterpart (Some by 2 years) . I see OSU doing well in future against PSU.
Beau vs Young is irrelevant since Young wont start mostly for us at same weight as Beau.
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I think you are wrong because a lot of your disappoint seems to be that Cody teched Connor before and now got beat. I can’t find any record or result of Cody teching Conner. Any idea when it happened?
Do I think Cody looked great? Not really but Connor is a stud. Let’s not forget we aren’t that far removed from Cody having a very close match with the national champion.
I’m just not sure how anyone can be disappointed with the weekend as whole. This weekend was an extremely successful one for OSU wrestling.
Cody looked fine, he had a good tournament and fell short with a bad match in the finals.
I take it as a true positive when the biggest negative is a second place finish at the US Open. I sure wish I was a disappointment!
This was a good weekend for OSU Wrestling. Was it perfect? Nope, but it was dang good!