Session III Results - 2 Beavers Remain

Wrestling art at Madison Square Garden

  Session III on Friday mornings at the NCAA's is a meatgrinder. The first two matches for Oregon State started the morning on a high note. Ronnie Bresser won by fall! Joey Palmer won by major decision! But after that, things took a turn for the heartbreaker.

Joey Delgado lost the morning's first heartbreaker to Geo Martinez of Boise. So close, just of few seconds of riding time gave the match to Martinez. That eliminated Joey. Then Seth Thomas was eliminated. Corey Griego almost pulled out another big upset of the #4 seed, but lost another Beaver heartbreaker in tiebreaker OT, eliminating Corey.

Amarveer Dhesi was our last man in the Championship bracket. Unfortunately, he came up against the #2 seed, a freestyle World Champion. That dropped Dhesi into the Consolation bracket with the other Beavers.

Another round of Consolations took more of a toll. While Bresser won his match, Palmer lost another close match, by a one point decision. More heartbreak!

That leaves just two Beavers left to fight for their position in tonight's brackets, Ronnie Bresser and Amar Dhesi. If they can win their first match tonight, both will be assured of All-American status.

Updated brackets are out.

Team results, from Track Wrestling:
2016 NCAA Division I Championships Results for Oregon St.
125 - Ronnie Bresser (31-8) place is unknown and scored 3.50 team points.
    Champ. Round 1 - Dalton Macri (Cornell) 18-9 won in tie breaker - 2 over Ronnie Bresser (Oregon St.) 31-8 (TB-2 6-5)
    Cons. Round 1 - Ronnie Bresser (Oregon St.) 31-8 won in tie breaker - 1 over Eddie Klimara (Oklahoma St.) 27-7 (TB-1 2-1)
    Cons. Round 2 - Ronnie Bresser (Oregon St.) 31-8 won by fall over Sean Russell (Edinboro) 28-9 (Fall 4:41)
    Cons. Round 3 - Ronnie Bresser (Oregon St.) 31-8 won by decision over Tim Lambert (Nebraska) 25-11 (Dec 5-4)

133 - Joey Palmer (26-12) place is unknown and scored 2.00 team points.
    Champ. Round 1 - Zane Richards (Illinois) 26-1 won by decision over Joey Palmer (Oregon St.) 26-12 (Dec 5-4)
    Cons. Round 1 - Joey Palmer (Oregon St.) 26-12 won by decision over Austin Eicher (Northern Ill.) 19-13 (Dec 6-0)
    Cons. Round 2 - Joey Palmer (Oregon St.) 26-12 won by major decision over Cameron Kelly (Ohio) 23-9 (MD 11-2)
    Cons. Round 3 - Ryan Taylor (Wisconsin) 12-6 won by decision over Joey Palmer (Oregon St.) 26-12 (Dec 5-4)

149 - Joey Delgado (24-16) place is unknown and scored 0.50 team points.
    Champ. Round 1 - Anthony Collica (Oklahoma St.) 28-7 won by decision over Joey Delgado (Oregon St.) 24-16 (Dec 11-8)
    Cons. Round 1 - Joey Delgado (Oregon St.) 24-16 won by decision over Alex Kocer (South Dakota St.) 24-12 (Dec 9-7)
    Cons. Round 2 - Geo Martinez (Boise State) 31-6 won by decision over Joey Delgado (Oregon St.) 24-16 (Dec 5-4)

165 - Seth Thomas (22-11) place is unknown and scored 0.50 team points.
    Champ. Round 1 - Chad Welch (Purdue) 33-8 won by major decision over Seth Thomas (Oregon St.) 22-11 (MD 13-4)
    Cons. Round 1 - Seth Thomas (Oregon St.) 22-11 won by decision over Dakota Juarez (Eastern Mich.) 14-12 (Dec 8-5)
    Cons. Round 2 - Anthony Perrotti (Rutgers) 24-4 won by major decision over Seth Thomas (Oregon St.) 22-11 (MD 15-6)

184 - Corey Griego (24-12) place is unknown and scored 0.50 team points.
    Champ. Round 1 - Willie Miklus (Missouri) 21-5 won by major decision over Corey Griego (Oregon St.) 24-12 (MD 15-6)
    Cons. Round 1 - Corey Griego (Oregon St.) 24-12 won by decision over Victor Avery (Edinboro) 14-3 (Dec 11-5)
    Cons. Round 2 - Domenic Abounader (Michigan) 26-3 won in tie breaker - 1 over Corey Griego (Oregon St.) 24-12 (TB-1 3-1)

285 - Amarveer Dhesi (29-4) place is unknown and scored 5.00 team points.
    Champ. Round 1 - Amarveer Dhesi (Oregon St.) 29-4 won by fall over Jeramy Sweany (Cornell) 22-16 (Fall 1:17)
    Champ. Round 2 - Amarveer Dhesi (Oregon St.) 29-4 won by major decision over Collin Jensen (Nebraska) 23-16 (MD 12-4)
    Quarterfinal - Kyle Snyder (Ohio St.) 9-0 won by major decision over Amarveer Dhesi (Oregon St.) 29-4 (MD 16-5)

Wrestling begins again at 5:00 pm PDT. The semifinals will be televised on ESPN. But to watch the Consolations, I'm not sure if ESPN3 will be livestreaming or not. If not, TrackWrestling will have live stats, and possibly video. The link to TrackWrestling can be found at the top of the NCAA page under "Live Scoring".

Oregon State is tied for 23rd with Indiana; both have 12.0 points. Scores for the top 30 teams are below - 

Thanks to Craig Scharer for sharing the photo at the top!

No stopping now, Ronnie & Amar!! Let's go Beavs! Get on that medal stand!!

Go Beavs!

Team scores, from TrackWrestling:

1.	Penn State	68.5
2.	Ohio St.	54.0
3.	Iowa	48.5
4.	Oklahoma St.	46.0
5.	Missouri	42.5
6.	Nebraska	35.5
7.	NC State	32.5
8.	Michigan	32.0
9.	Virginia Tech	30.5
10.	Cornell	28.5
11.	Illinois	28.0
12.	Oklahoma	24.5
13.	Rutgers	22.0
14.	Lehigh	19.5
15.	Iowa St.	19.0
16.	Kent St.	18.5
17.	Wyoming	17.5
18.	Minnesota	16.0
18.	Rider	16.0
18.	Stanford	16.0
21.	Wisconsin	13.0
22.	American	12.5
23.	Indiana	12.0
23.	Oregon St.	12.0
25.	Bucknell	10.0
25.	Edinboro	10.0
27.	Arizona St.	9.5
27.	Bakersfield	9.5
29.	Navy	9.0
29.	Pennsylvania	9.0
31.	Ohio	8.0