NCAA's - The Conclusion

Oregon State Wrestling Fans,

This is the point in every season that I write ..... the lights are dimmed, the crowd is gone and the cleaning crew has moved in. The biggest tournament of the year is over. The matches have been entered in the record books, the winners celebrate and the losers go home to figure out how to do better next year.

The finals this evening were exciting and the team race was close between the top two teams. Penn State finally secured the deal in the 184 pound match while the biggest showdown occurred at heavyweight between Kyle Snyder and Adam Coon. Snyder won.

Oregon State finished in 21st with 26 points and two All-Americans - Ronnie Bresser and Amar Dhesi. Congratulations to Ronnie, Amar, Head Coach Jim Zalesky and his staff and the whole team!

I have quite a few more photos from Michael Denison from the tournament to post on the Blog site, don't forget to check for those. Some are already up.

If you want to look back over the records, check FloWrestling or TrackWrestling. More details can be found at the osubeavers site. A big thank you to Evan Hooper for his coverage on Twitter! He was working several sports for Oregon State this weekend, but still did a great job for us.

Reminder - the Wrestling Awards Banquet is coming up on Saturday, April 14! We have a lot to celebrate, our two All-Americans, our four NCAA qualifiers, our three Pac-12 Champions and the team's second place finish at the Pac-12's! Download the Banquet invitation and reservation form - on the right side, under "Links" - fill it out and send it in now before you forget.

One more item from the NCAA's to leave you - the top 35 teams - there were 65 teams with participants (from TrackWrestling):

1	Penn State	141.5
2	Ohio State	130.5
3	Iowa	97.0
4	Michigan	80.0
4	NC State	80.0
6	Missouri	61.5
7	Cornell	48.0
8	Virginia Tech	47.5
9	Nebraska	47.0
10	Arizona State	43.0
11	Rutgers	42.5
12	South Dakota State	42.0
13	Illinois	37.5
13	Oklahoma State	37.5
15	Lehigh	36.5
16	Lock Haven	35.0
17	Minnesota	27.5
17	Wisconsin	27.5
17	Wyoming	27.5
20	North Carolina	27.0
21	Oregon State	26.0
22	Duke	21.0
22	Kent State	21.0
24	Northern Iowa	20.0
24	Northwestern	20.0
26	Princeton	17.0
27	Maryland	12.5
28	Hofstra	12.0
28	Purdue	12.0
30	West Virginia	11.5
31	Pittsburgh	10.5
31	Virginia	10.5
33	CSU Bakersfield	9.5
34	Stanford	8.5
35	Drexel

Go Beavs!
 
Elizabeth DeAngelis
"The FALL"
Official Fan Club of OS Wrestling
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