2009-10 Ohio State Wrestling Season

[LitlBuck]

I thought I would start this thread for all of you Ohio State wrestling fans. There are high expectations for this year's team and hopefully a Big Ten championship will be in the making.

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Buckeyes Tabbed Fourth by Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State wrestling team was tabbed No. 4 by Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine (WIN) Monday. The current preseason standing only accounts for a team's Tournament Power Index (TPI), which ranks squads based on their number of ranked wrestlers and potential All-Americans (places 1-8).

WIN will announce its first "dual rankings" Nov. 30 at the beginning of the dual season.

The Buckeyes are predicted to crown four All-Americans which is good for 52 points. Iowa stands atop of the rankings with seven potential All-Americans. Iowa State is second (five All-Americans), while Cornell rounds out the Top 3 with four Top 8 placers.

Individually, Ohio State boasts six wrestlers in the Top 20 of their respective weight classes. Leading the charge is senior and 2008 national champion Mike Pucillo at 184 pounds. Three-time All-American Lance Palmer is entering his senior campaign third at 149 pounds.

2009 Big Ten and NCAA runner-up Reece Humphrey is No. 5 at 141 pounds. Humphrey is moving up a weight class from a year ago when he wrestled at 133 pounds.

At 165 pounds, junior Colt Sponseller is slated as the eighth-ranked grappler.
Buckeyes ranked 9-20 include Dave Rella (13th) at 174 pounds and Nikko Triggas (15th) at 125 pounds.

In addition to Ohio State and Iowa, four other Big Ten Conference teams are ranked in the Top 20. Minnesota is No. 5, Wisconsin is tied for 11th, Penn State is 13th and Indiana is 14th.

Ohio State begins its season Nov. 14 at the Oklahoma Gold Classic in Brockport, N.Y. The Buckeyes open their home schedule the following week against Lehigh at 7 p.m. in St. John Arena.

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The good news for Buckeye wrestling fans continued this week when Derek Garcia chose to go public with his verbal commitment to The Ohio State University.

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Credit to the first place I saw it... poster Solomon Dangerfield of the o-zone.
O-Zone: OSU wrestling got a bigtime verbal y'day from Derek Garcia. Awesome. He's a badass. *

Also, a link which discusses Garcia as well as OSU's hits and misses of the recruiting year for wrestling...
http://www.ohiowrestling.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1912

[LitlBuck]

Originally Posted by OSU_D/

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Credit to the first place I saw it... poster Solomon Dangerfield of the o-zone.
O-Zone: OSU wrestling got a bigtime verbal y'day from Derek Garcia. Awesome. He's a badass. *

Also, a link which discusses Garcia as well as OSU's hits and misses of the recruiting year for wrestling...
The Ohio Wrestling Network :: View topic - Garcia Picks Buckeyes!

FYI... I started a new thread for 2009-10 Ohio State wrestling

[OSU_D/]

Originally Posted by LitlBuck

FYI... I started a new thread for 2009-10 Ohio State wrestling

I assumed due to title it would only be about the 09-10 season.

The other thread was OSU wrestling (08-09 runners up) so I assumed that thread was for recruiting and general stuff about the program and would hopefully say (08 and 09 runners up and 10 national champs) at the end of the year.

Thread confusion for me aside, I am looking forward to another fun year following this team.

[LitlBuck]

Originally Posted by OSU_D/

I assumed due to title it would only be about the 09-10 season.

The other thread was OSU wrestling (08-09 runners up) so I assumed that thread was for recruiting and general stuff about the program and would hopefully say (08 and 09 runners up and 10 national champs) at the end of the year.

Thread confusion for me aside, I am looking forward to another fun year following this team.

Good stuff. Ryan must be one hell of a recruiter to pull a kid all the way from Washington. It seems like this is a very nice addition for the future.

As for this year, a Big 10 championship would be very nice and is a National one out of the question.

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And now Hunter Stieber commits to the Buckeyes!

2009 Ohio State Wrestling - Hunter Stieber Verbals to OSU (10/15) | www.buckeyewrestling.com

For the second straight year the Ohio State Wrestling Program landed the first verbal commitment from the junior class. With an announcement of his intentions on Thursday, Monroeville HS junior Hunter Stieber became the first member of the 2010-2011 OSU recruiting class. The tenth-ranked wrestler in the InterMat Top 50, he is a two-time Ohio state champion and a two-time freestyle national champion.

And like last time the first time I saw the news was by a poster named Solomn Dangerfield from O-Zone: Buckeye wrestlers get another verbal. Welcome Hunter Stieber. Very nice. *

[LitlBuck]

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Lance Palmer Set to Wrestle in 44th NWCA All-Star Classic
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lance Palmer, a senior captain on the Ohio State wrestling team, was selected to compete in the prestigious 44th NWCA All-Star Classic Nov. 22 in Titan Gym on the campus of California State Fullerton.

Palmer, ranked second At 149 pounds, will wrestle No. 5 Kyle Borshoff of American. The Buckeye native from Columbia Station, Ohio, is in the running to become Ohio State's second four-time All-American. He would join Tommy Rowlands (2001-04). So far, Palmer has garnered a pair of fourth-place finishes at the NCAA championships during his freshman and junior seasons. He finished eighth his sophomore year. Palmer also has two third-place Big Ten championships finishes to his credit (2007 and 2009).

The NWCA All-Star Classic traditionally pits the Nos. 1 and 2 wrestlers in the nation from each weight class. Either because of prior commitments or injuries, it is common for lower ranked wrestlers to earn a bid into the event.
Tickets can be purchased through TicketLeap:
http://savefullertonwrestling.ticketleap.com/ .

[Buckskin86]

Wrestling: OSU setting sights high
Runner-up twice, Ohio State's goal is a national title
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By Jeremy McLaughlin
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


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Mike Pucillo of Ohio State, front, lost to Jake Herbert of Northwestern 6-3 in the 184-pound NCAA championship in March after winning the title in 2008.
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This is the season when Ohio State wrestling coach Tom Ryan expected to start competing for a national championship after he was hired four years ago.

But success came sooner than expected. In 2007, the Buckeyes finished as national runner-up, and repeated as runner-up last season.

Now, instead of hoping for the best when they take the mat, the No. 3 Buckeyes expect to be the best. They have good reason to think that way. Ohio State returns seven starters, three of whom are returning All-Americans. All should start when Ohio State opens with a dual against Lehigh on Friday in St. John Arena.

"When you are second twice, something is going right," Ryan said. "Even the guys in the room who did it the first time were like, 'Well, we had a great tournament.'

"Once you do it the second time, it starts to become more of an expectation that we're in this thing to stay. We're going to have a team in the hunt every year."

This year's group won't be satisfied with another second place, however. They thought they let the national championship slip through their fingers when they lost to Iowa by 3 1/2 points.

Judging by the coaching staff's mentality so far, it won't happen again.

"It's been a whole lot different this season because something has gotten into Tom Ryan," senior Reece Humphrey said. "It hasn't been a lot of fun, but I can already see the improvement in all these young guys and the older guys as well."

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