Oklahoma State Preview

Oklahoma State meet is at 2 PM today. Here's the lineups:

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Weight        Rank        ISU Wrestler          Record        Rank        OSU Wrestler        Record
125        12/13        Ryak Finch          11-4        vs.        9/8        Jon Morrison        11-3
133                RJ Hallman          6-13        vs.        3/1        Jordon Oliver        10-2
141        19/20        Luke Goettl          9-7        vs.        8/7        Josh Kindig        8-4
149                Luke Swalla          4-13        vs.        2/2        Jamal Parks        16-0
157                Mike Moreno          3-7        vs.        15/13        Albert White        17-3
165        4/4        Andrew Sorenson          20-1        vs.                Dallas Bailey        8-7
174                Mikey England          13-9        vs.        3/3        Chris Perry        12-0
184                Tyler Christenson 7-8        vs.                Chris McNeil        10-5
197                Cole Shafer          7-12        vs.                Cayle Bayers        12-3
HWT        16/17        Matt Gibson          19-6        vs.        2/3        Alan Gelogaev        16-1

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When we wrestled them in November it didn't go very well

Oklahoma State 29 Iowa State 9
125: Ryak Finch (ISU) Dec. Ladd Rupp 6-4
133: Jordan Oliver (OSU) Pinned Shayden Terukina (ISU) 2:38
141: Josh Kindig (OSU) Pinned Luke Goettl (ISU) 1:57
149: Jamal Parks (OSU) Dec. Joey Cozart (ISU) 6-3
157: Albert White (OSU) MDec. Luke Swalla (ISU) 13-5
165: Andrew Sorenson (ISU) Dec. Dallas Bailey (OSU) 5-1
174: Chris Spangler (ISU) Dec. Chris McNeil (OSU) 9-5
184: Chris Perry (OSU) Dec. Boaz Beard (ISU) 9-2
197: Cayle Byers (OSU) MDec. Cole Shafer (ISU) 9-1
285: Alan Gelogaev (OSU) Dec. Matt Gibson (ISU) 9-3

I don't see us being able to pull out a win here, but there are a few very important matches in terms of rankings and showing growth as a team.

At 125, Ryak Finch has been great but seems to hit a wall when going up against guys ranked in the top 10. A win over Morrison would show that he has the capability to AA this year. Right now I think Ryak is an R12 guy at best, so if he can break through with some wins over guys ranked between 6th and 11th that could be a big difference for team points in March.

at 141, Luke Goettl lost to Kindig in his first match of the year on a pin. However, Luke is a totally different wrestler right now and I think he will make this competitive at the least. A win today would solidify Luke as an auto-qualifier and would put him into the conversation as a possible high AA.

At 157, Mike Moreno has finally broken through and started to get some wins, including beating a ranked guy on Friday night. Albert White is a good wrestler, but not an elite wrestler. If Mike gets a win today I like his chances of qualifying for Nationals in March. Mike fought through a lot of adversity this season so I'd love to see it continue to pay off.

I agree that even if things go our way, I don't see us winning this dual.
133, 149, 174, 197 are heavy favorites to OSU
141, 157, Hwt are slight favorites to OSU
125 & 184 is a tossup and probably at favorite to OSU if Christenson is wrestling
165 would be only favorite to Iowa State.

Forgot to include this in the OP. There are multipple ways to follow the meet.

For live scores you can check Track Wrestling's Live Coverage or the Cyclone Wrestling Twitter account. The AD will also have a live blog that I'll post a link to once they have it active.

Live Blog of the meet from the ISU Athletic Department

Meet starts at 133. We toss out Ben Cash rather than Hallmann. Oliver wins 17-1 early in the second period. Oklahoma State leads 0-5.

Goettl went for a big throw and got caught for 5 points, down 7-1 to start the second.

Not looking good for Luke down 7-1 went for throw and lost 5

Goettl unable to recover from that 5 point mistake. Ends up losing 11-2 in a match that was much closer than the score indicates. Luke will get him at Big 12s.

The throws can make or break the match when they happen early. Change the way you wrestle the rest of the match.

Parks beats Swalla 17-5. OSU leads 13-0. Hopefully Moreno can turn things around.

This could be a real ugly day for us. Hopefully Sorenson gets his win.

White beats Moreno 6-1. Moreno forced all the action but gave up takedowns on counters. OSU up 16-0.

OSU tosses out Joe Ali, a backup, against Sorenson. Andrew should be able to get some extra points here.

Hopefully, I don't understand the problem scoring points against Graham of OU though. I thought he should have smoked him.

16-12 Penn State up on Iowa thru 184