Michigan Wrestling Dominates Ohio State 29-8
Michigan wrestling was dominate in its win over Ohio State. There were some really great matches with Logan Massa (174) winning toward the end of the 3rd over Ethan Smith and Myles Amine (184) winning in OT over Kaleb Romero. Both wins were great matches against top ten opponents. Overall, from top to bottom, Michigan dominated and only lost 2 matches with one being Pat Nolen stepping up 2 weight classes to face #7 Carson Kharchla. Heavyweight Mason Parris (Michigan) scored the only pin of the night over #12 Tate Ordorff.
Michigan is not 5-0 (BigTen 1-0) and really has a shot this year. Not saying they will win the BigTen or National Title, but this might be there best shot ever.
Side note; during the broadcast, one of the commentators said that international wrestling called the BigTen the 3rd best country in international wrestling.
This is my very first post I've started, but we do have a few Michigan wrestling fans here. My 16 year old son who boxes and does BJJ did enjoy watching it with me. I've tried forever to get him to wrestle, but his private school that he's now with doesn't have it.
January 15th, 2022 at 11:39 AM ^
I'm predicting that's the same score Michigan football will beat Ohio State and Columbus this coming November
January 15th, 2022 at 11:43 AM ^
By a margin of 42-27, the college football experts agreed with you.
January 15th, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
I really enjoy watching our Wrestling team. The Massa match went right down to the wire, and he just made that move to almost pin the guy in the last 30 seconds! Blew kisses to the OSU crowd like Sauce Castillo!! And the Amine match - he looked really tired and was sweating profusely in the 1st period - but gutted out the victory on that final desperation double takedown in Sudden death! Always fun to watch Mason Parris dominate. I think he was cocky in the match against #1 Stevenson at Ann Arbor last season. Will be fun to watch that Minnesota match. Go Blue
January 15th, 2022 at 12:30 PM ^
Those were 2 very fun matches to watch back to back.
January 16th, 2022 at 12:36 AM ^
It was as good as any pair of back to back matches I can recall.
January 16th, 2022 at 12:40 AM ^
Of course, part of the reason it was so enjoyable was that the two wrestlers I was waiting for one! Two great exciting matches where the ones I was rooting for lost would not have been nearly as fun.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:38 PM ^
Mason completely toyed with his opponent. Looked my cat and a yarn ball.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:21 PM ^
Massa with a beautiful bow and arrow to get those back points. He really likes that technique and I've seen him even utilize it in freestyle matches.
Really rooting for him and the other super seniors to win titles this year!
January 15th, 2022 at 11:57 AM ^
The Myles Amine sudden death match was just an awesome match. The kid from OSU was a beast. Amine is just tough, conditioned, and a technician on the mat.
Suriano is a freak at 125. Parris at heavyweight will be challenging Gold Medalist Steveson for the Big Ten and NCAA titles.
This is the best UofM wrestling team I recall and seems like a contender to make a run.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching all those OSU fans being frustrated. Some incredible wrestling. What a great win.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:26 PM ^
I’ve just started getting into B1G wrestling since the football season ended and I’m really enjoying it. I watched Steveson last night and that dude is incredible. Really looking forward to the Minnesota match.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:00 PM ^
I was impressed by the size of the OSU crowd. I was equally impressed how we sent them home disappointed. Well done, gentlemen!
January 15th, 2022 at 12:34 PM ^
Years ago, I watched an Iowa wrestling match on ESPN and it had snowed 20 inches the day before and they still had 12,000 to 15,000 in the stands. My senior year of high school wrestling, we had 24 inches of snow, but I never missed a practice. My dad drove me down everyday in his truck and waited since my car was buried. our 103lbs wrestler walked through the snow to make it to every practice. I think wrestlers are just a little insane haha.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:02 PM ^
I used to run four miles on week nights - after practice and homework. Yes, we are insane!
January 15th, 2022 at 1:38 PM ^
Our 103lbs was a senior and walked around at 125. You know how much hard it is to cut at that size and he did it every time. The things we do for this sport is crazy. Luckily, I wrestled 171 my senior year and walked at 167 so I got to eat what I wanted, haha.
January 16th, 2022 at 12:43 AM ^
No doubt! (I take it you’re from somewhere further north?
January 16th, 2022 at 1:15 PM ^
Actually no. This happened in Kentucky a year after I moved here from South Carolina. I grew up in the Philippines too. I thought 3 inches of snow in Charleston, SC when I first moved back to the states was a ton of snow, then I run into 24 inches in Kentucky, haha. Since we've had 18 inches one time, but usually it's 3 to 6 here.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
Congratulations on starting your first post. It's a good one.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:35 PM ^
Thanks. I waited till I finally had something to say to start one, haha.
January 15th, 2022 at 2:58 PM ^
Novel concept.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
They are legit National Championship quality.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:17 PM ^
re: the tangent about your son--is wrestling often missing in high schools? I'd think it would be a pretty "economical" sport of a school to sponsor. Like of general interest? A small school that doesn't happen to have a teacher able to coach it? Just curious as I remember lots of high school classmates whose first love was football or field events in track/field or even soccer joined wrestling just to stay in shape over the winter.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:27 PM ^
Wrestling is not a costly sport from a High School budget standpoint.
Its hard to start a program from scratch. You can take a good athlete who has never wrestled and they are a fish out of water. And losing at wrestling is not fun.
Starting a program is a longer term process. You go to the grade schools and put on clinics and club wrestling. You take the kids to tournaments. You recruit to the sport. The kids that stick it out become good high school wrestlers.
It’s not an easy sport but the personal rewards and life lessons can be great.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
He rejected wrestling in middle school because of the singlets even though I told him real men wear singlets, haha. They did change to allow rash guards and shorts, but by that time he was more into BJJ and boxing. Now, he would like to wrestle, but the school he's at doesn't have it. He's been around MMA his whole life including "helping" me with security at events, but he's just now catching the wrestling bug. One of my best friends is a high school coach, but he's worked really hard on building his team up and doesn't really want to rebuild another.
January 16th, 2022 at 12:49 AM ^
When Title IX came into effect quite a few smaller colleges and high schools eliminated the men’s wrestling teams.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:23 PM ^
Our wrestling team: "Fuck Ohio."
January 15th, 2022 at 12:36 PM ^
Go Blue!
January 15th, 2022 at 1:01 PM ^
Thanks for the nice first post. Michigan is having a great year where every coach/ team is doing a great job and with quality kids. Wrestling seems as strong as ever.
The women's gymnastics team is another program that is just kicking it into a very high gear and has their NC banner raising ceremony at Crisler.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:17 PM ^
Myles Amine and Micic have both looked down this year so far, I have to wonder if all that time spent on the Olympics is impacting their folk style wrestling. The team looks great, but I am still not convinced they can compete with Penn State in a tournament format. That team is unreal.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:36 PM ^
Probably Micic more so. He’s got time to turn it on.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^
Disagree that Amine isn't looking good this year. Romero from OSU is legit and a likely top 5 placer at NCAAs. It's also Amine's style to wrestle close matches and win the critical take down battles. He's a master technician and is totally comfortable winning that way.
Also, don't lose sight of the fact Amine beat Mark Hall in the finals of an open tournament a few weeks ago. Hall is a former NCAA champ who is still competing internationally. They wrestled folkstyle and it was Amine's first win over Hall. I'm sure that gave Myles a confidence boost.
My suspicion is that Micic forgot a bit how tough NCAA wrestling is (hasn't wrestled folkstyle in 3 years) and he had to be reminded the hard way with the loss to Matthews from Pitt. He's also wrestling much bigger guys at 141lbs than he's been used to on the international scene where he competed at 57kg (125lbs) as recently as August at the Olympics (where he was the #1 seed). I think he'll find himself before NCAAs. Great test for him next Friday against Lee from PSU (defending champ).
January 15th, 2022 at 4:42 PM ^
We will find out Friday. Maize-out at Crisler.
Edit: Obv. dual not tournament. But still a good measurement.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:24 PM ^
Was a very solid duel for the grapplers. The 2 minutes of SV, after 7 minutes in regulation, was one of the best sequences of scramble wrestling with Amine maintaining his cool and finishing with the TD.
Massa’s resilience paid off and as others have mentioned nearly recorded the pin with a sweet Can Opener.
I’m glad that BTN is starting to get into weekly matches at this point of January.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:43 PM ^
My son and I love the scrambling. Scrambling can be big in BJJ too, so my son really likes that part.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:42 PM ^
Dominant in dominating?
January 15th, 2022 at 3:49 PM ^
*Dominant, too.
With Mason Parris pinnin' & grinnin' at Heavyweight!
January 15th, 2022 at 9:36 PM ^
Anyone know if we were missing somebody at 165? Seemed like the obvious weak spot in the lineup. Didn’t even look like the kid was near the weight
January 15th, 2022 at 10:42 PM ^
He wasn't. He's the one that went up 2 weight classes.
January 16th, 2022 at 12:54 AM ^
Don’t take this as criticism but I think what the commentator said was actually that the third place country in the last Olympics would’ve been the Big Ten.