Tommy Rowlands Places Second at the Olympic Trials:
Buckeye Coach will be 2008 Olympic Alternate
Kevin Schlosser; the-ozone.net

Tommy Rowlands advanced to the finals of the Olympic Trials by winning a US national championship in April. His opponent that day was long time rival Steve Mocco. They met again in the finals in June as Mocco fought his way through the qualifier to wrestle Rowlands for the sixteenth time in their careers. Each and every match before finals of the Olympic Trials was a war and Sunday in Las Vegas was no different.

In a best of three series of matches in the championship finals; Mocco won the first the first match 1-0, 1-0. In the first period they wrestled to a scoreless tie before Mocco scored a takedown off the clinch. Rowlands stepped out of bounds in the second period to give Mocco the lead and the first match.

Rowlands came back in the second match to force a third and deciding match by winning a 3-0, 1-0 decision. Wrestling to a second scoreless tie in the first period, he picked up a three-point takedown out of the clinch. In the second period Mocco returned the favor by stepping out of bounds to give Rowlands the match winning point.