{"id":167,"date":"2005-01-24T06:34:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=167"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"nat-duals-cowboys-lasso-title-with-22-15-win-over-illini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w167\/nat-duals-cowboys-lasso-title-with-22-15-win-over-illini\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Duals: Cowboys Lasso Title With 22-15 Win Over Illini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cowboys lasso eighth National Duals title with 22-15 win over Illinois<\/a>
John Fuller\/TheMat.com<\/p>\n

Cleveland, Ohio – Oklahoma State won its third consecutive Cliff Keen\/NWCA National Duals title on Sunday afternoon with a 22-15 win over Illinois, but the Cowboys’ armor was dented somewhat.<\/p>\n

Not only did Illinois win the first three matches of the dual meet, and four of the first five, but Cowboys All-American Johny Hendricks (165) further strained a hamstring injury and also developed a neck injury in the event, leaving his status as questionable for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

However, late pins by tournament Most Outstanding Wrestler Chris Pendleton (174) and Steve Mocco (285) sealed the victory for Oklahoma State, which has won a total of eight National Duals titles.<\/p>\n

2004 NCAA finalist Kyle Ott helped the Fighting Illini to a strong start with a 6-4 victory over talented freshman Coleman Scott. Ott controlled most of the bout and was able to hold off a late charge from Scott in the win.<\/p>\n

Illinois then extended its lead to 6-0 after All-American Mark Jayne downed freshman Nathan Morgan in a thrilling 7-6 bout.<\/p>\n

Morgan led 4-3 in the third period after the official had warned Jayne for stalling for the second time, but Jayne, known for his third-period rallies, came on strong late, scoring two takedowns and not allowing an escape in the last 30 seconds to come away with the win.<\/p>\n

Illinois then got some much needed help against the heavily-favored Cowboys as 141-pound Cassio Pero out-battled Ronnie Delk 5-3 in two tiebreakers. In the match, Delk was able to get deep on numerous shot attempts, but could not finish on the quicker Pero.<\/p>\n

In the first tiebreaker, the two traded escapes to tie the score at 2-2. After a second scoreless overtime period, Pero scored an escape in the second tiebreaker. But when Delk scored an escape to tie the match at 3-3 again, Pero was able to finally score a takedown, winning the bout and giving the Fighting Illini a 9-0 cushion over the two-time defending NCAA champions.<\/p>\n

Returning NCAA finalist Zack Esposito finally got the Cowboys on the scoreboard after finishing an 11-1 major decision victory against Anton Dietzen at 149 lbs.<\/p>\n

Two-time All-American Alex Tirapelle extended Illinois’ lead to 12-4 with a 2-1 victory over Kevin Ward at 157 lbs.<\/p>\n

In what may have been the turning point of the dual, Hendricks pulled out a come-from-behind victory over Donny Reynolds at 165 lbs.<\/p>\n

Reynolds controlled the match, holding a 3-2 lead before Hendricks, battling injuries throughout the entire tournament, was able to score a late takedown and earn a riding time point to secure the win.<\/p>\n

Pendleton, a defending NCAA champion, then gave Oklahoma State its first lead of the dual with a pin over Pete Friedl in just one minute and four seconds at 174 lbs.<\/p>\n

Illinois had one last glimmer of hope when 184-pound Brian Glynn gutted out a win over Clay Kehrer, 6-2. The win put Illinois ahead 15-13 before 2003 NCAA champions Jake Rosholt (197) and Mocco came away with victories to finish the dual win for Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n

In other placement matches, Minnesota defeated Lehigh 24-13 for third place as two-time NCAA finalist Jon Trenge of Lehigh was disqualified at 197 lbs. after striking Matt Koz in the head. Trenge did appear to call a timeout. The official did not immediately stop the match and Koz then charged at Trenge before the blow.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma defeated Central Michigan 20-19 for fifth place and Michigan defeated Penn State 29-14 for seventh place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cowboys lasso eighth National Duals title with 22-15 win over IllinoisJohn Fuller\/TheMat.com Cleveland, Ohio – Oklahoma State won its third consecutive Cliff Keen\/NWCA National Duals title on Sunday afternoon with a 22-15 win over Illinois, but the Cowboys’ armor was dented somewhat. Not only did Illinois win the first three matches of the dual meet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}