Illini wrestlers rally, then settle for tie
By STAFF REPORT <\/p>\n
ANN ARBOR, Mich. ” Illinois reeled off three consecutive wins to pull in front, but Michigan’s Greg Wagner defeated Mike Behnke in the heavyweight match, allowing the fifth-ranked Wolverines to tie the second-ranked Illini 17-17 Sunday afternoon in college wrestling.<\/p>\n
Michigan (11-3-1, 3-0-1 Big Ten) got a key victory when fourth-ranked Ryan Bertin edged No. 2 Alex Tirapelle 3-2 at 165 pounds in a repeat of the 2003 NCAA final at 157 pounds. A single-leg takedown by Bertin about a minute into the match scored the crucial points. Tirapelle was in on a takedown as the meet ended but couldn’t finish.<\/p>\n
Bertin’s victory was one of four in a row for the Wolverines that turned a 7-0 deficit into a 14-7 lead with four matches left.<\/p>\n
But Illinois (12-1-1, 3-0-1) responded with decisions by Pete Friedl (174 pounds) and Tyrone Byrd (194) sandwiched around a major decision by Brian Glynn at 184 to take a 17-14 lead.<\/p>\n
That put the outcome in the hands of Wagner and Behnke, and the third-ranked Wolverine pulled off a 6-2 win. Wagner scored a takedown late in the first period, then added a clinching takedown in the third period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Illini wrestlers rally, then settle for tieBy STAFF REPORT ANN ARBOR, Mich. ” Illinois reeled off three consecutive wins to pull in front, but Michigan’s Greg Wagner defeated Mike Behnke in the heavyweight match, allowing the fifth-ranked Wolverines to tie the second-ranked Illini 17-17 Sunday afternoon in college wrestling. Michigan (11-3-1, 3-0-1 Big Ten) got […]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","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-b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}