NCAA Wrestling MaSECOND PERIOD: Diakomihalis chooses down to start the second period, and Sasso is locked in on a hard ride, but Diakomihalis reverses him to put himself on the board first. CHAMPION 🏆 IS THE CHAMPION! #NCAAWrestling x /FjqZcuLfN0 Scrambling again! Diakomihalis takes the win 4-2. Sasso wards him off. Diakomihalis shoots again. The score is now 4-2 in favor of the three-time champ from Cornell. Diakomihalis in on a shot. THIRD PERIOD: Sasso chooses down to start the third period. Michigan finished sixth as a team and crowned an individual champion in Mason Parris at heavyweight while and Pittsburgh, a teams outside of the trophy race, finished with a national champion at 197 pounds courtesy of Nino Bonaccorsi. Cornell took third, while Ohio State came in fourth and will take another trophy back to Columbus. Iowa finished second, despite the fact that the team’s lone finalist, Real Woods, dropped 6-4 to Northern Colorado’s Andrew Alirez. The Missouri Tigers finished fifth as a team. I hate losing, but those losses are much more important and valuable to my character and how I bounced back than any win.” “In the past I might have been able to get away with stuff because of my sheer technique and knowledge of the sport, but wrestling someone like him, I got to be on all the time. “It was a blessing to have someone like David move up because he's an elite wrestler,” O’Toole said in advance of his match against Carr. 2 Keegan O’Toole took down David Carr for the 8-2 win, a result that contrasts his two earlier season losses to the Cyclone and propelled him to his second overall title. Missouri, the Big 12 champions this season, may have come up short of a team trophy, but the Tigers did produce an individual champion in the deepest weight class, as No. The Ivy League produced three national champions this year, a major statement for the conference. Then there’s the Princeton Tigers, who broke a 72-year-old streak without a national champion when 125-pounder Patrick Glory beat Purdue’s Matt Ramos 4-1 to take home gold, the culmination of a long journey for the senior.

Between Diakomihalis and Arujau, Cornell had two NCAA champions in 2023. Diakomihalis is the fifth overall wrestler to achieve this feat and the second in Cornell history, with Kyle Dake being the first. Cornell’s Yianni Diakomihalis made history himself when he won his fourth NCAA title, this time against Ohio State’s Sammy Sasso in the 149-pound final. Their team lead was too great for anyone to catch them.īut the story wasn’t all about Penn State. These performances were uncharacteristic for a team that has a nearly perfect record in the finals, but the Nittany Lion didn’t need those victories. Levi Haines, Greg Kerkvliet and Roman Bravo-Young, Penn State’s three other finalists, took second in their finals matches, with Haines dropping to North Carolina’s now-two time NCAA champion Austin O’Connor at 157 pounds, Kerkvliet losing to Mason Parris at heavyweight and Bravo-Young taking a loss to Cornell’s Vito Arujau. 1 Parker Keckeisen 7-2, putting on a takedown clinic along the way.

Teammate Aaron Brooks followed up this performance with a dominant win of his own, as he took down No. TULSA - Penn State clinched the 2023 NCAA DI wrestling team title on Saturday morning and crowned two individual national champions on Saturday night to add to the impressive legacy Cael Sanderson is cementing in State College.ĬLICK HERE TO SEE THE FINAL BRACKETS FROM THE 2023 NCAA WRESTLING TOURNAMENTĬarter Starocci, now a three-time individual champion, kicked off the wins for Penn State as he picked up a statement first-period pin against No.

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