NCAA Division I National Championship - 2007

2007: 77th ANNUAL DIVISION I WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Selection Information
Monday, March 12, 5 p.m. CT

Finals
March 15-17, 2007
Palace of Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills, Michigan
Hosts: University of Michigan and the Detroit Metro Sports Commission

EVENT SCHEDULE
SESSION 1
Thursday, March 15 – 10:00 AM – 8 Mats
Pigtails and First Round

SESSION 2
Thursday, March 15 – 5:30 PM – 8 Mats
Preliminaries; wrestle-back preliminaries, as needed; wrestle-back first round
Consolation pig-tail championship round
Consolation round

SESSION 3
Friday, March 16 – 10:00 AM – 8 Mats
Quarterfinals on middle four mats; wrestle-back second and third rounds on outside mats

SESSION 4
Friday, March 16 – 6:00 PM – 6 Mats
Semifinals on inside two mats (one weight at a time) and wrestle-back fourth round on outside four mats; wrestle-back fifth round on all six mats.

SESSION 5
Saturday, March 17 – 9:00 AM – 6 Mats
Wrestle-back semifinals (two weights at a time) on all six mats; followed by 3rd, 5th and 7th place medal round matches on all six mats (one weight class at a time on three mats, alternating the sides of the arena for the various weight classes).

SESSION 6
Championships Finals & Awards Ceremony
Saturday, March 17 – 7:00 PM – 1 Mat

Live Television (2 hour format)

2007 NCAA Division I Championship Brackets

Wt 125
Championship First Round
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford University) DEC Brandon Kinney (Columbia University)D 1-0

Wt 133
Championship First Round
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) WBF Christian Staylor (Old Dominion University)F 3:52

Wt 174
Championship First Round
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) DEC Grant Turner (Iowa State University)D 3-2

I read where the Semi's are going to be on TV Friday night. Unfortunatly we don't get that channel in Lawrence. Can anybody please record this and give me a copy in Ottawa on Sat.

Wt 125
Championship Second Round
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford University) vs. Brandon Precin (Northwestern)

Wt 133
Championship Second Round
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) vs. #9 James Kennedy (Illinois)

Wt 174
Championship Second Round
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) vs. Kenneth Robertson (Eastern Illinois)

Wt 125
Championship Second Round
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford University) DEC Brandon Precin (Northwestern University)D 5-2;TB1

Tanner is hanging in there! Seems to me he has a couple of pretty gutsy matches!

Wt 133
Championship Second Round
#9 James Kennedy (Illinois) DEC #8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) D 3-2

Kennedy wins by riding time point!

Wt 174
Championship Second Round
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) DEC Kenneth Robertson (Eastern Illinois University) D 4-1

this is unrelated to kansas but did anyone else catch that little askren lost.

Not only did Max Askren lose his first round match to Brandon Halsey (Cal State Bakersfield) he also lost to Bucknell’s Eric Lapotsky 5-2 in the first round of wrestlebacks Thursday night.

Askren will go down in history as one of, if not the first #1 seeded wrestler to lose his first two matches.

On a side note it was a great win for Halsey who transferred to Bakersfield from Cal State Fullerton after Fullerton dropped wrestling.

Championship Quarterfinals

Wt 125
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford University) vs. #6 Paul Donahoe (Nebraska)

Wt 174
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) vs. Rudy Rueda (American)

Wrestleback Third Round
Wt 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) vs. #3 Adam Frey (Cornell)

2007 NCAA Division I Championship Brackets - Updated After Day One

Halsey transferred from Fresno St. not Fullerton. Fullerton still has a wrestling program.

Tough draw for McCormick!

Championship Quarterfinals

WT 125
#6 Paul Donahoe (Nebraska) DEC #3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford University)D 8-3

WT 174
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) DEC Rudy Rueda (American) D 5-0

Wrestleback Third Round
Wt 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) FOR #3 Adam Frey (Cornell)
McCormick wins by forfeit!

#3 Adam Frey from Cornell did not make weight!

Greg Jones was UNDEFEATED #1 the year they were in KC, and that insane athlete from Miami, Ralph Everett of Hofstra, beat him in OT....I'm pretty sure Jones lost his next match as well!

Matt Lindland from Nebraska was undefeated and ranked #1 when he was upset by a Boston University wrestler in Ames, Iowa around 1998. BU wrestler tossed him 2 or 3 times for five point moves.
It was a pigtail match and the other wrestler had to win to pull Lindland through. He lost. One and done.

Wrestleback Fourth Round
WT 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) DEC Eric Allbright (Virginia) D 6-3

The NCAA Tournament in 2003 was in Kansas City and Greg Jones from West Virginia, after losing his first round match defeated Hunter Guenot from Bloomsburg 11-6 and Eric Hauan from Northern Iowa 6-3 before losing to Rashad Evans from Michigan State, 3-2.

Jones and Everett both finished the tournament with a 2-2 records.

NCAA Championships Q and A: Jay Hammond
Craig Sesker USA Wrestling
03/16/2007

Have a question about something historical during the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Jay Hammond is the man to ask. The noted wrestling historian and author attended his first NCAA Tournament in 1964 and has been to 25 national meets. His book – The History of Collegiate Wrestling – was a big hit among fans of the sport. He works with the National Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Okla., and writes for Amateur Wrestling News.

TheMat.com: It is pretty rare for a No. 1 seed to lose – it’s only happened 13 times in NCAA Tournament history. Top seed Max Askren of Missouri went 0-2 at 197 on Thursday. Has a No. 1 seed ever gone 0-2 in the NCAAs?

Hammond: To the best of my knowledge, it has not happened. Until 1996, we didn’t have a true double-elimination format. I didn’t see Askren’s second match, but in the first match it just looked like a bad case of freshmanitis.

Championship Semifinals

WT 174
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) vs. #1 Ben Askren (Missouri)

Wrestleback Round Five

WT 125
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford) vs. #10 Nick Fanthorpe (Iowa State)

WT 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) vs. #7 Mack Reiter (Minnesota)

Wrestleback Round Five

WT 125
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford) DEC #10 Nick Fanthorpe (Iowa State) D 8-2


WT 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) DEC #7 Mack Reiter (Minnesota) d 4-3

McCormick with a reversal with 0:15 seconds remaining for the win!

Huge win for both these fine young men!

Championship Semifinals

WT 174

#1 Ben Askren (Missouri) DEC #5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) D 8-3

Luedke is the first wrestler in the tournament to not allow bonus points for Askren.

I think that Eric is guaranteed to AA again, is that right Richard?

if i was looking at the Bracket right i think he Guarnteed to be in the top 6, cause the guys who loose the round before he starts he wrestle back go for 7th and 8th.

Yes, Luedke is an All-American!

Luedke will wrestle in the consolation semifinals. The winner advances to the consolation finals and can finish no worse than fourth and the loser advances to the fifth/sixth place match and can finish no worse than sixth.

Wrestlebacks Round Six

WT 125
#7 Angel Escobedo (Indiana) DEC #3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford) D 9-3

Gardner is an All-American and can finish no worse than eighth!

Wrestleback Round Six

WT 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) DEC Jake Strayer (Penn State) D 4-1

McCormick is an All-American and can finish no worse than sixth.

Thats a tough loss for Gardner...I was rooting for Gardner...man Angel is an animal

ALL 3 Kansas Natives All American!

the Semi's were live on Metro Sports tonight !

The Cyclones are looking good ! :))))

2007 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Team Standings
End of Session 4

1 - 83.5 - Iowa State University
2 - 80.0 - Minnesota
3 - 69.5 - Missouri
4 - 62.5 - Oklahoma State University
5 - 62.0 - Northwestern University
6 - 55.5 - Michigan
7 - 50.0 - Penn State University
8 - 48.5 - Iowa
9 - 48.0 - Hofstra University
10 - 46.5 - Ohio State University
11 - 45.5 - Edinboro University
11 - 45.5 - Wisconsin
13 - 41.5 - Cornell University
14 - 36.5 - Indiana University
15 - 35.0 - Central Michigan University
16 - 30.5 - Nebraska-Lincoln
17 - 29.0 - American University
17 - 29.0 - Oklahoma
17 - 29.0 - Pittsburgh
20 - 27.0 - Harvard University

Seventh Place Match
WT 125
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford) vs. #5 Charlie Falck (Iowa)

Consolation Semifinals
WT 133
#8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) vs. #1 Nick Simmons (Michigan State)

WT 174
#3 Steve Luke (Michigan) vs. #5 Eric Luedke (Iowa)

Askren comments following his semifinal victory over Luedke.

“Did he take one step forward? It was a backwards track meet,” Askren said of Luedke. “If I am a senior, if this is my last year, I would try to win. Did he try anything? That kid should have been thrown out two times. I’m frustrated. I couldn’t run fast enough to chase him down. He ran backwards. It is hard to score on that.”

Man, Tyler has had a tough backside of the bracket. Good luck against Simmons.

Where is Kriegbaum?

Did not qualify!

Consolation Semifinals
WT 133
#1 Nick Simmons (Michigan State) DEC #8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) D 9-0

Consolation Semifinals
WT 174
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) DEC #3 Steve Luke (Michigan) 4-3

Luedke wins by riding time point!

Seventh Place Match
WT 125
#3 Tanner Gardner (Stanford) WBF #5 Charlie Falck (Iowa) FALL 2:41

Tanner Gardner All-American Seventh Place Medalist!

Fifth Place Match
WT 133
#6 Darrell Vasquez (Cal Poly) DEC #8 Tyler McCormick (Missouri) D 7-4

Tyler McCormick All-American Sixth Place Medalist!

Consolation Finals
WT 174
#5 Eric Luedke (Iowa) DEC #8 Eric Stolpinski (Navy) D 3-2

Eric Luedke All-American Third Place Medalist!

Congratulations to all the Kansas All-Americans! We are very proud of you!!

I understand Luedke is done. Correct? No more years of elgibility left?

What about the other two?

Luedke - Senior
Gardner - Junior
McCormick - Sophomore

Thank you Richard.

Thanks for your updates all weekend Richard, should be some good finals tonight. I know i am excited for them.