Category Amateur Wrestling

A long journey ends with a titleBy Lori Shontz Of the Post-Dispatch After losing in the NCAA semifinals at 133 pounds a year ago, Travis Lee of Cornell learned a universal truth. “It’s a lot easier to cut weight when…

From CDT staff reports ST. LOUIS — Penn State freshman Phil Davis capped one of the best freshman seasons in Nittany Lions history with a seventh-place finish and Eric Bradley battled back for fourth on the last day of the…

By Gary R. BlockusOf The Morning Call ST. LOUIS, Mo. | Travis Frick never thought of getting a nose job, but he will be getting one within a week. Frick, Lehigh’s 174-pound wrestler, sustained a mobile fracture of his nose…

By Gary R. BlockusOf The Morning Call ST. LOUIS, Mo. | Cory Cooperman knows what’s coming next. ”We’ve got two days off, and then [Lehigh head coach Greg] Strobel is going to put us through a workout,” he said after…

Lehigh senior places third, then hushes crowd by retiring. By Gary R. BlockusOf The Morning Call ST. LOUIS, Mo. | Jon Trenge sat at the edge of the mat quickly, quietly, before the referee even could raise his hand in…

By CRAIG PHILLIPS ST. LOUIS, Mo. ” It was old home day for the Clarion University wrestling program Friday at Union Station’s South Plaza. Golden Eagle greats Wade Schalles and Kurt Angle were named to the National Collegiate Athletic Association…

Losses by Troy Letters, Jon Trenge leave team without NCAA finalist. By Gary R. BlockusOf The Morning Call ST. LOUIS, Mo. | Dreams died painfully on Friday night. Troy Letters will never tie Mike Caruso’s Lehigh record as a three-time…

By Brent Trowbridge There will be no fewer than 11 former Pennsylvania high school wrestlers coming home from St. Louis this weekend with All-American status, plus four more who are currently wrestling at a university within Pennsylvania. Greg Jones, a…

By KEVIN EVANS, Executive Sports Editor ST. LOUIS — Sean Stender left the 2004 NCAA wrestling tournament feeling horrible. He blew a big lead in the semifinals and, before he left the tourney, injured his ribs and had a sixth-place…

By MIKE WEILAMANNThe Express-Times ST. LOUIS — Lehigh’s disappointing weekend has turned into a horror show. As a result, the Mountain Hawks will not be represented in today’s national finals for the first time in five years. Both defending champion…

By DAN McCOOLREGISTER STAFF WRITER St. Louis, Mo. – Mark Perry of Iowa heard the boast about defending 165-pound NCAA wrestling champion Troy Letters of Lehigh as he helped former NCAA champion Joe Williams prepare for the 2004 Summer Olympics.…

By Bryan Bamonte – The Daily Iowan Three years ago, hours before the Kansas state high-school wrestling championships, Joe Johnston had to wait. Not because it was 2 a.m. and he had a state championships to defend later that morning…