Jesse Mendez won his 1st round match with a 12-4 Major.
Purdue got wins from Ramos (3-2) and Filius (8-3). Some early upsets, including a few of Big Ten wrestlers...
125
13-seed Dean Peterson, Rutgers
12-seed Michael DeAugustino, Northwestern
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12-seed Chris Cannon, Northwestern
11-seed Dylan Ragusin, Michigan
A few other notes:
- Former All-American (and the last to beat Nick Lee in the NCAA Tournament, I believe) Dom Demas transferred to Cal Poly and did not qualify. He got the call as an alternate and stepped in as the 33 seed at 149, and promptly won by tech fall in the pig tail match and will face Yianni in the next round. I believe they said he was recovering from an injury. Will make for an interesting match early on.
- WV's Killian Cardinale was 10-1 coming off a knee injury and got the 28 seed, He won a 3-2 over 5-seed Caleb Smith of App State.
- Brandon Kaylor, 7 seed lost to 26-seed Jack Wagner of NC.
- Lucas Bird won 13-10 over Iowa's Brody Teske. Not an upset per se, but an Iowa loss early is notable, and Teske is dangerous.