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Grapplers Fall To Iowa State
January 28, 2000 | Cowboy Wrestling
Jan. 28, 2000
STILLWATER, Okla. - Second-ranked Iowa State handed Oklahoma State their third loss of the season while rolling to a 22-10 win Friday night at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
John Smith's Cowboys slip to 9-3-1 on the season and 1-1-1 in Big 12 action, while Iowa State improves to 16-1 and 1-0 in the Big 12.
After spending most of the match on their feet, Jamill Kelly used a takedown with 1:05 remaining in the match to escape with a 3-2 win at 141 pounds.
At 149 pounds, ISU's Billy Maldonado reversed Reggie Wright at the 6:06 mark to pull within one at 4-3. However, Wright escaped and earned the riding time point to assure the 7-4 win and a 6-0 lead.
The Cyclones got on the board at 157 pounds when Cole Sanderson decisioned Shane Roller 9-4.
ISU sent No. 1-ranked Joe Heskett to the mat at 165 pounds against OSU's sixth-ranked Ty Wilcox staved off an attempted pin at the end of the second period, but was decisioned 8-3.
Tony Gansen suffered a crushing defeat at 174 pounds where he lead 6-4 before ISU's Perry Parks stole a takedown with no seconds showing on the clock.
At 184 pounds, ISU's top-ranked Cael Sanderson was too much for OSU's eighth-ranked Daniel Cormier. Sanderson showed why he is 65-0 in his ISU career, major decisioning Cormier, 20-9.
In an upset at 197 pounds, fourth-ranked Zach Thompson decisioned OSU's No. 2-ranked Mark Mu-oz 3-2. Thompson held off a late charge from Mu-oz to hold on to the decision and extended the Cyclone lead to 16-6.
Iowa State locked up the dual at 285 when ISU's Mark Knauer decisioned Dave Anderton, 9-5, to give the Cyclones an insurmountable 19-6 lead.
OSU won its first match since Wright's decision at 149 pounds when Jeff Ragan continued to roll over the competition at 125 pounds with a 10-2 major decision. At 133 pounds, No. 2-ranked Cody Sanderson decisioned ninth-ranked Charles Walker, 8-3.
OSU 10, ISU 22
141: Jamill Kelly (OSU) dec. Sonny Marchette (ISU), 3-2
149: Reggie Wright (OSU) dec. Billy Maldonado (ISU), 7-4
157: Cole Sanderson (ISU) dec. Shane Roller (OSU), 9-4
165: Joe Heskett (ISU) dec. Ty Wilcox (OSU), 8-3
174: Perry Parks (ISU) dec. Tony Gansen (OSU), 8-6 ot
184: Cael Sanderson (ISU) m. dec. Daniel Cormier (OSU), 20-9
197: Zach Thompson (ISU) dec. Mark Mu-oz (OSU), 3-2
285: Mark Knauer (ISU) dec. Dave Anderton (OSU), 9-5
125: Jeff Ragan (OSU) m. dec. Matt Azevedo (ISU), 10-2
133: Cody Sanderson (ISU) dec. Charles Walker (OSU), 8-3
2000 OSU Wrestling
Postmatch Quotes
vs. Iowa State
Jan. 28, 2000
OSU Coach John Smith
On the match
"They're a tough team, a good team, a solid team. They come together as a team. They're wrestling as a team. Congratulations to Coach (Bobby) Douglas on where they're at right now.
"We obviously have to get better. Not so much better technically. Not so much better with our skills. We have to get tougher mentally. We have to get tougher conditionally. We just have a lot of areas we need to improve on. I can't understand how five days later they look so different as a team. So I have to analyze that and figure it out. We didn't wrestle well at all. At the same time, they made us look bad.
"There's a lot of work to be done. This is a squad, from the beginning I've said it all along, that anytime it shows a lack of focus we're in trouble. We don't have any luxury to do anything. We can't compensate with a couple individuals to overcome a loss or overcome our overall performance. If we show a lack of focus for the rest of the season, we'll continue to get beat. It's that simple. We have no room. We didn't have anything really tonight."
"It must get better. The areas we need to get better on are not so much technical. We have to show a little more guts out there and make sure we regroup and refocus and get prepared for next weekend."
Iowa State coach Bobby Douglas
On the victory
"This is a great victory for us. It came at a great time, Oklahoma State
wrestled a hard match. I think we wrestled very well tonight. I was pleased
with our performance. My hat is off to this
team. This is the first time they have wrestled as a team, not individuals."
On the Sanderson brothers' performances
I think Cael (Sanderson) set the tone for us with his aggressiveness. He was
so dominant, I think that fires a lot of guys up. Cole (Sanderson) wrestled
a tremendous match."
On his team
"We are getting better, we are working at it. We have got some guys who will
go out there and fight you. The guys we had before would go out and fight
you. We were just short on talent. These guys are talented. We came to
wrestle as hard as we could."
Iowa State Wrestler Cael Sanderson
On wrestling Daniel Cormier
"I knew it was going to be tough because he is a dangerous wrestler. I just
tried to be the aggressor. That is our style, we were trying to get them
tired. He is a tough kid though.
On being compared to OSU's Pat Smith
"Pat Smith has been one of my heroes and he still is. He is just a great
wrestler and I liked watching him wrestle. To put me in that class is kind
of crazy, I still have a lot yet to do.
On dominating in college
"I didn't expect anything near how I have been performing. I can't really
explain it. I wasn't anywhere near this in high school. I have combined my
style with Coach Douglas' and it has really helped me out"
