2017 1st Round Recap – 133 pounds
2017 NCAA First Round
133-pound Recap
Three seeded wrestlers, including a past All-American, lost their first match of the 2017 Nationals:
- Iowa State’s Earl Hall, seeded No. 13, lost 8-1 to Princeton’s Pat D’Arcy;
- Oregon State’s unseeded Joey Palmer knocked off No. 15 Jamal Morris of NC State, 5-2;
- Drexel’s No. 16 Kevin Devoy lost 11-3 to North Dakota State’s Cam Sykora, 11-3.
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The only pin at this weight came from Minnesota’s Mitch McKee, who flattened Northern Colorado’s Rico Montoya in 1:55
Princeton’s unseeded Pat D’Arcy scored the first upset of 2017 with an 8-1 win over former Iowa State All-American Earl Hall. (Ginger Robinson photo)
Iowa’s Cory Clark, a two-time national runner-up, held on to beat Stanford’s Connor Schram, 4-0. (Ginger Robinson photo)
- Coach officiates weddings of 32 former wrestlers
- Oklahoma State’s Olejnik and Stanford’s Provo make biggest jumps in WIN’s Dec. 4 Rankings
- Only four top seeds win Vegas championships; Iowa State edged Nebraska and Ohio State for CKLV team title
- Don’t tell wrestlers that their matches don’t count
- Toledo wrestling is “On the Rise” in the NCWA
