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Lehigh in battle for third
8/26/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Wrestling
As fans eagerly await the NCAA Championship finals, the Lehigh Wrestling team remains in a heated battle for third place, trailing Oklahoma by only one point—70 to 69. Both teams have two men in the finals. With just one win tonight in the finals, the team would break the all-time school mark at Nationals, which was the 69.75 points scored by the 1979 team.
This morning Lehigh fans saluted two wrestlers who already finished their seasons as All-Americans. Brad Dillon split two bouts this morning, losing another tie-breaker, 6-6, to Curtis Owens of Arizona State, then whipping Oregon State’s Shane Webster, 11-6 to claim fifth place. After losing 9-8 last night to third place winner Shane Roller of Oklahoma State, Derek Zinck lost 12-2 today to Michigan State’s Gray Maynard to finish eighth as a freshman. Roller pinned his other two opponents in the consolations to finish third.
Tonight, junior Jon Trenge returns to the finals for the second time in two entries, only the seventh wrestler in Lehigh history to do so, with still another year remaining in his career. He’ll face three-time All-American, Damion Hahn, a former three-time New Jersey state champion who wrestles for the University of Minnesota. Troy Letters seeks to avenge his only season loss—a 6-3 defeat to unbeaten Matt Lackey of Illinois in the semifinals of Midlands. Troy joins Darryl Burley as the only two Lehigh freshmen ever to appear in the NCAA Finals. Joining Letters and Trenge in the finals from the EIWA is Travis Lee, a sophomore from Cornell.
NCAA TEAM POINTS (men in championship finals)
1-Oklahoma St 134.0 (2)
2-Minnesota 100.5 (3)
3-Oklahoma 70.0 (2)
4-LEHIGH 69.0 (2)
5-Penn St 62.0 (0)
6-Arizona St 61.0 (1)
7-Michigan 54.0 (1)
8-Iowa 53.5 (1)
9-N. Iowa 49.5 (0)
10-Illinois 49.0 (2)
11-Cornell 48.0 (0)
This morning Lehigh fans saluted two wrestlers who already finished their seasons as All-Americans. Brad Dillon split two bouts this morning, losing another tie-breaker, 6-6, to Curtis Owens of Arizona State, then whipping Oregon State’s Shane Webster, 11-6 to claim fifth place. After losing 9-8 last night to third place winner Shane Roller of Oklahoma State, Derek Zinck lost 12-2 today to Michigan State’s Gray Maynard to finish eighth as a freshman. Roller pinned his other two opponents in the consolations to finish third.
Tonight, junior Jon Trenge returns to the finals for the second time in two entries, only the seventh wrestler in Lehigh history to do so, with still another year remaining in his career. He’ll face three-time All-American, Damion Hahn, a former three-time New Jersey state champion who wrestles for the University of Minnesota. Troy Letters seeks to avenge his only season loss—a 6-3 defeat to unbeaten Matt Lackey of Illinois in the semifinals of Midlands. Troy joins Darryl Burley as the only two Lehigh freshmen ever to appear in the NCAA Finals. Joining Letters and Trenge in the finals from the EIWA is Travis Lee, a sophomore from Cornell.
NCAA TEAM POINTS (men in championship finals)
1-Oklahoma St 134.0 (2)
2-Minnesota 100.5 (3)
3-Oklahoma 70.0 (2)
4-LEHIGH 69.0 (2)
5-Penn St 62.0 (0)
6-Arizona St 61.0 (1)
7-Michigan 54.0 (1)
8-Iowa 53.5 (1)
9-N. Iowa 49.5 (0)
10-Illinois 49.0 (2)
11-Cornell 48.0 (0)
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