November 5, 2022 - Michigan State Open Individual Wrestling Tournament at the Jenison Field House in East Lansing, Michigan Carsen Richards {R} Lake Erie College defeated Jimmy Nugent {G} Central Michigan University by Sudden Victory 10-8
Looks like conditioning may have decided this one. Richards outscored Nugent 6-1 in the third and in sudden death. Nugent is obviously ripped as heck, but so many things can affect the cardio aspect of conditioning--recent injury recovery, late travel, recent illness etc. Both men were exceptional high school wrestlers--Nugent finishing 3rd in Illinois and Richards 2nd in Michigan this past spring. I think you'll see a lot from both of these guys in the coming years. I'm impressed by what I'm seeing from the Lake Erie College Storm's wrestling program (Owen Richards and Josh Howey most recently, courtesy of Midwest Wrestle). It makes me wonder how smaller schools like Lake Erie College with only 784 undergraduates can have such robust wresting programs while huge universities like Alabama, Texas, Kansas, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Arizona, USC, UCLA, Florida, and Kentucky none at all. Yes, wrestling is bigger in the north, I get that. There's another reason, too, but I'm not about to touch that third rail here!! Thanks to Midwest Wrestle for following some of his high school video subjects into their college careers...and with the ALWAYS super-steady, close-up, and professional camera work. It involves a lot of cost and travel on his part, but his wrestling coverage has become iconic on the Web.
Carsen comes from my hometown. In the video in the background off screen you can hear our high school coach coaching him. Carsen is awesome and an exceptional wrestler. I’m so glad he stayed with the sport. You will always be a Goodrich Martian Carsen. ❤️
That's done when a wrestler is trying to catch up and feels he has the ability to take down his opponent. You give up 1 point in the hope of taking down the opponent for 2, and then repeat. If you want to see an INCREDIBLE example of this, look at the third period of Thomas Gilman's legendary period 3 comeback from a 0-8 deficit against Ethan Lizak. The URL is too long to post here, but just search for a RU-vid with this title: "125 LBS: #1 Thomas Gilman (Iowa) vs. #6 Ethan Lizak" It's a truly great match to watch.
I won a match at the bobby bates tournament in high school like that, I was down 6 points I think, and I couldn't get the pin I kept trying for so coach told me during a blood time stop to repeatedly blast double the guy and let him up. I did it and ended up winning handily in points and the guy puked afterwards.
