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Kansans Shawn Bunch (133 lbs, Edinboro, Leavenworth) and Joe Johnston (157 lbs, Iowa, SM East) each won their semi-finals and are national finalists. They will compete for the national title tomorrow night.
Bunch won a hard-fought 6-4 match in the semis. He snagged a lightning quick low single about :02 seconds into the match for a takedown and never looked back. He beat Minnesota's Mack Reiter, a freshman who was a Iowa 4x state champion. Bunch is quite an athletic wrestler!
Johnston is in what has been called the toughest bracket of the tourney at 157! He knocked of #1 seed Alex Tirapelle of Illinois in the quarterfinals with a last second reversal and one-point win. He then knocked off #5 Jake Percival of Ohio in the semi-finals in another hard-fought match! He has been a crowd favorite, his fast-paced aggressive style from neutral has been a highlight of the tournament. He came in as a #8 seed. All of his wins seem to bring loud applause from the entire Savvis Center!
Scott Coleman (285 lbs., Iowa State, Manhattan) also will be an All-American, wrestling for 7th/8th tomorrow.
Jacob Klein (165 lbs., Nebraska, Kapaun) lost one round from All-American status by a 2-0 score.
Hope I didn't leave any Kansans out...I am reporting this off the top of my head.
Kansans have been well represented in St. Louis this weekend!
Kit Harris
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Good Job Bunch and Johnston.
Kit: I have been following on the Internet. The Audio went out on the NCAA site. But the chat rooms keep me informed. Updated brackets are very slow.
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Dyer (Olathe South) also wrestled hard and fell just short of All American status by one match.
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My job here is entering results and play-by-play results for ncaasports.com site, which can be accessed at Intermat as well....you may try that, we are keeping the matches updated as they go along....it is going smoothly except for the two occasions we have had server problems...
The other Kansans I have seen here have been Jake Kriegbaum (Air Force and Abilene) and Matt Murray (Nebraska and Colby).
Bunch will wrestle Travis Lee of Cornell in the finals, and Johnston will wrestle Ryan Bertin of Michigan.
Coleman will wrestle Bill Stouffer of Central Michigan, #7 seed, for 7th/8th place this morning.
The attendance here has been in the 15,000-16,000 range each round.
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http://www.sportsbook.com has Joe Johnson as a 3:1 underdog and Shawn Bunch as a slight underdog 1.4:1!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make me rich East Kansans!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I betting the house on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Stats are for losers. Final scores are for winners." Bill Belicheck
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Bravo to Joe and Shawn and good luck this afternoon. And Kit, for God's sake, will you please give Greg Strobel back his $50!!!!
Holmes
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— Harry Chapin, 1976
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Coach Holmes, the protest fee is now $100!!! Haven't been so lucky yet, though !!
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Coleman wins 3-1 in sudden victory for 7th place All-Ameican honors!
Bunch and Johnston tonight in the finals!
GO TEAM KANSAS!
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does anyone know if the finals are going to be showing of tv...and if so what time and channel?
Hey Butt-Head what did people do before they invented TV?
Don't be stupid Beavis there's always been TV, there's just more channels now.
Oh yeah, heh heh hehe... progress is cool. Heh hehe heh
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Coach Harris:
$100? That really better be worth it. And don't forget to send me my cut!
Holmes
Good dreams don't come cheap, you have to pay for them....
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I'd be very curious to see how the Kansas guys would have scored as a team...Has anyone by chance done that?
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