Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion College NEWMAN NATIONALS UPDATE!!!

After the 2nd round of the NAIA Nationals the Jets of Newman are flying high and find themselves in 9th place.

They qualified 9 but only 8 were listed on the brackets. (Copeland was absent from them)

Newman has only lost 2 guys to elimination this early with Jake Johnson and Nathan Brenner both going 0-2.

Steven Sprague, JD Johnson, and Chris McGrew all remain alive on the backside of the bracket.

Isaac Wall, Brad Lies, and Curtis Chenoweth all advanced to the frontside quarters in dominating fashion. More details as they come.

Well...The next rounds were not as kind to the Jets as they crashed hard. Of the 6 wrestlers that were still in it earlier, all the guys on the backside were eliminated.

Isaac Wall lost a 13-11sv decision in the quarters and was pinned in the backside of the bracket for the opportunity to gain All American Status.

Brad Lies hit a major road block getting pinned in :23 seconds in his quarterfinal before dropping a tight 7-5 loss in the backside of the bracket.

Curtis Chenoweth is the only one left for the Jets making it to day 2. The true freshman had a first round bye and was expected to face the #1 guy in the nation, but that didn't happen as that guy was caught and pinned. Thus Chenoweth faced a guy he didn't anticipate, and won 14-5 major decision....in the quarters he drew Josh Fitzgerald of Southern Oregon and beat him 12-3.

Curtis will face Missouri Valley's Jake Oberfoell who beat Jake Stevenson of Morningside 6-4. Curtis has wrestled Stevenson 2 or 3 times on the year and had beaten him pretty bad the one time but has also been on the other end of the whooping. Oberfoell and Chenoweth will wrestle each other for the first time this year to my knowledge. Oberfoell is also a freshman and is currently ranked 6th nationally, while Chenoweth fell out of the polls following a disappointing regional showing.

Oberfoell finished 4th in Missouri in 2004, and was slated to redshirt this year.

Chenoweth is in the FINALS, everyone else was beat out. Here are the complete brackets.
http://naia.collegesports.com/sports/m-wrestl/spec-rel/022406aaa.html

It must be true ... Chenoweth is a National Champ!

Wow, that is great! Congratulations Curtis. The entire Kansas wrestling community will be very proud of you for this accomplishment. Best of luck on defending your championship next year. It would be neat to see you win three more.

I don't know if this means that there might be some hope still for some of us other frequent posters too. Randy, maybe you and I could do something this year in a Golden Masters tournament.

Sweazy, I blew my knee out first match at regionals that is why i wasnt able to go and wrestle.