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CMU Wrestlers Mester and Bolyard Win Titles at the Midlands
12/30/2003 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
Dec. 30, 2003
EVANSTON, ILL - Two members of the Central Michigan University wrestling team (2-2, 0-0 Mid-American Conference) won titles at the Midlands in Evanston, Ill., on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
Both 141-pounder Jason Mester (Mineral Point, Wis./Sr.) and 165-pounder David Bolyard (Akron, Ohio/Jr.) won their weight class, the first time CMU has ever had two champions in the same year at this prestigious tournament. In fact, this was the first-time that CMU has had two wrestlers in the finals.
The Chippewas ended up finishing sixth in the tournament with 79 points. This is CMU's best finish in this tournament since it finished third in 1998. CMU's two champions were tied for the most of any school along with Iowa State. Illinois won the tournament with 107.5 points.
In the finals at 141, Jason Mester took on No. 4-seed Nate Gallick of Iowa State. Gallick took an early lead with a first period takedown. Mester began the second period on top, and quickly worked for the nearfall points. Gallick injured his ankle as Mester worked to turn him, and was unable to continue after trying to wrestle on the injured ankle. That gave Mester the victory by injury forfeit and CMU's first Midland's champion since 1998 when Casey Cunningham won a title.
David Bolyard battled No. 4-seed Ralph Everett of Hofstra in the finals at 165. The match ended regulation tied at one with each wrestler scoring an escape. The match went scoreless in the first overtime period, sending it to a second. In the second overtime, Bolyard got an escape in the first 30-second period, and then held Everett down during the second 30-second period for a 2-1 victory.
The first session of wrestling on day two produced a first for CMU wrestling as for the first-time in CMU history, two Chippewas advanced to the finals. Both Jason Mester at 141 and David Bolyard at 165 won their championship semifinal match to advance to the finals.
Mester battled Iowa's Cliff Moore, seeded third, in the semifinals. It was a low scoring affair as the match sat tied at one with a minute to go in the match. Mester got the lone takedown of the match with 40 seconds to go and held on for the one-point victory and his first trip to the Midland finals, 3-1.
Bolyard, seed second, took on No. 3-seed Nick Passolano of Iowa State in the semifinals. Bolyard got a takedown midway through the first period and added another takedown in the second as he earned the victory, 5-3.
The consolation fourth round was not as good to the Chippewas as the championship semifinals was as only one CMU wrestler won his match in that round.
Heavyweight Bill Stouffer (Lowell/Jr.) was the only CMU wrestler to win his consolation fourth round match to advance to the consolation quarterfinals and a guaranteed place in the tournament. Stouffer won his match by medical default over No. 3-seed Mitch Clark of the Ohio International.
Stouffer battled second-seeded Pat Cummins of Penn State in the consolation quarterfinals. The match was tied at one when Cummins scored a takedown with 15 seconds to go in the match to earn a 3-1 victory. In his seventh-place match, Stouffer lost to No. 11-seed Mike Behnke of Illinois, 5-1, to finish eighth in the tournament.
The Chippewas return to action on Saturday, January 10, when they head to Ashland, Ohio to compete in the Wendy's Classic. CMU will battle VMI, Gardner-Webb, and Pittsburgh that day.
Team Standings (out of 61 teams) - Points1. Illinois - 107.52. Iowa State - 1023. Penn State - 914. Hofstra - 87.55. Iowa - 80.56. Central Michigan - 797. Northern Iowa - 758. Cal Bakersfield - 729. Ohio State - 6410. Cornell - 62.5
125 - No. 7-seed Kyle Stoffer - Olmsted Falls, Ohio - So. - (3-2 tournament record)Champ. First round - defeated Curry Pickard (North Carolina-Pembrook), 8-6Champ. Second round - lost to No. 10-seed Matt Smith (Penn State), 3-0Consol. Second round - defeated Andy Gleixner (MacMurry College), 12-1Consol. Third round - defeated Jermaine Jones (Ohio State), 5-1Consol. Fourth round - lost to Adam Smith (Penn State), 5-1
133 - No. 5-seed Jordan Webster - Washington, Ill. - Sr. - (3-2)Champ. First round - defeated Kevin Linich (Cleveland State), 9-3Champ. Second round - lost to No. 12-seed Sam Hiatt (Northern Illinois), 5-1 3OTConsol. Second round - defeated Dan Quintela (Northwestern), 3-1 OTConsol. Third round - defeated Matt Eveleth (Penn), 5-1Consol. Fourth round - lost, by fall, to No. 6-seed Ricky LaForge (Hofstra), 5:40
141 - No. 2-seed Jason Mester - Mineral Point, Wis. - Sr. - (6-0, First-place)Champ. Pigtail - defeated Joe Mavins (Lassen College), 5-2Champ. First round - defeated Mike Baria (Harvard), 4-2Champ. Second round - defeated DeWitt Driscoll (Penn State), 3-2Champ. Quarterfinals - defeated No. 7-seedAnthony Coleman (Cleveland State) - 6-0Champ. Semifinals - defeated No. 3-seed Cliff Moore (Iowa), 3-2Champ. Finals - defeated No. 4-seed Nate Gallick (Iowa State), injury default
149 - Andy Keller - Rogers City - Fr. - (2-2)Champ. Pigtail - defeated Ryan Derr (Ohio State), 2-0 OTChamp. First round - defeated Wayne French (Chattanooga Takedown Club), 11-5Champ. Second round - lost to Jon Garvin (Northern Iowa), 5-2Consol. Second round - loss, by fall, to Tony Hook (Oregon State), 3:31
157 - No. 7-seed Ty Morgan - Huber Heights, Ohio - Sr. - (3-2)Champ. First round - defeated Amir Khan (Rutgers), 9-3Champ. Second round - lost to No. 10-seed Brian Cobb (Cal Bakerfields), 4-3Consol. Second round - defeated Stryder Davis (Montana State Northern), 7-3Consol. Third round - defeated No. 6-seed Travis Paulson (Iowa State), 3-1Consol. Fourth round - lost to No. 8-seed Paul Siemon (Hofstra), 8-4
157 - Josh Mester - Mineral Point, Wis - Fr. - (1-2)Champ. First round - lost to No. 4-seed Matt Gentry (Stanford), 6-2Consol. Pigtail - defeated, by major decision, Mike Parziele (Franklin & Marshall), 12-3Consol. First round - lost to Stryder Davis (Montana State Northern), 3-1
165 - No. 2-seed David Bolyard - Akron, Ohio - Jr. - (5-0, First-place)Champ. First round - defeated, by major decision, Nolan Walther (Northwestern), 10-1Champ. Second round - defeated, by technical fall, Frank Beasley (Lincoln College), 15-0 4:08Champ. Quarterfinals - defeated No. 7-seed Joe Mazzurco (Cornell), 5-2Champ. Semifinals - defeated No. 3-seed Nick Passolano (Iowa State), 5-3Champ. Finals - defeated No. 4-seed Ralph Everett (Hofstra), 2-1 2OT
165 - Brad Anderson - Grand Rapids - Jr. - (2-2)Champ. First round - defeated Matthew Oivia (Southern Illinois-Edwardsburg), 11-3Champ. Second round - lost to Johnny Clark (Ohio State), 5-3Consol. Second round - defeated Nolan Walther (Northwestern),7-0Consol. Third round - lost to Anthony Castillo (Illinois), 6-0
174 - Mitch Hancock - Royal Oak - Jr. - (1-2)Champ. First round - defeated No. 9-seed Tyler Baier (Cornell), 4-2 3OTChamp. Second round - lost to No. 8-seed Andrew Roy (Rutgers), 8-1Consol. Second round -lost to James Yonushonis (Penn State), 5-3
174 - Russ Vanderheyden - Rockton, Ill. - Jr. - (1-2)Champ. First round - lost to No. 7-seed Matt Herrington (Penn), 10-4Consol. First round - defeated Jesse Juarez (Montana State Northern), 7-6Consol. Second round - lost to Bryce Hasseman (Bloomsburg WC), 5-2
184 - Matt McCartney - Roseville - So. - (3-2)Champ. First round - defeated Octavius Bellamy (Kennedy-King College), 6-4 OTChamp. Second round - lost, by major decision, to Blake Kaplan (Ohio State), 10-0Consol. Second round - defeated Rudy Medini (Rutgers), 7-6Consol. Third round - defeated David Helfrich (Lehigh), 2-2 (win by referee's decision)Consol. Fourth round - lost to No. 6-seed Brian Glynn (Illinois), 5-3
184 - Alex Lammers - Huber Heights, Ohio - Jr. - (2-2)Champ. First round - defeated, by fall, Ed Magrys (Eastern Michigan), 1:08Champ. Second round - lost to Ben Heizer (Northern Illinois), 7-0Consol. Second round - defeated No. 9-seed Brad Christie (Hofstra), 2-1Consol. Third round - lost to Randy Stout (Cornell), 5-3
197 - Joe Yager - Fulton - Sr. - (3-2)Champ. First round - lost to No. 6-seed Nate Patrick (Schultz Wrestling Club), 5-2Consol. First round - defeated, by major decision, Woodley Milord (Iowa State), 10-0Consol. Second round - defeated Trevor Smith (Iowa State), 3-2Consol. Third round - defeated Brent Meyers (Peacock WC), 3-1Consol. Fourth round - lost to No. 7-seed Morgan Horner (Lock Haven), 6-4
285 - Bill Stouffer - Lowell - Jr. - (4-3, eighth-place)Champ. First round -defeated, by major decision, Chad Barkalow (Iowa), 14-3Champ. Second round - lost to #4 Matt Feast (Penn), 6-3Consol. Second round - defeated, by fall, Adam Cooney (Penn), 2:26Consol. Third round - defeated, by major decision, Chris Little (Illinois), 12-3Consol. Fourth round - defeated No. 3-seed Mitch Clark (Ohio International WC), medical forfeitConsol. Quarterfinal - lost to No. 2-seed Pat Cummins (Penn State), 3-1Seven-place Match - lost to No. 11-seed Mike Behnke (Illinois), 5-1
