—The Daily Collegian Monday, March 18,1991
Six grapplers take All-America
honors, team 3rd at NCAAs
By LORI SHONTZ
Collegian Sports Writer
lOWA CITY, lowa Six wrestlers
earned All-America honors this week
end as the wrestling team placed third
at the NCAA Tournament.
Jeff Prescott won the national
championship at 118 pounds and the
Outstanding Wrestling Award. Troy
Sunderland placed fourth at 142, Bob
Truby placed fifth at 126, Jason Suter
placed fifth at 158, Tim Wittman placed
seventh at 150 and Matt White placed
eighth at 177.
Penn State's finish was its best since
1987, when it placed third with eight All-
Americans.
Sunderland clinched All-America sta
tus by defeating Laurence Jackson of
Cal-Bakersfield in the quarterfinals, 5-
3, in sudden-death overtime. A dubious
stalling call against Sunderland tied the
score at 3-3 in regulation.
"It was pretty cheap he was just
standing around," Sunderland said.
About 45 seconds into the three-min
ute overtime period, Jackson lifted Sun
derland into the air and needed only to
break him down for the takedown. Sun
derland, however, squirmed his way out
of Jackson's grasp and won the match
on a takedown 30 seconds later.
"When he lifted me up in the air, I
was panicking," Sunderland said.
"That's why I practice with Witt (man )
Prescott
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stalled in hopes of forcing Prescott to
make a mistake. But Prescott posted a
5-0 victory that wasn't as close as the
score suggested.
"I was glad to see Jeff didn't push the
frustration button," Coach Rich Loren
zo said.
Prescott had technical failed Zaputil,
18-2 at 4:31, at the national dual meet
championships, but wasn't sure he'd be
able to do so again. He scored the first
takedown 43 seconds into the match Sat
urday night and took Zaputil and the
lowa fans right out of the match.
"He's not out there to win 3-2," Fritz
said. "He's out there to totally shut off
and break them."
Fritz, who won a national title for
Penn State at 126 pounds in 1975, spent
most of the season telling Prescott to
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in practice he's real strong and he
lifts me like that, and I try to move him
and scoot underneath."
Sunderland lost only to lowa's Troy
Steiner in the semifinals, 4-3, and to
Oklahoma State's Chuck Barbee in the
third-place match, 5-3. His fourth-place
finish was the highest ever by a 142-
pound Penn State wrestler.
"I know he's not satisfied with that
and that's what I about him," Coach
Rich Lorenzo said.
Truby had hoped to challenge for the
title at 126, but his lack of offense hurt
him in the semifinal against Nebraska's
Jason Kelber. Kelber scored two take
downs the fast two Truby allowed
in his 6-2 victory.
"He just held me at bay," Truby said.
"(Kelber) thought if he could score a
takedown, he'd win," Lorenzo said. "He
didn't think he could hold Bob and he
didn't think Bob could hold him."
In the consolation semifinal, Truby
lost his chance to challenge for third
place when he was called for stalling
1:04 into sudden death overtime, giving
Ohio State's Adam DiSabato a 2-1 victo
ry in the consolation semifinal. Lorenzo,
upset at Truby's performance, stepped
in the spitbox as he hurried from mat
side.
"He let the referee decide the bout,
and that's stupid," Lorenzo said. "He
was standing around, letting his oppo-
focus on one match at a time. He also
drilled with Prescott.
Every time Prescott wrestled, Fritz
got nearly as nervous as he did before
competing himself.
"Fritz would be sweating and all fired
up and yelling, 'One more stepping
stone, Prescott, one more step. You're
going to get better, Buzzsaw,' " Pre
scott said.
Prescott stepped so far, so high and
so fast that the coaches knew he'd be
able to dominate his weight class as he
did physically and mentally.
"Jeff has so many moves if he hits
you with his best move and that doesn't
work, he'll come back with something
almost as good," Fritz said.
"He's a pit bull," Lorenzo said. "He's
one of the fiercest competitors we've
ever had at Penn State."
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it."
Thiby was also upset with his perfor
mance.
"We went out of bounds and I was
going to change my style and shoot and
the referee said stalling and that was
it," he said.
Truby then opened up on his feet to
defeat Babak Mohammadi of Oregon
State for fifth place, 17-3.
Wittman, a surprise All-American
last year, had trouble this year because
he relies primarily on a few big moves
which teams have scouted and learned
to defend against.
"Everyone knows he has a great
straight-on double and that he sort of
lulls you into it," Lorenzo said. "He has
all the tools to be a high-finishing All-
American or national champion, but
he's got to add more to his repertoire."
Wittman faced Wisconsin's Matt
Demaray, the eventual champion, in
the quarterfinals and was unable to get
his offense going. After beating Cleve
land State's Mike Carpenter to clinch
All-American, he lost his chance to chal
lenge for third to Ohio State's Ken Ram
sey.
Against Oklahmoma State's Todd
Chesbro in the seventh-place bout, Wit
tman recovered from a 3-1 deficit with
an escape and takedown in the final
period for a 4-3 victory.
"It all comes down to pride then,"
OT squeeze reanimates Suter's desire to win
By LORI SHONTZ
Collegian Sports Writer
lOWA CITY, lowa All Jason Suter could think
was "squeeze."
Seven minutes of regulation and three minutes of
sudden death overtime had failed to produce a winner.
Suter and Army's Nick Mauldin needed an additional
30-second period of sudden death to determine which
graduating senior would exit the NCAA Tournament
with nothing.
Mauldin won the coin flip and chose bottom. For 30
seconds Suter held Mauldin as tight as he could, and
he advanced to the next round barely.
"After that match I knew I could do it even if I
had to go to sudden death the rest of the way, I could
do it," Suter said.
After needing a wild card to qualify for nationals
and then losing in the first round to unseeded Mike
Marzetta of Minnesota, Suter thought he might have
lost his desire to wrestle. But the sudden death victory
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Troy Sunderland controls his opponent during the Eastern Wrestling League finals. Sunderland qualified for All-America honors
this weekend during NCAAs, where the Lions placed third. Sunderland placed fourth at 142 pounds for the honor.
Wittman said. "What can I say I Against Cal-Bakersfield's Mark Cheff flip determines which wrestler chooses
wanted to win it." in the third round of consolations, train- top or bottom if the bottom man
White overcame yet another injury to er Dan Monthley massaged White's escapes, he wins.
earn All-America status. In his first back during timeouts and White limped White won the toss, chose bottom, and
match back, after missing a month back to the mat. Regulation ended in a escaped with nine seconds remaining to
because of a knee injury, White injured 1-1 tie and neither wrestler scored in a become an All-American.
his back and it bothered him for the rest sudden death overtime. "I told myself I could stand any kind
of the season. He hadn't wrestled live The match then went to a 30-second of pain for 30 seconds," White said.
for five days before nationals. additional sudden death period. A coin "And it was worth it."
brought back his confidence, and Suter made All-
American for the second straight year with a fifth
place finish at 158 pounds.
"I don't think he ever sincerely believed in his heart
that he could win the national tournament," Coach
Rich Lorenzo said. "And that's not negative. But he
did believe he could be an All-American, and he never
lost sight of that."
Each of Suter's victories was decided in the final
seconds.
Suter won his second consolation match by scoring
a takedown with 29 seconds remaining in the three
minute sudden death period.
He won his third consolation match —and clinched
All-American with a takedown and two back points
in the last 30 seconds.
Against Greg Warren of Missouri in the fourth round
of consolations, Suter overcame a 5-1 deficit with a
reversal and three-point near fall at the beginning of
the third period to take a 6-5 lead. He eventually won
the match on riding time.
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"Jason's such a sincere kid," assistant coach John
Fritz said. "He wanted to win so hard that it was hurt
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Suter lost to Arizona State's Ray Miller, 9-2, in the
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later to score an early takedown on fourth-seeded
Scott Hovan of Pitt and hang on for a 5-3 victory.
Suter's fifth-place finish bettered his eighth-place
finish at 167 pounds last year.
"Jason's had as many peaks and maybe more val
leys than anyone on the team," Lorenzo said. "But he
never gave up, he never threw it in, and I admire him
for that."
Suter said it wasn't easy to keep himself from giving
up, especially after losing to wrestlers he thought he
was better than in the Eastern Wrestling League Tour
nament. Losing again to freshman Brian Unkert of
Bloomsburg particularly disturbed him.
,"I mean, I've been wrestling since I was 5 and I just
couldn't figure out what I was doing to be wrestling
that poorly," Suter said.
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