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Tiger Style Set to Host Illinois Thursday at Francis Howell High School in St. Louis
11/12/2019 4:44:00 PM | Wrestling
A capacity crowd is expected for the border showdown
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – No. 12-ranked Mizzou Wrestling hosts Illinois this Thursday (Nov. 14) at St. Louis's Francis Howell High School at 7 p.m. as it looks for its first win of the 2019-20 season. Mizzou enters the dual with a 0-1 record while Illinois comes in at 1-1. Mizzou is coming off a hard-fought, 29-10 loss at No. 18 Virginia Tech on November 2. Illinois wrestled last Sunday against both Army, losing 19-5, and UT-Chattanooga, winning 22-10.
This Thursday's dual is almost completely sold out and is rivaling the same atmosphere of last year's dual at Kansas City's Park Hill High School.
Mizzou will be the second nationally ranked team that Illinois will wrestle this season and third team overall. The Illini lost to No. 24 Army on Sunday 15-19 and wrestled UT-Chattanooga the same day, winning 22-10. Illinois will be Tiger Style's second dual and first non-ranked team it will wrestle.
The dual will be special just like last years dual in Kansas City in that Tiger Style senior Connor Flynn is a Francis Howell alum and will be competing once again in his high school gym, this time in front of a sold-out audience. Flynn also just won the West Division Wrestler of the Week in the MAC after his dominant 12-1 major decision over Cody Hughes and a tournament title at the Southeast Open, going 4-0. Below is Mizzou's projected lineup for Thursday:
- 125 Pounds – Dack Punke (2-3) or Cameron Valdiviez (4-1) vs Justin Cardani (3-3)
- 133 Pounds – No. 25 Allan Hart (3-1) vs No. 9 Travis Piotrowski (6-1)
- 141 Pounds – No. 5 Grant Leeth (0-0) or Alex Butler (2-3) vs Dylan Duncan (4-2)
- 149 Pounds – No. 2 Brock Mauller (5-0) vs Mousa Jodeh (2-4)
- 157 Pounds – No. 14 Jarrett Jacques (4-1) or Phyllip DeLoach (3-1) vs No.16 Eric Barone (4-3)
- 165 Pounds – Peyton Mocco (2-2) or Luke Fortuna (0-0) vs No. 23 Danny Braunagel (7-1)
- 174 Pounds – No. 8 Connor Flynn (5-0) vs No. 18 Joey Gunther (3-1)
- 184 Pounds – Canten Marriott (2-2) or Cordel Duhart (8-1) vs No. 18 Zac Braunagel (6-2)
- 197 Pounds – No. 20 Wyatt Koelling (1-0) vs Matt Wroblewski (3-3)
- Heavyweight – Rodrigo Diaz (3-2) vs Luke Luffman (6-0)
Dack Punke (125 pounds) is 2-3 on the season with wins over Joe Thomas (WVU – unattached) 6-0, and Paxton Rosen (Campbell) 4-2. The other option for the Tigers at 125 is Cameron Valdiviez who started his season with four falls over opponents at the Southeast Open to walk out with a 4-1 record. One of those two wrestlers will wrestle Justin Cardani who this Friday went 1-1 with a win over UT-Chattanooga's Fabian Gutierrez.
Allan Hart (133 pounds) went 3-1 at the Southeast Open with wins over Gabriel Hixenbaugh (Bules Creek) 6-0, a Technical Fall over Colton Landers (Tennessee-Chattanooga) 17-2, and a Fall (5:22) over Jamie Hernandex (North Carolina). He will wrestle Travis Piotrowski, who won both matches on Sunday with a 5-1 win over Army's Lane Peters and a 6-2 decision over Chattanooga's Franco Valdes.
Grant Leeth (141 pounds) has not wrestled so far this year but enters with a No. 5 overall ranking. The other option for the Tigers at 141 is Alex Butler who has wins over John Baier (Virginia Tech) 7-4, and Chris Debien (Tennessee-Chattanooga) 3-1. One of those two will wrestle We Rachal who went 1-1 on Sunday with a win over Aidan Murphy (UT-Chattanooga) 5-3
Brock Mauller (149 pounds) has started the season strong going 5-0 with a notable win over No. 23 Brent Moore (Virginia Tech) 6-0, and two major decisions over tanner Smith (Tennessee-Chattanooga) 10-2, Colston Diblasi (George Mason) 15-6. He will wrestle Mousa Jodeh who has opened the season with two losses.
Jarrett Jacques (157 pounds) had a strong performance at the Southeast Open going 4-0 with a Major Decision over Phyllip Deloach (Mizzou) 14-5 and two Technical Falls over Kolby Ho (George Mason) and Tyler Shilson (Tennessee-Chattanooga) 26-7. The other option for 157 is Phyllip Deloach who went 3-1 at the Southeast Open with only loss to his teammate, while getting a fall over Ac Headlee (North Carolina). One of those wrestlers will wrestle Eric Barone whose only win is over George Carpenter (UT-Chattanooga).
Peyton Mocco (165 pounds) has two wins this season with a Major Decision over Rodrick Mosley (Gardner-Webb) 14-4, and a Fall (2:46) on Drew Nicholson (Tennessee-Chattanooga). The other option for 165 is Luke Fortuna who has yet to wrestle this season. One of the two wrestlers will wrestle Danny Braunagel who has wins over Mason Smith (Army) 12-5, and George Carpenter (UT-Chattanooga) 8-5.
Connor Flynn (174 pounds) has opened strong, going 5-0 with three of his matches being Major Decisions. He will wrestle Joey Gunther who achieved one win on Sunday beating Hunter Fortner (UT-Chattanooga) 4-0.
Canten Marriott (184 pounds) has two wins on the season beating Max Gallahan (VMI) 6-1, and Matthew Danner (King) 7-0. The other option for the Tigers at 184 is Cordel Duhart who had a strong performance at the Central Methodist Open going 8-1 with three fall and a major decision. One of those two Tigers will wrestle Zac Braunagel who went 1-1 on Sunday with his win being a decision over Luke Hodsden (Army) 6-2.
Wyatt Koelling (197 pounds) had a dominant match over Virginia Tech's Stan Smeltzer beating him 8-1. He will wrestle Matt Wroblewsk who beat Army's Alex Hopkins 3-1 on Sunday.
Rodrigo Diaz (HWT) beat three of his opponents at the Southeast Open beating Sean Mullican (West Virginia-Unattached) 10-4, Odgerel Batkhishig (Cambell Wrestling Club) 8-4, Grayson Walthall (Tennessee-Chattanooga) 14-4. He will wrestle Luke Luffman who on Sunday beat both his opponents with a decision over Bobby Heald (Army) 8-5, and a major decision over Grayson Walthall (UT-Chattanooga) 17-3.
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