Three Mountaineers Earn NCAA Bids; Team Takes Fifth
By Ira Green
WVU Sports Information Office
EWL Team Standings AT THIS LINK
Brackets AT THIS LINK (large file, long download)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (March 7, 2010)– The West Virginia University
wrestling team finished fifth at the 2010 EWL Championships as Edinboro
ran away with its eighth-straight EWL tournament title Sunday at the WVU
Coliseum.
The Mountaineers were paced by three runner-up finishes from freshman
125-pounder Shane Young, redshirt senior 165-pounder Donnie Jones and
junior heavyweight Brandon Williamson. All three wrestlers have earned
bids to the NCAA tournament March 18-20 at the Qwest Center in Omaha,
Neb.
Young opened the day with a pair of wins to advance to the finals
before falling 4-2 to Pitt’s Anthony Zanetta, the top-seed.
Jones finished 2-0 on the afternoon with a pair of decisions before
setting for a medical forfeit in the finals to Edinboro’s Jarrod
King.
Williamson went 2-1 at his first EWL tournament before being pinned in
the final minute of his championships bout with Pitt’s Ryan Tomei.
Prior to the championship bouts, former Mountaineers Ian “Whitey”
Chlebove, Sam Kline and Greg Jones were inducted into the EWL Hall of
Fame.
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