Delgado advances to Midlands semifinals

Thursday, December 29

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Junior Joey Delgado advanced to the 149-pound semifinals.

Photo by: Scobel Wiggins/Oregon State Athletics

December 29, 2016 | Wrestling

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By: Athletic Communications

EVANSTON, Ill. – Junior Joey Delgado won three matches and advanced to the semifinals of the 149-pound weight class on Thursday on Day 1 of the 54^th annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships at Northwestern University.

The tournament's No. 6 seed at 149, Delgado will face second-seeded Justin Oliver of Central Michigan in the semifinal round, which starts at 10 a.m. PST on Friday. The championship and third-place matches begin at 5 p.m. and will be televised by the Big Ten Network.

Junior 141-pounder Jack Hathaway won his first two matches to advance to the quarterfinals before losing and dropping into the consolation bracket. He faces Nick Zaretta of Pittsburgh in the consolation round of 16 on Friday.

Junior heavyweight Cody Crawford also advanced to the quarterfinals before losing. He then won two consolation matches to move to the consolation round of 16, where he faces Michael Boykin of North Carolina State.

OSU is in 18^th place with 26 points. Iowa leads the event with 86.5 points; Nebraska is second at 78.5 points.

Abraham Rodriguez (157) went 3-2; Kegan Calkins (125) and David Henry (hwt.) went 1-2 and were eliminated.Bryce Parson (157), Rodney Williams (165), Weston Dobler (174) and Bob Coleman (184) lost two consecutive matches and were also eliminated.

The tournament concludes on Friday. OSU is then idle until a Jan. 13, 2017, dual at Northern Colorado.

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Thursday's results:

KEGAN CALKINS (125, 2-2): Dec. by Ben Thornton (Purdue), 5-1; maj. dec. Liam Cronin (Indiana), 13-4; pinned Hayden Lee (Ohio State), 1:33; dec. by Kyle Akins (Buffalo), 9-4; eliminated.

JACK HATHAWAY (141, 2-1): Dec. Aj Jaffe (Harvard) 5-4; maj. dec. Henry Pohlmeyer (South Dakota State), 9-0; dec. by Chad Red (Nebraska), 3-2.

JOEY DELGADO (149, 3-0): Dec. Zander Wick (Wisconsin), 8-4; dec. Eric Barone (Illinois), 4-1; dec. Anthony Giraldo (Rutgers), 3-2.

ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ (157, 3-2): Dec. by Colin Heffernan (Central Michigan), 2-1; maj. dec. Zeth Dean (Harvard), 11-2; dec. Caden McWhirter (Northern Illinois), 9-4; pinned by Colston DiBlasi (Iowa State), 2:59; eliminated.

BRYCE PARSON (157, 0-2): Tech. fall by Alex Griffin (Purdue), 16-1; pinned by Danny Boychuck (Maryland), 0:50; eliminated.

RODNEY WILLIAMS (165, 0-2): Pinned by Andrew Fogarty (North Dakota), 4:31; maj. dec. by Joseph Gunther (Iowa), eliminated.

WESTON DOBLER (174, 0-2): Tech. fall by Jacob Morrissey (Purdue), 18-0; maj. dec. by Dean Sherry (Rider), 14-3; eliminated.

BOB COLEMAN (184, 0-2): Tech. fall by Tanner Lynde (Purdue), 15-0; pinned by Carson Powell (Iowa State), 4:47; eliminated.

CODY CRAWFORD (Hwt., 3-1): Dec. Gage Hutchinson (Eastern Michigan), 3-2; dec. by Conan Jennings (Northwestern), 5-0; dec. David Jensen (Nebraska), 3-2; dec. Shawn Streck (Purdue), 5-2.

DAVID HENRY (Hwt., 1-2): Dec. by Connor Medbury (Wisconsin), 2-1; pinned Duece Rachal (Illinois), 4:41; dec. by Brett Dempsey (American), 4-3; eliminated.

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