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it coming down to Tony Nelson with Penn State leading 17-15.
 

That it. Tony Nelson win his match and Minnesota upset Number 1 rank Penn State 18-17. They handed Penn State it first loss of the year.
 

great win today at the pav!!! congrats to j rob and the boys! #gophertough
 


I thought the Gophers were in trouble when their undefeated wrestler at 197 got upset. It turns out the pin at the earlier weight class won the match.
Nelson is solid at HWT, but he doesn't give off the fear factor the way Lesnar or Conrad did. They used to dominate matches.

Good to see J moving around better after having a ridiculous # of knee surgeries.
 


And yet the yahoo's on the Big 10 broadcast are still picking Penn State to win the Big 10 meet. Ugh, check the record Minnesota beat Iowa and Penn State.
 

And yet the yahoo's on the Big 10 broadcast are still picking Penn State to win the Big 10 meet. Ugh, check the record Minnesota beat Iowa and Penn State.

Not hard to figure out when you look at the seedings. PSU has five #1's and the Gophers none. Gophers did get 9 of 10 to the semis though , so that is encouraging.
 

It's pretty simple, UMn can beat almost any TEAM out there in heads up action when they wrestle to their potential.

Evidence being? 8 Natl Duals Championships and several seasons where we beat the eventual Natl Champs in head to head competition. Just hoping this season isn't added to that list. But I don't have a good feeling about it.

Getting flashbacks from that season back in the 90s, where we beat tOSU and Iowa in dual competition and moved up to #1 in the country only to lose our best wrestler to injury before the Big Ten conf tourney where we finished out of first and then lost another top wrestler before the NCAAs and ended up only finishing 7th or 9th or something like that? Was it 1993? It was basically J Rob's first recruiting class and it should have been the Gopher's first Natl Title. Guess it happens. The timing was just so kick in the nuts you know.
 




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