Isaac Jordan

UW’s Medbery places second at NCAA Wrestling Championships

March 19, 2017 By Bill Scott

Wisconsin senior Connor Medbery fell to Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder of Ohio State, 6-3, in the heavyweight final at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Saturday night in St. Louis.

Medbery finished his year at 29-2, with his only two losses coming to Snyder.

Isaac Jordan wrapped up his career at Wisconsin by finishing fourth at 165 pounds, losing the third-place match to Michigan’s Logan Massa 11-2. Jordan finished his senior season 27-6.

Penn State won the team competition for the seventh time and second in-a-row, collecting 122 points. Ohio State was second with 106. The Badgers finished 13th with 39.5 points.

Penn State’s title marked the 11th straight year that a Big Ten school has claimed the NCAA Championship.

Wisconsin’s Medbery to compete for NCAA Heavyweight title

March 18, 2017 By Bill Scott

Connor Medbery – Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Athletics

Wisconsin wrestling senior Connor Medbery will compete for college wrestling’s heavyweight national championship on Saturday night at the 2017 NCAA Wrestling Championships in St. Louis.

Medbery will face Olympic gold medalist, three-time NCAA finalist and three-time All-American Kyle Snyder of Ohio State.

Medbery earned his spot in the finals after defeating Virginia Tech’s Ty Walz for the third time this season and sixth time in his career. Medbery clinched his first trip to the big state with a tight 4-3 decision.

Fourth-seeded Isaac Jordan (165) fell to the No. 1 seed, Isaiah Martinez 2-1 in the semifinal match. [Read more…]

Jordan finishes runner-up in NCAA Wrestling

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

Junior Isaac Jordan wrapped up his season as a national runner-up for the Wisconsin wrestling team at the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

Jordan’s bid for a perfect record ended by three-time national champion Alex Dieringer (33-0) of Oklahoma State and Jordan finished with a stellar 29-1 record on the season.

Jordan dropped a 6-2 decision to Dieringer at 165 pounds but held the four-time All-American to his tightest match of the tournament. Jordan became Wisconsin’s first finalist since 2014.

Wisconsin has had 15 individual runner-up finishes in program history.

UW finished in 23rd place in the team standings with 20 team points. Fellow Big Ten Conference member Penn State took the national team title with a total of 123 team points.

Wisconsin’s Jordan advances to quarterfinals of 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships

March 18, 2016 By Bill Scott

Isaac Jordan

Wisconsin junior wrestler Isaac Jordan advanced to Friday’s quarterfinal after sweeping his first two opponents in the opening sessions of the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Thursday at Madison Square Garden.

Jordan (27-0) collected two major decisions on the day at 165 pounds to clinch his spot in the quarterfinals where he will face Nebraska’s Austin Wilson.

Jordan has a 2-and-oh record against Wilson after pinning him in the 2014-15 season at the 32-second mark and defeating him by a major decision (8-0) in this season’s regular season dual.

The quarterfinals get underway Friday morning.