That's probably what cost us the dual more than anything. |
The guys rebounded well from that first loss last weekend. We wrestled well after that. We just got caught a couple times in pins. We've got to turn some of those things around. |
The intensity's got to pick up a little more and you've got to have all-out effort in every position. Right now, we're getting reversed here and there, we're getting rode here and there, and those kinds of things cost you big matches. You can't let those things happen. |
There were at least four matches on paper (141, 149, 157 and 184) that could go either way. Minnesota won all of them. They won the close matches and that was the key. |
We didn't take ourselves out of it. We've got to keep the individuals on top winning, and the guys on the bottom have got to come back and win and stay in the tournament. We've got to knock some guys off. If we wrestle to our seed, we're not going to do much. |
We had a chance to beat (Minnesota) and the matches like at 141, 149, 157 were all pretty tough matches and we lost them all. We just weren't good enough that day to beat them. |
We have to win the tough ones to win the dual. Our guys did a good job. You have to get on a roll to get the crowd out of it and get some momentum. |
We just lost some close matches. We need to get those things turned around for us. Against Michigan State, we didn't come out and wrestle aggressively. We have got to learn to turn things around. Things don't always go your way. |
We needed that kind of competition. Even though we got beat, I thought we fought hard. |
We talked about winning the tough matches, winning the close matches. I don't feel like we came out and wrestled hard early last weekend. We have got to be ready to go from the start. With (174?pounder Mark) Perry out, some other guys are going to have to pick it up. Somebody else is going to have to step up and pull us up. We need to win some matches we are not favored to win. |
We thought we had them beat last year when we got way ahead and then they came back and beat us. We have got to be ready to wrestle. We have got to come out aggressively. |
We weren't consistent during the year, either. |
We'll see where he is at this weekend. It's one of those things where he hit it and keeps hitting it, so you've got to give it some rest. |
We're not going to lose because we're not in shape; we're not going to lose because we didn't work hard enough. Those are things we can control, and I'm going to expect my team to be in great shape. |
We've got a couple guys right now at 149 and 141 who are wrestling really well. But we've had a couple guys banged up and a few others who regressed a little during the season. We've been fixing things this week and getting everyone prepared for the Big Tens. This has been our goal all season, and we feel that if we wrestle like we should that we could win. |