By: Marl Palmer (Examiner.com) --  Last March, Ohio State came within 4 1/2 points of taking the team title away from Iowa at the 2009 NCAA Division I championships. Friday night, the fourth-ranked Buckeyes were nowhere near beating the defending team champions as the No. 1 Hawkeyes dominated last year's runner-up, 32-3, in front of more than 9,000 fans at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Ohio State won one match: Reece Humphrey at 141 pounds. High points for the Hawkeyes: Phil Keddy's upset of 2008 ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio - Backed by 13 bonus points, the fourth-ranked Ohio State wrestling team downed Northwestern, 37-6, Sunday in St. John Arena. The Buckeyes (16-1; 5-0 Big Ten) won seven matches and earned points on a Wildcat forfeit at 141 pounds. For the second-consecutive match, Nikko Triggas pinned his opponent. This time, the junior from Moraga, Calif., downed Levi Mele with just nine seconds left in the first period to give the Scarlet and Gray an early 6-0 advantage. Northwestern was able ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Terrelle Pryor believes the Ohio State offense in 2010 will look more like the Ohio State offense in the Rose Bowl. But he doesn't blame Jim Tressel for taking it slow with the passing game. Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor on opening up the offense Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor served as the honorary captain for the Ohio State wrestling team as the Buckeyes beat Penn State today. In his first interview since the Buckeyes's Rose Bowl win over ... Read More

From: GoPSUSports.com -- STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling team, ranked No. 13 nationally, dropped a hard-fought 21-14 dual meet at No. 3 Ohio State. Head coach Cael Sanderson's squad won four of ten bouts, highlighted by majors from seniors Cyler Sanderson (Heber City, Utah) at 157 and David Erwin (Urbana, Ohio) at 184. Junior Brad Pataky (Clearfield, Pa.), ranked No.12 at 125, got Penn State off to a good start with a strong 9-7 win over No. 19 Nikko ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio - J.D. Bergman, an Ohio State wrestling letterwinner from 2004-08, earned a spot on the U.S. World Cup Team Friday. United States wrestling held wrestle offs for the World Cup, which will take place March 6-7 in Mahachkala, Russia. At the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., Bergman beat Bryce Hasseman, a National Team member and Olympian Andy Hrovat at 96kg/211.5 pounds in his bid to represent the United States. Against Hasseman, Bergman, a three-time All-American at Ohio ... Read More

By: Grant Freking (TheLantern.com) -- After starting the season 11-1, the No. 3 ranked Ohio State wrestling team is looking to avoid a midseason slump and finish the season strong. The Buckeyes were in a similar position the past two years and ended each season by finishing second in the nation. Coach Tom Ryan believes this team is capable of a similar finish. “Finishing second the past two years has resulted in a very positive environment,” said Ryan, the reigning National Coach of the Year. “There ... Read More

From: Cleveland Plain Dealer -- Notre Dame College's wrestling team went 3-for-3 over the weekend to capture the team title at the NAIA National Duals in Cedar Falls, Iowa. On Sunday, the top-ranked Falcons defeated No. 7 Missouri Valley, 26-7, in the championship match. Derek Foore (197), Solon's Kevin Hardy (165), Twinsburg's Adam Koballa (141), Dante Rini (125) and Orlando Scales (heavyweight) each won three matches, as NDC won the biggest title in the program's four years. In the title match against Missouri Valley, ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com -- The No. 3 Ohio State wrestling team (10-0) is off to its second-best start in program history after beating No. 8 Cornell, 27-14, Saturday at the UNI-Dome in the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals. Only the Buckeyes' 15-match win streak to start the season in 2001-02 betters the current mark. Ohio State will face No. 3 Iowa State at noon ET Sunday for a shot at the National Duals title. The Cyclones defeated Bloomsburg (38-7) and Maryland (26-6) earlier in the day. Ohio State ... Read More

By: JEREMY BURKHART (GalionInquirer.com) -- We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but spiritual beings on a human journey. That point, along with wrestling, were the main emphasis of Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan’s speech at the Galion Free Methodist Church’s quarterly prayer breakfast held Dec. 12. “We are each a little sliver of God,” Ryan said. While he does his best to teach his wrestlers and his own children that, it took 35 years for Ryan to learn how true it ... Read More

By: Mark Palmer (Examiner.com) -- The third-ranked Ohio State wrestling team defeated No. 19 Edinboro University, 34-12, in a Sunday dual meet at Perrysburg High School outside Toledo. The Buckeyes won the first seven bouts -- three by major decision, two by pin, one by technical fall, and one by a Fighting Scot forfeit -- to jump out to a 34-0 lead.  Edinboro managed to win the last three matches -- one by pin -- but it was not enough to surmount Ohio State's ... Read More

By: Allyson Kraemer (TheLantern.com) -- As 105,455 spectators held their breath, Devin Barclay sent a 39-yard field goal soaring through the uprights. The junior kicker had sealed the Buckeyes’ fifth straight Big Ten Title with his overtime kick against Iowa. Fans rushed to the field and surrounded Barclay. The emotion of a Rose Bowl berth was palpable throughout Ohio Stadium. Barclay was at a loss for words. “Unbelievable. I’m pretty speechless,” he said following the game-winner. When ... Read More

BY: DON HOHLER (NorwalkReflector.com) -- MONROEVILLE – The oldest of Monroeville’s Fab 4 — Logan Stieber — and the No. 1-rated wrestler in the country in all weight classes is heading off to college. Although he still has his senior wrestling season left, Stieber put the seal of approval on a letter of intent Thursday afternoon at Monroeville High School. He will attend The Ohio State University in the fall of 2010, the only school of higher education he even considered. “I grew up rooting ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State student-athletes combined to serve the Columbus community with 6,496 hours of community service at 117 local organizations, schools and events during the 2008-09 season. Leading the way was the cheerleading team with an outstanding 1,671 hours, followed by the football team with 799 hours and the men's track and field team in third with 728. A total of eight teams clocked in with over 200 hours, including men's lacrosse (389), wrestling (328), rowing (276.5), women's hockey ... Read More