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Brackets announced for wrestling championships
3/17/2009 1:00:00 AM | Wrestling
BROOKINGS, S.D. ? Brackets and seeding have been announced for the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. Junior Tyler Sorenson, only the second Jackrabbit to qualify for the national wrestling tournament during the Division I era, drew No. 4 seed Tyrel Todd of Michigan in the first round. The NCAA tournament will be held in St. Louis, Mo., March 19-21, at the Scottrade Center.
Sorenson, a 197-pound wrestler from Garretson, S.D., enters the championships with a 14-2 record on the season and earned a spot at nationals by placing second at the Western Wrestling Conference Championships.
Todd enters Nationals for the fourth consecutive year and earned back-to-back All-American honors after placing fifth in 2007 and third in 2008 at 184 pounds. The senior is 21-1 on the season.
2009 West Regional: At the WWC championships, Sorenson cruised through his first match over No. 3 seed Eric Brennan from Northern Colorado 10-1, sending him to the championship match.
The championship pitted Andrew Anderson of Northern Iowa against Sorenson. Both wrestlers entered the match rated in the latest Intermat/USA Today poll at No. 13 and 14, respectively. Anderson, the only person to defeat Sorenson this season, prevailed in the championship 3-1.
Despite the loss, Sorenson went on to win his true-second place over Alfonso Hernandez of Wyoming, earning him a trip to nationals.
Record vs. tournament participants: Sorenson enters the national tournament with a 1-2 record this season against opponents in the field. Sorenson's biggest win of the season came against Hudson Taylor of Maryland on Jan. 18 when he notched a 13-11 win, propelling him into the national rankings. Taylor is a No. 10 seed in the tournament.
The other opponent is Andrew Anderson of Northern Iowa. Anderson has defeated Sorenson twice this season, winning 6-5 in Brookings on Feb. 21 and in the WWC championship match, 3-1 on March 7. Anderson is a No. 11 seed in the tournament.
Matches to be broadcast on ESPN: ESPNU, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN360.com will combine for expanded live coverage of the 79th annual NCAA Div. I Wrestling Championships on Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. For the first time, all 11 hours of coverage on ESPNU, ESPN and ESPN2 will be presented in high definition.
Also for the first time, ESPN2 will telecast the semifinals along with ESPNU. The quarterfinals will air Friday, March 20, at 11 a.m. ET on ESPNU and ESPN360.com, and the semifinals at 7 p.m. on ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN360.com. For the third consecutive year, the semifinals will be telecast in a side-by-side format, allowing viewers to see both semifinal matches in each weight class at the same time, both on ESPNU and ESPN2.
ESPNU will telecast the Championship Medal Round on Saturday, March 21, at 10:30 a.m., and the hunt for the Div. I title culminates with the Finals at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN. During the Finals, two referees per match each will wear a microphone, providing fans with even more access to and understanding of the action.
ESPN360.com, ESPN's broadband sports television network, once again will complement the ESPNU HD, ESPN2 HD and ESPN HD telecasts with unparalleled access to all rounds of the championships. ESPN360.com will provide live coverage of all four mats during the quarterfinals and both mats in the semifinals, offering users the option to select the match they want to see.
Dave Armstrong will serve as play-by-play announcer alongside analysts Tim Johnson and Olympic gold medalist Jeff Blatnick, with reporter Quint Kessenich, a former two-time county wrestling champion at New York's Lynnbrook High School. For ESPN360.com coverage, 1981 NCAA 134-pound champion wrestler Jim Gibbons, who coached the 1987 Iowa State Cyclones to the national title, returns as analyst and will be joined by play-by-play announcer Shawn Kenney.
ESPN360.com is available at no cost to millions of U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel. Users accessing ESPN360.com from an on-campus “.edu” or “.mil” network domain in the United States receive free, seamless access to the NCAA Div. I Wrestling Championships and hundreds of other live college and professional sporting events each month. ESPN360.com is also available via affiliated ISPs nationwide, including AT&T, Verizon, RCN, Insight, Frontier, Cavalier, Charter, Mediacom, Conway, Grande Communications and many more.
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