RU 197-pounder Matt Correnti The Rutgers wrestling team is set to get back on the mat following Friday night’s 17-16 win over No.10 Wisconsin. Today, the stakes will be even higher as Rutgers plays host to No.3 Oklahoma State. Rutgers improved to 7-2 on Friday while Oklahoma State brings in an unblemished record of 6-0. Its latest win came yesterday in a 27-12 triumph over Princeton in the first of back to back matches in New Jersey. Here is a look at some of the ways to view today’s match. FOLLOW THE GAME WITH OTHER FANS IN OUR LIVE THREAD Here is how you can watch Rutgers vs Oklahoma State: When: Saturday at 1:00 p.m. EST at Rutgers Athletic Center TV: The game will be broadcasted on the BTN Plus with Daniel Breslauer and Sean DeDeyn handling the call. Radio: The game will be broadcasted on WRSU Rutgers Student Radio, which is 88.7 on the FM dial. Live Thread: Our staff and readers will post updates throughout the game in the LIVE Thread on the Scarlet Nation message board. Rutgers will attempt to ride the momentum of Friday night’s win into today’s matchup that is stacked with ranked opponents. There will be a pair of marquee matchups as RU’s No.2-ranked 133-pounder Nick Suriano will take on OSU’s No.4-ranked Daton Fix. “I feel great, that's about it. It's an awesome atmosphere. Everyone is looking forward to Sunday,” Suriano said on Friday. “That's what it's about, Sunday. I mean I felt great, but I'm focused on Sunday.” Rutgers No.2-ranked 149-pounder Anthony Ashnault will also face a top opponent today when he takes the mat against No.6 Kaden Gfeller. Rutgers head coach Scott Goodale spoke about facing Oklahoma State after his team bested Wisconsin on Friday night “Clearly the staff has done their work, you know we've done our homework and we watch a lot of tape," Goodale said. "We know what we need to do. We'll get together tomorrow afternoon and prepare a bit, but it is the point in the season where you get your mind right. You get your body ready to go. You get excited to wrestle. That's what it's about. Take care of yourself. I'm not going to put too much into it. This is what they do. It's not just about worrying about what they do. It's about how you attack the 420 seconds, the 7 minutes. That's our focus.” The tough opponents will keep on coming for the Rutgers wrestling team as a road contest at No.4 Iowa is on tap for this coming Friday. Here is a look at some of our latest Rutgers wrestling articles on Scarlet Nation: Rutgers Wrestling defeats No.10 Wisconsin Video: Rutgers vs Wisconsin post game press conference<doc-sep>The rally against No. 8 Minnesota fell short, but Rutgers has no time to hang their heads. Friday and Sunday will feature duals against Wisconsin and Oklahoma State at the RAC with more daunting challenges. While Rutgers edged Wisconsin last season on the road, even without stud Nick Suriano, the Scarlet Knights face a rebooted Badger program under first year head coach Chris Bono, formerly of South Dakota State. As far as Oklahoma State, legendary head coach John Smith brings the Cowboys to New Jersey for the first time in a historic match up between the two schools. You want to talk about a fantastic wrestling event, this is one for all wrestling fans to enjoy. Interesting note, Oklahoma State will wrestle Rutgers one day after Princeton. Having to wrestle back to back days brings it’s challenges. Two Top-10 programs come to the RAC this weekend. New Week. New Opportunities.#RelentlessPursuit | #GoRU pic.twitter.com/9J3Tl2HVVG — Rutgers Wrestling (@RUWrestling) January 7, 2019 Let’s break down the match-ups for both duals (Rutgers wrestlers listed first and rankings courteous of Flo Wrestling): Rutgers vs. Wisconsin 125: Shane Metzler vs. No. 16 Connor Brown -Metzler comes off a tough loss at Minnesota and it doesn’t get any easier. He’ll need to pull off the best win of his young career to give Rutgers a good start. Prediction: Brown by DEC 133: No. 2 Nick Suriano vs. Jens Lantz -This train keeps rolling and Suriano never looks over any opponent. This will seem to be a warmup match before Sunday’s big showdown (more on that later). Prediction: Suriano by TECH FALL 141: Peter Lipari vs. No. 16 Tristan Moran -Lipari seems to be the guy at 141 moving forward as Mike Van Brill has struggled with injuries and has been up and down in his matches. Lipari is 2-4 vs. common opponents and will also need an upset in what is likely to be a close match between the teams. Prediction: Moran by DEC 149: No. 2 Anthony Ashnault vs. No. 13 Cole Martin -Ashnault thoroughly dominated Tommy Thorn last Sunday at Minnesota and I expect nothing less against Martin. The home crowd will definitely fuel the 3x All-American Prediction: Ashnault by MAJOR DEC 157: No. 15 John Van Brill vs. Zander Wick -Van Brill has been way up and down this season. That just seems to be normal during the dual meet season. He is still ranked by all of the services but needs this win against the Badgers to prepare for Oklahoma State. Prediction: Van Brill by DEC 165: Stephan Glasgow vs. No. 3 Evan Wick -Glasgow is definitely not 100% and Richie Lewis isn’t walking through the door to take on Wick. Lewis’ win over Wick in 2018 was a large reason why Rutgers walked out of Madison with a victory. The true freshman might have to hold on for dear life. Prediction: Wick by TECH FALL 174: Joe Grello/Willie Scott vs. No. 10 Ryan Christensen -In Grello’s case, he has taken on Christensen before: a 2-1 loss last season. The match could have gone either way and I expect head coach Scott Goodale to roll with him again. Christensen is vastly improved as he has been consistently Top 10 this season. In the event Scott is thrown out there, he’d likely have an equal chance at beating Christensen. He was actually recently ranked at No. 20 in the Track-Wrestling rankings. For now, we’ll go with Grello as we did against Minnesota. Prediction: Christensen by DEC Welcome to the rankings, Willie Scott, who checks in at No. 20 at 174 pounds according to @trackwrestling!#RelentlessPursuit | #GoRU pic.twitter.com/5DhV29V2Lv — Rutgers Wrestling (@RUWrestling) January 8, 2019 184: No. 16 Nick Gravina vs. Mason Reinhardt -Gravina has only wrestled twice this season since coming off the injury, but has won both matches. Looks like he’ll be 3-0 after Friday night. Prediction: Gravina by DEC 197: Matt Correnti vs. Andrew Salemme -Salemme comes into this match at 1-12 and Correnti has been wrestling real well as of late. This will be a match that Rutgers might need bonus points heading into the final bout. Prediction: Correnti by MAJOR DEC HWT: Christian Colucci vs. No. 9 Trent Hillger -Unfortunately for Colucci, he’s going up against another stud freshman. After losing by tech fall to Gable Stevenson last week, I’ll give Colucci the benefit of the doubt with the home crowd behind him. Prediction: Hillger by DEC Final Score: Rutgers wins 19-17 There is a lot of talent coming to the RAC this weekend. @CoachGoodale previews our matches against No. 10 Wisconsin & No. 3 Oklahoma St.#RelentlessPursuit | #GoRU pic.twitter.com/q0qj6scwVC — Rutgers Wrestling (@RUWrestling) January 10, 2019 Rutgers vs. Oklahoma State 125: Shane Metzler vs. No. 4 Nick Piccininni -Piccininni was an All-American in 2017 and has been a perennial Top 10 or 5 wrestler the past two seasons. Metzler would need a monumental upset here. Prediction: Piccininni by TECH FALL 133: No. 2 Nick Suriano vs. No. 6 Daton Fix -Oh baby. This is it. This is what we’ve all been waiting for. And we say this since the schedule was released in the Summer. Suriano and Fix have been linked since high school where they wrestled the longest match in high school history. Take a guess how long...I’ll wait. Give up? 32 minutes. THIRTY...TWO...MINUTES! Nearly 33, but, you get the point. Our very own Scarlet Knight won that one. Suriano is one of the top favorites to win a National Title at 133 this season but Fix isn’t far off the top of the food chain. In 2014, Nick Suriano and Daton Fix met in the longest match in high school history. Sunday they will meet live at Noon CT for the first time since that match. pic.twitter.com/yFL0XsjGJ0 — FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) January 9, 2019 This will be the match everyone arrives for: Marathon Match II? Prediction: Suriano by DEC 141: Peter Lipari vs. No. 13 Kaid Brock -This would be another big upset for the Scarlet Knights. Right now, I don’t see it happening so at the very least, Lipari is going to need to prevent bonus points. Prediction: Brock by MAJOR DEC 149: No. 2 Anthony Ashnault vs. No. 5 Kaden Gfeller -Gfeller is only a freshman. Oh man. But, he has to go up against the veteran Ashnault who is on a different level in 2018-19. Ashnault has National Title or bust vision this season and Gfeller won’t slow him down. Prediction: Ashnault by DEC 157: No. 15 John Van Brill vs. Andrew Shomers -These two actually met back in December of 2017 with Van Brill winning late by injury default but was wrestling well. They’ll go the distance here and if Van Brill has momentum from Friday, he should be able to get it done. Prediction: Van Brill by DEC 165: Stephan Glasgow vs. No. 11 Chandler Rogers -Glasgow has the talent to knock off a big time wrestler but with his health a bit questionable, he is going to be limited athletically. Rogers is looking for the podium in March. Prediction: Rogers by MAJOR DEC 174: Joe Grello/Willie Scott vs. No. 5 Joe Smith -Smith is a wrecking machine and he is coming to wreak havoc on the Scarlet Knights. I’ll go with Goodale rolling with Grello in both duals this weekend. Prediction: Smith by DEC 184: No. 16 Nick Gravina vs. No. 11 Jacobe Smith -Should Gravina come in after a win on Friday, I just have a funny feeling he will pull off an upset and show he is truly back and earned a complete return to form. Prediction: Gravina by DEC 197: Matt Correnti vs. No. 13 Dakota Greer -Greer has an outside shot at the podium this season and even though Correnti is wrestling well, I have to stick with the Cowboy in this one. Prediction: Greer by DEC HWT: Christian Colucci vs. No. 3 Derek White -Did I mention that Colucci has to wrestle studs constantly? White is a National Title contender at heavyweight and he will look to make quick work of Colucci. Prediction: White by MAJOR DEC Final Score: Oklahoma State wins 23-12 Other Notes:<doc-sep>No. 3 Oklahoma State posted a 26-5 win over No. 24 Rutgers in a highly controversial and wildly entertaining dual meet on Sunday inside a sellout, raucous Rutgers Athletics Center in Piscataway. The Cowboys won eight bouts, including the headliner - No. 4 Daton Fix over No. 3 Nick Suriano at 133 pounds. The Scarlet Knights were in several of those losses, though, but was unable to pull out any of them. Fix vs. Suriano: It was mayhem. Fix won on a hands-to-the-face call in the second sudden victory. You can read all about the bout here. Anthony Ashnault rallies: The No. 2-ranked 149-pounder gave up the first takedown as well as a reversal, but he was able to battle back for a win over No. 6 Kaden Gfeller. The two had a dust-up after the bout as well while shaking hands. Ashnault made the “pistols firing” gesture at the Oklahoma State bench, and Gfeller responded by shoving Ashnault. They both lost a team point. Gravina out: Rutgers' No. 12-ranked 184-pounder Nick Gravina did not weigh in after suffering an injury late in a 2-1 loss to Wisconsin’s Mason Reinhardt on Friday night. Gravina missed most of the first semester after offseason shoulder surgery; he appeared to suffer an upper body injury on Friday. Willie Scott moved up from 174 pounds to fill his spot in the lineup. Next up: The Scarlet Knights will return to Big Ten action with a road dual meet at No. 4 Iowa on Friday, Jan. 18. The match will start at 9 p.m. Eastern and be televised on BTN. OKLAHOMA STATE 26, RUTGERS 5 125: No. 4 Nick Piccininni (O) tf. Shane Metzler, 17-0 5:16. 133: No. 4 Daton Fix (O) dec. No. 3 Nick Suriano, 3-2 SV2. 141: No. 12 Kaid Brock (O) dec. Peter Lipari, 9-6. 149: No. 2 Anthony Ashnault (R) dec. No. 6 Kaden Gfeller, 10-7. 157: No. 15 John VanBrill (R) dec. Jonce Baylock, 4-3. 165: No. 18 Andrew Shomers (O) dec. Stephan Glasgow, 5-4. 174: No. 5 Joe Smith (O) dec. Joe Grello, 9-6. 184: No. 11 Jacobe Smith (O) md. Willie Scott, 14-5. 197: No. 10 Dakota Geer (O) dec. Matt Correnti, 4-2. HWT: No. 3 Derek White (O) dec. Christian Colucci, 4-2. Notes: Both teams were deducted a team point at 149 pounds for unsportsmanlike conduct. Shomers is ranked 18th at 157 pounds. Records: Oklahoma State 7-0; Rutgers 7-3. James Kratch may be reached at jkratch@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JamesKratch. Find NJ.com Rutgers Football on Facebook.<doc-sep>
Daton Fix avenged his loss from four years ago to Nick Suriano in No. 3-ranked Oklahoma State’s 26-5 win over No. 24 Rutgers on Sunday at Rutgers Athletic Center in Piscataway, New Jersey. Fix and Suriano met in a top-6 showdown for the first time in their college careers since their 32:52-minute high school match at FloWrestling’s Who’s Number One in 2015. The bout was tied 1-1 after three periods and sudden victory — both No. 6 Fix and No. 2 Suriano earned escape points in regulation. Fix appeared to lock his hands while riding Suriano in the first rideout tiebreaker, but there was no call. Rutgers challenged for locked hands, but the call stood after a review. Suriano’s escape also counted as he earned the point after the challenge brick was tossed but before the review. Suriano then was called for locked hands, plus a Fix escape gave the OSU freshman a 3-2 lead in the second tiebreaker rideout. Rutgers challenged again, but this time it was overturned after a more than 10-minute video review. Fix’s escape was wiped out, but he was able to get the point back and send the match to another sudden victory after a locked hands challenged by the Cowboys (7-0) was denied. Fix (19-0) won the bout 3-2 when Suriano was called for a hands-to-the-face penalty. Unsportsmanlike like conduct on Suriano. +1 for Fix. In OT. That’s the match. pic.twitter.com/YpssPebLjH — FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) January 13, 2019 Boos rained down on the officials and even a water bottle was tossed from the stands by a fan, who was escorted from the building. The second ranked vs. ranked matchup came at 149 pounds between OSU’s No. 5 Kaden Gfeller and No. 2 Anthony Ashnault. Ashnault and Gfeller escaped to start the second, but Ashnault took him down with an ankle pick to take the lead before the Cowboy redshirt freshman escaped to tie it 6-6 heading into the third. Ashnault escaped and took Gfeller down in the third to secure a 9-6 win. The battle didn’t end after the whistle. Ashnault made the “pistols firing” gesture at OSU’s coaches, and Gfeller took exception to it and shoved the six-year Rutgers senior. Both teams were deduced a team point. Oh man. After No. 2 Anthony Ashnault defeats No. 6 Kaden Dfeller and gives him the pistol fingers and Dfeller takes exception. The Oklahoma State grappler pushes him and both sides got a one-point deduction as a result. pic.twitter.com/isTkCpHVAA — Brian Fonseca (@briannnnf) January 13, 2019 Head coach Scott Goodale and Anthony Ashnault met with the media after today's dual with No. 3 Oklahoma State. pic.twitter.com/oX22futMvi — RVision (@RVisionRU) January 13, 2019 Tied 2-2 after the second at 157, John Van Brill escaped to start the final period to hand Jonce Blaylock a 4-3 loss. No. 4 Nick Piccininni (125) and No. 11 Jacobe Smith (184) both recorded bonus-point wins. Piccininni shut out Shane Metzler for a 17-0 technical fall in the third period, and Smith picked up a 14-5 major decision with riding time over Willie Scott. Smith was expected to face No. 12 Nick Gravina, but the Rutgers grappler suffered an injury Friday night against Wisconsin’s Mason Reinhardt. No. 5 Joe Smith (174) and No. 13 Kaid Brock (141) both had 9-6 decisions with riding time, while Dakota Geer (197) and No. 3 Derek White (heavyweight) had 4-2 decisions. Andrew Shomers (165) escaped and grabbed a takedown in the third period before fending off a late scramble for a 5-4 win over Stephan Glasgow. The Cowboys have another back-to-back on the road next weekend when they visit West Virginia in a Big 12 conference dual then head to Pittsburgh. No. 3 OSU 26, No. 24 Rutgers 5 125: Piccininni (OSU) TF Metzler (RU), 17-0 TF 5:16 133: Fix (OSU) dec. Suriano (RU), 3-2 SV2 141: Brock (OSU) dec. Lipari (RU), 9-6 RT 149: Ashnault (RU) dec. Gfeller (OSU), 9-6 157: VanBrill (RU) dec. Blaylock (OSU), 4-3 165: Shomers (OSU) dec. Glasgow (RU), 5-4 174: Joe Smith (OSU) dec. Grello (RU), 9-6 RT 184: Jacobe Smith (OSU) major dec. Scott (RU), 14-5 RT 197: Geer (OSU) dec. Correnti (RU), 4-2 HWT: White (OSU) dec. Colucci (RU), 4-2