Wrestlers are trained to win gold medals. Any well-coached, motivated wrestler has a focus on winning it all, each and every time he steps on the mat. Everybody knows that in every wrestling match, there is a winner and a loser, but you would have a tough time convincing a wrestler that anything short of victory is acceptable. There is something in common with all of the wrestlers who compete in the Saturday morning session at the NCAA Div. I Championships. Each and every one of them already have suffered a loss. Some may have lost in their first match, and stayed alive in the wrestle-backs. Others may have dropped close semifinal bouts, just a whisker away from the gold-medal finals. None of them will be champions. All of them are still in the tournament, trying to find the motivation to continue. The prize for Saturday morning is the bronze medal at every division. Each of these wrestlers are being asked to be the champions of Session Five, the winners of the Saturday morning survival tournament. You have to win two matches and you get the bronze, but the competition is very difficult. Everybody on the mats today is an All-American. Some years, this round is very, very important for the team race. But with Oklahoma State already guaranteed the team title, with an amazing 56 point lead over Cornell in the standings, that part of the tournament is already finished. There is a bunching of teams still capable of taking second, third or fourth place, important because they get to bring trophy home. Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Iowa and Illinois are all trying to get every single win that they can in this session, scrapping for points. The first round of the day is the consolation semifinals, where the winners go into the third-place match and the losers go into the fifth-place match. The first match of the session featured No. 1 seed Sam Hazewinkel of Oklahoma, who lost a tight semifinal match last evening at 125 pounds. Although he fell short of his personal goals, the Sooners are hot in the team race. Hazewinkel won that first match, beating Efren Ceballos of Cal-State Bakersfield, and continued on his journey towards the bronze medal. Another key match in that first round of action came at 149 pounds, where Big Ten rivals Eric Tannenbaum of Michigan and Ty Eustice of Iowa went head-to-head. The freshman Tannenbaum pulled out the win, 5-3, claiming some points in that tight team race. This will be the final round for senior wrestlers in their careers, and for somebody like Jake Percival of Ohio, it is a chance to go out in style. Percival is a four-time All-American, an amazing feat for anybody, but especially tremendous for a Mid-American Conference athlete. Percival, who has placed as high as second at this tournament, was aiming for that bronze medal, winning his consolation semifinal match against Brian Stith of Arizona State, 4-2 in overtime. Other battles affecting the team race came at 165 pounds, where Ryan Churella of Michigan beat Matt Nagel of Minnesota by technical fall, 16-0, and at 184 pounds, where Brian Glynn of Illinois beat Paul Bradley of Iowa, 10-4. People watched with interest at 197 pounds, where top-seed Jon Trenge of Lehigh had to step back out and finish his college career. Trenge was upset in the semifinals by Sean Stender of Northern Iowa, and will finish his career without a NCAA title, but with two silver medals. The best he can do this year now is a bronze medal. The saga of the "goggles" continued today, as Trenge decided to put them on for the morning session. Trenge suffered an eye injury a few seasons ago that forced him to wear the goggles. He wrestled with them for one match here, and had been competing without his eyewear in the following rounds. Trenge drew Wynn Michalak of Central Michigan in the consolation semifinals. In the first period, Trenge took command, scoring a takedown, a tilt, and then locking up a cradle for more backpoints. Before the period ended, Trenge got two more backpoints for a 9-0 lead. Trenge ended up winning 11-3. At the end of the round, Michigan had climbed to second with 79 points, followed by a three-way tie for third with Oklahoma, Minnesota and Cornell at 71.5 pounds. Illinois with 67.5 points and Iowa with 64 points lurked closely behind. Then came the third, fifth and seventh place matches, the conclusion of the consolation tournament. Out on the center mat were the bronze-medal matches. Hazewinkel won the bronze medal at 125 pounds for the second straight year, beating Michigan State's Nick Simmons for the third time this season, this time by a 6-3 margin. Hazewinkel has two more years ahead to track down that NCAA title that many expected him to win this year. At 133 pounds, Tom Clum of Wisconsin beat freshman Mack Reiter of Minnesota, in an old-fashioned 2-1 Big Ten battle. Clum had a victory over Reiter earlier this year by a 6-3 margin, although Reiter later became Big Ten champion. At 141 pounds, junior Cory Cooperman of Lehigh won the bronze medal over freshman Daniel Frischkorn of Oklahoma State in a dominant 10-1 performance. Cooperman gets one more chance as a senior to chase his NCAA title dream. For some schools, the bronze medal may be the top finish for the team that year. This happened at 149 pounds, where senior Jon Masa of Hofstra defeated freshman Eric Tannenbaum of Michigan, 8-1. This was a turnaround from their meeting earlier this year, when Tannenbaum beat Masa, 5-3. Masa was able to end his career as a winner, a champion of Session Five. Masa blew a kiss to the crowd after securing his win. At 157 pounds, senior Jake Percival of Ohio finished a great career as a four-time All-American win a pin off of a takedown scramble against sophomore Trent Paulson of Iowa State. "I was looking at it as my last match and a win would be great," said Percival. "It was nice to get a win and a pin was even better. It was just fun. I was the least nervous I was ever in a match. I wanted to have fun, wrestle hard and whatever happened happened." Percival can now look back at a career with four NCAA medals, but no golds. Very few can ever claim to be a four-time All-American, but a talented and competitive Percival always aimed to win a gold. "It was in the back of my mind all year," said Percival. "At the end, I tried to take it one at a time and not worry about my record. I'll look back later at this and it will be a bigger deal than it is now." Junior Troy Letters of Lehigh, a NCAA champion last year and the top seed this season, found himself in a bronze-medal match against junior Ryan Churella of Michigan. Many thought that this might have been a gold-medal matchup. It was a close battle, but Letters emerged with a 7-5 win "I didn't lock back into it at all today," said Letters. "I was still very upset this morning. Taking third was the goal for today, but I am still disappointed. Last night will be in my head until next year. I stayed up all last night. This year, my goals were not met, so I have to work harder this summer. I was going to take a little time off, but now I won't. I am going to Vegas for freestyle this year." The bronze medal at 174 pounds went to freshman Jake Herbert of Northwestern who beat junior Pete Friedl of Illinois, 6-2. Herbert got an early lead and scored a third-period takedown to clinch the win. It was a fourth meeting between the two this year, and the series split at two wins each. The most recent meeting had been a 4-3 Friedl win in the Big Ten finals. "He got me the last two times, but I felt on the fourth one I would even it out," said Herbert. "This meant a lot. I wanted to make the finals to wrestle Pendleton or Askren. I didn't train for bronze. Losing before the quarterfinals and coming back the way I did, that shows I can do it. It is a mental edge for next year." The 184-pound match was not as close as expected, as senior Brian Glynn of Illinois beat junior Eric Bradley of Penn State, 9-3, in another Big Ten matchup. In their previous three meetings this year, Bradley had won two of the bouts. This was an example of a senior g