Third Session Quotes - NCAA National Championships

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Ted Witulski (TheMat.com)
03/22/2002


Session three quotes    Dennis Deliddo, Fresno State coach, on Stephen Abas' slow start on Thursday    "He looked a lot better in the second match. After the first match he was dry, not even sweating after the match. He needed to get a better warmup in. But if you know Stephen, certain things don't affect him the way they do me."    Bruce Burnett, Navy coach, on Mark Conley    "We don't know anything about Erikson (of Minnesota). When we talk to our guys, we tell them to stay in their strong areas and stay out of their weak areas. It is like quicksand. If you know it's there, you are not afraid of it. If you are standing in it, you know you have a problem."    Thom Ortiz, Arizona State, on David Douglas    "To win this match, we will have to do it on the second and third moves, on reshots and scrambles. They don't know each other yet, but they are evenly matched."    Zeke Jones, West Virginia assistant coach, on Greg Jones battle with Iowa's Nixt    "We'll see how he responds to the Iowa crowd. Last year, Jones lost to Nixt at the Junior World Trials in a tight match. Greg does not have much freestyle experience. We expect him to do well against Nixt."    Joe Russell, Assistant coach of Minnesota on last night's losses by Volkman and Vega    "Those two losses were tough for us. The coaches didn't get a lot of sleep last night. It definitely tightened the team race."    Russ Hellickson, head coach of Ohio State    "We didn't get lucky with our draws. This will probably be a tough round for us."    Rob Koll, Cornell head coach, on Travis Lee's quarterfinal match    "He is a surprise to a lot of people, being from Hawaii. On top of that, he looks like he is 13, but he doesn't wrestle like it."    Joe Russell, Assistant coach of Minnesota, after No. 1 Mike Zadick of Iowa lost    "I looked over and saw it. That's crazy. Weird stuff happens at nationals."    J Robinson, Minnesota head coach, on the team race    "We spoke to the team last night about having a sense of urgency, about stepping up to adversity and getting the job done."    (on Hahn's quarterfinal win) "You don't see a lot of double locked hands calls, but at nationals you take a win any way you can get it."    Mitch Clark, Ohio State assistant coach, about Tommy Rowlands    "He wrestled Hynek smart. He really respected him so he was cautious. Whoever Tommy faces, if he reaches the finals, it will unfortunately probably be a one-takedown match."    Paul Mance, head coach of Appalachian State, on the last time he had a semifinalist    "We think it was Donnell Rawls. It might have been 1991. Fee is a good wrestler. He wrestles on instinct. He doesn't do anything anyone teaches him."    Andy Seras, Sacred Heart assistant coach, on Greg Parker of Princeton    "I've known him forever. He is a former ATWA wrestler. I just hope he can keep it going."    Bobby Douglas, Iowa State coach, on losses by Roberson and Maldonado    "They wrestled well. They left everything they had on the mat. We weren't disappointed with their effort."    Joe Williams, Iowa assistant coach, prior to his wrestle-back pin    "He is the best pinner on the team."    Mark Schwab, Minnesota assistant coach, after Leroy Vega and Jacob Volkmann were eliminated    "If you told us going into this tournament that Vega and Volkmann wouldn't be all-americans, we would have been worried about the team race. At this point we have six in the semifinals and another still in the wrestlebacks so we have to focus on those guys who can still score points for us."    Brian Smith, Missouri head coach, about Tyrone Woodley's match    "It's under protest right now, but time was out when we were thrown. They don't usually overturn on protest."    Barry Weldon, Oklahoma assistant coach on Leonce Crump's knee injury    "We have the team doctor with us. We're going to evaluate him and a decision will be made tonight whether he can wrestle.    Leonce Crump, Oklahoma, on his knee injury    "I am wresting."