Mike Tamillow won a match in the consolation bracket, but fell one win shy of his second-career All-American finish. Saturday morning's session begins at 10 a.m. Precin will wrestle for seventh place. The finals begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be televised live by ESPN.
In the team race, Northwestern sits in 13th, 1 point behind 12th place Illinois.
Fox scored a takedown in the final 30 seconds of his match against fifth-seeded Jared Rosholt of Oklahoma State to take a 3-2 decision in the semifinals.
The top-seeded Fox scored the first points of the match with a quick escape in the second. After riding Rosholt for close to a minute, the Cowboy escaped to even the match at 1-1. Fox scored his first takedown of the match at the right time, as time was winding down, to pull ahead 3-1. He surrendered an escape to make the final score 3-2.
Fox will see a familiar face on the championship mat Saturday night. Second-seeded JD Bergman of Ohio State advanced through his half of the bracket and the duo will do battle for the third time this season. Fox is 2-0 against the Buckeye this year.
In just his sophomore season, Precin is now a Division I All-American. The Wildcat put up a strong showing against Bloomsburg's seventh-seeded Michael Sees with a 10-2 major decision.
In a match that was tenser than the score would indicate, Precin started things off with the first points of the match with a takedown. He turned Sees for the first of two times for two more points. Precin accumulated riding time, but eventually surrendered an escape to lead 4-1 heading into the second.
Precin started on top in the second and was able to turn Sees again for a three-point near fall. He gave another escape and took a 7-2 lead into the final period.
The sophomore was able to put his stamp on the match with a late takedown. As time expired, Precin ran to the side of the mat and lifted head coach Tim Cysewski, his lower-weight training partner for the weekend, into the air in celebration.
Precin becomes the second 125-pound Wildcat All-American in the last three years. In 2006, John Velez defeated Sees in the All-American match. He also gives NU multiple All-Americans for the third-straight year.
In his next consolation match, Precin fell to third-seeded Tanner Gardner of Stanford by 5-0 decision. Gardner struck first with a takedown and he later added a reversal and riding time to take the match. The sophomore will face Old Dominion's 10th-seeded James Nicholson for seventh place Saturday morning.
Tamillow fell one match short of seizing his second-career All-America finish and bowed out of the tournament Friday night. The third-seeded Wildcat fell to Missouri's fifth-seeded Max Askren by 7-3 decision.
Tamillow struck first with a takedown in the first period. He was able to ride out Askren and take a 2-0 lead into the second period. Askren started down and escaped to make the score 2-1. He pulled ahead with a takedown and rode out the period to eat into the riding time advantage.
Although Tamillow escaped to start the third to make the score 3-3, Askren hit a four-point move with a takedown and back points to put the match out of reach. Tamillow could not escape and his NU career came to an end.
Tamillow won over 100 matches as a Wildcat, was a three-time NCAA qualifier and a 2007 All-American. He won the Big Ten title at 197 lbs. in 2007 and finished seventh in the nation last season.
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