After American won the opening match at 125 pounds to gain a 3-0 advantage, Navy freshman Joe Baker (Poway, Calif.) scored a 7-5 decision over American freshman Jordan Lipp. Spencer Manley (Ooltewah, Tenn.) then scored a key fall at 141 pounds over Jordan Zipkin in 2:27 to run his record to 13-12 and give Navy a 9-3 advantage.
American crawled back into the match at 149 pounds when Tom Kniezewski scored a 3-2 decision over Matt Gulosh (Stow, Ohio). Gulosh was wrestling in his first action in almost two months after Navy starter John Cox (Grand Haven, Mich.) injured his knee in last week's All-Academy finals.
Navy's John Jarred (Kansas City, Mo.) stopped the American momentum with a hard-fought 8-4 victory over Christopher Stout. Jarred led just 4-3 late in the second period, but scored two key takedowns late in the third period to push his record to 32-8 and give Navy a 12-6 cushion heading into intermission.
At 165 pounds, Navy's Craig Dziewiatkowski (Aurora, Ill.) scored a late takedown in the second period to overcome an early deficit and then rode out Rudy Rueda for a 6-2 victory over American's Rudy Rueda. The win gave Dziewiatkowski a 16-8 mark and increased Navy's lead to 15-6.
In the 174-pound match, American head coach Mark Cody decided to wrestle up the nation's No. 4-ranked 165-pounder, Muzaffar Abdurakhmanov, to wrestle Navy's Matt Stolpinski (Westfield, Mass.). Abdurakhmanov improved to 18-0 with a 10-7 victory over Stolpinski. Abdurakhmanov scored four takedowns in the match's first 75 seconds of the match to take control early and then needed to hold off a Stolpinski charge in the second and third periods for the victory.
At 184 pounds, Navy's Matthew Parsons (Owings, Md.) matched up against the nation's No. 1-ranked wrestler, Josh Glenn. Glenn scored an early takedown and controlled Parsons for the remainder of the match for an 11-0 major-decision victory.
In the 197-pound match, Navy's Chris Pogue (Chesapeake, Va.) scored a big win over American's Tyler Flatt to put the match out of reach, earning a tech fall over Flatt, 18-2, in the second period. The win moves Pogue's record to 24-8 overall and his dual-meet record to 9-0.
In the featured match of the night, two top-ten heavyweights rounded out the action as Navy's Tanner Garrett (Tulsa, Okla.), ranked No. 6 in the country battled American's 10th-ranked heavyweight, Adam LoPiccolo. Garrett broke the match open with a pair of takedowns midway through the second period and breezed to a 10-3 victory over the American sophomore. The win pushed Garrett's record to 38-2 on the season. The 38 wins lead the country this year and are tied for the fourth most in school history. The win also pushed Garrett's dual-meet record to 14-0 and increased his dual-match winning streak to 35 matches.
#19 NAVY 23, AMERICAN 13
125 -- Morkel (A) dec. Usztics, 5-3
133 -- Baker (N) dec. Lipp, 7-5
141 -- Manley (N) pinned Zipkin, 2:27
149 -- Kniezewski (A) dec. Gulosh, 3-2
157 -- Jarred (N) dec. Stout, 8-4
165 -- Dziewiatkowski (N) dec. Rueda, 6-2
174 -- #4 Abdurakhmanov (A) dec. Stolpinski, 10-7
184 -- #1 Glenn (A) major dec. Parsons, 11-0
197 -- Pogue (N) tech fall Flatt, 18-2
HWT -- #6 Garrett (N) dec. #10 LoPiccolo, 10-3
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