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The 2025 Massive 12 wrestling event in Tulsa kicked off on Saturday, however earlier than the event may even begin there was loads of drama. Previous to the primary matches, information started to flow into that Oklahoma State sophomore Tagen Jamison, who’s ranked fifth within the nation at 141 kilos, had been disqualified for a scenario throughout weigh ins.
No one knew precisely what the scenario was, however a disqualification would put an finish to Jamison’s season as all wrestlers should compete at their convention tournaments with the intention to qualify for the NCAA Event. FloWrestling content material director Christian Pyles later reported that Jamison and not less than one different wrestler, rumored to Oklahoma’s Cleveland Belton altered undergarments and took part in weight-loss exercise throughout weigh-ins, each would warrant an computerized disqualification.
Nevertheless, when it got here time for each wrestler’s first-round matches, every took the mat as if nothing had occurred. Jon Kozak of FloWrestling later reported that each wrestlers had been cleared. The scenario grew to become much more controversial when Jamison, the fourth-seeded wrestler within the event, went on defeat high seed and 2023 nationwide champion Andrew Alirez, who many thought-about the favourite to win one other nationwide title.
Jamison is a rising star for the Cowboys underneath first-year head coach David Taylor. He now faces Northern Iowa’s Cael Happel within the Massive 12 championship on Sunday. The winner of that match may nicely be the No. 1 seed on the NCAA Event in Philadelphia after Beau Bartlett of Penn State and Jesse Mendez of Ohio State, the top-two-ranked wrestlers within the nation, each misplaced the semifinals of the Massive Ten Event. Mendez is the defending nationwide championship on the weight. Alirez redshirted in 2023-24 in hopes of creating the Olympic group.
Iowa State Coach Kevin Dresser Shares Frustration With Massive 12 Event Debacle
After the day got here to an in depth, experiences requested Iowa State coach Kevin Dresser to clarify what precisely went down.
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“I’m simply disillusioned. You recognize, no person desires anyone to take a seat out. But when this was the NCAA Event there would have been two or three wrestlers that might not have wrestled,” Dresser stated. “As a result of the NCAA wouldn’t have put up with the hooey that went on this morning.
“There’s insurance policies and there’s procedures that you just observe. So I hope all these guys be taught, as a result of they obtained a freebie at this time. As a result of in the event that they pull that in Philadelphia, they’ll be watching. Simply the truth that they had been eradicated then they had been put again in, I may go on and on.”
As it’s, Jamison went from his season ending to maybe being the highest seed on the NCAA Event. And Kevin Dresser was clearly not happy with the way in which all of it went down.
