Red shirt junior Kyle Colling (right) wrestles with Daniel Gusev (left) during a practice event at the beginning of the season. Colling won five matches this weekend in Pennsylvania. (Photo by Diana Lustig)It was a good weekend for ASU wrestling redshirt junior Kyle Colling. Colling won five matches during the weekend between a 18-15 team loss in a dual meet against No. 21 Bloomsburg (1-1) and the Keystone Classic tournament in Pennsylvania to remain the Sun Devils’ lone undefeated wrestler.
While Colling won his match against Bloomsburg 3-0 over Huskies’ redshirt senior Justin Grant, the Sun Devils (2-2) were unable to beat the Huskies as a team despite winning five of the nine matches. Major decision losses (losses by eight points or more) at 149, 165 and 197 pounds proved to be ASU’s undoing.
Whatever disappointment the Sun Devils felt in the loss to Bloomsburg, ASU made up for it at the Keystone Classic, placing fifth as a team.
Colling dominated the heavyweight division, winning his first match 15-0 over Harvard junior David Ng for a technical fall. He then went on to pin both Appalachian State sophomore Denzel Dejournette and Pittsburgh senior Mike Gregory, propelling Coling to the finals against ninth-ranked heavyweight redshirt senior Adam Chalfant of Indiana.
Colling would defeat Chalfant 3-1 to claim the Keystone Classic heavyweight title.
While Colling was the only champion, he wasn’t the only Sun Devils to reach the podium, as four other Sun Devils placed in the Keystone Classic as well. Sophomore Blake Stauffer won his first match at 184 pounds and lost his second before battling back to win three of his final four matches to finish in third place.
Redshirt junior Kevin Radford both claimed third-place at 174 pounds winning his first two matches. After falling to No. 1-seeded Northwestern junior Lee Munster, Radford would win his last two matches.
Sophomore Ray Waters finished in fourth place after winning four of his six matches and sophomore Matt Kraus finished in fifth place.
Kraus wrestled a team-high eight matches on the day winning six of them to claim fifth place.
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