Runner-Up Parris Headlines Four NCAA All-Americans, U-M Places Fifth
3/20/2021 10:50:00 PM
// Leah Howard
» Michigan claimed fifth place (69 points) with four All-Americans; it was U-M's third straight top-five NCAA finish.
» Mason Parris fell to Minnesota's top-ranked Gable Steveson, 8-4, in the heavyweight championship final.
» Cameron Amine (165 pounds), Logan Massa (174) and Myles Amine (197) all earned wins in their morning medal matches.
Site: St. Louis, Mo. (Enterprise Center)
Event: NCAA Championships (Day 3 of 3)
U-M Team Standing: 5th place (69 points)
Next U-M Event: Season Complete
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- University of Michigan junior Mason Parris fell one win short in his bid for an individual national title, dropping an 8-4 decision to Minnesota's Gable Steveson in the heavyweight championship match on Saturday evening (March 20) at the NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Enterprise Center. Behind the efforts of their four All-Americans, the Wolverines took fifth place (69 points). It was the program's third straight top-five NCAA finish.
A rematch of the Big Ten final, tonight's NCAA meeting between the nation's top-two heavyweights was much closer -- though still controlled by Steveson, who scored three takedowns, including a pair in the third period. The top-ranked Gopher wrestler, himself an NCAA runner-up in 2019, spun behind a Parris double leg to take the early lead in the first. After they traded escapes early in the second and third, Parris trailed by just a point until Steveson finished on a low double, earned a stall point on the edge and iced it with a single leg in the last 20 seconds. Parris has lost just three times over the last two seasons -- all to Steveson.
Graduate student Myles Amine, the No. 1 seed at 197 pounds, bounced back from his semifinal loss with a pair of wins in the morning session to claim third place for the third time in his career. He defeated Iowa's fifth-seeded Jacob Warner, 5-3, in the medal match, scoring on a first-period single leg and off another -- from neutral danger -- in the waning seconds of the second. Amine toughed out a win in the second sudden-victory frame in the consolation semis, spinning behind a single-leg shot to secure the winning takedown in an 8-6 decision against Missouri's seventh-seeded Rocky Elam. Amine scored two takedowns in regulation -- single legs in the first and second -- but a Mizzou takedown at the first-period buzzer forced the Wolverine to work off the deficit; he tied it up with his escape early in the third.
Amine is just the seventh four-time All-American in program history, finishing 4th-3rd-3rd at 174 pounds (2017, '18, '19) before his third-place finish in 2021. He joins Jarrett Hubbard (1971-74), Mark Churella (1976-79), Joe McFarland (1981-85), John Fisher (1985-89), Ryan Bertin (2002-05) and Eric Tannenbaum (2005-08).
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Sophomore/freshman Cameron Amine and sixth-year senior Logan Massa earned wins by medical forfeit in their medal matches to claim seventh place at 165 pounds and fifth place at 174 pounds, respectively, and earn crucial bonus points that kept the Wolverines in fifth place in the team standings.
Amine, seeded 11th, earned the forfeit win over Arizona State's second-seeded Anthony Valencia and is the first Wolverine freshman to earn All-America honors since Stevan Micic, Massa and his cousin Myles all did so in 2017.
Massa returned to the podium as a two-time NCAA All-American -- he achieved the feat at 165 pounds as a freshman. After reeling off four wrestleback wins in a row Friday (March 19), he split his bouts today, falling to Cal Poly's Bernie Truax, 7-6, on a late takedown in the consolations semis -- Truax also handed Massa his second-round loss -- before earning a forfeit win over Utah Valley's second-seeded Demetrius Romero in the fifth-place bout.
The quartet brings Michigan's All-America count to 199 over its 99-year history. Michigan has boasted at least one All-American in 24 of the last 26 NCAA tournaments, including three or more in each of the last six.
Top 10 Teams (Final)
1. Iowa 129
2. Penn State 113.5
3. Oklahoma State 99.5
4. Arizona State 74
5. MICHIGAN 69
6. NC State 68
7. Minnesota 64
Missouri 64
9. Ohio State 46.5
10. Northwestern 45
Michigan Results (Day 3)
Numbers listed are tournament seeds
165 Pounds -- #11 Cameron Amine
Seventh Place - won by medical forfeit over #2 Anthony Valencia (Arizona State)
Finished in seventh place with a 5-2 record
174 Pounds -- #5 Logan Massa
Consolations - dec. by #12 Bernie Truax (Cal Poly), 7-6
Fifth Place - won by medical forfeit over #2 Demetrius Romero (Utah Valley)
Finished in fifth place with a 6-2 record
197 Pounds -- #1 Myles Amine
Consolations - dec. #7 Rocky Elam (Missouri), 8-6 SV2
Third Place - dec. #5 Jacob Warner (Iowa), 5-3
Finished in third place with a 5-1 record
Heavyweight -- #2 Mason Parris
Final - dec. by #1 Gable Steveson (Minnesota), 8-4
Finished as heavyweight runner-up with a 4-1 record
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