Southern Scuffle Website
Charleston, S.C. – The Citadel wrestling team will kick off 2014 by competing in the Southern Scuffle hosted by Chattanooga. The Southern Scuffle, one of the largest in-season tournaments in college wrestling, will host 500 wrestlers from around the country at McKenzie Arena on Jan. 1-2.
Earlier today the 2014 Southern Scuffle preseeds were announced and three Bulldogs are seeded in the tournament.
Matthew Frisch, who recently moved weight classes from 157 to 149, is seeded ninth, while Turtogtokh Luvsandorj, who is currently ranked 13th in the country at 174, earned the seventh spot and will wrestle in the 165-pound division for the first time since capturing second place at the Southern Conference Tournament back in 2011.
Ugi Khishignyam will wrestle unattached and earned the fifth seed at 141. Khishignyam took second place at last year's Scuffle and went on to become the Bulldogs' highest finishing wrestler at the 2013 NCAA Championship with a fourth place finish.
The tournament will feature top contenders including No. 1 Penn State, No. 2 Minnesota, No. 4 Oklahoma State and No. 7 Cornell. Penn State is the three-time defending Scuffle champion. The Bulldogs took 11th place at the Scuffle last season.
The Bulldogs will hit the mat as a team for the first time since the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on Dec. 6-7. Frisch wrestled to a second place finish at the Reno Tournament of Champions on Dec. 22.
THE CITADEL'S PROBABLE LINEUP
125: Steven Cox and Joaquin Marquez
133: Clarence Arrington Jr.
141: Nate Harper
141: Ugi Khishignyam (Unattached)
149: Matthew Frisch
157: Aaron Walker
165: Turtogtokh Luvsandorj and Kenneth Radford
174: Terrell Forbes
184: Harrison Schmid
197: Marshall Haas
285: Joe Bexley and Gerald Johnson
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, January 1st
8:00 a.m. - Doors open for spectators
9:00 a.m. - Championship Round of 64
12:00 p.m. - Championship Round of 32 and 1st Round of Consolations
3:00 p.m. - 2nd Round of Consolations
5:45 p.m. - Championship Round of 16 - 3rd Round of Consolations
Thursday, January 2nd
8:00 a.m. - Doors open for spectators
9:00 a.m. - Championship Quarterfinals
11:30 a.m. - Consolation Round 5
12:30 p.m. - Consolation Round 6
1:30 p.m. - Championship Semifinals and Consolation Quarterfinals
3:30 p.m. - Consolation Semifinals
5:00 p.m. - Flips Wrestling Clinic, featuring Jordan Oliver (Maclellan Gym)
7:00 p.m. - Championship Finals and Medal Matches
TICKETS, LIVE STATS AND VIDEO INFORMATION
Doors open at 8 a.m. on both days with action beginning at 9 a.m. Tickets are on sale now on GoMocs.com and start at $15 per day for general admission.
New for this year is reserved seating for all seats below the Gold Circle. Reserved seats are $25 per day or $40 for a two-day pass.
For more information about the Southern Scuffle, please visit the tournament website. Brackets will be updated throughout the two-day event on TrackWrestling.com and live video can be found here.
SOUTHERN SCUFFLE PRESEEDS
125
1. Nahshon Garrett - Cornell
2. Nico Megaludis - Penn State
3. Josh Martinez - Air Force
4. Corey Keener - Central Michigan
5. David Terao - American
6. Anthony Zanetta - Pittsburgh
7. Nathan Kraisser - North Carolina
8. Evan Silver - Stanford
9. Earl Hall - Iowa State
10. Eddie Klimara - Oklahoma State
11. Jerome Robinson - Old Dominion
12. Paul Petrov – Bucknell
133
1. Jon Morrison - Oklahoma State
2. Ryan Mango - Stanford
3. David Thorn - Minnesota
4. Joe Roth - Central Michigan
5. Shelton Mack - Pittsburgh
6. Nick Soto - Chattanooga
7. James Gulibon - Penn State
8. Mackenzie McGuire - Kent State
9. Colton Rasche - Navy
10. Jamel Hudson - Hofstra
11. Joe Martinez - Virginia
12. Jordan Conaway - Penn State
141
1. Chris Dardanes - Minnesota
2. Zain Retherford - Penn State
3. Evan Henderson - North Carolina
4. Mike Nevinger - Cornell
5. Undrakhbayar Khishignyam – Citadel (Wrestling Unattached)
6. Chris Mecate - Old Dominion
7. Zach Horan - Central Michigan
8. Luke Vaith - Hofstra
9. Anthony Collica - Oklahoma State
10. Edgar Bright - Pittsburgh
11. Lavion Mayes - Missouri
12. Joe Spisak – Virginia
149
1. Nick Dardanes - Minnesota
2. Drake Houdashelt - Missouri
3. Josh Kindig - Oklahoma State
4. Chris Villalonga - Cornell
5. Scott Sakaguchi - Oregon State
6. Augustus Sako - Virginia
7. Dyllan Cottrell - Appalachian St
8. Ray Borja - Navy
9. Matthew Frisch - Citadel
10. Luke Frey - Penn State
11. Alex Johnson - Navy
12. Cody Ruggierello – Hofstra
157
1. Alex Dieringer - Oklahoma State
2. Dylan Ness -Minnesota
3. Kyle Bradley - Missouri
4. Brian Realbuto - Cornell
5. R.J. Pena - Oregon State
6. Ian Miller - Kent State
7. Nestor Taffur - Boston
8. Tristan Warner - Old Dominion
9. James Vollrath - Penn State
10. Thomas Gantt - North Carolina St
11. Raamiah Bathea - Penn
12. Alex Hudson – Chattanooga
165
1. David Taylor - Penn State
2. Tyler Caldwell - Oklahoma State
3. Nick Sulzer - Virginia
4. Michael Moreno - Iowa State
5. Corey Mock - Chattanooga
6. Zach Toal - Missouri
7. Turtogtokh Luvsandorj - Citadel
8. Daniel Zilverberg - Minnesota
9. Casey Kent - Penn
10. Dylan Palacio - Cornell
11. Joe Booth - Hofstra
12. Jim Wilson – Stanford
174
1. Chris Perry - Oklahoma State
2. Mathew Brown - Penn State
3. Logan Storley - Minnesota
4. Tyler Wilps - Pittsburgh
5. Stephen Doty - Virginia
6. Mike Ottinger - Central Michigan
7. Mathew Miller - Navy
8. Tanner Weatherman - Iowa State
9. Kevin Radford - Arizona State
10. Lelund Weatherspoon - Iowa State
11. Mike England - Missouri
12. Joe Latham - Oregon State
184
1. Ed Ruth - Penn State
2. Kevin Steinhaus - Minnesota
3. Gabriel Dean - Cornell
4. Max Thomusseit - Pittsburgh
5. John Eblen - Missouri
6. Lawrence Thomas - Penn
7. Boaz Beard - Iowa State
8. Jonathan Fausey - Virginia
9. Sam Wheeler - Kent State
10. Blake Stauffer - Arizona State
11. Nolan Boyd - Oklahoma State
12. Brett Pfarr – Minnesota
197
1. Scott Schiller - Minnesota
2. Kyven Gadson - Iowa State
3. Morgan McIntosh - Penn State
4. Daniel Mitchell - American
5. Meeks - Oregon State
6. Phillip Wellington - Ohio
7. J'Den Cox - Missouri
8. Brandon Palik - Drexel
9. Blake Rosholt - Oklahoma State
10. Francis Mattiace - Penn
11. Conner Hartmann - Duke
12. Zach Nye – Virginia
285
1. Anthony Nelson - Minnesota
2. Nick Gwiazdowski - North Carolina St
3. Jeremy Johnson - Ohio
4. James Lawson - Penn State
5. Austin Marsden - Oklahoma State
6. Joe Stolfi - Bucknell
7. Amar Dhesi - Oregon State
8. Blake Herrin - American
9. Josh Marchok - Stanford
10. Jonathan Gingrich - Penn State
11. Devon Mellon - Missouri
12. P.J. Tasser - Pittsburgh
