Thursday, March 15
Cleveland, Ohio
All Day
Northwestern
vs
NCAA Championships
Rivera Earns Sixth Place at NCAA Championships
3/17/2018 11:22:00 AM | Wrestling
CLEVELAND — Redshirt first-year Sebastian Rivera (125) earned sixth place at the 2018 NCAA Championships at the Quicken Loans Arena, the best NU finish since 2015.
Sixth place is the best result for an NU wrestler in his first year since Jason Tsirtsis won the event in 2014.
In Rivera's first match of the day, he was pitted against Ohio State's Nathan Tomasello for the first and last time in his career. The second-seeded wrestler pinned Rivera in a minute and 14 seconds.
In the fifth-place bout, Rivera struck first with a takedown of 2017 NCAA Champion Darian Cruz (Lehigh), but two separate near-fall calls in the second period gave Cruz the lasting advantage and the 7-4 victory.
Rivera ends his first season with a strong, 31-8 record, taking fifth place at the Big Ten Championships and now sixth place at the NCAA Championships.
Northwestern finishes the 2018 NCAA Championships with 20.0 team points, its most since 2015. Rivera was single-handedly responsible for 14 of those points.
Results
Consolation Semifinals
125: (2) Nathan Tomasello (Ohio State) Fall (10) Sebastian Rivera (NU), 1:14
5th-Place Match
125: (1) Darian Cruz (Lehigh) dec. (10) Sebastian Rivera (NU), 7-4
Sixth place is the best result for an NU wrestler in his first year since Jason Tsirtsis won the event in 2014.
In Rivera's first match of the day, he was pitted against Ohio State's Nathan Tomasello for the first and last time in his career. The second-seeded wrestler pinned Rivera in a minute and 14 seconds.
In the fifth-place bout, Rivera struck first with a takedown of 2017 NCAA Champion Darian Cruz (Lehigh), but two separate near-fall calls in the second period gave Cruz the lasting advantage and the 7-4 victory.
Rivera ends his first season with a strong, 31-8 record, taking fifth place at the Big Ten Championships and now sixth place at the NCAA Championships.
Northwestern finishes the 2018 NCAA Championships with 20.0 team points, its most since 2015. Rivera was single-handedly responsible for 14 of those points.
Results
Consolation Semifinals
125: (2) Nathan Tomasello (Ohio State) Fall (10) Sebastian Rivera (NU), 1:14
5th-Place Match
125: (1) Darian Cruz (Lehigh) dec. (10) Sebastian Rivera (NU), 7-4
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