March 19, 2004

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Russ Davie and Matt Kallai are still alive in the consolation bracket at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo. As a team, Cleveland State has posted a 4-10 mark, with four wrestlers eliminated from the tournament.

In the championship bracket, Kallai lost an 11-2 decision to Lehigh's Brad Dillon, the tournament's third seed. He will face Andrew Roy of Rutgers in the consolation second round.

Russ Davie, who was upset in his opening match, won by medical forfeit over Ryan Adams of North Carolina. Davie will next face Derrell Lorthridge of Old Dominion in the second round.

At 125, DeAngelo Penn lost to Wisconsin's Tom Clum in the consolation first round, getting pinned 37 seconds into the match. Penn ends his season with a 17-14 record.

Senior Anthony Coleman saw his season end with a 4-3 defeat to West Virginia's Joe Clarke in the second round of the consolation bracket. Coleman had advanced to the second round after he defeated Purdue's Doug Withstandley, 10-4. Coleman, who went 0-2 in last year's NCAA Championships, bows out of the tournament with a 21-14 record.

Ron Howard, wrestling in the 184 bracket, picked up his first win on the national scale, defeating Greg Gifford of Fresno State, 11-4, in the first round of the consolation bracket. Howard then lost to Arizona State's Nick Frost, by a technical fall, 18-3, at the 5:44 mark of the bout. Howard's season ends with a 10-19 mark.

In the 197 class, Joe Phillips saw his tournament end being pinned by Ohio State's J.D. Bergman in the first round of the consolation bracket. Phillips was pinned at the 2:27 mark of the bout, and ends his year at 21-10.