#10/14 ASU Battles #14/12 Lehigh Saturday on FloWrestling … – Sun Devil Athletics

TEMPE – There’s a top-15 dual going down Saturday night in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. No. 10/14 Sun Devil Wrestling (3-4, 1-1 Pac-12) and No. 14/12 Lehigh (6-7, 3-2 EIWA) meet January 28 at 4:00 p.m. AZ in Lehigh’s Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall. The dual will air on FloWreslting, with radio coverage provided by Lehigh Valley Fox Radio. (FloWrestling/InterMat Rankings)
 
ASU at Lehigh
Saturday, Jan. 28 | 4:00 p.m. AZ/6:00 p.m. EST
Bethlehem, Penn. | Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall.
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ASU match notes
Lehigh’s Weekend Preview
 
The Sun Devils are back in District 11 for the third time this season after opening the 2022-23 season with a pair of Journeymen Wrestling events. ASU defeated No. 21 Rutgers (25-16) on Nov. 12 before earning seven titles at the Collegiate Classic the next day. ASU then returned for the Keystone Classic where a number of reserve wrestlers competed.
 
Last Time Out
ASU is coming off a 25-12 Pac-12 win over No. 23 Stanford. The Maroon and Gold swept the lightweights and picked up two crucial upperweight victories to secure the first conference win of the season. Unranked Cael Valencia garnered national attention and Pac-12 Wrestler of the Week honors after a 6-3 upset over No. 23 Tyler Eischens at 174. It was Valencia’s fifth win of the season, and he didn;t allow Eischens to score one takedown.
 
Scouting Arizona State

• ASU enters the weekend with six top-20 wrestlers on the roster: No. 7 Brandon Courtney, No.4 Michael McGee, No. 13 Jesse Vasquez, No. 5 Kyle Parco, No. 20 Anthony Montalvo, and No. 5 Cohlton Schultz.
• The 125 battle continues for ASU, with both Courtney and Richard Figueroa on the travel party. Courtney, the ’21 NCAA runner-up at 125, is 5-2 on the year. Figs, the No. 1 Pound-for-Pound recruit of the 2021 class, is a perfect 14-0 on the year with five dual wins to his name.
• Cohlton Schultz took some time away from ASU recently training with USA Wrestling’s Greco-Roman team. He returned to the lineup rejuvenated and picked up his sixth pin of the season and 22nd of his career, defeating Stanford’s Peter Ming in just 56 seconds.
• Michael (12-2) earned his 25th career tech fall against Stanford. It was the 61st bonus-point victory of his career (123-26).

 
Scouting Lehigh

• Eight Lehigh wrestlers appear in the first NCAA coaches’ ranking, announced Jan. 19. The Mountain Hawks have three wrestlers in the top five in their respective weight classes, led by sophomore Michael Beard, who is third at 197. 
• Lehigh’s roster features sophomore Michael Beard who came to Lehigh from Penn State where he earned All-America honors in 2021 with a seventh place finish at 197. Tate Samuelson comes to Lehigh as a graduate transfer after four years at Wyoming where he was a four-time NCAA qualifier. Both wrestlers are 4-0 in duals in the new year. Beard is up to 11-2 on the season while Samuelson is now 11-7.
• Lehigh has a wrestler ranked in six out of 10 weight classes in the latest rankings from InterMat, with sophomore Malyke Hines returning to the rankings at 141.
• Six Mountain Hawks are also ranked by both FloWrestling and WrestleStat, while four are ranked by Amateur Wrestling News. Senior Josh Humphreys (157) and sophomores Connor McGonagle (133) and Michael Beard (197) are all ranked in the top six by InterMat, FloWrestling and AWN. Graduate student Tate Samuelson is the fourth Mountain Hawk to appear in all four polls.

 
#10/14 Arizona State Probables
125 No. 7 Brandon Courtney, Richard Figueroa
133 No. 4 Michael McGee, Julian Chlebove
141 No. 13 Jesse Vasquez
149 No. 5 Kyle Parco
157 Max Wilner, Michael Kilic
165 Tony Negron
174 Cael Valencia, Josh Nummer
184 No. 20 Anthony Montalvo, Canyon Mansfield
197 Jonathon Fagen, Jacob Meissner
HWT No. 5 Cohlton Schultz
 
#14/12 Lehigh Probables
125 Carter Bailey
        Killian Delaney
133 No. 6 Connor McGonagle  
141 No. 28 Malyke Hines         
149 Max Brignola
       Manzona Bryant IV
157 No. 5 Josh Humphreys
       Paul Watkins
165 Luca Frinzi         
         Connor Herceg       
174 Jake Logan     
184 No. 19 Tate Samuelson
197 No. 3 Michael Beard   
285 No. 31 Nathan Taylor