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■ The Cornhuskers face their first opponents of the season, including Iowa, in Saturday’s open meet. By Lisa Vonnahme Staff writer After 2Vi months of dieting, run ning and going through wrestling drills, the Nebraska wrestling team will finally get a shot at real competi tion this weekend. And they will be doing it against some of the best in the country, start ing with last season’s national champi ons - Iowa. The Cornhuskers will face the Hawkeyes when they head to Omaha Saturday for the Omaha Open. Because the tournament is “open” and not part of the Huskers official sched ule, NU’s grapplers will be wrestling through the tournament as individuals, not as a team. The key to the Omaha Open, NU Coach Tim Neumann said, is that it will be used as a way to determine if the wrestlers are ready for their season openers Dec. 4 and 5 at Lock Haven (Pa.) and Penn State. “We wanted to get one meet in prior to going to Pennsylvania, so we can fix some mistakes,” Neumann said. “It will be interesting to see how we fare with Iowa’s crew.” Along with the Hawkeyes, NU will go up against wrestlers from Iowa’s other in-state competitors, Iowa State and Northern Iowa. Neumann is expecting about 30-35 wrestlers in each of the 10 weight classes. And the idea of facing an oppo nent other than an NU teammate has the Huskers eager to compete in the meet. “We’ve been training so long that I’m at the point where I can’t wait to compete,” redshirt freshman Bryan Snyder said. “It’s going to be good for us to see some good guys early on. It’s definitely a plus that Iowa’s going to be there.” With the tough competition, the NU coaches are anxious to see how their team does at the tournament. The open will serve as a way for Neumann and his assistant coaches, Mark Cody and Jason Kelber, to determine their starting lineup. “We’re going to be able to see what wrinkles we have to iron out before we get to bigger meets,” Kelber said. “Omaha Open is important so we can see how we’re doing and what we need to address. They’re feeling the pres sure already.” In other wrestling news: The Nebraska wrestling team signed the No. 1 recruit in the nation at 103 pounds on Nov. 11. Jason Powell of Choctaw, Okla., passed up an offer from wrestling powerhouse Oklahoma State to com pete for the Huskers. Powell, who was among the top five overall recruits in the country, also was recruited by Oklahoma, Northern Iowa and Iowa State. “It came down to us and Oklahoma State,” Kelber said. “It was a big choice for him, because it’s hard for Oklahoma kids to go out of state. They put so much pressure on the kids to stay in-state. “It was a huge step for him to pick us over them. They’re really shocked down in Oklahoma right now.” Powell won both the freestyle and Greco-Roman titles at Junior Nationals last summer and in 1997. If he wins both competitions again next simuner, Powell will have a chance to become just the second wrestler in his tory to become a six-time Junior National champion. Powell is also a two-time state high school champion and the defending champion at 103 pounds. “He’s a stud,” Kelber said. “He really believed he could be a champi on here. We’re lucky he made that choice, and we’re real excited about it.” LBSU coach: Politics play role in regional site By Andrew Strnad Staff writer Like college football, college vol leyball is winding down the regular season with the three top teams all undefeated: Penn State, Nebraska and Long Beach State. Unlike football, volleyball can’t end the season with more than one undefeated team. “That’s what’s so ridiculous about football,” Penn State Coach Russ Rose said. “You can have more than one undefeated team, and then the presi dents end up deciding who the champi on is. That won’t happen here.” What will occur is a newly expand ed tournament of 64 teams from 48, with thechampion to be crowned in Madison, Wis., at this year’s Final Four. And with just VA weeks until the NCAA Tournament, the three giants - No. 1 Long Beach State (26-0), No. 2 Penn State (26-0) and No. 3 Nebraska (25-0) - have put themselves into posi tion to play host to NCAA regionals. In volleyball, not only are the first and second round matches played at a host university’s court, but the region als are as well. But how the host universities are selected isn’t that simple. “You’re asking the wrong guy,” Nebraska Coach Terry Pettit said. “I don’t know or pretend to know where those discussions will go” In years past, it hasn’t always been the top four teams in the nation. Attendance, end-of-season perfor mance and strength of schedule often are factors used by the NCAA volley ball committee in determining who gets to play host to a regional. Also, if top teams lose in the first two rounds, they couldn’t play host to a regional. Long Beach State Coach Brian Gimmillaro thinks politics is another variable weighed by the committee, which isn’t fair to other teams. “It’s a joke,” Gimmillaro said. Gimmillaro was referring to the brackets of the 1997 tournament, which pitted No. 1 LBSU against No. 3 Stanford, while No. 2 Penn State met No. 8 Florida in the Final Four. LBSU finished the regular season No. 1 by 48 points over Penn State, but the Nittany Lions still received the top seed. “I don’t think that’s by accident,” Gimmillaro said. “(The NCAA) want ed Penn State in the Finals.” Gimmillaro also cited the 1994 season when a No. 4 Ohio State team was passed over for a regional by No. 5 Penn State, even after being defeated by the Buckeyes at the end of the year. “Penn State is courted and support ed, and you can’t do any more for them,” Gimmillaro said. Pettit would like the regionals to be awarded not after the regular sea son, but before the season starts. “That would be the fairest vfay to do it,” Pettit said. “I think we need4o go in that direction in order to help the sport grow.” In the meantime, the committee will select four teams after the season as fairness and objectivity will be left to the eye of the beholder. “It’s better now, but I think people should be very humble with the oppor tunities they’ve been presented to them. We’ve all been lucky,” Gimmillaro said. The four lucky teams this year have yet to be determined, but with top ! three teams putting a stranglehold on the top, there’s a wide-open race for die i fourth remaining regional. ! Rose thinks a West Coast team has 1 the inside track to playing host to a 1 regional. No. 4 Stanford, at 23-2 over all, is the two-time defending national i champion and hasn’t lost a match since < ISA TODAY/AVGACcacitt pell Week 11 po«-Nov. 16,1998 RK School (First-Place Votes) *96 Record 1 Long Beach SI (34) 26-0 2 Penn St. (24) 26-0 3 Nebraska (2) 25-0 4 Stanford 23-2 5 Florida 26-2 6 BYU 24-2 7 Hawaii 24-2 8 Wisconsin 23-4 9 Pacific 22-5 10 UC Santa Barbara 24-5 11 USC 19-4 12 Texas 21-3 13 Arkansas 24-3 14 Michigan St. 21-4 15 Colorado 20-4 16 UCLA 13-10 17 Kansas St. 17-8 18 San Diego 21-4 19 Arizona 19-6 20 Illinois 17-9 21 Loyola Marymount 18-7 22 Texas A&M 16-8 23 Louisville 22-4 24 Texas Tech 19-10 25 Northern Iowa 23-2 JonFrank/DN sept. 4 against Nebraska. “Experience and certainly setting s critical,” Rose said. “That’s why Stanford is always there. Something tas to be said for the confidence of hose players at Stanford.” The brackets won’t be announced intil Nov. 29th with first-round match ;s beginning on Dec. 3. •. • : -j* • { Crouch helps NU through rough season CROUCH from page 9 start at Nebraska was a high point. Beyond that, Crouch had to think a little bit. The Huskers fell to KSU for the first time since 1968 Saturday, but after staring at a wall full of Husker history in the tunnel below South Stadium, Crouch came up with one more high point “Look what happened last week,” Crouch said. “That was a high point - playing a big game like that - show ing that we can compete with the No. 1 team in the country. Right there’s a high point for me. “All year long, we’ve been doubt ed as being the same football team that we have been. I just think that we f went out and we showed a lot of peo ple that we can still play football here.” At first, moving the ball against the Wildcats was easy, Crouch said. In their first possession, the Huskers pushed the ball 80 yards on eight plays for a touchdown. From then on, however, it wasn’t that easy. But Crouch just chalks it up as experience. “All of a sudden, we got into a dogfight, and things started getting tougher,” Crouch said. “But those are all things you can learn from.” And v$k> knows what would have happened if a flag would have been thrown on that fourth-quarter play Saturday? “I don’t think they would have been able to stop us,” Crouch said. “But if you’re not given the opportu nity to do it, it’s hard to do. “It’s over now, and we’re not going to dwell on it” Crouch also said he won’t dwell on what will happen when a healthy Newcombe returns to battle for the starting spot jj For now, Crouch is focused on improving his confidence and leader ship skills j| “It keeps on getting better for me as the weeks go by and more games are played,” Crouch said. “The more times I get to work with seniors that are big leaders already - you learn a lot from the older players. 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