The enthusiasm and intensity that consumed the Scottrade Center on Friday night lacked during Saturday’s morning session, especially for those wearing black and gold singlets at the NCAA wrestling championships.
After they each won two matches in Missouri’s 7-0 nightcap on Friday, freshman 141-pounder Jaydin Eierman and sophomore 165-pounder Daniel Lewis lost their opening matches on Saturday.
Eierman, a Columbia native, won his second match of the morning to place fifth, while the Blue Springs native Lewis fell and finished sixth.
“I feel really good (about the tournament),” Eierman said. “I obviously didn’t do what I wanted to do and that was to win a national title, but finishing on top and taking fifth was the next best thing after losing.