ROME, Italy — University of Michigan graduate student Stevan Micic highlighted the Cliff Keen Wrestling Club’s performance at the Matteo Pellicone with a bronze-medal finish at 57kg/125 pounds on Saturday (Jan. 18) at the PalaPellicone arena. The event served as the first UWW Ranking Series event.
Micic defeated Ukraine’s Andrii Yatsenko, 5-2, in his bronze-medal match, scoring first on a passivity point before adding two takedowns in the second period — a high crotch and late go behind to ice the bout in the final 30 seconds. Micic sacrificed an early four-point takedown in his quarterfinal against Joe Colon, giving up a four-pointer himself late to drop the match, 10-4.
Logan Massa and Myles Amine also dropped their first bouts at 74kg and 86kg, respectively. Massa fell to Hungary’s Murad Kuramagomedov, 10-0, while Amine lost a close 6-5 decision to 2018 world silver medalist Fatih Erdin of Turkey. Amine scored two takedowns in the final 90 seconds but couldn’t overcome an early four-point deficit. Erdin went on to take silver.
On the Greco-Roman side, Adam Coon took fifth place at 130kg/286 pounds after falling to China’s Lingzhe Meg, 4-2, in his bronze-medal match. Coon took the lead on criteria with a passivity point in the second but couldn’t score from par terre — before giving up a late takedown while fighting to stay off the edge.
Coon fell to Venezuela’s Perez Hellibu, 6-4, in his first match on a four-point throw in the second period but bounced back with a 5-2 decision in repechage over Finland’s Tuomas Lahti, scoring on passivity and gut in the first period and icing it with a takedown on the edge in the second.
